FEBRUARY2018 FILM LIVES HERESM FESTIVALS & EVENTS THE FILMS OF RAÚL RUIZ (PART 2) AN EVENING WITH SALLY POTTER FILM COMMENT SELECTS NEIGHBORING SCENES: NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA NEW RELEASES A FANTASTIC WOMAN 24 FRAMES TIME REGAINED WESTERN ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER 144 WEST 65TH STREET WALTER READE THEATER 165 WEST 65TH STREET FILMLINC.ORG SERIES Life Is a Dream: The Films of Raúl Ruiz (Part 2) Klimt Epo-Film/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock FEBRUARY 9–18 Arguably Chile’s most internationally renowned and prolific director, Raúl Ruiz completed over 100 works in numerous national cinemas. His mind-bending movies are obsessed with questions of theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, and visual expression; wildly experimental and slyly humorous; surrealist, magical-realist, gothic, and neo-Baroque. To see one of Ruiz’s films is to go on an adventure full of humor, intellec- tual curiosity, and artistic daring; to see several is to land on a new continent, where his many obsessions find their delirious expression in the most surprising ways and where reason and madness are delightfully, terrifyingly indis- tinguishable. The Film Society is pleased to present the second part of an ongoing retrospective devoted to Ruiz, including a weeklong revival run of one of his most beloved films, Time Regained (1999), in a new digital restoration. See more and save with a 3+ film package or All-Access Pass! The Blind Owl / La chouette Comedy of Innocence / Comédie rarely screened adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The aveungle de l’innocence Eternal Husband is one of his most elliptical and Switzerland/France, 1987, 16mm, 97m, subtitles France, 2000, 35mm, 100m, subtitles intriguing works. Saturday, February 10, 9:00pm In one of Ruiz’s signature films of the 1980s, a A 9-year-old boy insists that a mentally . Thursday, February 15, 9:00pm Parisian film projectionist receives a surprise unstable violin teacher is his real mother in visit from his Apollinaire-reciting uncle and falls this consummately Ruizian tale of madness The Insomniac on the Bridge / in love with a dancer who appears in a movie and mistaken identity, loosely adapted from L’éveillé du pont de l’Alma he projects, triggering a delirious succession of a Massimo Bontempelli novella and starring France, 1985, 35mm, 85m, subtitles Sharing stories within stories. Saturday, February 10, Isabelle Huppert and Jeanne Balibar. Sunday, an inability to sleep, a voyeur and a hunch- 4:00pm . Monday, February 12, 6:30pm February 11, 6:00pm . Friday, February 16, backed boxer decide to rape a pregnant 4:30pm woman, who then throws herself into the Ce jour-là Seine, only to return in new, horrifying forms. France, 2003, 35mm, 105m, subtitles Ruiz Fado, Major and Minor / Fado This barbed avant-garde tale of trauma and mastered the absurdist black comedy with this majeur et mineur delirium is one of Ruiz’s most confrontational whiplash-inducing parody of the ensemble France/Portugal, 1994, 35mm, 110m, subtitles visions. whodunit in which a Swiss aristocrat hires a After blacking out, a tour guide returns to his Screening with: Dog’s Dialogue / Colloque psychopath to kill his equally maniacal daughter apartment and finds a mysterious intruder who de chiens in order to free up her inheritance from his holds him accountable for his lover’s death. France, 1977, 35mm, 22m, subtitles previous marriage. Friday, February 16, 6:30pm Toggling modes of farce and tragedy (and Monday, February 12, 8:45pm . Thursday, . Sunday, February 18, 2:00pm punctuated by Iberian sea shanties), Ruiz’s February 15, 6:30pm FOR TICKETS VISIT FILMLINC.ORG Klimt into pulp is a Hitchcockian shadow play of SPECIAL EVENT Austria/UK/France, 2006, 35mm, 131m, doubles that turns a paperback-worthy premise subtitles Described by Ruiz as “a fresco of real into a Rorschach-blot interrogation of the self and imaginary characters revolving around and the unconscious. Friday, February 16, An Evening a single point of focus,” Klimt is less a biopic 8:45pm . Sunday, February 18, 8:30pm of the notorious 19th-century painter than a deep dive into laviscious fin de siècle Vienna. Vanishing Point / Point de fuite with Sally Potter . Saturday, February 10, 6:30pm Saturday, France/Portugal, 1984, 16mm, 78m, English TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 February 17, 2:00pm subtitles Filmed on the Portuguese island of Madeira, where Ruiz was simultaneously The director joins us for a double Life Is a Dream / Mémoire des making City of Pirates, the noir homage bill of her latest and her greatest apparences Vanishing Point is a rib-tickling breadcrumb trail France, 1986, 16mm, 104m, subtitles Using of repetitions and allusions about an unnamed Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 17th-century man in a seaside town who witnesses a Spanish play La vida es sueño as jumping-off murder . or was it just a dream? Wednesday, point, Ruiz tackles the 1971 coup in his February 14, 8:30pm . Saturday, February 