Coming Attractions at The Screen Sept. 26 – Oct. 2 Showcasing the best in classical, independent and foreign cinema, The Screen cinematheque at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design presents new releases, special cinema events and performances all day every day! See what critics have to say about the latest screenings, watch a trailer, then visit The Screen for a unique movie-going experience. Horses of God Belgium – 2013 – 1 hour 55 min. Winner of 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director “Year-long grooming provides explanatory social context in how marginalized kids get caught up in organized violence to get a sense of control over powerless lives.” – Nora Lee Mandel of Film Forward “Quietly powerful, haunting, unflinchingly honest and character-driven.” —Avi Offer of NYC Movie Guru Jealousy France – 2013 – 1 hour 17 min. Nominated Best Director of Venice Film Festival 2013 “Short and anything but sweet, Jealousy is a good entry point to Garrel’s filmography, for those new to the director’s work.” —Kimber Myers of The Playlist “Philippe Garrel’s movies feel like ghost stories: delicate, enigmatic, and haunted by some indelible, unnameable presence, which a viewer can’t help but suspect is the director’s own past.” —Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of AV Club “Call it a masterpiece.” —Ray Pride of Newcity One Day Pina Asked… France – 1983 – 57 min. Original ’83 Television Broadcast Restored One Night only Sept. 27, 11:15 a.m. Flat $7 “Akerman’s film is a work of modestly daring wonder, of exploration and inspiration. With her audacious compositions, decisive cuts, and tightrope-tremulous sense of time-and her stark simplicity-it shares, in a way that Wender’s film doesn’t, the immediate exhilaration of the moment of creation. Akerman’s film is of a piece with Bausch’s dances.” —Richard Brody of The New Yorker “Astonishing! [With One Day...
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Coming Attractions at The Screen Sept. 19-25 Showcasing the best in classical, independent and foreign cinema, The Screen cinematheque at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design presents new releases, special cinema events and performances all day every day! See what critics have to say about the latest screenings, watch a trailer, then visit The Screen for a unique movie-going experience. Happy Christmas USA – 2014 – 1 hour 18 min. A Joe Swanberg comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Lena Dunham “A quiet, serious comedy about marriage, parenthood and the everyday strains of bringing up a rambunctious toddler while struggling to sustain a creative life.” -Stephen Holden of New York Times “This semi-improvised indie accomplishes its modest goal, which is to explore the way a vexing relationship between in-laws can yield unexpected personal growth and warm bonds of affection.” – Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune . . . Fifi Howls From Happiness France – 2013 – 1 hour 36 min. The True Story of the “Persian Picasso” “Critic’ pick! Addictively fascinating. The lovely meeting of artistic sensibilities makes this dos sing.” – Michael Atkinson of Village Voice “Five stars! Stunningly multifaceted. Surprising and deeply affecting.” -Keith Uhlich of Time Out NY “Thoughtful, moving…A portrait of the artist as a refusenik, a recluse, a survivor and a stubborn question mark, “Fifi Howls From Happiness” registers, by turns, as a celebration, an excavation and an increasingly urgent rescue mission.” -Manohla Dargis of The New York Times< . . . Expedition to the End of the World Denmark – 2013 – 1 hour 10 min. Winner of Reykjavik Film Festival’s 2013 Best Director Award “The amazing imagery of stony beaches and stubbornly frozen fjords suggests nature’s utter indifference to human presence, a well-trodden theme here given an entertainingly trick-up treatment.” – Adam Nayman of Globe...
