FASSBINDER: ROMANTIC ANARCHISt (pARt 2) Lola SCARY MOVIES FASSBINDER PART 2 MOUNTAINFILM NASTASSJA KINSKI NEW ROMANIAN CINEMA SPANISH COMEDY JOHN HUSTON SPECIAL PROGRAMS NEW RELEASES NOV/DEC 2014SM FILM HERE LIVES Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 W 65th St | Walter Reade Theater 165 W 65th St | filmlinc.com HERE STARTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Dear Friends, Festivals & Series 2 Scary Movies (October 31 – November 6) 2 PROVOKES PROVOKES We hope you enjoyed the New York Film Festival and that this year’s wide-ranging Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 2) (November 7 – 26) 4 lineup has whetted your appetite for even more great cinema. Mountainfilm (November 21 – 23) 7 Our year-end schedule is anchored by extensive retrospectives of Rainer Wer- Nastassja Kinski: From the Heart (November 27 – December 3) 8 HERE FILM ner Fassbinder and John Huston, two of the 20th century’s greatest and most prolific Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema (December 4 – 8) 10 auteurs. Fassbinder worked almost at the speed of thought, leaving behind a body of The Last Laugh: An Alternate History of Spanish Comedy (December 12 – 18) 12 work so improbably large, so dense with unruly passions and big ideas, that we still seem Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston (December 19 – January 11) 15 HERE FILM to be digging our way through it. Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist picks up where we left Special Programs 20 New Releases 22 INSPIRES off in May, with the second half of this prodigious career, including many of the classics November Schedule 24 that first brought the German titan international renown. December Schedule 26 While Fassbinder directed some 40 movies in an astonishing 13-year span, Hus- Give the Gift of Film 28 BELONGS ton made about as many over five decades. A screenwriter turned director during the Film Society Staff 29 heyday of the studio system (and later a fine character actor in his own right), Huston GO GREEN! The Film Society bimonthly calendar is always available online at filmlinc.com. long outlived Hollywood’s golden age. An extraordinarily versatile renaissance man, he Members and Patrons, please consider joining us in our effort to go green by opting out of receiving the HERE FILM printed calendar. Learn more at filmlinc.com/GoGreen. was also the rare artist who grew bolder with age—this complete retrospective includes many films long overdue for reappraisal. VENUE & TICKET INFORMATION For new releases, we are bringing back some favorites from past programs: A Spell HERE FILM Walter Reade Theater & Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (Francesca Beale Theater, to Ward Off the Darkness from New Directors/New Films and Actress from Art of the Howard Gilman Theater, Amphitheater) W. 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam MATTERS To Purchase Online Visit filmlinc.com To Purchase in Person Film Society box offices open Real. Other highlights include a pair of documentaries on art and architecture (Levitated 30 minutes before the first screening and close 15 minutes after the start of the last Mass and Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation) as well as two French revivals: the classic screening. For more information, call 212.875.5600. animation The King and the Mockingbird and Eric Rohmer’s late-career masterpiece $8 Film Society Members & Patrons | $9 Students & Seniors (62+) | $13 General Public A Tale of Winter. SPECIAL DISCOUNT PACKAGES & PASSES SURPRISES 3+ Film Packages available for all Nov/Dec series and festivals – Starts at $21 / $24 / $30 There’s much more to savor here, including our popular horror series, Scary Mov- All Access Passes available for Scary Movies 8, Fassbinder (Part 2), and An Alternate History of ies; a lively, eye-opening survey of Spanish comedy; and a tribute to Nastassja Kinski, Spanish Comedy – Just $99 | New Romanian Cinema – Just $75 | Note: Available online only HERE FILM 5+ Film Package available for The Films of John Huston – Starts at $25 (Tickets just $5!) elusive muse and indelible screen presence. Please note: Valid ID required for all discounts. Special pricing applies to various festivals, series, and select screenings. Happy holidays and we look forward to seeing you at the movies. Programs, ticket prices, and surcharges are subject to change. