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 Peekskill, NY - The Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill, NY continues its popular film series at the newly renovated theatre.
** PLUS: The Paramount will feature Paul Newman films at a discounted price throughout the month of November as a special tribute to the late actor. The schedule is listed below, descriptions on the following pages.
ELEGY
Nov. 2 @ 3pm; November 6, 7, 8 @ 8pm
PAUL NEWMAN FILMS
COOL HAND LUKE $5
Nov. 13 @ 8pm
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF $5
Nov. 16 @ 7:30pm
HUD $5
Nov. 20 @ 8pm
THE STING $5
Nov. 23 @ 3pm
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND
Nov. 28 @ 8pm; Nov. 29 @ 2pm; Nov. 30 @ 3pm; Dec. 4 @ 8pm
THE LINGUISTS Free! Plus Q&A with Filmmakers
Dec. 7 @ 3pm
Dir. Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger, English et al (PG) 65 minutes
GIRL CUT IN TWO
Dec. 11, 12, 13 @ 3pm; Dec. 14 @ 7:30pm
ASHES OF TIME REDUX
Dec. 18, 19 @ 8pm; Dec. 21 @ 7:30
A SECRET
Dec. 26, 27 @ 8pm; Dec. 28 @ 3pm
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Jan. 2, 3 @ 8pm; Jan. 4 @ 3pm; Jan. 8 @ 8pm
Dir. Mike Leigh, English (R) 118 minutes
ELEGY
Nov. 2 @ 3pm; November 6, 7, 8 @ 8pm
Dir. Isabel Coixet
English (R) 113 minutes
In “one of the best roles of his career” (Chicago Reader), Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley plays a star college professor who loses his heart—and his bearings—when he is smitten by a younger woman (Penelope Cruz, Oscar nominee). “A well-acted screen adaptation of a short Philip Roth novel about the multiple splendors of beauty in a chilly world of intellect, sex, and selfishness” (Spirituality & Practice), this features “grand slam performances” (Combustible Celluloid) by a stellar cast including Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry. “A soberingly eloquent expression of what our lives are all about” (Andrew Sarris). “Remarkably intimate!” (Film Stew). “Cruz is exquisite!” (TV Guide Online).
COOL HAND LUKE $5
Nov. 13 @ 8pm
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
English (PG) 126 minutes
“A caustically witty look at the American South and its still-surviving chain gangs, with Newman in fine sardonic form as the boss-baiter who refuses to submit and becomes a hero to his fellow prisoners. Underlying the hard-bitten surface is a slightly uncomfortable allegory identifying Newman as a Christ figure, but this scarcely detracts from the brilliantly idiosyncratic script (by Donn Pearce from his own novel) or from Conrad Hall’s glittering camerawork” (Time Out). “One of our most lived-in and pleasurably paced odes to nonconformity” (Nick’s Flick Picks), Cool Hand Luke features “Paul Newman in his blue-eyed prime” (Channel 4 Film). Rated the Greatest Film of All-Time by America’s Egg Farmers.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF $5
Nov. 16 @ 7:30pm
Dir. Richard Brooks
English (PG-13) 108 minutes
This wildly over-the-top adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s second most famous play is almost too much fun. As Big Daddy lays dying (he’s ferociously played by Burl Ives, reprising his Broadway triumph), his extended clan circles around, all finagling for a bigger share of the inheritance. Big Daddy’s son, Brick (Paul Newman), an alcoholic ex-gridiron star, can scarcely be bothered, by anything—including his neglected, negligee-clad wife, Maggie, played by Elizabeth Taylor at her most fetching. “As a straight exercise in spewing venom and flinging dirty linen on a line, this fine Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production in color would be hard to beat. High-powered acting . . . juicy Williams dialogue!” (original New York Times review).
HUD $5
Nov. 20 @ 8pm
Dir. Martin Ritt
English (PG) 112 minutes
“Hugely entertaining contemporary Western, set in the Texas of Cadillacs and cattle, crickets and transistor radios; handsomely designed, and shot in black-and-white (by James Wong Howe), it’s visually simple and precise and unadorned. As Hud, Paul Newman has energy and wit and physique and ‘them there eyes.’ The plot involves Hud’s wanting to sell off a herd that is possibly infected with hoof-and-mouth disease, and his father’s rectitude in having the cattle slaughtered. As the ranch housekeeper, Patricia Neal, full-bodied and likable, has an easy, raunchy good humor, and talks seductively, in a deep-toned Texas twang; the sexual byplay between her and Newman has just the right summertime temperature” (Pauline Kael).
THE STING $5
Nov. 23 @ 3pm
Dir. George Roy Hill
English (PG) 129 minutes
“’Deftly’ charming its way to Best Picture honors, this ‘classy’ comedy ‘caper’ ‘succeeds in spades’ as a ‘likable,’ ‘fast-paced’ ‘vehicle’ for Newman and Redford, radiating ‘great rapport’ as a pair of ‘grifters’: playing a gangster for a sucker in ‘Depression-era Chicago’; a ‘funny, intriguing’ ‘period piece’ set to ‘elegant’ ‘Joplin rags,’ it raises the ‘suspense’ stakes with ‘masterful’ plotting and a final ‘zinger’ that saves the sharpest sting for last” (Zagat Survey Movie Guide). Winner of 7 Oscars, this follow-up to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid is “just about as good as movies come” (Flick Filosopher). “It's one of cinema's most beloved heist movies, and for good reason” (FilmCritic.com).
