The Wind Rises [Kase Tachinu] Foolish Wives the Bandwagon
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Winter 2015 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die January 12, 2015 The Wind Rises [Kase tachinu] (2013) 2:06 Dir. Hayao Miyazaki in Japanese The Wind Rises is a fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), dubbed English designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the (color) Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. January 26, 2015 Foolish Wives (1922) 1:57 Dir. Gavin Hood silent with When released in 1922, the film was the most expensive film made at English subtitles that time, and billed by Universal Studios as the "first million-dollar (b&w) movie" to come out of Hollywood. Originally, von Stroheim intended the film to run anywhere between 6 and 10 hours. February 9, 2015 Zero Kelvin [Kjaerlighetens kjotere] (1995) 1:58 Dir. Hans Peter Moland in Norwegian In 1920s Oslo, an aspiring poet, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as English subtitles a trapper in Greenland, where he is teamed with a sailor and a (color) scientist. Trapped in a tiny hut, as the arctic winter sets in, and an intense love/hate relationship develops between the poet and the sailor. February 23, 2015 The Bandwagon (1953) 1:52 Dir. Vincente Minnelli in English (color) 1953 musical comedy film that many critics rank, along with Singin' in the Rain, as the finest of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway play will restart his career. All Movies 7:30 pm at the Dignity/Washington Center Winter 2015 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die March 9, 2015 Ashes & Diamonds [Popiol i diament] (1958) 1:43 Dir. Andrzej Wajda in Polish with Based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski, this is English subtitles considered by film critics to be one of the great masterpieces of Polish (b&w) cinema and arguably the finest Polish realist film. March 23, 2015 Chungking Express (1994) 1:38 Dir. Kar Wai Wong in Cantonese with 1994 Hong Kong drama film, consisting of two stories told in sequence, English subtitles each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his (color) relationship with a woman. April 6, 2015 Dodsworth (1936) 1:41 Dir. William Wyler in English (B&W) American drama film starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Huston reprised his stage role. April 20, 2015 When the Wind Blows (1986) 1:20 Dir. Jimmy Murakami in English (B&W) British animated drama film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of the same name. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters. When the Wind Blows is a hybrid of drawn animation and stop-motion animation. All Movies 7:30 pm at the Dignity/Washington Center.