Day for Night
July 19 – Day for Night, 1973
The Gleaners & I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse)
July 5 – The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse), 2000
Agnes Varda of course is a gleaner herself. She is gleaning the gleaners. And in what appears to be a documentary she conceals a tender meditation about her own life, and life itself.
Roger Ebert
Persona
June 28 – Persona, 1966
For its evident contemplation of a singular phenomenon of transfer of personality . . . [Persona] is rich in poetic intimations of subconscious longings and despairs, and it is likely to move one more deeply as poetry than as thought.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times, March 7, 1967
The Dead
June 21 – The Dead, 1987
Gloria
June 14 – Gloria, 1980
Painters Painting: A Candid History of the New York Art Scene 1940-1970
June 7 – Painters Painting: A Candid History of the New York Art Scene, 1940–1970, 1973
Therapy of a Vampire
"Angst is more a plot device than a way of (undead) life in David Ruhm's Therapy for a Vampire, in which a bored bloodsucker in 1930s Vienna seeks help from Dr. Sigmund Freud. Help doesn't come from the couch but from a possible new love in a comedy that's more cutely diverting than laugh-out-loud funny." John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter.
87 minutes; German with English subtitles
The Music of Strangers
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture.
96 minutes; PG-13
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Friday 6 pm ONLY; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
When her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, a desperate wife takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point. With her son in tow, she fights the system.
74 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
L'Attesa (The Wait)
"An elegant melodrama of maternal grief with overtones of horror, a psychological rather than a supernatural ghost story." A. O.