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND
Nov. 28 @ 8pm; Nov. 29 @ 2pm; Nov. 30 @ 3pm; Dec. 4 @ 8pm
Dir. Jiri Menzel
Czech, German (R) 120 minutes
Jan Dite is a waiter hell-bent on becoming a hotel magnate and millionaire. “This inventive, charming picture-perfect picaresque tale of an ambitious young Czech rascal scrambling in the pre-Nazi and wartime eras marks a welcome and victorious return for Jiri Menzel, whose last major conquest was his 1967 Oscar-winning debut, Closely Watched Trains” (Film Journal International). “Pirouetting along a beguiling but treacherous line between horror and whimsy” (Washington Post), this “fairytale” (Box Office Magazine) “celebrates the pleasures of life while acknowledging its tragedy and absurdity” (Commercial Appeal). Showcasing “amazing, nutty set pieces” (Oregonian), Menzel’s comic triumph is “surprisingly sexy and delightfully playful” (Metromix). “Charming to the max!” (New York Post).
THE LINGUISTS Free!
Dec. 7 @ 3pm
Dir. Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
English et al (PG) 65 minutes
Q&A with Filmmakers
“Indiana Jones’s spirit certainly infects the intrepid heroes of The Linguists. These are bold academics who plunge into the jungle and backwater villages of the world to rescue living tongues about to go extinct. There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world, yet we lose a language every two weeks thanks to colonization, globalization and indifference” (Reuters). “It’s difficult not to love this film, with its two quirky and amusing characters leading the charge” (Real Screen). Helmed by three Garrison-based filmmakers, The Linguists makes its Westchester Theatrical Premiere at the Paramount. “A fantastic little film and a stand-out at Sundance” (Vanity Fair). Sponsored by the Westchester Arts Council.
GIRL CUT IN TWO
Dec. 11, 12, 13 @ 3pm; Dec. 14 @ 7:30pm
Dir. Claude Chabrol
French (NR) 115 minutes
A TV weather girl (Ludivine Sagnier) is torn between two suitors—a famous author whom she loves but who won’t leave his wife and a wealthy young man who is mad about her. “Claude Chabrol’s newest foray into darkness and bad behavior emerges as less of a murder or suspense story and more of a black comedy” (Combustible Celluloid). “Spectacularly assured, A Girl Cut in Two keeps you off-balance as it establishes a world where every conversation is a flirtation, and trouble and heartbreak sneak in on little cat feet when no one’s looking” (Chicago Tribune). “A rich, textured divertissement from a sinister master of the art” (New York Times).
ASHES OF TIME REDUX
Dec. 18, 19 @ 8pm; Dec. 21 @ 7:30
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Mandarin, Cantonese (R) 93 minutes
A lovelorn hit man retreats to the desert, where he recruits others to fulfill his contract killings. Wong Kar-Wai—“the world’s most romantic filmmaker” (Time)—revisits his only martial arts film, 1994’s Ashes of Time, reworking the score and amping up the colors. “This colorful revision brings the expressionism to dizzying heights” (Time Out New York). “Ashes of Time has such emotional, aesthetic intensity that it lives up to its title—one of the greatest in movie history” (New York Press). “Almost ecstatically sad, but it makes your heart soar!” (Village Voice). “For the love of all things sensual and mysterious, see this one on a big screen” (Entertainment Weekly).
A SECRET
Dec. 26, 27 @ 8pm; Dec. 28 @ 3pm
Dir. Claude Miller
French, Yiddish (NR) 105 minutes
François, a solitary, imaginative child, invents for himself a brother as well as the story of his parents’ past. But on his 15th birthday, he discovers a dark family secret that ties his family’s history to the Holocaust and shatters his illusions forever. Adapted from Memory, Philippe Grimbert`s celebrated truth-inspired novel, A Secret is “a throwback to an era when studios made star-laden, period melodramas that balanced sentiment and weighty issues in the name of entertainment” (Time Out New York). “A somber and haunting personal film told with the scope of The Godfather trilogy that's sure to leave a lasting impression on anyone who sees it” (ComingSoon.net).
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Jan. 2, 3 @ 8pm; Jan. 4 @ 3pm; Jan. 8 @ 8pm
Dir. Mike Leigh
English (R) 118 minutes
Our heroine here is Poppy, a North London school teacher whose relentless optimism unnerves those around her. “This is Mike Leigh's best film since 1993's Naked and, in a sense, its photo negative twin—female centric as opposed to male, light vs. dark, optimistic vs. nihilistic” (Reeling Reviews). “We take Leigh’s gifts for granted, knowing the collaborative nature of his filmmaking will inevitably produce something brimming with humanity. Yet what the director and cast do with this character study is miraculous” (Time Out New York). “So joyous and uplifting that you just want to pluck it off the screen, put it in your pocket and carry it around with you” (Combustible Celluloid).
Paramount Center for the Arts
1008 Brown Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
Info/Tickets: (914) 739-2333 or paramountcenter.org
Admission: Wed, Thurs, and Sun - $7.00, Fri & Sat - $9.00 unless otherwise noted.
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