Past P.O.V. Screenings
February 19th - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It's an election year and primary season is in full swing. With that in mind, Point Of View Film Series stimulates the political animal in all of us with a screening of 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (1939).
Jimmy Stewart (in a career-defining role), Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town American senator who heads to Washington D.C. and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. It is a classic tale of the every-man taking on the powers-that-be. It still resonates today, more than seventy five years after its release. Nominated for a total of eleven Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Writing, Original Story), 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is considered one of Capra's and Stewart's finest films.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20th, 7:00 PM
WHERE: The Skyline Room at Tapp's Arts Center.
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This film screening is part of a continuing collaboration between Point of View Film Series and Tapp’s Arts Center. P.O.V. meets at Tapp’s to view films of varying styles and genres from around the world.
Admission is $5. Popcorn, Beer, and Wine will be available for purchase.
Seating is provided but your chairs, pillows and cushions are welcome.
We hope to see you at the movies!
January 20th - The Saddest Music In The World
The Point of View film series will return to Tapp's Arts Center this January for a screening of Guy Maddin's 2003 film, The Saddest Music in the World.
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm in the Skyline Room on the main floor.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
Synopsis:
"A feverish whirligig of a movie, The Saddest Music in the World finds Canadian director Guy Maddin continuing his career-long excavation of the dead idioms of cinema past. Coming on the heels of Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary and the exhilarating short The Heart of the World, a masterpiece that signaled his resurgence, this is the closest the cult favorite has come to mainstream acceptance. The movie is set in Depression-era Winnipeg, home of beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini), who sponsors a competition to find the world's saddest music. The contest sets in motion a convoluted melodrama that incorporates some of Maddin's obsessions: amnesia, sibling rivalry, love triangles, and World War I. Like most of his works, the movie seems to have been unearthed from the vaults of an alternate film history. The rich black-and-white, the crackly soundtrack, and the blatant artifice are all redolent of a half-remembered film language. A critique of American pop's engulfment of global culture, the movie also has something to say about how public expressions of grief end up trivializing the subjects of their tributes. Boasting his biggest cast and budget to date, it's Maddin's richest movie yet, and cements his status as one of contemporary cinema's most original auteurs." -- All Movie Guide
Runtime: 99 minutes
Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
We hope to see you at the movies!
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm in the Skyline Room on the main floor.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
Synopsis:
"A feverish whirligig of a movie, The Saddest Music in the World finds Canadian director Guy Maddin continuing his career-long excavation of the dead idioms of cinema past. Coming on the heels of Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary and the exhilarating short The Heart of the World, a masterpiece that signaled his resurgence, this is the closest the cult favorite has come to mainstream acceptance. The movie is set in Depression-era Winnipeg, home of beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini), who sponsors a competition to find the world's saddest music. The contest sets in motion a convoluted melodrama that incorporates some of Maddin's obsessions: amnesia, sibling rivalry, love triangles, and World War I. Like most of his works, the movie seems to have been unearthed from the vaults of an alternate film history. The rich black-and-white, the crackly soundtrack, and the blatant artifice are all redolent of a half-remembered film language. A critique of American pop's engulfment of global culture, the movie also has something to say about how public expressions of grief end up trivializing the subjects of their tributes. Boasting his biggest cast and budget to date, it's Maddin's richest movie yet, and cements his status as one of contemporary cinema's most original auteurs." -- All Movie Guide
Runtime: 99 minutes
Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
We hope to see you at the movies!
I Am Cuba will screen Thursday, April 9th at Tapp's Arts Center.
Darien Cavanaugh will present an introduction to the film starting at 6:45 PM followed by our screening at 7:00 PM. Be sure to check out Darien's latest piece on Fidel Castro and his bizarre milk obsession. "I Am Cuba is an anti-American propaganda film, made as a Cuban-Soviet co-production, that has been snatched from oblivion, restored, and released in the United States as a presentation of Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola. Since the film’s prediction of a brave new world under Fidel Castro has not resulted in a utopia for Cubans, who suffer under one of the world’s most dismal bureaucracies, the film today seems naive and dated – but fascinating." –Roger Ebert Runtime: 140min. Tapp’s Art center and Point of View Film Series present a monthly screening featuring the rare, the beloved, the cult classic, the hard-to-swallow- all those films that engage and sustain a film lover’s passion for the cinema. Grab some popcorn, candies, and a couple beers, take a seat in the chairs provided, or bring your own (couches ARE welcome), and join us every 2nd Thursday for a communion of silver screen rapport. |
Mean Streets (1973)
Thursday, March 12th, 7PM at Tapp's Arts Center.
