NED KELLY and THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES - Film Forum
Approx. 99 min. 35mm. 2:20, 6:10, 10:00 THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES (1957, Nicholas Ray) The bullets fly as James Brothers (Robert Wagner’s Jesse and Jeffrey Hunter’s Frank) and their gang run into surprising resistance from the irate citizens of Northfield, Minnesota– and then flashbacks begin, in a ballad-like portrait of a man who ...
Film Forum · THE UNTOUCHABLES and SUGARLAND EXPRESS
Wednesday, July 29 THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987, Brian De Palma) Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness goes all out to bring down Robert De Niro’s Al Capone, assembling an incorruptible team, with Sean Connery (Oscar, Best Supporting Actor) as the Irish cop who teaches him the facts of Chicago life and the elaborate shootout on train station steps (an homage to Eisenstein’s …
Film Forum · THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE and THE RISE …
THE ST. VALENTINES’S DAY MASSACRE (1967, Roger Corman) Al Capone non-lookalike Jason Robards chews cigars and the scenery, even as Tommy Gun-toting Model Ts send him hurtling to the floor of his favorite eatery, henchman George Segal has a Cagneyesque knockdown fight with his moll over a fur coat, and Jack Nicholson raspingly delivers one line …
Film Forum · STAVISKY
STAVISKY Pages & Showtimes 1. Sunday, August 2: 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 (1974, Alain Resnais) Real-life saga of con man Serge Stavisky, whose rise to French moguldom, and scandalous 1934 fall, nearly brought France to civil war. Resnais’ most straightforward work, with three generations of Gallic superstars — Jean-Paul Belmondo as Stavisky, Charles Boyer (Best Actor, Cannes), …
Film Forum · THE BODY SNATCHER and I WANT TO LIVE!
Wednesday, July 22 THE BODY SNATCHER (1945, Robert Wise) In 19th century Scotland, pioneer anatomist Henry Daniell finally tires of cab driver/ grave robber Boris Karloff’s taunts, but then finds he may have gone a corpse too far. Adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson story, itself based on true-life grave robbers Burke and Hare. Approx. 77 min. 35mm. 12:30, 4:25, …
Film Forum · THE FRENCH CONNECTION
THE FRENCH CONNECTION Pages & Showtimes 1. Saturday, August 1: 3:00, 5:10, 7:15 (1971, William Friedkin) Traffic problems in Brooklyn, as Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle (based on legendary cop Eddie Egan) car-chases a killer-bearing B train, after being schnookered by Fernando Rey in a cross- midtown shadowing topped by a classic subway door jamming. Multi …
Film Forum · IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES Pages & Showtimes 1. Thursday, July 16: 9:50 ONLY (1976, NaGisa Ôshima) In 1936, restaurateur Tatsuya Fuji and maid/ex-prostitute Eiko Matsuda pursue their lovemaking obsessions to the sadomasochistic limits. Based on the headline-making Sada Abe case, this was the first hardcore/explicit work from a major director, although the final act …
THE WRONG MAN and BOOMERANG! - Film Forum
THE WRONG MAN (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) Returning at dawn to Jackson Returning at dawn to Jackson Heights, Stork Club bass player Henry Fonda finds himself trapped in a classic mistaken-identity case. Shot in ruthlessly restrained semi-doc style on the locations of the actual case, with harrowing sequences of Fonda’s booking and arraignment, and memorable innocent-to-guilty …
Film Forum · LUCKY LUCIANO
LUCKY LUCIANO Pages & Showtimes 1. Tuesday, July 28: 12:30, 4:55, 7:00 2. Saturday, August 2: 12:30 Subheadline: New 4K Restoration (1973, Francesco Rosi) Deported to Sicily in 1946, Gian Maria Volonté’s Luciano, the “Boss of Bosses,” starts to build a truly international crime empire amid vintage Rosi time shifts, back to the 40-man massacre that cemented him at the …
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