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gramilano · 5 years

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After Riccardo Chailly opens the season with Tosca, continuing the cycle of works by Puccini, he will conduct his first Strauss opera, as well as the complete Beethoven symphonies. Zubin Mehta will conduct two Verdi operas as well as Luigi Nonno’s Intolleranza which will be performed at La Scala for the first time. Handel’s Semele will also receive its first staged performance at the theatre. There are fifteen operas in the 2019-2020 season, of which eleven are new productions.

Anna Netrebko will open the season in Tosca on 7 December, but strangely the tenor has not yet been confirmed. Backstage voices say that the Russian diva is pressing for her husband, Yusif Eyvazov, to be given the role.

After the popularity over the last couple of years, the opening of the season will again be transmitted live on Italy’s main television channel, Rai1.

The recital series, listed below, features Matthias Goerne, Erwin Schrott, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Bejun Mehta, Marina Rebeka, and Sabine Devieilhe.

OPERA SEASON 2019-2020

Anna Netrebko, photo Dario Acosta

4 December 2019 Young People’s Preview

7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22 December 2019; 2, 5, 8 January 2020

Giacomo Puccini

TOSCA

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

Director Davide Livermore

Sets Giò Forma

Costumes Gianluca Falaschi

Lighting Antonio Castro

Cast

Tosca Anna Netrebko / Saioa Hernández (2, 5, 8 Jan.), Cavaradossi (to be announced),

Scarpia Luca Salsi, Angelotti Vladimir Sazdovski, Sagrestano Alfonso Antoniozzi,

Spoletta Carlo Bosi, Sciarrone Giulio Mastrototaro

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Diana Damrau

15, 18, 21, 26, 30 January; 2, 13, 16 February 2020

Charles Gounod

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

Conductor Lorenzo Viotti

Director Bartlett Sher

Sets Michael Yeargan

Costumes Catherine Zuber

Lighting Jennifer Tipton

Cast

Juliette Diana Damrau, Roméo Vittorio Grigolo,

Frère Laurent Nicolas Testé, Mercutio Mattia Olivieri, Stéphano Marina Viotti,

Le Comte Capulet Frédéric Caton, Tybalt Ruzil Gatin, Gertrude Sara Mingardo,

Le Comte Paris Edwin Fardini, Le Duc Jean-Vincent Blot

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

Production from The Metropolitan Opera, New York

Violeta Urmana

6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 23, 26, 29 February; 6 March 2020

Giuseppe Verdi

IL TROVATORE

Conductor Nicola Luisotti

Director and Set Design Alvis Hermanis

Costumes Eva Dessecker

Lighting Gleb Filshtinsky

Video Designer Ineta Sipunova

Cast

Leonora Liudmyla Monastyrska, Manrico Francesco Meli,

Il conte di Luna Massimo Cavalletti, Azucena Violeta Urmana,

Ferrando Gianluca Buratto/Riccardo Fassi

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala (co-production Salzburger Festspiele)

Rosa Feola, photo Todd Rosenberg

22, 25, 28 February; 4, 13, 15, 17, 19 March 2020

Gioachino Rossini

IL TURCO IN ITALIA

Conductor Diego Fasolis

Director Roberto Andò

Sets and Lighting Gianni Carluccio

Costumes Nanà Cecchi

Cast

Selim Alex Esposito, Donna Fiorilla Rosa Feola, Don Narciso Edgardo Rocha,

Prosdocimo Mattia Olivieri, Don Geronio Giulio Mastrototaro,

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Riccardo Chailly, photo Brescia e Amisano

8, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 27, 31 March 2020

Richard Strauss

SALOME

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

Director Damiano Michieletto

Sets Paolo Fantin

Costumes Carla Teti

Lighting Alessandro Carletti

Choreography Thomas Wilhelm

Cast

Salome Malin Byström, Herodes Roberto Saccà, Herodias Anna Maria Chiuri,

Jochanaan Michael Volle, Narraboth Attilio Glaser, Nazarener Thomas Tatzl

Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Daniele Gatti, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

4, 7, 10, 14, 18, 21, 24 April 2020

Claude Debussy

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

Conductor Daniele Gatti

Director Matthias Hartmann

Sets Volker Hintermeier

Cast

Pelléas Bernard Richter, Mélisande Patricia Petibon, Golaud Markus Werba,

Arkel Nicolas Testé, Geneviève Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo,

Le petite Yniold Caterina Sala, Un medecin/Berger Vladimir Sazdovski

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Tannhauser, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

