Acclaimed French actress Catherine Deneuve, in her first on-screen role, plays Geneviève Emery, an assistant in her mother's umbrella shop. In love with an auto mechanic named Guy (Nino Castelnuevo) who is drafted to fight in Algeria, she finds herself pregnant. Subsequent events and the too-emotional-for-words conclusion are guaranteed to leave every viewer misty-eyed.
An international sensation -- nominated for five Academy Awards, and winner of the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A bold and innovative experiment in filmmaking, director Jacques Demy had every line of dialogue sung to Michel Legrand's masterful score.
LSC will be showing the 1993 restoration of this film, which brought back the bright and vivid colors of the original film and features a Dolby Stereo mix. In (sung) French with English subtitles. 03/07 9pm Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928) (Unrated) 71 minutes (silent with live piano accompaniment) Return to the heydays of cinema and Hollywood with this well-known silent film. One of Buster Keaton's many comedies, replete with sight gags and clever on-screen imagery that only works in a silent film. See an entire house fall on Buster, then watch amazedly as he walks away unscathed! Made in the days when talking about digital effects would have gotten you laughed at, this film will have you marveling with the "How did they do that?" wonder that's missing from the cinema today.
The difference between canned music and live accompaniment is like night and day. LSC is pleased to announce that this film will feature live piano accompaniment by Prof. Martin Marks, who has contributed his talents to the musical accompaniment of many silent film restoration projects. We would like to express our appreciation for his time and help. Short preceding movie: Steamboat Bill, Jr (1922), (the original movie) also B&W and silent with live accompaniment. 03/14 7:30 & 10:30 Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) (Unrated) 90 minutes ...The newest film from Francois Ozon (_See the Sea_, _Sitcom_, _Criminal Lovers_, and _Under the Sand_). Adapted from an unproduced play written by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the age of 19, it is set in Germany in the 1970s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces fresh-faced, carrot-topped 19-year-old Franz who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold, a kind of gone-to-seed Dirk Bogarde, turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz's buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant and enigmatic ex, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC). 04/18 7:30 & 10:30 The Lady and the Duke (2001) (PG-13) 125 minutes A stunning use of digital technology, _The Lady and the Duke_ takes the viewer back two hundred years with meticulously recreated French Revolution backdrops framing the digitally-"filmed" actors.
Based on the autobiography of Englishwoman Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell), the film follows her adventures in France with her lover Philippe, the Duke of Orléans. As the clouds of Revolution approach, she clings to her aristocratic upbringing, while the Duke aligns himself with Revolutionary politics. When the Terror arrives, the pair faces a stark moral choice between giving in to the mob and dying for their principles.
Historically accurate, and replete with links to royalty (Elliot was a onetime lover of the Prince of Wales, future King George IV of England, and the Duke is the father of future King Louis Philippe of France), _The Lady and the Duke_ is for everyone who wants to be educated, entertained, and challenged. In French and German with English subtitles.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).