17, homeland of Chile as well as interrogates the 8:30pm dubious feedback loop between experience and thought. Saturday, February 17, 6:30pm NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Wandering Soap Opera / Mammame La Telenovela errante France, 1986, 16mm, 65m Cryptic, transfixing, Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile, and suffused with the director’s signature play 1990/2017, 80m, subtitles Shot in 1990 but The Party with space and time, Ruiz’s film of Jean-Claude unfinished until nearly six years after Ruiz’s Gallotta’s nine-person experimental ballet about death, The Wandering Soap Opera is a wildly SNEAK PREVIEW! “full-fledged doubt” is one of his most abstract inventive, episodic satire born of Ruiz and his The Party yet accessible works. Wednesday, February 14, wife and collaborator Sarmiento’s attempt to Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71m In Sally Potter’s 7:00pm view Chilean political life through the sublime new dark comedy The Party, Janet (Kristin and ridiculous prism of the telenovela. Friday, Scott Thomas) is hosting an intimate gathering Night Across the Street / La noche February 9, 7:00pm . Sunday, February 11, of friends in her London home to celebrate de enfrente 2:00pm . Saturday, February 17, 4:45pm her political ascension, while her husband, Bill Chile/France, 2012, 110m, subtitles In Ruiz's (Timothy Spall), seems preoccupied. Janet’s playfully elegiac final masterwork, loosely EXCLUSIVE RUN! acerbic best friend, April (Patricia Clarkson), adapted from the fantastical short stories of Time Regained / Le temps arrives and others follow, some with their own Chilean writer Hernán del Solar, an elderly retrouvé, d’après l’oeuvre de dramatic news to share, but an announcement office worker begins reliving memories from Marcel Proust by Bill provokes a series of revelations that his past, both real and imagined, including a France/Italy/Portugal, 1999, 163m, subtitles gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree, and a childhood trip to the movies with Beethoven Ruiz’s most ambitious literary adaptation—an night that began with champagne may end with and listening to tall tales from Long John Silver. attempt to condense all of Proust’s In Search gunplay. A Roadside Attractions release. An NYFF50 selection. Sunday, February 11, of Lost Time into a single feature, using the 6:30pm (Q&A with Sally Potter) 8:00pm . Sunday, February 18, 6:15pm seven-part novel’s last installment as a kind of frame—is also one of his most transporting 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING On Top of the Whale / Het dak van reflections on the movies’ power to seize and Orlando de Walvis preserve moments of time. Featuring Catherine Sally Potter, UK/Russia/Italy/France/ Netherlands, 1982, 90m, subtitles Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, and John Netherlands, 1993, 35mm, 93m Twenty-five Shot in Holland in roughly a week and without a Malkovich. An NYFF37 selection. A KimStim years after its premiere in the 49th Venice script, Ruiz’s delirious, visually stunning satire of release. Opens February 9, 3:00pm and International Film Festival, Potter’s bold re-work- imperialism and the social sciences focuses on 6:45pm daily ing of Virginia Woolf's classic novel endures an anthropologist who ventures with his family as a remarkable love story and an incisive tour Organized by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan into the Patagonian wilds to study a strange, through English history, while directly and deftly Acknowledgements: Association des Amis de Raoul Ruiz; dying language. Friday, February 9, 9:00pm National Council of Culture and Arts of Chile; Cultural Services addressing modern concerns of gender and of the French Embassy; Institut Français; La Cinémathèque . Sunday, February 11, 4:00pm . Sunday, française; La Cinémathèque de Toulouse; Embassy of Chile; identity. Shortly before the death of Elizabeth I, Valeria Sarmiento; Chamila Rodriguez. February 18, 4:15pm an innocent aristocrat, Orlando (Tilda Swinton, in a profoundly subtle performance), is promised Shattered Image a generous fortune by the Queen provided that USA/Canada/UK, 1998, 35mm, 102m he “not grow old.” He then goes on to live for Ostensibly an erotic thriller starring Anne centuries, first as a man, and then as a woman. Parillaud and William Baldwin, Ruiz’s final foray 8:30pm (Introduction by Sally Potter) @FILMLINC . #FILMLIVESHERE FESTIVAL Film Comment Selects FEBRUARY 23–27 Film Comment’s movie showcase returns in its 18th edition with a selection of titles curated by the magazine’s editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment. Synopses written by FC contributors. See more and save with a 3+ film package or All-Access Pass! Plus, all FCS attendees will receive a compli- mentary one-year subscription to the Film Comment App! On Body and Soul Ildikó Enyedi, 2017, Hungary, 116m Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Ildiko Enyedi’s visually imaginative film embellishes upon the highs and lows of an oddball romance with exuberant abandon.