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BRYNN WHITE

RIDLEY SCOTT'S ICONIC SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER – "JAWS IN OUTER SPACE" – OPENS THIS FRIDAY, JULY 10. NEW 35mm PRINT! POSITIVELY ONE WEEK ONLY!

Showtimes: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

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"In space, no one can hear you scream... but Film Forum audiences will still be shrieking in honor of this sci-fi horror classic's 30th anniversary."
– Time Out New York

“A nightmarishly primordial vision that's yet to be surpassed by the movies. Still shreds nerves!”
– Manohla Dargis

“Never lost its ability to terrify... DON'T MISS THE CHANCE TO SEE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN!”
– New York magazine

"A perfectly executed B horror movie disguised with an A-picture budget. This exceptional 30th anniversary print of Alien is a welcome opportunity to view Ridley Scott's original without the baggage of its inferior sequels."
– Benjamin Strong, The L Magazine

“Alien has a profoundly existentialist undertow that makes it feel like a Film Noir. From the first minutes of the film, as cinematographer Derek Vanlint’s camera crawls through the empty corridors, the mood of dread and confinement is almost unbearable. Watching these scenes on the big screen I recognize how few horror movies I’ve seen before or since that ever manage to capture such a tangible feeling of menace.”
– Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“At once graphically elegant and viscerally effective... What has gone missing in the years since the first film was the essential terror that hums through much of Scott’s work... the chilled-to-the-bone fear that no one can hear you scream, no matter where you are.”
– Manohla Dargis

AGNÈS VARDA’S POETIC MEMOIR OF A LIFE AT THE MOVIES
THROUGH TUESDAY, JULY 14

Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00

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“A major new film. (Has) a spellbinding visual beauty that reminds you of the transporting power of pure cinema.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“A late masterpiece!” – Stuart Klawans, The Nation

“ENCHANTING! A cinematic reverie” – David Edelstein, New York magazine

“Uninhibited about sex, generous in her affections, worldly-wise, blending solemn or tender recollections with self-deprecating antics… Varda goes far beyond a tale of life lived in art and makes a work of art in its own right, one of her best – a poignant, rapturously emotional tribute to life itself.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“In her latest, the similarly glorious and generous THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, Ms. Varda has created something of a sequel to THE GLEANERS AND I… The images are as delightful, unexpected and playfully uninhibited as Ms. Varda… I’m glad that Ms. Varda reserves most of the room in this movie for her own story. It’s a remarkable history, rich in comedy and occasionally heartbreaking, filled with wise reflections and strange digressions about the wonders of life.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“The great idiosyncratic original of the French nouvelle vague generation... In a sense, Varda has done for herself what she did for Demy – creating a work, as charming as it is touching, that serves to explicate and enrich an entire oeuvre.”
– J. Hoberman, Village Voice

LAST 2 DAYS! DAZZLING NEW 35mm COLOR & SCOPE RESTORATION OF SUPER-CHARGED 60s MUSICAL, STARRING JANET LEIGH, DICK VAN DYKE, AND ANN-MARGRET, MUST END THIS THURSDAY, JULY 9.

Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00

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“ONE OF THE UNSUNG MUSICALS OF THE 1960s!” – Time Out (London)

“Sears its way into the mind's eye... it's the Mad magazine aesthetic that is key to the movie's pleasures. A particular highlight: After rocker Conrad Birdie performs his hip-thrusting, fainting-masses introductory number, Sidney orchestrates a deadpan brilliant re-creation of the wounded-soldiers crane shot from Gone with the Wind.”
– Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

“A big, splashy, Broadway-derived mix of boisterous rock ’n’ roll satire and breezy showbiz formulas. This enjoyable timepiece is notable today for its peppy score, energetic dancing, and for having made a star of the extremely nubile Ann-Margret, 22 passing for 16. Her fresh, wholesome eroticism fairly bursts off the screen.”
– Time Out (London)

“If you like what George Sidney does with Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh, and pink decor, it’s sort of magnificent.”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum

AN ENTERTAINING AND PROVOCATIVE NEW DOCUMENTARY
DECONSTRUCTS YOUR DINNER PLATE
NOW PLAYING

Showtimes: 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:15

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“More than a terrific movie – it’s an important one.”
– Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“FOOD, INC. is part of a new generation of food films that drip with politics, not sauces…
The director Robert Kenner takes a sprawling look at the perils of Big Food.”
– Kim Severson, The New York Times

“I gave up the thought of ‘reviewing’ the documentary and decided, instead, to exhort you: SEE IT. BRING YOUR KIDS IF YOU HAVE THEM. BRING SOMEONE ELSE’S IF YOU DON’T. The sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing – it touches on every aspect of modern life. It’s the documentary equivalent of THE MATRIX.”
– David Edelstein, New York magazine

“Superb. An elegantly constructed and absorbing analysis.”
– Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment

