Events for April 19th, 2009
The Man in the White Suit
Directed by Alexander McKendrick. UK. 1952. NR. 84 min.
- Sun, Apr 19, 2:00 pm
Another one of Alec Guinness’ peerless 50’s comedies. Here he stars as an unassuming lab assistant who invents a miracle fabric that can be woven into indestructible cloth. The potential catastrophe that this poses for clothing manufacturers pits Guinness against the industry in a Chaplinesque battle which serves as a witty and incisive chastisement against the greed of capitalism.” (TLA Film & Video Guide)
Click here to watch the trailer with commentary by writer Howard Rodman on www.trailersfromhell.com, a great site that we just discovered.
This film will be screened on DVD.
The Class
Directed by Laurent Cantet. France. 2008. PG-13. 128 min.
Fri, Apr 10 thru Thu, Apr 22 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
"When François Bégaudeau, the co-writer and star of Laurent Cantet's The Class, strides confidently into an ethnically mixed middle-school classroom–where he'll spend most of the film's 128 minutes–audiences can be forgiven for expecting him to work miracles. The movies have trained us to believe that an inspirational teacher can turn inner-city thugs into rapping scholars and disaffected private-school kids into barbaric yawpers, so surely a man of Bégaudeau's talents can stir up this melting pot, no? Well, not exactly. The beauty of The Class is that it puts the lie to the one-teacher-can-make-a-difference myth propagated by so many other films; Bégaudeau may well have an impact on his students, but he and the film have the wisdom to understand that some kids can't be reached, and teachers often find that cultural or bureaucratic conditions leave their hands tied." More»