Synopsis:
Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese's most explosive and perhaps personal film, Mean Streets (1973). Situated within the milieu of Scorsese’s adolescent New York, Mean Streets features a cast of hoods, deviants, and mooks that jump off the screen with a white-hot intensity. Keitel's Charlie, a fallen catholic and stand-in for Scorsese himself, struggles to overcome his crisis of faith as De Niro's unhinged Johnny Boy tests him at every turn. The film croons to a soundtrack of 60's era chart toppers -- none more beautifully realized than The Ronettes' "Be My Baby"-- and was Scorsese’s breakout hit. Often thought of as the precursor to his more well-known crime dramas GoodFellas (1990), Casino (1995), and Gangs of New York (2002), Mean Streets is in many ways the more mature work. One need not watch the film for more than its opening credit sequence to find themes -- redemption, masculinity, and violence -- that would prove so pivotal to the director’s oeuvre in later years. The Scorsese picture for true Scorsese aficionados, Mean Streets hits like a wallop to the back of the skull.
Runtime: 112min.
Point of View meets in the Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center on the main floor. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm.
Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
Synopsis:
Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese's most explosive and perhaps personal film, Mean Streets (1973). Situated within the milieu of Scorsese’s adolescent New York, Mean Streets features a cast of hoods, deviants, and mooks that jump off the screen with a white-hot intensity. Keitel's Charlie, a fallen catholic and stand-in for Scorsese himself, struggles to overcome his crisis of faith as De Niro's unhinged Johnny Boy tests him at every turn. The film croons to a soundtrack of 60's era chart toppers -- none more beautifully realized than The Ronettes' "Be My Baby"-- and was Scorsese’s breakout hit. Often thought of as the precursor to his more well-known crime dramas GoodFellas (1990), Casino (1995), and Gangs of New York (2002), Mean Streets is in many ways the more mature work. One need not watch the film for more than its opening credit sequence to find themes -- redemption, masculinity, and violence -- that would prove so pivotal to the director’s oeuvre in later years. The Scorsese picture for true Scorsese aficionados, Mean Streets hits like a wallop to the back of the skull.
Runtime: 112min.
Point of View meets in the Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center on the main floor. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm.
Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
A Matter of Life and Death
(Stairway To Heaven) (1946)
Thursday, Feb 12th, 7PM at Tapp's Arts Center
A Valentine's Day special! Join Point of View as we present Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "A Matter of Life and Death (AKA, Stairway to Heaven)." The pinnacle of British filmmaking, A Matter of Life and Death stars David Niven and Kim Hunter as a pair of star-crossed lovers brought together and then torn apart by the horrors of WWII. Forced to bail out without his parachute, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) miraculously survives, washing ashore on a sandy beach. As it turns out, a mistake has been made in heaven. There, god presides over a supreme court of angels as they debate whether or not Peter should be permitted to stay with June (Kim Hunter) or be forced to surrender to heaven. Beautifully shot by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff, A Matter of Life and Death is a must-see for romantics and cinephiles everywhere.
Runtime: 104min.
Point of View meets in the Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center on the main floor. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm.
Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
A Valentine's Day special! Join Point of View as we present Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "A Matter of Life and Death (AKA, Stairway to Heaven)." The pinnacle of British filmmaking, A Matter of Life and Death stars David Niven and Kim Hunter as a pair of star-crossed lovers brought together and then torn apart by the horrors of WWII. Forced to bail out without his parachute, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) miraculously survives, washing ashore on a sandy beach. As it turns out, a mistake has been made in heaven. There, god presides over a supreme court of angels as they debate whether or not Peter should be permitted to stay with June (Kim Hunter) or be forced to surrender to heaven. Beautifully shot by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff, A Matter of Life and Death is a must-see for romantics and cinephiles everywhere.
Runtime: 104min.
Point of View meets in the Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center on the main floor. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm.
Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
CINETHON 72 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)Thursday, December 18, 7 PM at Tapp's Arts Center
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) is a delightful, classic, nostalgic, poignant, and romanticized musical film - and one of the greatest musicals ever made. It tells the story of a turn-of-the-century family in suburban, midwestern St. Louis of 1903, who live in a stylish Edwardian home at 5135 Kensington Avenue. The city, and the well-to-do Smith family (with four beautiful daughters), is on the verge of hosting (and celebrating) the arrival of the spectacular 1904 World's Fair. However, the family's head of the house is beckoned to New York due to a job promotion - an uprooting move that threatens to indelibly change the lives of the family members forever--Tim Dirks. Runtime: 113min. Point of View meets in the Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center on the main floor. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs. Admission: $5.00 Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase. We hope to see you at the movies! |
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November 22: Grey Gardens (1975)
There will be cats!
