August 4, 2017—August 31, 2017
August Films: ‘Unforgiven,’ ‘Fox and His Friends,’ Boxing on Film, and more
Unforgiven: As a filmmaker and personality, Clint Eastwood has been one of Hollywood’s most problematic creators but most people would agree that this 1992 Oscar winner, a movie he waited years to make (wanting to be the same age as its hired-killer protagonist), gave him his strongest role. Also his greatest movie—and maybe even the last truly great western that anyone will make. It’s showing at Film Forum in a new 4K digital restoration, August 4-10.
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Nocturama: French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello’s daring and controversial follow-up to his Yves Saint Laurent biopic is even more stylish—an abstract thriller predicated on two interlocked fantasies. A shabby-chic cadre of young Parisians orchestrate a series of terrorist attacks, then take refuge in an empty department store. Timely and timeless, the movie is only superficially shallow, as it sets the last two-hundred-odd years of French history to a hypnotic techno-trance beat. At the Metrograph and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, August 11-17.
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"Deeper into Nocturama": Following a run of Nocturama, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting an eclectic series of films selected by Bonello as reference points: Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo (1959) and its crypto-remake, John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976); Abbas Kiarostami’s paradoxical documentary Close-up (1990); Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably (1977); Éric Rohmer’s Full Moon in Paris (1984); and David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1978). Gus Van Sant’s 2002 Elephant is conspicuously absent but David Lynch’s 1992 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (in a new digital restoration), which Bonello calls “the most upsetting, the most terrifying, the most inventive and the most crazy of all of David Lynch’s films,” is not. August 18-24.
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"Boxing on Film: Part 1": Over the decades, the sweet science has lent itself to more (and better) films than any other sport. The first installment of this wide-ranging survey features John Huston’s first-rate Fat City, Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Raging Bull, and Frederick Wiseman’s terrific Boxing Gym as well as a program of rarities that include a rediscovered newsreel of the Dada hero Arthur Craven in action. Anthology Film Archives, August 18-27.
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One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first commercial hits,
Fox and His Friends (1975) is also one of his most self-revealing movies—a sort of psychodrama in which the filmmaker plays an uneducated gay roustabout who wins the lottery and is consequently swindled and betrayed by his social betters. Newly restored, it’s getting a week-long run at BAMcinématek, August 25-31.
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[Image: Pascale Ogier in
Full Moon in Paris]
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