The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens presents a new season of "Repertory Nights" starting August 27 with two weekends of double features by Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard, and continuing with major works by Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick and more. For the past five years the Museum has presented new, restored and imported 35mm prints of film classics that deserve to be shown on the big screen. "Repertory Nights" will run through November 6.
Schedule:
"8 1/2"
Saturday, August 27 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 28 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Federico Fellini, 1963, 135 min.
Fellini's autobiographical fantasy is a portrait of the filmmaker as a circus ringmaster.
"La Dolce Vita"
Saturday, August 27 @ 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 28 @ 3:00 p.m.
Directed by Federico Fellini, 1960, 175 min.
A bored gossip columnist wanders through the hedonistic spectacle of modern Rome.
"Breathless"
Saturday, September 3 @ 2:00 & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 4 @ 2:00 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1959, 89 min.
Godard' s innovative and influential homage to the American gangster film is the film that defined the Nouvelle Vague.
"Contempt"
Saturday, September 3 @ 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 4 @ 4:00 p.m.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, 103 min.
Godard's first widescreen color movie with Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michael Piccoli, Fritz Lang, among others is a wry parody of commercial filmmaking.
"Persona"
Saturday, September 10 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 11 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1966, 81 min.
An actress recovering from a mental breakdown develops an intense relationship with her nurse in Bergman's modernist self-reflexive psychodrama.
"Vertigo"
Friday, September 16 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 17 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 18 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 128 min.
The psychopathology of obsession has never been more alluring than in Hitchcock 's thriller about a detective's attempts to recreate a woman in the image of his lost love.
"Beauty and the Beast"
Saturday, September 24 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 25 @ 7:00 p.m.
Directed by Jean Cocteau, 1946, 95 min.
Cocteau' s visually sumptuous rendering of the classic fairy tale is filled with dreamlike, romantic imagery.
"Aguirre: The Wrath of God"
Friday, September 30 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 1 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 2 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Werner Herzog, 1972, 90 min.
In Herzog's lush, haunting odyssey, Kinski plays a mad conquistador leading a doomed river journey.
"The Seven Samurai"
Friday, October 7 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 8 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 9 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1954, 204 min.
A group of samurai unites to protect a terrorized farming village in Kurosawa's dynamic, humanist epic.
"Jules and Jim"
Saturday, October 15 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 16 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by François Truffaut, 1961, 104 min.
A freewheeling woman tempts two lifelong friends, her exuberance mirrored by the energy of Truffaut's filmmaking.
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
Friday, October 21 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 22 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 23 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1968, 139 mins.
Kubrick's mesmerizing, futuristic vision of man's place in the cosmos.
"Zabriskie Point"
Saturday, October 29 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 30 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970, 112 min.
Sam Shepard co-wrote Antonioni's poetic and probing chronicle of counterculture America.
"Citizen Kane"
Friday, November 4 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 5 @ 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 6 @ 6:30 p.m.
Directed by Orson Welles, 1941, 119 min.
Welles's labyrinthine study of the life of a newspaper tycoon, often cited as the greatest film ever made.