23, 26, 30 April; 3, 7, 10, 24, 27 May 2020

Richard Wagner

TANNHÄUSER

Conductor Ádám Fischer

Director Carlus Padrissa / La Fura dels Baus

Sets Roland Olberter

Costumes Chu Uroz

Video Designer Franc Aleu

Cast

Tannhäuser Peter Seiffert, Elisabeth Krassimira Stoyanova / Dorothea Röschmann (24, 27 May),

Wolfram von Eschenbach Christian Gerhaher / Markus Werba (24, 27 May),

Walter von der Vogelweide Martin Piskorski, Venus Daniela Sindram, Hermann Albert Dohmen,

Biterolf Florian Spiess, Heinrich der Schreiber Sascha Emanuel Kramer,

Reinmar von Zweter Chi Hoon Lee

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

Produzione Teatro alla Scala

Ferruccio Furlanetto

17, 20, 23, 26, 29 May; 4, 10 June 2020

Italo Montemezzi

L’AMORE DEI TRE RE

Conductor Carlo Rizzi

Director Àlex Ollé / La Fura dels Baus

Sets Alfons Flores

Costumes Lluc Castells

Lighting Marco Filibeck

Cast

Archibaldo Ferruccio Furlanetto, Manfredo Roberto Frontali, Avito Giorgio Berrugi,

Fiora Federica Lombardi, Flaminio Giorgio Misseri

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Mario Martone, photo Brescia e Amisano

3, 6, 9, 13, 17, 22, 25, 30 June 2020

Umberto Giordano

FEDORA

Conductor Daniel Oren

Director Mario Martone

Sets Margherita Palli

Costumes Ursula Patzak

Lighting Pasquale Mari

Cast

Fedora Sonya Yoncheva, Loris Roberto Alagna,

Olga Mariangela Sicilia, De Siriex Massimo Cavalletti, Barone Rouvelle Marco Ciaponi,

Boroff Costantino Finucci, Grech Vladimir Sazdovski

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Gabriele Salvatores, photo by Brescia e Amisano

20, 23, 26 June; 2, 7, 10, 13, 16 July 2020

Giuseppe Verdi

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

Conductor Zubin Mehta

Director Gabriele Salvatores

Sets Gian Maurizio Fercioni

Cast

Riccardo Fabio Sartori, Amelia Saioa Hernández, Renato Luca Salsi,

Ulrica Violeta Urmana, Oscar Julie Martin Du Theil,

Silvano Liviu Holender, Samuel Fabrizio Beggi, Tom Emanuele Cordaro

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

La traviata with Marina Rebeka and Leo Nucci, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

11, 14 July 2020;

12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 25 November 2020

Giuseppe Verdi

LA TRAVIATA

Conductor Zubin Mehta / Michele Gamba

Director Liliana Cavani

Sets Dante Ferretti

Costumes Gabriella Pescucci

Lighting Marco Filibeck

Choreography Micha van Hoecke

Cast

Violetta Valéry Marina Rebeka (11, 14 July) / Angel Blue,

Alfredo Germont Francesco Meli (11, 14 July) / Charles Castronovo,

Giorgio Germont Leo Nucci (11, 14 July) / Plácido Domingo (12, 14 Nov.) /

George Petean (17, 20, 22, 25 Nov.)

Chorus, Orchestra and Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala

Produzione Teatro alla Scala

Il viaggio a Reims, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 22, 25 September 2020

La Scala Accademia Project

Gioachino Rossini

IL VIAGGIO A REIMS

Conductor Paolo Carignani

Director Luca Ronconi

Sets Gae Aulenti

Costumes Giovanna Buzzi

Lighting Marco Filibeck

Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala Academy

Production Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro and Teatro alla Scala

Cecilia Bartoli, photo by Uli Weber

17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30 October 2020

Georg Friedrich Händel

SEMELE

Conductor Gianluca Capuano

Director Robert Carsen

Sets e Costumes Patrick Kinmonth

Lighting Robert Carsen e Peter van Praet

Coreografia Philippe Giraudeau

Cast

Semele Cecilia Bartoli, Jupiter/Apollo Ian Bostridge,

Athamas Max Emanuel Cencic, Juno Sara Mingardo

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Zubin Mehta, photo Brescia e Amisano

29, 31 October; 2, 4, 8, 11 November 2020

Arnold Schönberg

ERWARTUNG

The Woman Camilla Nylund

Luigi Nono

INTOLLERANZA 1960

Cast

Un emigrante Giorgio Berrugi, La sua compagna Camilla Nylund,

Una donna Anna Maria Chiuri, Un algerino Simone Piazzola, Un torturato Dario Russo