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The Screen Presents: Sept. 27- Oct. 3 Short Term 12, the Best of Drama Directed by Destin Cretton and starring Brie Larson, this drama explores a young woman’s kind-hearted relationship with the kids who have slipped through the cracks of the system. When a challenging case comes along, however, this young woman must learn to make peace with her troubled past and open up to those around her. Winner of best actress and director in the Locarno Film Festival, Richard Roeper from Chicago Sun-Times calls it “one of the best movies of the year.” You Think You Know the Legend? What About the Man? Watch The Trials of Muhammad Ali, the Story of Ali’s Choice of Faith Over Fortune Academy award-nominated director Bill Siegel investigates boxing icon Muhammad Ali by following his life away from the ring. This documentary exposes the man who caused controversy in his race, his religion and his government, by refusing to serve in the Vietnam war. John DeFore of the Hollywood Reporter says the film “captures the thrill of Ali’s personality even for viewers with little interest in the sweet science.” Beckett on Film, Last Sunday of the Series Beckett on Film is a celebrated five part series of Samuel Beckett’s 19 plays, filmed by some of the world’s most talented directors, and featuring actors like Julianne Moore, Jeremy Irons and John Hurt. Beckett was awarded ‘Best TV Drama’ at the Sixth South Bank Show Awards Ceremony in 2002 and is called a celebration of artistic achievement. FREE ADMISSION every Sunday of September- 11 a.m. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m.. This Sunday, Sept. 29 watch the shorts Rough for Theater 2, directed by Katie Mitchell and Check the Gate: the Making of Beckett on Film. FYI, You Will...
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The Screen Presents: Sept. 20-26 You Will Be My Son, Rivalry of the Winery on 35mm Film! A must see for all film students, this film print is one of the last to be played on the Screen’s 35mm projectors. You know…with scratches, flickers and surround sound. Called a fable and parable of a tale, this French drama includes all the necessary suspense of a father verses son complex. “Unfolding like a thriller,” as Eric Hynes of Time Out New York says, the French succeed again in a fantastic display of cinematography. Opens this Friday, Sept. 20 Deceptive Practice: the Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay. Magic on the Screen! Literally The amazing, fabulous, hilarious Ricky Jay is not just a documentary on a performer’s prestigious career in magic, acting and writing— it’s a documentary on deception! Featuring stock footage of some of the most famous magicians in the world, Jay guarantees a story to remember. Opens this Friday, Sept. 20 Bidder 70, “It’s time to Rush the Field and Stop the Game” For students who feel disempowered by higher government, Tim DeChristopher would say: you are not. In 2008, the college student DeChristopher demonstrated an act of civil disobedience during a federal auction, in which 22,000 acres of Utah land was being offered to mining and energy industries. Falsely bidding $1.7 million, Tim DeChristopher was sent to prison, but not before igniting the climate justice movement. According to Gary Goldstein of Los Angeles Times, “Time DeChristopher’s staunch and inspiring journey after that fateful auction is efficiently tracked in this vital and involving documentary.” ONE NIGHT ONLY- Tuesday, Sept. 24 7pm. Featuring Q/A with Filmmakers. Tickets on sale at thescreensf.com Presenting to You Theater Majors, Beckett on Film Beckett on Film is a celebrated five part series...
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The Screen Presents: Sept. 13-20 Presenting to Theater Majors: Beckett on Film Beckett on Film is a celebrated five-part series of Samuel Beckett’s 19 plays, filmed by some of the world’s most talented directors, and featuring actors like Julianne Moore, Jeremy Irons and John Hurt. Beckett was awarded ‘Best TV Drama’ at the Sixth South Bank Show Awards Ceremony in 2002 and is called a celebration of artistic achievement. FREE ADMISSION every Sunday of September at 11am. Doors will open at 10:30. This Sunday, Sept. 15 watch Come and Go, directed by John Crowley and Waiting For Godot, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Visual Artists and Mona Lisa Lovers, Resist the Mystery of The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, The True Story Joe Medeiros’ documentary investigates the secret motives behind Mona Lisa’s 1911 theft from the Louvre. Creatively assembled and comically informative, Medeiros’ sources come straight from the lion’s mouth, the descendants of Mona Lisa’sthief, Vincenzo Peruggia. Opens this Friday, Sept. 13. Special Skype Q/A with filmmakers 1:30 pm, Sunday, Sept. 15. Tickets on sale at thescreensf.com This Is Martin Bonner, Come Meet Him! Chad Hartigan’s live-action narrative between two estranged family men is, according to critic Andrew Lapic (The Dissolve),“beyond the hoary parable of most faith-based films.” It is an “understated drama with small words and big ideas.” Made in the US, this candid character sketch brings out the realism in film-based storytelling. Opens this Friday, Sept.13. Visit thescreensf.com for movie times 505.473.6494 1600 St. Michael’s Drive Santa Fe, NM 87505 https://www.facebook.com/thescreen, https://twitter.com/thescreensf...
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