May 29 - June 4
A brief journey through the expansive world of Italian Filmmaking
Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.
Friday, May 29 - 7:00
Monday, June 1 - 7:00
Tuesday, June 2 - 4:20
Thursday, June 4 - 4:20
In 1960, Mario Bava made his directorial feature debut with Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan), a film that achieved worldwide success and established Italy as a stylish horror powerhouse. In 17th-century Moldavia, Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Javutich. Two hundred years later her crypt is rediscovered, and her resurrection set in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold, dead kiss.
Friday, May 29 - 9:45
Saturday, May 30 - 7:00
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.
Sunday, May 30 - 7:00
Tuesday, May 2 - 7:00
Wednesday, May 3 - 4:00
Stagefright marked the stunning directorial debut of Dario Argento protege, and criminally unknown director Michele Soavi. Melding modern slasher pacing with Giallo style, Stagefright tells the story of a dance theater troupe who becomes locked in their production house with an owl-masked killer. This brutal shocker has been newly transferred from the original uncut and uncensored negative.
Saturday, May 30 - 9:10
Thursday, June 4 - 7:00
Fifteen years after bandits massacred his family, a young man seeks revenge. Those responsible now hold positions of power in the new west, but a bandit (Lee Van Cleef) they framed for the murders is due to be released from prison, and he’s ready to form an unholy alliance with the vengeance-seeking young man. After years in relative obscurity, Death Rides a Horse was recently remastered and introduced to a new audience as a bona-fide western classic (complete with haunting Ennio Morricone score).