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the management. Admission to the theater cannot be guaranteed once the screening has started. HERE FILM Dennis Lim Director of Programming Now INTRODUCING THE FILM SOCIETY APP! CONNECTS Browse the upcoming schedule, receive special alerts, share your picks with friends & more. FILM DOWNLOAD TODAY—AVAILABLE FOR iOS AND ANDROID DEVICES ENTERTAINS FILM What We Do in the Shadows slasher film, long out of circulation in the U.S., finds a The Pack detective assigned to the case of tracking down a scuba- Robert Clouse, USA, 1977, 35mm, 95m masked psycho lurking beneath Amsterdam’s canals. In this vintage title from the When Animals Attack November 6, 6:30pm pantheon, dogs abandoned by summer vacationers form a ravenous pack of man-eaters that terrorizes the island Backcountry community’s few permanent residents in search of a Adam MacDonald, Canada, 2014, DCP, 91m square meal. In this tightly constructed, gory, and gut-wrenching November 1, 2:00pm survival story, a young couple’s romantic camping trip in a National Park goes from bad to much worse when A Reflection of Fear on top of getting hopelessly lost they realize they are William A. Fraker, USA, 1973, 35mm, 89m not alone—and whatever’s out there is hungry. A severely troubled 16-year-old (Sondra Locke) lives with November 3, 8:45pm her overbearing mother in a sprawling desolate estate, whose all-female household is thrown seriously off kilter Cub when the girl’s absentee father shows up. Things are not Jonas Govaerts, Belgium, 2014, DCP, 85m what they seem, and people soon start turning up dead in In Jonas Govaerts’s riveting, smart, and skillfully directed this genuinely unsettling Gothic psycho-thriller. feature debut, a troop of preteen Cub Scouts and two November 2, 4:00pm capable twentysomething Scout Leaders (plus their cute female cook) head into the woods for a summer camping Spring trip. Will any of them be coming back? Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead, USA, 2014, DCP, October 31, 6:00pm 109m November 5, 9:30pm Visiting an idyllic Italian coastal village, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) falls for the charming and elusive Louise (Nadiar Dark Was the Night Hiker)—but little does he know that she’s hiding a ter- Jack Heller, USA, 2014, DCP, 94m rifying secret. What comes next defies standard genre The quiet lives of a sheriff (The Strain’s Kevin Durand) categories and, in the name of love, brings Evan face to and his deputy (Lukas Haas) are put to the test when an face with monstrous primordial forces rooted in a realm ancient creature begins preying on the local livestock that’s nothing short of mythic. and the small logging town’s human residents in this November 2, 6:00pm OCTOBER 31 – nOVEMBER 6 wholly entertaining old-school monster movie. November 1, 6:00pm (Q&A with Jack Heller and actor Starry Eyes Kevin Durand) Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer, USA, DCP, 2014, 98m Fear not—the 8th edition of the popular fright fest returns! The series kicks off with a vampire-themed A modern masterwork of body horror, the biting and grue- costume party on Halloween and features highly anticipated new works from around the globe, first- The Harvest some Starry Eyes features a fearless lead performance rate creature features, retrospective screenings, in-person appearances, and much more. So, don’t John McNaughton, USA, 2013, DCP, 104m by Alex Essoe as a striving young actress who goes to miss out... unless of course you’re afraid. Samantha Morton is the stuff of great screen villainy as extreme lengths in the name of success. the mother of a deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, whose new November 2, 8:30pm (Q&A with Kevin Kölsch & neighbor persistently tries to befriend him and uncov- Dennis Widmyer) See it all and SAVE with an All Access Pass for just $99! ers some seriously sinister goings-on in the process. November 5, 7:00pm (Q&A with John McNaughton, Starry Eyes actor Michael Shannon, producer Steven A. Jones, and writer Stephen Lancellotti) Opening Night its way to cult status, is best appreciated by those with What We Do in the Shadows a cast-iron stomach. Late Phases Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi, New Zealand, 2014, November 6, 9:00pm (followed by a reception with Viva Adrián García Bogliano, USA, DCP, 2014, 95m DCP, 86m Radio) Soon after a hard-ass blind Vietnam vet (Nick Damici) In this hilarious and ultra-quotable horror-comedy, four moves to a retirement home, he experiences a strange endearingly unhip vampire roommates squabble over Among the Living animal attack—and it turns out these attacks are a household chores, go to clubs, struggle to keep up with Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury, France, 2014, DCP, monthly occurrence, synchronized to the full moon... the latest technology and fashion trends, and antagonize 90m November 1, 9:00pm (Q&A with actor Nick Damici) the local werewolves whenever their paths cross. Oh, and The final installment in dynamic French shock duo they suck people’s blood, too... Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s trilogy of American- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s October 31, 8:00pm (followed by Halloween party) influenced horror flicks sees three 14-year-old boys get Island of Dr. Moreau When Animals Dream more than they bargained for after accidentally uncover- David Gregory, UK/USA, 2014, DCP, 98m Jonas Alexander Arnby, Denmark, 2014, DCP, 84m Closing Night ing the hideout of a unhinged family at an abandoned This doc tells the outrageous story of the dysfunctional Both a melancholy coming-of-age film and a tragedy- Angst movie backlot.