This Saturday (November 22nd) join The Point of View Film Series as we present, "Grey Gardens" (1975). Often cited as one of the best documentaries of all time, Albert and David Maysles groundbreaking cinéma vérité love letter to Big Edie and Little Edie, is a whimsical romp through the darker side of high society. You may laugh, you may cry, but whatever you take away from this film, this extraordinary mother and daughter pair is sure to have you quoting them for days on end--BP Runtime: 94min. We meet in the Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center on the main floor. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs. Admission: $5.00 Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase. We hope to see you at the movies! |
October 30th : Stephen King's IT (1990)
Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is lured into the hands of what audiences everywhere can be assured is one mean clown. The 30-year struggle against an evil supernatural force that masquerades as a circus clown named Pennywise (Tim Curry) begins in 1960 and spans until 1990. Featured are a group of six young men and one young woman who call themselves "the lucky seven" and are the unfortunate targets of Pennywise from pre-adolescence into their mid-forties. The lucky seven emerge physically intact but emotionally scathed after their first battle with Pennywise -- who is a self-labeled "eater of worlds...and children." When Pennywise returns 30 years later, the seven are forced to remember their terrifying past and faced with the prospect of destroying him once and for all. --allmovie.com
This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center. We meet in the Skyline Room on the main floor. Runtime: 3h13m. There will be a brief intermission. Our screening will start promptly at 6:30 pm. Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs. Admission: $5.00 Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase. We hope to see you at the movies! |
September 25th: A Night At The Opera (1935)
This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center.
Absolutely one of the most hilarious movies ever made, this classic farce featuring the outrageous genius of the Marx Brothers is a chance to see some of their best bits woven together seamlessly in a story of high society, matchmaking, and chaos. In order to bring two young lovers together, brothers Groucho, Chico, and Harpo must sabotage an opera performance even as they try to pass themselves off as stuffed shirts. Featuring the classic sequence where Groucho piles as many people as possible into a ship's stateroom, A Night at the Opera is a deliciously zany romp worth watching again and again -- Amazon.com.
Runtime: 96min.
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
Absolutely one of the most hilarious movies ever made, this classic farce featuring the outrageous genius of the Marx Brothers is a chance to see some of their best bits woven together seamlessly in a story of high society, matchmaking, and chaos. In order to bring two young lovers together, brothers Groucho, Chico, and Harpo must sabotage an opera performance even as they try to pass themselves off as stuffed shirts. Featuring the classic sequence where Groucho piles as many people as possible into a ship's stateroom, A Night at the Opera is a deliciously zany romp worth watching again and again -- Amazon.com.
Runtime: 96min.
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
August 21-23 - Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)
Only Lovers Left Alive will screen nightly at 7PM August 21st-23rd (Thursday-Saturday) at Tapp's Arts Center.
"Noted indie director Jim Jarmusch directs the vampire story Only Lovers Left Alive. Tom Hiddleston stars as Adam, a bloodsucker who makes a living as a reclusive musician in Detroit. He reunites with the love of his life, Eve (Tilda Swinton), a fellow vampire who leaves her home overseas to be with him in the downtrodden Motor City. They eventually get a visit from Eve's irresponsible sister (Mia Wasikowska), who irritates Adam and eventually causes trouble with the one human -- the vampires refer to the living as zombies -- with whom the depressed music hero gets along." --allmovie.com
July 17th - Body Double
Body Double will screen Thursday, July 17th, 7PM at Tapp's Arts Center.
This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center.
In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked out on him, so he has no place to sleep. His pal offers him the use of his apartment for the evening. The apartment happens to be equipped with a huge picture window and telescope, enabling him to spy on his beautiful neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) while she undresses. He also bears witness to her brutal murder. And then he meets a porn star (Melanie Griffith), who has just taken a job posing as the late Gloria--allmovie.com
Runtime: 114 min
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Because our couch seating is limited please feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center.
In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked out on him, so he has no place to sleep. His pal offers him the use of his apartment for the evening. The apartment happens to be equipped with a huge picture window and telescope, enabling him to spy on his beautiful neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) while she undresses. He also bears witness to her brutal murder. And then he meets a porn star (Melanie Griffith), who has just taken a job posing as the late Gloria--allmovie.com
Runtime: 114 min
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Because our couch seating is limited please feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
Admission: $5.00
Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase.
We hope to see you at the movies!
