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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Film New Slates from CFS and PLCMC
Posted By Matt Brunson on Wed, Jan 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM
The Charlotte Film Society’s Second Weekend Series returns with a movie a month now through May. Here’s the schedule:
Jan. 11-14: What Would Jesus Buy? (2007). Documentary about a reverend (of the Church of Stop Shopping) who tries to lead Americans away from consumerism and back toward the real meaning of Christmas.
Feb. 8-11: This Is England (2007). An impressionable young boy falls in with a group of diverse skinheads.
March 14-17: Adam’s Apples (2005). From Denmark comes this story of a demoralized priest (Mads Mikkelsen of After the Wedding) coming to terms with the tragedies in his life.
April 11-14: Blame It On Fidel (2004). Costa-Gavras’ daughter, Julie Gavras, serves as director for this fictionalized look at the political instability of Paris in the early 1970s.
May 9-12: All About Eve (1950). Nominated for a record 12 Academy Awards and winner of six (including Best Picture), this masterpiece stars Bette Davis as Broadway star Margo Channing, on the verge of being stabbed in the back by rising actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter).
All films will be screened at the Park Terrace Cinema. For more info, including times and costs, go to www.charlottefilmsociety.org.
Also debuting is the Main Library’s series “Truman Capote Goes to the Movies,” with most titles being shown at 7 p.m. Mondays (except for In Cold Blood, which will be screened at 6:30 p.m.). The line-up:
Jan. 14: Beat the Devil (1953). John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart in this cult offering penned by Capote. Classic Bogie line: "The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits, and that's not my idea of adequate protection."
Jan. 28: The Innocents (1961). Henry James’ classic spook story The Turn of the Screw gets brought to the screen in an atmospheric adaptation co-scripted by Capote.
Feb. 11: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). Capote’s literary character Holly Golightly finds her perfect match in Audrey Hepburn, who scored an Oscar nomination for playing the upwardly mobile New Yorker.
March 3: In Cold Blood (1967). Capote’s most notorious novel, about the real-life slaying of a farmland family by a pair of drifters, was the basis for not only great chunks of the Oscar-winning Capote but also for this superb dramatization.
March 10: Murder By Death (1976). An eccentric millionaire (played by Capote) invites the world’s greatest detectives (essayed by the likes of Peter Falk, Peter Sellers and David Niven) to his mansion to solve a murder in this engaging comedy.
March 17: Infamous (2006). The other Truman show, this stars Toby Jones in an excellent portrayal, with the movie doing a better job than Capote in capturing the social raconteur’s partying style but less penetrating in the details surrounding the In Cold Blood case.
Films will be shown in ImaginOn’s Wachovia Theater. Admission is free.
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