Conductor Zubin Mehta

Director Damiano Michieletto

Sets Paolo Fantin

Costumes Carla Teti

Lighting Alessandro Carletti

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Daniela Barcellona

10, 13, 18, 21, 24, 27, 29 November 2020

Amilcare Ponchielli

LA GIOCONDA

Conductor Ádám Fischer

Director Davide Livermore

Sets Giò Forma

Costumes Mariana Fracasso

Cast

La Gioconda Saioa Hernández, Laura Adorno Daniela Barcellona,

Enzo Grimaldo Francesco Meli, Barnaba Luca Salsi, Alvise Badoero Roberto Tagliavini,

La cieca Judit Kutasi, Zuane Fabrizio Beggi

Chorus, Orchestra and Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

Aleksandra Kurzak, photo Andrzej Swietlik

Bejun Mehta, photo by Marco Boggreve

Marina Rebeka, photo Janis Deinats

Matthias Goerne, photo Marco Borggreve

Sabine Devieilhe, photo Fabien Monthubert

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Recital Season

3 December 2019

Matthias Goerne

Piano

Leif Ove Andsnes

Schumann

26 January 2020

Erwin Schrott

Piano

Giulio Zappa

23 February 2020

Aleksandra Kurzak

Piano

Julius Drake

Viola

Tomasz Wabnic

Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Strauss

15 March 2020

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Piano

Semion Skigin

Glinka and Musorgsky

19 April 2020

Bejun Mehta

Piano

Jonathan Ware

Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Britten, and Mahler

27 October 2020

Marina Rebeka

Piano

Giulio Zappa

Rachmaninov, Bellini, and Verdi

9 November 2020

Sabine Devieilhe

Piano

Alexandre Tharaud

Debussy, Poulenc, Fauré, and Ravel

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La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2019 – 2020 After Riccardo Chailly opens the season with Tosca, continuing the cycle of works by Puccini, he will conduct his first Strauss opera, as well as the complete Beethoven symphonies.

#Anna Netrebko #Cecilia Bartoli #Daniela Barcellona #Daniele Gatti #Diana Damrau #Erwin Schrott #Ian Bostridge #Mattia Olivieri #Riccardo Chailly #Robert Carsen #Roberto Alagna #Vittorio Grigolo #Zubin Mehta

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weekendwarriorblog · 5 years

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND December 7, 2018 - Um....

Are you all ready for one of the worst weekends at the box office in many months? There are no new wide releases this weekend... not a single one. Because of that, we can cut right to the top 10, which should look something like…. Basically, the same as last weekend but everything making even less. Sigh… the only thing of note I should mention is that Universal should take advantage of the slower weekend to expand Green Book further since it’s still in only been in about 1,000 theaters so far.

1. Ralph Breaks the Internet (Disney) - $16 million -38% 2. The Grinch (Universal) - $11.5 million -35% 3. Creed II (MGM) - $9.6 million -43% 4. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros.) - $5.6 million -50% 5. Bohemian Rhapsody (20thCentury Fox) - $4.5 million -45% 6. Instant Family (Paramount) - $4.5 million -37% 7. Green Book (Universal) - $3 million -23% 8. The Possession of Hannah Grace (Sony/Screen Gems) - $2.9 million -55% 9.Robin Hood (Lionsgate) - $2.5 million -47% 10. Widows (20thCentury Fox) – $2.4 million -45%

LIMITED RELEASES

While there are no new wide releases in theaters and maybe you’ve already seen most of the movies above, there are a few new limited releases including at least one or two expected to expand wider in December, including two excellent dramas.

Period costume drama enthusiasts should be interested in Working Title’s latest, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (Focus Features), which is an absolutely fantastic directorial debut by Josie Rourke, starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character and Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth. The film covers Mary’s return to Scotland to take over the throne as queen, while also trying to get Elizabeth to accept her as a successor since Elizabeth is unable to have children. Along the way, Mary is paired with a number of men including the flamboyant Lord Darnley, played by Jack Lowden from Dunkirk, who gives her an heir even as she great to hate him. These were tough times in Scotland with civil wars and as many conspiracies to take the crown as in Game of Thrones. Also starring Joe Alwyn, David Tennant, Gemma Chan and Martin Compston, this is an amazing film led by another stirring performance by Ronan. Mary’s story is fascinating but also tragic, and it’s about time that someone did more with the character than just as a footnote in Elizabeth’s story. I was hugely impressed with the scope and scale of Rouke’s first feature film and the amount of emotions I felt as I watched it. In any other year, Mary, Queen of Scots would be an Oscar frontrunner, but I feel like the fact this is being seen months after Yorgos Lanthomos’ unique spin on the costume drama genre with The Favourite (which premiered during festival season back in Sept.) might give it a distinct disadvantage among awards voters. Either way, this excellent historical drama opens in select cities, and if you’re interested in British history or royalty, I highly recommend it.