“Kenner crafts an intelligent, visually compelling argument grounded in old-fashioned investigative research and journalism.”
– Maria Garcia, Film Journal International

“The film I have always been waiting for.”
– Alice Waters, award-winning chef, author and natural food advocate

SHANE MEADOWS’S TENDER COMEDY OF LONDON TEENS COMING OF AGE
HAS U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE NEXT WEDNESDAY, JULY 15

Showtimes: 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00, 10:00

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“A marvelous, pitch-perfect evocation of teenage friendship in modern London.”
– Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter

“Witty and warmhearted… Endlessly charming.”
– Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

“Perfectly formed…an affectionate tribute to cross-cultural friendship.”
– Leslie Felperin, Variety

“A triumph.”
– Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

“Practically perfect!”
– Karina Longworth, Spout.com

“(A) gentle, sweet-natured comedy shot in black and white, and blessed with a lovely performance
from Meadows’s great find, Thomas Turgoose, the teenage star of his previous film, THIS IS ENGLAND.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

NICHOLAS RAY'S FILM NOIR MASTERPIECE, STARRING HUMPHREY BOGART AND GLORIA GRAHAME, OPENS NEXT FRIDAY, JULY 17. NEW 35mm PRINT! POSITIVELY ONE WEEK ONLY!

Showtimes: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50

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“A BREATHTAKING NOIR MASTERPIECE!”
– The Village Voice

“An achingly poetic meditation on pain, distrust and loss and faith, not to mention an admirably unglamorous portrait of Tinseltown.”
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London)

“Ray's classic thriller remains as fresh and resonant as the day it was released. The Noir atmosphere of deathly paranoia frames one of the screen’s most adult and touching love affairs... Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring.”
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London)

“One of Ray's smartest and most devastating masterpieces. Not unlike Albert Camus's The Stranger, represents the purest of existentialist primers.”
– Ed Gonzalez, SLANT Magazine

“A BREATHTAKING WORK! With his weary romanticism, Bogart was made for Nicholas Ray.”
– Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

"A radical demystification of the classic Bogart hero… The role of Dixon Steele is among the most interesting examples of a performer's critical reevaluation of his screen persona, and surely belongs on the list of Bogart's great performances."
– Robert Sklar

THIS WEEK'S MOVIE CHALLENGE

To win a free pair of tickets to any regular screening, Monday - Thursday in July or August, answer the following question correctly:

A new 35mm print of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt, opens this Friday, July 10, for one week only. This week's question: Spike Jones & His City Slickers was a popular novelty band of the 1940s and 50s. What is the connection between ALIEN and the Spike Jones orchestra?

Email your answer to contest@filmforum.org, with “Film Forum Contest” in the subject line. See complete rules below

LAST WEEK’S MOVIE CHALLENGE

In THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, which opens today, veteran French auteur Agnès Varda creates a memoir through a combination of artistic reenactments, still photographs and clips from her vast filmography, as well as by revisiting the places that shaped her experience. Upon returning to her childhood home in Brussels, she meets the rather eccentric current residents, who have an obsessive passion for collecting what objects?

Answer:

Model trains.

We received 26 correct responses. The winner is Judy Ross.

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SPOTLIGHTING OUR EMPLOYEES

Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky I always looked forward to the summer classic film series held at a movie palace downtown. It became apparent early on that I was New York City-bound, where such movie-going opportunities were in ample supply. I used to longingly scan the New Yorker listings for Film Forum, and to this day am still awestruck that I now set those show times! As the Repertory Programming Assistant I get to have a hand in, or at least an eye on, practically everything. Watching Director of Repertory Programming Bruce Goldstein whittle down a list of hundreds of films into a compact, comprehensive series is quite a sight to behold.

I still miss popping into the "Breadlines & Champagne" festival practically every day after work for a healthy dose of Busby Berkeley and James Cagney, but it's hard to top the consecutive runs of BIGGER THAN LIFE, MADE IN U.S.A., and JEANNE DIELMAN earlier this year, as all three had been long unavailable and truly blossomed on the big screen. I was also touched to hear that shortly before his death, Robert Altman expressed his joy over Film Forum's revival of his "lost" film CALIFORNIA SPLIT.

Outside the office I try my hand at writing, most notably a paean to Lee Marvin for Film Comment magazine. I occasionally escape the movies, fancying myself an aspiring tap dancer and color theorist, a connoisseur of classic cocktails and Southern food, and an F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald and Henry James enthusiast. I am actually on a road trip to Memphis and New Orleans this week... but I will be back just in time for the FF opening of one of my favorite movies, IN A LONELY PLACE!

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THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS
FOOD, INC.
SOMERS TOWN
BEESWAX


UPCOMING REVIVALS:
ALIEN
BYE BYE BIRDIE
IN A LONELY PLACE


NICK RAY FESTIVAL:
BORN TO BE BAD
THE LUSTY MEN
ON DANGEROUS GROUND
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES

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