The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street,New York, NY 10019
Monday August 10
4 PM- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon ) 2007. France/USA. Directed by Julian Schnabel. With Mathieu Amalric. The true story of French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered from a rare neurological disease called locked-in syndrome, which leaves his body paralyzed but his mind completely unaffected. In French; English subtitles. 112 min.
7 PM Little Children 2006. USA. Directed by Todd Field. With Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson. Loneliness, temptation, secrets, and familial constructs develop and dissolve over the course of a summer in a seemingly perfect suburban town. In this film, acting childlike is not limited to the young. 137 min.
Wednesday, August 12
4 PM Venus 2006. Great Britain. Directed by Roger Michell. With Peter O’Toole. An off-the-wall romance between a very elderly man and his best friend’s nineteen-year-old granddaughter, this is, at its core, a story about mortality and the enduring need for romance and human connection. Venus signals O’Toole’s fiftieth anniversary on the screen and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. 95 min.
7 PM One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975. USA. Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher. This adaptation of Ken Kesey’s widely read antiestablishment novel stars Nicholson as a convict in a psychiatric hospital who leads his fellow inmates in defying the icy Nurse Ratched, one of the greatest villains in film history. This rallying cry against authority and conformity struck a nerve with viewers and became only the second movie to win all five major Academy Awards. 133 min.
Thursday, August 13
4 PM The Inner Life of Martin Frost 2007. USA/Spain/France. Written and directed by Paul Auster. With David Thewlis, Michael Imperioli. Martin Frost has just completed his novel and he retreats to a house in the country to recuperate from the ordeal of writing. A magical muse arrives and uses all of her powers and wiles to inspire Martin to begin a new project. This is novelist Auster’s fourth directorial effort. 93 min.
7 PM Lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterley et l’homme des bois) 2006. France. Directed by Pascale Ferran. Ferran’s adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s John Thomas and Lady Jane, the remarkably different second version of Lawrence’s celebrated and notorious Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is cinema at its most sensuous, tactile, and intelligent. In depicting the erotic affair between an English aristocrat and a gamekeeper, Ferran observes, “The story is literally overrun by vegetation…. To me, that’s the most beautiful thing: the story of a love that is one with the material experience of transformation.” In French; English subtitles. 168 min.
Friday, August 14
4 PM Frownland 2007. USA. Written and directed by Ronald Bronstein. With Dore Mann, Mary Wall. With Frownland, Bronstein has made a bold and bracing film that is both a hilarious black comedy and a ragged love letter to an earlier era of independent film. Both the film and its singular hero, Keith Sontag, are raw, confrontational, and, finally, unforgettable. 106 min.
7 PM Venus 2006. Great Britain. Directed by Roger Michell. With Peter O’Toole. An off-the-wall romance between a very elderly man and his best friend’s nineteen-year-old granddaughter, this is, at its core, a story about mortality and the enduring need for romance and human connection. Venus signals O’Toole’s fiftieth anniversary on the screen and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. 95 min.
Saturday, August 15
1:30 PM Spellbound 1945. USA. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Ben Hecht, Angus MacPhail. With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Rhonda Fleming, Leo G. Carroll. “Bergman won the NYFCC’s Best Actress award for Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller and The Bells of St. Mary’s, released, along with Saratoga Trunk, at the height of her popularity in late 1945. Cast as a dishy ‘dream detective’ who unlocks shell-shocked vet Gregory Peck’s unconscious to solve a murder, it’s a stylish, fascinating window into contemporary attitudes toward psychiatry, as filtered through the disparate sensibilities of Hitchcock, producer David O. Selznick, screenwriter Ben Hecht, and Salvador Dalí, who designed the famed fantasy sequence” (Lou Lumenick, The New York Post). NYFCC Best Actress, 1945. 116 min.
4 PM The Inner Life of Martin Frost 2007. USA/Spain/France. Written and directed by Paul Auster. With David Thewlis, Michael Imperioli. Martin Frost has just completed his novel and he retreats to a house in the country to recuperate from the ordeal of writing. A magical muse arrives and uses all of her powers and wiles to inspire Martin to begin a new project. This is novelist Auster’s fourth directorial effort. 93 min.
7:30 PM Frownland 2007. USA. Written and directed by Ronald Bronstein. With Dore Mann, Mary Wall. With Frownland, Bronstein has made a bold and bracing film that is both a hilarious black comedy and a ragged love letter to an earlier era of independent film. Both the film and its singular hero, Keith Sontag, are raw, confrontational, and, finally, unforgettable. 106 min.
Sunday, August 16
2 PM Santiago 2006. Brazil. Directed by João Moreira Salles. A touching documentary in which director Salles examines his family’s relationship with their now retired but still beloved butler Santiago. Not only did Santiago ably manage the Salles household, he also found time to catalogue the history of civilization in great detail in his personal journals. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 79 min.
5 PM Lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterley et l’homme des bois) 2006. France. Directed by Pascale Ferran. Ferran’s adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s John Thomas and Lady Jane, the remarkably different second version of Lawrence’s celebrated and notorious Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is cinema at its most sensuous, tactile, and intelligent. In depicting the erotic affair between an English aristocrat and a gamekeeper, Ferran observes, “The story is literally overrun by vegetation…. To me, that’s the most beautiful thing: the story of a love that is one with the material experience of transformation.” In French; English subtitles. 168 min.
Monday, August 17
4 PM One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975. USA. Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher. This adaptation of Ken Kesey’s widely read antiestablishment novel stars Nicholson as a convict in a psychiatric hospital who leads his fellow inmates in defying the icy Nurse Ratched, one of the greatest villains in film history. This rallying cry against authority and conformity struck a nerve with viewers and became only the second movie to win all five major Academy Awards. 133 min.
7 PM Happy Go Lucky 2008. Great Britain. Written and directed by Mike Leigh. With Sally Hawkins. Poppy is an elementary school teacher who seems to be perpetually happy. Can anyone live like that all the time? Poppy can. The roots of her constantly contented nature run deep, but they are tested when she meets the grating, sarcastic driving instructor Scott. The film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. 119 min.