June 19th - Black Orpheus (1959)
Black Orpheus will screen Thursday, June 19, 7PM at Tapp's Arts Center. Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning--The Criterion Collection. 100 minutes. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Our screening will start promptly at 7pm. Because our couch seating is limited please feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs. Admission: $5.00 Popcorn, snacks, soda, beer & wine available for purchase. We hope to see you at the movies! |
May 29th - Out Of The Past (1947)
Screening Thursday, May 29th, 7 PM at Tapp's Arts Center.
Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first starring role (it had previously been offered to John Garfield and Dick Powell), Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Bailey, the friendly but secretive proprietor of a mountain-village gas station. As Jeff's worshipful deaf-mute attendant (Dick Moore) looks on in curious fascination, an unsavory character named Joe (Paul Valentine) pulls up to the station, obviously looking for the owner. Jeff is all too aware of Joe's identity; he's been dreading this moment for quite some time, knowing full well that it will mean the end of his semi-idyllic existence, not to mention his engagement to local girl Ann (Virginia Huston). In a lengthy flashback, the audience is apprised of the reasons behind Jeff's discomfort - and thus begins a tale of treachery, betrayal and intrigue that extends into the present day and turns Jeff's life upside down. Out of the Past was remade in 1984 as Against All Odds, with Jane Greer cast as the mother of her original character--allmovie.com.
Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first starring role (it had previously been offered to John Garfield and Dick Powell), Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Bailey, the friendly but secretive proprietor of a mountain-village gas station. As Jeff's worshipful deaf-mute attendant (Dick Moore) looks on in curious fascination, an unsavory character named Joe (Paul Valentine) pulls up to the station, obviously looking for the owner. Jeff is all too aware of Joe's identity; he's been dreading this moment for quite some time, knowing full well that it will mean the end of his semi-idyllic existence, not to mention his engagement to local girl Ann (Virginia Huston). In a lengthy flashback, the audience is apprised of the reasons behind Jeff's discomfort - and thus begins a tale of treachery, betrayal and intrigue that extends into the present day and turns Jeff's life upside down. Out of the Past was remade in 1984 as Against All Odds, with Jane Greer cast as the mother of her original character--allmovie.com.
April 25th - Godzilla Double Feature
WHAT: Godzilla Double Feature
WHERE: Tapp's Arts Center, Skyline Room WHEN: Friday, April 25th, 7PM Join us April 25th for The Point of View Film Series’ Kaiju Double Feature of "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962) and "Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" (2001). Godzilla will stomp his way to sixty this year and POV aims to celebrate accordingly; be prepared for an all-out kaiju attack and bring your best Godzilla roar to honor the icon as it deserves. Godzilla, or Gojira to the citizens of Japan, is the definitive cinematic icon, starring in twenty nine films over the span of sixty years and slated to star in the highly anticipated 2014 summer blockbuster. Rarely taking a break from time on screen, the giant green lizard is both an icon of drive-in movie theaters, as well as a serious metaphor for the woes of nuclear warfare. Shifting back and forth between a villain and a hero, as well navigating the space between sci-fi subject and kids movie icon, pinpointing a proper version of Godzilla is nearly impossible. Nonetheless, the franchise has harbored enough life and variety to make possible a multigenerational attachment to Godzilla. As such, POV has chosen two examples of Godzilla’s timelessness in 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla and 2001’s Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, known colloquially to fans as GMK. The first film places the titan of Japanese genre film with America’s own giant monster King Kong in a cross-cultural mashup that plays upon its transnational popularity. The film is so well-loved and iconic that it still stands as the highest-grossing film in the franchise. GMK, a contemporary work, serves up a kaiju cocktail of all the franchises, most iconic moments, borrowing imagery and sounds from the original 1954 film and placing them in a 21st century context, resulting in one of the wilder, more explosive Godzilla movies--TW. |
March 20 - Brazil (1985)
What: Join Point Of View Film Series as we celebrate our one-year anniversary with Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Where: Tapp's Arts Center
When: Thursday, March 20, 7PM
Admission is Free. Popcorn, snacks, and drinks will be available, including beer and wine.
About Brazil
"In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler." --criterion collection
Where: Tapp's Arts Center
When: Thursday, March 20, 7PM
Admission is Free. Popcorn, snacks, and drinks will be available, including beer and wine.
About Brazil
"In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler." --criterion collection
February 27th: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Point of View Film Series continues to roll out its fantastic slate of 2014 titles this month as we present Leo McCarey’s "Make Way ForTomorrow” (1937).
If you’ve never seen or heard of this exceptional film you are not alone. This unsung early golden era masterpiece, is notable for its depiction of old age, family dysfunction, and poverty--themes that, while important, have traditionally proven unpalatable to mass audiences. Yet despite all this, “Make Way For Tomorrow,” is a film greater than the sum of its parts.
Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi play a couple in their late sixties, who due to financial hardship lose their home to foreclosure. When none of the couple’s five children have the space, means, or heart to take them in, the parents are forced to separate for the first time in fifty years. Each sent to live with a different child, the conclusion of this tale is both heart wrenching and unforgettable.
Over the years the film’s reputation has grown in stature. Directors as varied as Orson Welles, Errol Morris, and Yasujiro Ozu have listed it among their top films of all time (The latter going as far as to remake the film into his magnum opus, “Tokyo Story” (1957)).
In 2010 “Make Way For Tomorrow” received its highest honor yet when it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. Accordingly, if you can see only one P.O.V. title this year make sure it is “Make Way For Tomorrow.”
Barry Lyndon - January 23rd
Point of View Presents - Barry Lyndon: A film by Stanley Kubrick (1975)
Happy New Year, cinephiles!
2014 opens with a bang as Point of View Presents - "Barry Lyndon: A film by Stanley Kubrick” (1975).
A film of epic scope, stunning beauty, and uncompromising vision, Barry Lyndon is perhaps director Stanley Kubrick's most polarizing and least seen work. Adapted from William Thackeray's picaresque novel, “The Luck of Barry Lyndon,” the story is one of the rise and fall of an 18th century social climber, Redmond Barry, played affably by Ryan O'Neal in his most surprising role. Barry Lyndon received only mixed reviews upon its initial release. The period piece's underwhelming reception was said to have deeply depressed Kubrick who would not return to filmmaking for another five years when he would commit Stephen King's “The Shining,” to celluloid. Nevertheless, Barry Lyndon's contribution to film history should not be overlooked. Kubrick and his Academy Award winning cinematographer, John Alcott, devised special cameras for the picture allowing the production to shoot in realistic 18th century candle light, a feat never achieved before or since. Nearly forty years later, the film is justly hailed by many as Kubrick's forgotten masterpiece.
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm*. Because our couch seating is limited please feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
WHEN: Thursday, January 23rd 7:00 PM
WHERE: The Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center.
ADMISSION: $5.00
Happy New Year, cinephiles!
2014 opens with a bang as Point of View Presents - "Barry Lyndon: A film by Stanley Kubrick” (1975).
A film of epic scope, stunning beauty, and uncompromising vision, Barry Lyndon is perhaps director Stanley Kubrick's most polarizing and least seen work. Adapted from William Thackeray's picaresque novel, “The Luck of Barry Lyndon,” the story is one of the rise and fall of an 18th century social climber, Redmond Barry, played affably by Ryan O'Neal in his most surprising role. Barry Lyndon received only mixed reviews upon its initial release. The period piece's underwhelming reception was said to have deeply depressed Kubrick who would not return to filmmaking for another five years when he would commit Stephen King's “The Shining,” to celluloid. Nevertheless, Barry Lyndon's contribution to film history should not be overlooked. Kubrick and his Academy Award winning cinematographer, John Alcott, devised special cameras for the picture allowing the production to shoot in realistic 18th century candle light, a feat never achieved before or since. Nearly forty years later, the film is justly hailed by many as Kubrick's forgotten masterpiece.
Our screening will start promptly at 7pm*. Because our couch seating is limited please feel free to bring your own pillows, cushions, or chairs.
WHEN: Thursday, January 23rd 7:00 PM
WHERE: The Skyline room at Tapp's Arts Center.
ADMISSION: $5.00
Scrooge (a christmas carol) (1951)
Friday, December 19th, 7 PM at Tapp's Arts Center
"Bah! Humbug!"
O come, all ye faithful. Join The Point of View Film Series for our December 19th screening of Charles Dickens' timeless Christmas story, “Scrooge” (1951).
Though many terrific versions of the Dickens novella “A Christmas Carol” have graced the silver screen, this particular interpretation starring Alastair Sim as the eponymous miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, is perhaps the finest. Celebrated for its memorable characters, stunning photography, and measured tone, Scrooge is a film which captures the quintessence of the holiday season.
Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, and of course everyone's favorite, Tiny Tim, will all be there so don't you miss it!
WHEN: Thursday, December 19th 7:00 PM
WHERE: The Skyline Room of the Tapp's Arts Center
"Bah! Humbug!"
O come, all ye faithful. Join The Point of View Film Series for our December 19th screening of Charles Dickens' timeless Christmas story, “Scrooge” (1951).
Though many terrific versions of the Dickens novella “A Christmas Carol” have graced the silver screen, this particular interpretation starring Alastair Sim as the eponymous miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, is perhaps the finest. Celebrated for its memorable characters, stunning photography, and measured tone, Scrooge is a film which captures the quintessence of the holiday season.
Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, and of course everyone's favorite, Tiny Tim, will all be there so don't you miss it!
WHEN: Thursday, December 19th 7:00 PM
WHERE: The Skyline Room of the Tapp's Arts Center
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Thursday, November 14th, 7PM at Tapp's Arts Center.
"Yippee ti yi yo!" P.O.V. heads west Thursday November 14th for Nicholas Ray's seminal, “Johnny Guitar” (1954). A western unmatched in its Freudian intensity and operatic emotion, it pops in lurid technicolor. Joan Crawford stars as Vienna, a reclusive saloon owner with a dark past. When her former lover, a mysterious gunslinger named Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), comes to town looking to rekindle their passionate affair, it triggers a series of events that pits the couple's desire to be left alone against that of the town's lynch mob establishment headed by the firebrand, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge). A riveting tussle for power, Vienna and Emma duel, woman-to-woman, in a climatic scene which is one of the genre's finest. Though now considered a bonafied classic, upon its initial American release Johnny Guitar was widely panned. People expecting to see John Wayne starring in “Stagecoach” (1939) or Gary Cooper in “High Noon” (1952) left theaters sadly disappointed in this revisionist turn. Over the years, Johnny Guitar's reputation languished until the film found its way to France. There the critics of the influential Cahiers du Cinéma reclaimed the movie as a visionary work of auteurist art and the film's director, Ray, as the patron saint of the burgeoning French New Wave. Unlike any film then or since, Johnny Guitar is not your daddy's western and is an offering you will not want to miss—BP Watch the Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgSyxdV9vE |
POV's Halloween Scream Double Feature
Join us Thursday, October 24th as we celebrate those ghoulish things that go bump in the night. The Point of View Film Series is proud to present two outstanding horror classics—Herk Harvey's "Carnival of Souls" (1962) and F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922). Don't miss this special FREE double-feature screening. Event to be held live from the skyline room of Tapp's Arts Center.
6:30PM Carnival of Souls (FREE)
8:30PM Nosferatu (FREE)
Carnival of Souls - VIEW TRAILER
A drag race turns to tragedy when one car, with three young women inside, topples over a bridge and into the muddy river below. The authorities drag the river, but the search is fruitless and the girls are presumed dead until a single survivor stumbles out of the water with no recollection of how she escaped. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) decides to forget her strange experience and carry on with her plan to move to Utah to accept a job as a church organist. She rejects the notion that because her profession leads her to work in the church, she is obligated to worship as part of the congregation, and this cold approach to her work unnerves many around her. While driving to the new city, she experiences weird visions of a ghoulish man who stares at her through the windshield, and passes an abandoned carnival on a desolate stretch of highway outside of town to which she feels strangely drawn. Mary tries to live her life in private, ignoring invitations to worship by the minister of her church and the leering propositions of a neighbor in her rooming house. Soon the ghostly apparition from the highway is appearing more often, and she experiences eerie spells in which she becomes invisible to people on the street. A doctor tries to help, but he too is rejected, and eventually Mary realizes that the deserted carnival holds the secret to her destiny -- allmovie.com.
Nosferatu - VIEW TRAILER
F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much so that Stoker's widow went to court, demanding in vain that the Murnau film be suppressed and destroyed. The character names have been changed to protect the guilty (in the original German prints, at least), but devotees of Stoker will have little trouble recognizing their Dracula counterparts. The film begins in the Carpathian mountains, where real estate agent Hutter (Gustav von Wagenheim) has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok (Max Schreck). Despite the feverish warnings of the local peasants, Hutter insists upon completing his journey to Orlok's sinister castle. While enjoying his host's hospitality, Hutter accidently cuts his finger-whereupon Orlok tips his hand by staring intently at the bloody digit, licking his lips. Hutter catches on that Orlok is no ordinary mortal when he witnesses the vampiric nobleman loading himself into a coffin in preparation for his journey to Bremen. By the time the ship bearing Orlok arrives at its destination, the captain and crew have all been killed-and partially devoured. There follows a wave of mysterious deaths in Bremen, which the local authorities attribute to a plague of some sort. But Ellen, Hutter's wife, knows better. Armed with the knowledge that a vampire will perish upon exposure to the rays of the sun, Ellen offers herself to Orlok, deliberately keeping him "entertained" until sunrise. At the cost of her own life, Ellen ends Orlok's reign of terror once and for all. Rumors still persist that Max Schreck, the actor playing Nosferatu, was actually another, better-known performer in disguise. Whatever the case, Schreck's natural countenance was buried under one of the most repulsive facial makeups in cinema history-one that was copied to even greater effect by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake - Nosferatu the Vampyre -- allmovie.com.
