Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Matinee Movies.
JANUARY 8th: GIRLFRIENDS
1978: Claudia Weill, director; with Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach, Bob Balaban
A pioneering independent film, Girlfriends is a smart, affectionate portrait of a close friendship between two twenty-something women in 1970s New York.“One of the most interesting American films that I’ve seen in a long time…one of the very rare American films that I would compare with the serious, intelligent, sensitive writing and
filmmaking that you find in the best directors in Europe.”–Stanley Kubrick
JANUARY 15th: BEING THERE
1979: Hal Ashby, director; with Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
A singular film with Peter Sellers as a simpleminded, sheltered gardener forced from the only home he has ever known after the death of his employer. What happens next is truly surprising. Being There was nominated for many major awards and won several. Director Hal Ashby is known for New Hollywood classics like Harold and Maude, Coming Home, The Last Detail, and Shampoo.
JANUARY 22: GASLIGHT
1944:George Cukor, director; with Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, Angela Lansbury
In this masterful psychological thriller, Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) will stop at nothing to get what he wants,
including deviously manipulating his wife (Ingrid Bergman) into thinking she is going insane. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, winner of two, including Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman.
JANUARY 29: RUNNING ON EMPTY
1988: Sidney Lumet, director; with River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, Martha Plimpton
Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play a counterculture couple on the run from the FBI for the protest bombing of a napalm lab, relying on an underground network of supporters to help them. As their son Danny (River Phoenix) longs to have his own life and realize his own dreams, the family has to come to terms with letting their
son go.
