Wed -Thur, November 18-19
3:00p - PARIS
5:30p - PARIS
8:00p - PARIS

Fri, Nov 20
3:00p - PARIS
5:30p - PARIS
8:00p - (Untitled)

Sat - Sun, Nov 21 & 22
1:00p - (Untitled)
3:00p - PARIS
5:30p - PARIS
8:00p - (Untitled)

Mon - Tues, Nov 23 & 24
3:00p - PARIS
5:30p - PARIS
8:00p - (Untitled)

Wed , Nov 25
1:00p - (Untitled)
3:00p - PARIS
5:30p - PARIS
8:00p - (Untitled)

Thur, Nov 26
Closed

November Calendar

(Untitled) - Opens November 20
"A comedy worthy of the best Woody Allen ... Adrian is not unlike Woody's persona: a sincere, intense, insecure nebbish, hopeless with women, aiming for greatness." -Roger Ebert
This offbeat romantic comedy follows a gorgeous art curator (Marley Shelton) who falls for a mopey avant-garde composer (Adam Goldberg). A playful, insightful send-up of the world of contemporary art, Jonathan Parker's film is also surprisingly heartfelt and multilayered.
(U.S., 2009, 96m, 35mm, Roadside Attractions)

Paris - Now Showing
"A captivating and never prescriptive paeon to humanity's will to survive." -Empire Magazine
Cédric Klapisch's exhilarating new film offers one of the greatest cinematic love letters, finding poignant stories behind every corner: Pierre (Romain Duris) awaits a heart transplant, only to find his apartment invaded by his sister Elise (Juliette Binoche) and her three children; a respected professor (Fabrice Luchini) hopes for one more great romance in his life; and a vendor at farmers market (Albert Dupontel) ponders life after divorce. The real star, however, is Paris: gorgeous, eternal, surprising.
(France, 2008, 129m, 35mm, IFC Films)

The Best Restored Films of 2009
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, BIGGER THAN LIFE and Z come to the CCA

The CCA celebrates the astonishingly vibrant world of film restoration with three rarely seen classics on 35mm. These three films, perhaps the most exciting revivals of 2009, each played to big crowds upon their New York premieres.

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, John Stahl's Technicolor melodrama-on-the-edge, with Gene Tierney
BIGGER THAN LIFE, the fantastic Nick Ray-James Mason collaboration that may have inspired David Lynch's career
Z, still the greatest political thriller of all time

The series runs November 27 through December 4 at the CCA Cinematheque.

Film descriptions
Leave Her to Heaven
"Staggeringly beautiful ... A strangely heartening reminder of just how exhilaratingly bizarre Hollywood moviemaking could get!" -The Auteurs
John Stahl's gorgeously intense Technicolor masterpiece stars Gene Tierney ("the fatalest of the femmes in this melodrama" -NY Post) as a woman who meets and seduces a best-selling author on a train, setting off a spectacular series of deadly misadventures (including a scene in the New Mexico mountains). Unmissable. (U.S., 1945, 110m, 35mm, Criterion Pictures)
Visit http://www.filmforum.org/films/leave.html for more information.

Bigger than Life
"Revelatory! A revival not to be missed!" -The New Yorker
Scott Foundas calls it "Father Knows Best reconfigured as Greek tragedy": Nicholas Ray's unforgettable Cinemascope masterpiece-which has for years been nearly impossible to see-stars a terrifying James Mason as a man altered by an experimental drug ... an experiment that ends up twisting the entire Rockwellian town where he lives. "One of the best, most radical, least-known American films ... A canny retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde story." -Village Voice.
(U.S., 1956, 95m, 35mm)
Visit http://www.filmforum.org/films/bigger.html for more information.

Z
"An extraordinary thriller! One of the fastest, most exciting melodramas ever made" -Pauline Kael
The winner of the Cannes Jury Prize (awarded unanimously) and the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Costa-Gavras' landmark counter-culture thriller dives deep into revolutionary street-level politics and brutal response by the powers-that-be. A touchstone of subversive cinema, Z remains as vibrant and relevant as ever, 40 years after its initial, worldwide-smash, release. With Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irene Papas. (Algeria, 1969, 127m, 35mm)
Visit http://www.rialtopictures.com/z.html for more information.

December Calendar

Antichrist - Opens December 11
"Dafoe and Gainsbourg have been risk takers, as anyone working with von Trier must be. The ways they're called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince." -Roger Ebert
The biggest provocation at Cannes, and the most outrageous film yet from master Lars von Trier, this nearly indescribable film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg (winner, best actress, Cannes) and Willem Dafoe as a grieving couple who retreat to "Eden," their isolated cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But, as nature takes its course, things become terrifying, beautiful and as intense as the cinema has ever seen.
(Denmark, 2009, 109m, 35mm, IFC Films)

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet - Opens December 18
"Sumptuous in its length and graceful in its rhythm ... one of the finest dance films ever made, but there's more to it than that." -New York Times
Legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman sends his roaming camera through the magical Palais Garnier, the home to the world's greatest dance company. Capturing everything, from conceptual discussions to rehearsals to administrative matters to, gloriously, the final performances, LA DANSE is a brilliant, unparalleled glimpse into the creative spirit, filled with drama, delectable moments and the highest artistic achievements.
(U.S., 2009, 158m, DVcam)