Special Engagement!The Magnificent Ambersons
Tickets(1942) dir Orson Welles, w/w/Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter [88 min]
Welles' 1942 follow-up to CITIZEN KANE, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS charts the downfall of a wealthy Indianapolis family. This film marks one of the greatest artistic betrayals of Welles's career: Upon completion of the film, creative control was seized from Welles and it was cut from 2 hours to 88 minutes. Despite this injustice, AMBERSONS remains a "truncated masterpiece", and an ideal showcase for Welles's bold direction.
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Brattle Theatre Film Notes for THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Special Engagement!Citizen Kane
Tickets(1941) dir Orson Welles, w/Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore [88 min]
Undoubtedly Orson Welles most well known film – and considered the best of all time by many – CITIZEN KANE is an undeniable classic. Amazingly, Welles’ debut as a film director, KANE tells the story of Charles Foster Kane – the scion of a powerful family who rises as an egalitarian newspaperman and falls as an aspiring politician. Told through the eyes of those who knew him, the story bends back and forth through time creating a mosaic picture of a complicated man.
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Brattle Theatre Film Notes for CITIZEN KANE
Special Engagement!The Late Show! Area Premiere!
Birdemic
Tickets(2008) dir James Nguyen, w/Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore, Tippi Hedren [90 min]
It’s been called the next The Room. The New York Times has dubbed its idiosyncratic director “a latter-day anti-genius to rival Edward D. Wood Jr.” It’s been raved about by comedians Patton Oswalt and Tim & Eric. And Entertainment Weekly says it their “new, crazy movie obsession.“ Brace yourselves, because BIRDEMIC is coming to Boston!
Writer/producer/director/software salesman James Nguyen has created an insanely bizarre homage to Alfred Hitchcock with BIRDEMIC – a “romantic thriller” that begins as a seemingly innocuous love story between an attractive (if wooden) couple. But, as Nguyen says, if you watch carefully there are hints that all is not right. Suddenly the action starts, the feathers start flying, and there is no stopping the avian carnage!
Don’t miss our Revenge Of The Grindhouse series starting next Friday! Guest curator Lars Nilsen of Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse will be in attendance at screenings Friday thru Monday! We’ve got some killer double features lined up - check out the schedule at the link below!
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BIRDEMIC official site
Revenge Of The Grindhouse series, June 11–17
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