Series
Lives of Performers
“The world is a stage/ The show is a stage…”—anyways that’s what the cast of Vincente Minnelli’s musical blowout The Band Wagon (1953) have to say in their big number “That’s Entertainment,” and they oughtta know. The world and the show just keep blending together in this collection of films about actors, dancers, and musicians, men and women who move between the clarifying spectacle of the stage and the complexities of life outside of the spotlight. In the soundstage New Orleans circus of Max Ophüls’s Lola Montes (1955); Maggie Cheung’s interpretation of Ruan Lingyu, tragic star of 1930s Shanghai cinema, in Stanley Kwan’s Center Stage (1991); or the backstage bedlam of The Band Wagon, the separation between life and art can sometimes seem nearly nonexistent—which is all part of the show, of course.
Previously Screened
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An Actor's Revenge
DIRECTOR: KON ICHIKAWA
1963 / 113min / dcp -
All About My Mother
DIRECTOR: PEDRO ALMODóVAR
1999 / 101min / 35mm -
All I Desire
DIRECTOR: DOUGLAS SIRK
1953 / 80min / 35mm -
All That Jazz
DIRECTOR: BOB FOSSE
1979 / 123min / 35mm -
Around a Small Mountain
DIRECTOR: JACQUES RIVETTE
2009 / 84min / 35mm -
The Band Wagon
DIRECTOR: VINCENTE MINNELLI
1953 / 112min / 35mm -
Center Stage
DIRECTOR: STANLEY KWAN
1991 / 126min / dcp -
Gold Diggers of 1933
DIRECTOR: MERVYN LEROY
1933 / 97min / 35mm -
The Hero
DIRECTOR: SATYAJIT RAY
1966 / 117min / 35mm -
Jane B. par Agnes V.
DIRECTOR: AGNèS VARDA
1988 / 99min / dcp -
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
DIRECTOR: RICHARD PRYOR
1986 / 97min / 35mm -
opening night
DIRECTOR: JOHN CASSAVETES
1977 / 144min / 35mm -
The Red Shoes
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
1948 / 134min / dcp -
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
DIRECTOR: KENJI MIZOGUCHI
1939 / 148min / 35mm -
Tally Brown, New York
DIRECTOR: ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM
1979 / 97min / 16mm -
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
DIRECTOR: ERNST LUBITSCH
1942 / 99min / 35mm -
Unfaithfully Yours
DIRECTOR: PRESTON STURGES
1948 / 105min / dcp