Friday May 10
• 7:30pm
Saturday May 11
• 5:15
Sunday May 12
• 2:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: FILMS BEGIN AT POSTED SHOWTIMES

Orson Welles’s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest missing-footage tragedies—harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead, the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clan—at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though the studio excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS is still a masterpiece, an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life and an essential cinema classic.

Friday May 10
• 4:45pm
Saturday May 11
• 7:30
Sunday May 12
• 4:45pm

PLEASE NOTE: FILMS BEGIN AT POSTED SHOWTIMES

One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today.