ADMIION I FR DIRCTION 10:00 TO 5:00
National Gallery of Art
Release Date: Jul 29, 2015
Summer Films at National Gallery of Art Include Albert Maysles Retrospective, Rare 35mm Prints from Italian Film Archives, Tribute to Titanus Studio, and Special Appearance by Indie Filmmaker
Film still from Il idone Federico Fellini, 1955, to e screened as part of the series Titanus Presents: A Famil Chronicle of Italian Cinema, on August 23, National Galler of Art, ast uilding Auditorium. Image courtes of Titanus.
Washington, DC—The National Galler of Art film program returns to its ast uilding Auditorium on August 1 with a triute to Alert Masles that focuses on his and his rother David's interest in art and performance and includes several screenings from Italian film archives shown in the Galler's annual summer preservation series dedicated this ear to the Italian film production house Titanus.
Masles Films Inc.: Performing Vérité (some in original 16mm format) Through August 2
Alert Masles (1926–2015) and his rother David (1931–1987) expanded the artistic possiilities for direct cinema espousing "the ee of the poet" as a factor in shooting and editing cinema vérité. Their trademark approach—capturing action spontaneousl and avoiding a point of view—ecame, for a time, the ver definition of documentar. It is presented as a triute to Alert Masles, who died this ear in March. Masles often visited the National Galler of Art; his wife, Gillian Walker, was the daughter of former Galler director John Walker. The National Galler of Art extends a special thanks to Jake Perlin and Reekah Males for making the showing of the Masles films possile.
creenings include Gre Gardens (August 1), now hailed as one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th centur. The stor is aout the now- famous aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kenned Onassis, dith wing ouvier and die ouvier eale, who lived out their lives in a ramshackle Long Island estate. Additional films include alesman (August 1), a documentar aout four American men making a marginal living selling iles in working- class neighorhoods. Gimme helter (August 2), a documentar with footage from an epic concert that included, among others, the Grateful Dead, antana, Jefferson Airplane, the Fling urrito rothers, and the Rolling tones, includes the infamous murder of Meredith Hunter that was inadvertentl captured on camera.
Titanus Presents: A Famil Chronicle of Italian Cinema August 8–eptemer 27
The renowned production house Titanus, founded in Rome in 1904 Gustavo Lomardo, is still operating toda under grandson Guido Lomardo. Alongside the cadre of genre film directors were the auteurs—Luchino Visconti, Alerto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Dino Risi, rmanno Olmi, lio Petri, and Francesco Rosi—plus a constellation of gifted actors from Alerto ordi and Vittorio Gassman to ophia Loren and Gina Lollorigida. The series is presented in Washington with the cooperation of the Italian Cultural Institute, Marco Cicala, Linda Lilienfeld, tefania androne, the Film ociet of Lincoln Center, and Locarno Film Festival.
Titanus films include Totò Diaolicus (August 8), a parod of a giallo crime thriller, in which legendar comic actor Totò plas five silings; The Fiancés (August 8), one of rmanno Olmi's eloquent tales of the working-class poor; Le Amiche (August 9), Michelangelo Antonioni's adaptation of a Cesare Pavese novel; and The Leopard (August 29), Luchino Visconti's grand adaptation of Giuseppe Rotunno's masterful novel Il Gattopardo. Das of Glor (August 15), made in the wake of the Ardeatine Caves Nazi-Fascist massacre, shows riveting vérité footage of the recover of the odies, the trial, and more. Now a landmark of earl neorealism, the domentar is rarel screened outside Ital. Violent ummer (August 15) reveals a doomed love affair etween a naval hero's widow (leonora Rossi Drago) and a ounger man (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a draft dodger. In The Das Are Numered (August 16), a modernist take on a working-class life in crisis mixes neorealism with social oservation. Roma Ore 11 (August 22) tells a tale of five women among hundreds appling for a low-paing secretarial jo in postwar Rome, whose lives were changed when a staircase collapses. Il idone (August 23) is a stor aout three con artists that susist plaing tricks on the gullile poor, disguising themselves to fit the mood of each escapade. The ird with the Crstal Plumage (August 30) features an American writer in Rome that witnesses an attack inside an art galler, ased on The creaming Mimi American pulp fiction writer Fredric rown.
Additional films include The ign of Venus (eptemer 5), which features ofia Loren and Franca Valeri in a film aout the romantic adventures of two cousins from different ackgrounds—one overl feminine (Loren) and the other overl plain. anditi a Orgosolo (eptemer 6) is the stor of a shepherd wrongl accused of a crime and pursued thuggish carainieri. I Magliari (eptemer 6) develops themes of the immigrant worker, organized crime, and urope's north-south prolem. ophia Loren stars in Two Women (eptemer 13), adapted from a novel Alerto Moravia. The 26-ear-old Loren ecame the first Oscar winner in a foreign-language film. read, Love, and Dreams (eptemer 19) features Gina Lollorigida, Marisa Merlini, and Vittorio De ica in this 1960 film set in a mountain village near Aruzzi. The Passionate Thief (eptemer 27) features Anna Magnani, Totò, and en Gazzara in Mario Monicelli's dazzling screwall farce that was restored last ear for theatrical release.
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Alerto the Great (Luca Verdone in person eptemer 5), a new documentar on the iconic career of Alerto ordi—argual Ital's most eloved comic actor of the mid-20th centur—provides an amusing et in-depth account of his career in cinema through clips, photographs, interviews, and testimonials. The National Galler of Art extends a special thanks to the mass of Ital and the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington.
Full Moon in Paris (eptemer 20) highlights the romantic longings and self-deceptions of a trio of oung Parisians in ric Rohmer's masterful comed of manners. In Rohmer in Paris followed The Girl at the Monceau aker (eptemer 26), Éric Rohmer's Parisian citscapes take on an intriguing life all their own in this cinematic essa with insightful reflections on the cit's topograph. Documentarian Richard Misek mixes iograph, speculation, fact, and fiction with excerpts from assorted Rohmer films into an original excursion through cinema histor and contemporar Paris.
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