Here’s
what to expect from Cinema Salon, both as website and film club:
Here online, I'll post in the next few days a composite review covering recent films such Monsieur Lazhar and
The Master; then my near-complete retrospective of Paul Newman’s career; and finally, in time for the 8th anniversary of this blog on New
Year’s Day, a tour “Around the World in Eighty Films,” which will highlight my
choices for the best of world cinema over the past decade.
At
the Clark , I anticipate film club screenings most
Fridays through the winter, January through March. Many will coordinate with the official Clark film series running through those months, a series
of Saturday matinees called “Widescreen Wonders,” six films in high-definition
extra-wide formats, each of them a Best Picture Oscar-winner, cumulatively
earning 47 Academy Awards. So for
example, when I am showing The Bridge on the River Kwai on Saturday,
I’ll show two other David Lean films on Friday.
On alternate weeks, I will typically be showing double features
highlighting foreign directors, recent and classic, such as the Dardennes
brothers, Almodovar, Wong-Kar Wai, Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, and Max Ophuls. I haven’t yet consulted either the Clark ’s calendar or my own, but will update programs as
the schedule develops.
At
Images Cinema, I plan to be available for post-film discussion after the 3:00
pm screening of Lincoln
on Sunday, December 30. I think the
film is exceptionally good, Daniel Day-Lewis sublime, and I’ve just finished
reading Team of Rivals, the Doris Kearns Goodwin book on which the film
is based, as well as re-watching John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln and other
cinematic portraits, so I will definitely be primed to talk about the
subject. And I’m eager to see the
digital projection upgrade at Images.