Repertory Series!
The Entertainer:
A Centennial Tribute To Laurence Olivier
Sunday, May 13 - Tuesday, May 15
& Sunday, May 20 - Wednesday, May 23
2007 marks the 100th birthday of one of the
great actors of the 20th century. Laurence Olivier was a monstrous talent and
brought it to bear in front of
and behind the camera, as well as on and off the stage. With these series we
offer
a small sampling of his wide-ranging talent. With screenings of his directorial
work (HENRY V and HAMLET) as well as his most famous roles interpreting literary
characters (WUTHERING HEIGHTS and REBECCA), we celebrate Olivier’s intellectual
strength, while also delving into some of his more interesting work as a character
actor playing bad guys (MARATHON MAN), slimy hacks (THE ENTERTAINER), and police
detectives (BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING). Don’t miss this rare opportunity
to
experience the full range of this stellar actor’s talent.
Film Descriptions, Dates & Showtimes
Sunday 5/13 at 2:00, 7:45
Double Feature w/Henry V
Hamlet
(1946) dir Laurence Olivier w/ Olivier [155 min]
After the success of his first Shakesperean film, HENRY V, Olivier tackled
one of the Bard’s most troubled and difficult characters. His version
of Hamlet emphasizes the melancholy in the Dane and brings to the screen a
somber and personal
vision of the play.
Sunday 5/13 at 5:00
Double Feature w/Hamlet
Henry V
(1944) dir Laurence Olivier w/ Olivier, Leslie Banks, George Robey
[137 min]
One of Olivier’s crowning achievements (literally and figuratively),
HENRY V is the story of King Henry’s 15th century military campaign in
France. The most artful of propaganda films, Olivier’s version emphasizes
the passion of the British soldiers of the past in an effort to inspire those
the
present,
then deep in World War II.
Monday 5/14 at 8:00
Othello
(1965) dir Laurence Olivier, John Dexter (uncredited) w/ Olivier, Maggie
Smith, Joyce Redman, Frank Finlay, Derek Jacobi [165 min]
Olivier’s final appearance in a big screen Shakesperean adaptation comes
with this version of the most film noir of Shakespeare’s plays. Olivier
stars as Othello, the Moorish king of Venice, who is connived into paroxysms
of jealousy against his new bride Desdemona by the efforts of the scheming
Iago.
Tuesday 5/14 at 5:00, 7:15, 9:30*
Please Note: This evening's 9:30 screening
is cancelled - We regret any inconvenience.
Bunny Lake Is Missing
(1965) dir Otto Preminger w/Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir
Dullea, Martita Hunt [107 min]
It’s swinging London in the Sixties, and a recently arrived American
woman (Lynley) reports that her daughter has been snatched from school… only
the police can’t find any evidence that she ever actually existed. With
Olivier as the sympathetic detective who tries to help her. An overlooked gem!
Sunday
5/20 at 1:30, 6:45
Double Feature w/ Marathon Man
Sleuth
(1972) dir Jospeh L. Mankiewicz w/Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne,
John Matthews [138 min]
One of the most surprising and satisfying mystery films of the 70s, SLEUTH
pits the formidable Olivier against the upstart Michael Caine in a battle of
wits.
Olivier plays Andrew Wyke, the aging husband of a woman who is the lover of
Milo Tindle (Caine). Wyke invites Tindle to his country home and proposes a
scheme
to bilk the insurance company… but what are his real motives?
Sunday 5/20
at 4:15, 9:30
Double Feature w/Sleuth
Marathon Man
(1976) dir John Schlesinger w/Dustin Hoffman, Larence Olivier,
Roy Scheider, William Devane [125 min]
A classic of 70s paranoid filmmaking, MARATHON MAN stars Dustin Hoffman as
a schlubby grad student who gets in way over his head with covert government
agents
and Nazi fugitives. Olivier plays Szell, the Nazi in question, who is trying
to smuggle diamonds out of the US and has a nasty aptitude for torture.
Monday
5/21 at 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
Rebecca
(1940) dir Alfred Hitchcock w/Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders,
Judith Anderson [130 min]
The mother of all gothic romances, REBECCA stars Olivier as Max de Winter,
a wealthy widower, who falls in love with a naïve young woman (Fontaine)
while still in mourning for his former wife, Rebecca. The couple marries and
returns
to Manderlay, his family estate, but the “second Mrs. De Winter” soon
finds that the spirit of Rebecca still has a strong hold on the house and its
residents.
Tuesday 5/12 at 8:00, 10:00
The Entertainer
(1960) dir Tony Richardson w/Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger
Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney [96 min]
"
In a seedy seaside music hall, Laurence Olivier’s washed-up songand-
dance man Archie Rice symbolically stands in for England, finding solace only
with
daughter Joan Plowright." (Film Forum, NYC)
Garnered Olivier his 6th of
10 Oscar nominations.
Wednesday 5/23 at 5:00, 7:15, 9:30
Wuthering Heights
(1939) dir William Wyler w/Merle Oberon, Olivier, David Niven,
Flora Robson,
Geraldine Fitzgerald [103 min]
This definitive version of Emily Bronte’s classic novel is amongst the
most romantic movies of all time. Olivier plays Heathcliff, a foundling who
is raised by the residents of Wuthering Heights and whose fate becomes entwined
with the daughter of the house, Cathy (Oberon). Characterized by its moody
black-and-white
style, WUTHERING HEIGHTS won the great cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen
Kane) his only Oscar.