6:30PM Carnival of Souls (FREE)
8:30PM Nosferatu (FREE)
Carnival of Souls - VIEW TRAILER
A drag race turns to tragedy when one car, with three young women inside, topples over a bridge and into the muddy river below. The authorities drag the river, but the search is fruitless and the girls are presumed dead until a single survivor stumbles out of the water with no recollection of how she escaped. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) decides to forget her strange experience and carry on with her plan to move to Utah to accept a job as a church organist. She rejects the notion that because her profession leads her to work in the church, she is obligated to worship as part of the congregation, and this cold approach to her work unnerves many around her. While driving to the new city, she experiences weird visions of a ghoulish man who stares at her through the windshield, and passes an abandoned carnival on a desolate stretch of highway outside of town to which she feels strangely drawn. Mary tries to live her life in private, ignoring invitations to worship by the minister of her church and the leering propositions of a neighbor in her rooming house. Soon the ghostly apparition from the highway is appearing more often, and she experiences eerie spells in which she becomes invisible to people on the street. A doctor tries to help, but he too is rejected, and eventually Mary realizes that the deserted carnival holds the secret to her destiny -- allmovie.com.
Nosferatu - VIEW TRAILER
F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much so that Stoker's widow went to court, demanding in vain that the Murnau film be suppressed and destroyed. The character names have been changed to protect the guilty (in the original German prints, at least), but devotees of Stoker will have little trouble recognizing their Dracula counterparts. The film begins in the Carpathian mountains, where real estate agent Hutter (Gustav von Wagenheim) has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok (Max Schreck). Despite the feverish warnings of the local peasants, Hutter insists upon completing his journey to Orlok's sinister castle. While enjoying his host's hospitality, Hutter accidently cuts his finger-whereupon Orlok tips his hand by staring intently at the bloody digit, licking his lips. Hutter catches on that Orlok is no ordinary mortal when he witnesses the vampiric nobleman loading himself into a coffin in preparation for his journey to Bremen. By the time the ship bearing Orlok arrives at its destination, the captain and crew have all been killed-and partially devoured. There follows a wave of mysterious deaths in Bremen, which the local authorities attribute to a plague of some sort. But Ellen, Hutter's wife, knows better. Armed with the knowledge that a vampire will perish upon exposure to the rays of the sun, Ellen offers herself to Orlok, deliberately keeping him "entertained" until sunrise. At the cost of her own life, Ellen ends Orlok's reign of terror once and for all. Rumors still persist that Max Schreck, the actor playing Nosferatu, was actually another, better-known performer in disguise. Whatever the case, Schreck's natural countenance was buried under one of the most repulsive facial makeups in cinema history-one that was copied to even greater effect by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake - Nosferatu the Vampyre -- allmovie.com.
September 26th-28th
"The Act of Killing" will screen at Tapp's Arts Center September 26th-28th.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing,” is a film about the 1965, U.S. backed Indonesian Military Coup and the resulting genocide which killed an estimated 1 million people. Mixing elements of documentary and narrative, Oppenheimer interviews many of the major players involved in the massacre, asking them to fictionalize their atrocities as staged reenactments before the camera. The result is a surreal, darkly comic, and frightening examination of the human spirit.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing,” is a film about the 1965, U.S. backed Indonesian Military Coup and the resulting genocide which killed an estimated 1 million people. Mixing elements of documentary and narrative, Oppenheimer interviews many of the major players involved in the massacre, asking them to fictionalize their atrocities as staged reenactments before the camera. The result is a surreal, darkly comic, and frightening examination of the human spirit.
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Wise Blood (1979)Directed by John Huston. Based on the novel by Flannery O'Conner.
Thursday, August 8th, 6:30 PM at Tapp's Arts Center. This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the Second Thursday of Each Month. We meet in the Skyline room on the main floor. As part of our new “Spotlight Series” we will be showing a short film by a local filmmaker before the feature. This month's short is “Pretty Pitiful God” by Jeff Driggers. Film Synopsis: In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O’Connor’s pages, Huston’sWise Blood is an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer’s vision. --Criterion Collection |
Knife In The Water (1962)Thursday, July 11th at 7 PM at Tapp's Arts Center.
Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie, 1962) Directed by Roman Polanski. This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the Second Thursday of Each Month. We meet in the Skyline room on the main floor. Film starts at 7:00 pm. There will be an optional discussion following the film. Synopsis: Roman Polanski’s first feature is a brilliant psychological thriller that many critics still consider among his greatest work. The story is simple, yet the implications of its characters’ emotions and actions are profound. When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend yacht trip, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman’s attention. A storm forces the small crew below deck, and tension builds to a violent climax. With stinging dialogue and a mercilessly probing camera, Polanski creates a disturbing study of fear, humiliation, sexuality, and aggression. This remarkable directorial debut won Polanski worldwide acclaim, a place on the cover of Time, and his first Oscar nomination. credit: Criterion Collection |
Beauty And The Beast (1946)
Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at Tapp's Arts Center
This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the Second Thursday of Each Month. Doors open at 6:00 pm. Film starts at 6:30 pm. There will be a discussion following the film. Synopsis: Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bête) stars Josette Day as Beauty and Jean Marais as the Beast. When a merchant (Marcel André) is told that he must die for picking a rose from the Beast's garden, his courageous daughter (Day) offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. the Beast falls in love with her and proposes marriage on a nightly basis; she refuses, having pledged her troth to a handsome prince (also played by Marais). Eventually, however, she is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. The film features a musical score by Georges Auric. -allmovie.com |
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DAISIES (CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 1966)
Thursday, May 9th, 6:30pm at TAPP'S Arts Center
This film is part of a continuing series between POV and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the SECOND THURSDAY of EACH MONTH.
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Doors open at 6PM, film screens at 6:30. Discussion will follow after the film.
Synopsis
An exercise in avant-garde cinema that is freshly humorous and accessible, Daisies is a dark comedy that eschews a traditional narrative for a Dadaist construction of events. Perpetually dressed in vibrantly corresponding costumes and dark black eyeliner, Marie and Marie work together to create mischief. Seeing the world ruined and values worthless, they decide to "go bad." They stage various dinner dates with stale old men, eat and drink merrily while telling lies, and, in a fast-motion Chaplinesque bit of slapstick, they hop trains and lose the men. Always looking for new adventures, the girls get drunk at a nightclub and get kicked out in a grand physical comedy style. They sit around their apartment and destroy things with a deadpan whimsy, apathetic to the men professing their love. Pursuing adventure about town, the two Maries take a dumbwaiter up to a banquet hall and proceed to delightfully demolish it. Using both black-and-white and color film stock, the girls' antics are enhanced by innovative special effects and camera tricks by cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera. Historically a key film in the Czech New Wave movement, Daisies was banned and director Vera Chytilová was forbidden to work until 1975. -allmovie.com
In Czech with English subtitles. 74 minutes.
The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)
Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at TAPP'S.
Doors at 6PM, film at 7PM.
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This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the SECOND THURSDAY EACH MONTH.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency’s elitist espionage program as its token black. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as “Freedom Fighters.” As a story of one man’s reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.
Doors at 6PM, film at 7PM.
See our Facebook Event page HERE.
This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the SECOND THURSDAY EACH MONTH.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency’s elitist espionage program as its token black. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as “Freedom Fighters.” As a story of one man’s reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Doors open at 6pm, film screens at 7pm. Discussion to follow after film. This film is part of a continuing series between Point of View and Tapp’s Arts Center showing movies on the SECOND THURSDAY EACH MONTH. Synopsis: The Z Channel wasn't America's first premium cable outlet specializing in feature films, and it wasn't the most commercially successful, but few, if any, had as strong an impact on the film industry or a more influential list of customers. Based in California and blanketing sections of the state dominated by the movie business, Z Channel had been operating for several years before former screenwriter Jerry Harvey took over as head of programming in 1980. Under the guidance of Harvey and his staff, the channel became a film buff's dream, screening rare classics, important foreign films, and maverick American titles that had fallen through the cracks of commercial distribution. Harvey and his staff also programmed original and uncut versions of films which had only played American theaters in altered form (including Heaven's Gate, Once Upon a Time in America, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Leopard) long before the concept of the "director's cut" had currency beyond the most hardcore of film fans. And The Z Channel aggressively championed pictures they believed were overlooked, and programmed deserving Oscar-nominated movies during the Academy's voting period, years before studios began distributing video "screeners" to potential voters. (More than one industry expert has credited Z Channel's showings of Annie Hall as a key factor in the film winning Best Picture.) But Jerry Harvey was also a deeply troubled man, and when legal and economic problems began dogging the company in the late '80s, he snapped, leading to a horrible and tragic murder and suicide. The Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a documentary that looks at the channel's short but remarkable history as well as Harvey's damaged personal life. It includes interviews with Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, James Woods, Jim Jarmusch, Alexander Payne and a number of other filmmakers and critics who attest to Z Channel's lasting impact. -allmovie.com |