In collaboration with Los Angeles’ American Cinematheque, New York’s Paris Theater can be presenting the second annual “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” from June 8 to June 14. This beloved movie sequence embraces the darker aspect of cinema with empathy, introspection, and unflinching honesty.
The sequence encompasses a stellar lineup of particular friends for post-screening conversations:
- Kathleen Turner can be current for a screening of the darkish comedy “The Struggle of the Roses” (1989), which has lately been remade by Jay Roach starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch.
- John Turturro discusses “Miller’s Crossing” (1990), one in all his standout collaborations with the Coen Brothers.
- Author/Director Kenneth Lonergan returns to the Paris for a Q&A following “Manchester by the Sea” (2016), starring Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck and Lucas Hedges.
- Sizzling off their success with “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, joined by actor Daniel London, will focus on their work on “Vox Lux” (2018).
- Closing the sequence, Todd Solondz will seem for a dialog following his infamous second function “Happiness” (1998), starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and screening in a brand new 4K restoration.
Competition highlights additionally embrace 4K restorations of Uli Edel’s “Christiane F.” (1981) and Atom Egoyan’s The “Candy Hereafter” (1997), each landmark movies of emotional depth and placing imaginative and prescient.
“Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” originated in Los Angeles 4 years in the past. Within the time since, it has continued to showcase highly effective movies that — by stark imagery, existential dread, and stunning sincerity — discover the harshest realities of the human expertise. This yr’s New York version continues the custom with 17 daring alternatives spanning genres and many years, every confronting despair in pursuit of uncooked authenticity.
Audiences can even stay up for uncommon displays of:
- 35mm prints of Catherine Breillat’s “Fats Woman” (2001), Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), and Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” (2010)
- 4K restorations of “Bare” (1993), “Scarlet Avenue” (1945), and “Detour” (1945)
- A fortieth anniversary screening of Elem Klimov’s searing anti-war assertion “Come and See” (1985)
- Further titles together with “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), “Peeping Tom” (1960), and “Battles With out Honor and Humanity” (1973)
Tickets at the moment are on sale. Keep tuned for extra screenings at The Paris Theater and visitor bulletins within the coming days. The Los Angeles installment of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” runs from June 1 to June 7 and options 55 movies from 16 nations, with over 20 particular friends in attendance.