[Press release from the Cleveland Museum of Art.]
The Cleveland Museum of Art
presents a series of movies from the pivotal film year of 1967 (50 years ago). It
begins on Tuesday, July 11.
There
are also two changes to museum’s film program. As of July, Wednesday
night films will be shifted to Tuesday afternoons at 1:30 pm. And there
will now be only two categories of admission prices: museum members and
non-members.
1967: The Summer of (Movie) Love
1967 was the year of the “Summer of Love.” It was also a pivotal year in the history of movies. Arthur Penn’s freewheeling
Bonnie and Clyde ushered in a new era of motion picture bloodletting and violence. Mike Nichols’s satiric and sexually frank
The Graduate tapped a huge, previously unrecognized audience of aimless, antiestablishment young people. Stanley Kramer’s
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? broached the sensitive subject of
interracial marriage. In 2017 each of these three groundbreaking works
will receive (or already have received) special 50th anniversary
screenings in multiplexes across the US.
But 1967 featured more than this trio of famous American taboo
breakers. Milestone movies emerged around the globe during this seminal
year in film. Master filmmakers like Luis Buñuel, Jean-Luc Godard, and
Jacques Tati released major
works that helped change the face of modern movies. Foreign filmmakers
working in the US, like Britain’s John Boorman and Canada’s Norman
Jewison, mounted their own assaults on the Hollywood establishment
during the year’s cinematic revolution. The movies
of 1967 reflected the upheavals that were shaking and shaping culture
and society at large. These exciting works inspired a new generation of
international filmgoers and filmmakers, film scholars and film
programmers, cementing cinema as an art form worthy
of serious attention in both the media and academia. In short, after
1967, movies were never the same.
This July and August we present seven groundbreaking works that mark
their 50th anniversary in 2017. All will be shown from 35mm film in
Morley Lecture Hall. Admission to each is $11; CMA members $8.
In the Heat of the Night
Tue/Jul 11, 1:30. Fri/Jul 14, 7:00. Directed by Norman Jewison. With
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates. In this winner of five
Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Steiger),
a bigoted Southern sheriff must work with an African American homicide
detective from Philadelphia to solve a murder in a small, backwards
Mississippi town. (USA, 1967, color, 35mm, 109 min.)
Tuesday’s screening will be introduced by William Patrick Day, professor of English and cinema studies at Oberlin College.
Playtime Sun/Jul 16, 1:30.
Tue/Jul 18, 1:30. Directed by Jacques Tati. With Tati. In this brilliant
comic critique of modernity and technology, Jacques Tati’s beloved,
bumbling, bumbershoot-carrying alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, adds
a much-needed dose of humanity to a sterile, soulless glass and steel
cityscape on the edge of Paris that he tries to navigate. (France, 1967,
color, 35mm, 124 min.)
The Jungle Book Fri/Jul 21,
7:00. Sun/Jul 23, 1:30 Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. With the voices
of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, and George Sanders. The
last Disney-animated film personally produced by Walt (who
died during production) is a funny, genial, tuneful take on the Kipling
classic about a young Indian boy raised by wolves and befriended by
other critters. Songs by the Sherman Brothers. (USA, 1967, color, 35mm,
78 min.)
Point Blank
Sun/Jul 30, 1:30. Tue/Aug 1, 1:30. Directed by John Boorman. With Lee
Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and Keenan Wynn. Two years after he is shot and
left for dead, a gangster seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. This
dreamy
crime film with a fractured narrative and Pop Art colors, a flop when
first released, is now seen as one of the stylistic landmarks of the
1960s.
(USA, 1967, color, 35mm, 92 min.)
Belle de Jour Tue/Aug 8, 1:30. Fri/Aug 11, 7:00.
Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and
Michel Piccoli. In this elegantly perverse provocation by one of
cinema’s great Surrealists, a young, frigid, bourgeois French housewife
spends weekday afternoons moonlighting (daylighting?)
as a high-class prostitute. Adults only! (France/Italy, 1967,
subtitles, color, 35mm, 100 min.)
Tuesday’s screening will be introduced by Grace An, associate professor of French and cinema studies at Oberlin College.
Weekend Fri/Aug 18, 7:00.
Sun/Aug 20, 1:30. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. A couple’s weekend
excursion to the country becomes a descent into horror and barbarism in
this scabrous, savagely funny attack on bourgeois values and Western
civilization. “(Godard’s) vision of hell . . . ranks with the
greatest.” —Pauline Kael. (France/Italy, 1967, subtitles, color, 35mm,
105 min.)
Samurai Rebellion
Sun/Aug 27, 1:30. Tue/Aug 29, 1:30. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. With
Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai. In 18th-century Japan, a longtime
loyal retainer to a feudal lord revolts when the ruler demands the
return
of an old mistress, now the loving wife of the samurai’s son. Music by
Toru Takemitsu. “The final duel is as exciting as any ever put on film.”
—David Shipman. (Japan, 1967, subtitles, b&w, 121 min.)
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