The Masseurs and a Woman
Shimizu’s most eccentrically personal film, screening 5/12, follows a pair of blind masseuses who come across a variety of characters whose dilemmas range from tragic to comic.
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Shimizu’s most eccentrically personal film, screening 5/12, follows a pair of blind masseuses who come across a variety of characters whose dilemmas range from tragic to comic.
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.
Largely due to its atypical period setting in the late Meiji era and its theme of female self-sacrifice, Shimizu’s film has drawn comparison to similar works by Kenji Mizoguchi.
The most celebrated of Shimizu’s postwar films, screening 5/19, is a momentous work depicting the shattered state of reconstruction-era Japan.
On 5/24, Tim Burton's gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the '90s Multiplex.
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.
Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.
Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star's mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star's mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
On 5/24, Tim Burton's gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the '90s Multiplex.