Another great movie coming out Friday is Peter Hedges’ BEN IS BACK (LD Distribution/Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate), starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges. You may remember Hedges from his debut Pieces of April or the excellent Dan in Real Life, starring Steve Carell. Oddly, this film deals with a similar subject as Carell’s latest Beautiful Boy i.e. drug addiction, but I much preferred this film. Lucas Hedges plays Ben, a young adult who had been sent to rehab to deal with his debilitating drug addiction, but he shows up back at home on Christmas Eve, much to the concern of his mother (Roberts). She’s very worried that he’ll relapse to his bad habit being away from rehab, but also Ben has left enemies in the drug-dealing world, one of whom kidnaps the family’s beloved dog, sending mother and son on a tense night out into the drug world to find the pooch. I was pretty blown away by this movie which goes from family drama to something akin to a thriller, and the performances by Roberts and Hedges are fantastic, although the film also stars the always-great Courtney B. Vance. This opens in select theaters Friday, and I’ll have an interview with the elder Hedges over at NextBestPicture sometime later this week.

INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER PETER HEDGES

One of my favorite movies from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is actor Alex Pettyfer’s directorial debut BACK ROADS (Samuel Goldwyn), a drama co-written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction). Based on Tawni O’Dell’s best-selling novel, it’s a fantastic study of family trauma as Pettyfer plays Harley Altmyer, a young man trying to care for his three younger sisters in rural Pennsylvania after his mother (Juliette Lewis) is jailed for killing their abusive father. While trying to keep his teen sister Amber (Nicola Peltz) out of trouble, Harley begins a tryst with an older married woman, played by Jennifer Morrison. It’s playing one night only at the Roxy Cinema in New York on Thursday 11pm then opens in select cities and on VOD starting Friday.

Actor Brady Corbet directs his second feature, VOX LUX (Neon), which follows the rise of pop star Celeste, who as aa teenager survives a school shooting incident and sings at the memorial service. With the help of her songwriting sister (Stacy Martin), Celeste (played as a teenager by Raffey Cassidy) becomes hugely successful before become embroiled in scandal. Years later, she returns for her comeback (now played by Natalie Portman) while trying to maintain a relationship with her own teen daughter (also played by Cassidy). Jude Law plays Celeste’s beleaguered manager, and original songs were written for the film by Sia. It opens in select cities, more than likely at many Alamo Drafthouse theaters, and we’ll see where it expands from there. I saw this a few months back and was generally mixed, since I thought Elisabeth Moss’ somewhat similar role in Her Smell (which will play SXSW next year) was much stronger.

TYREL (Magnolia) is the new film from Chilean-born filmmaker Sebastian Silva (The Maid, Crystal Fairy, Nasty Baby), starring Jason Mitchell from Straight Outta Compton as Tyler, who goes for a weekend trip to the Catskills with a group of people he doesn’t know, only to realize he’s the only black person. As the alcohol flows, he becomes the victim of racial stereotyping. This opens in New York at the IFC Center on Wednesday, then will very slowly roll out into other cities, including Columbus and Baltimore on Friday.

Opening in select cities and also at IFC Center is Oliver Parker’s Swimming with Men (IFC Films) starring Rob Brydon (The Trip) as an accountant going through a mid-life crisis who joins a group of all-male synchronized swimmers, and boy, did I want to enjoy this Britcom more than I actually did, which is a shame.

Kate Bosworth co-produces husband Michael Polish’s new drama Nona (North of Two), about a young Honduran woman named Nona (played by Sulem Calderon) who meets handsome traveler Hecho (Jesy McKinney) and takes him up on the offer to go towards the United States, where she can reunite with her mother. They travel across the country via car, bus, boat and eventually by foot through Guatemala and Mexico only for her to discover Hecho’s true intentions.

Opening at the Film Forum is the Danish film The Charmer (Film Movement) from Milad Alami, which follows Esmail, a good-looking Iran immigrant who is constantly picking up Danish women in bars and bedding them before dumping them. When he meets a fellow Iranian woman (played by stunning pop star Soho Rezanejad), she immediately has figured out his game, but it’s one he’s ready to set aside after he falls madly in love with her. This is a fairly slow-build character piece that goes off on a few odd tangents and never really delivers on the thriller aspects promised, but still is fairly worthwhile.

The Italian drama On My Skin from filmmaker Alessio Cremonini looks at the case of Stefano Cucchi (Alessandro Borghi) who was arrested for a minor crime and then found dead while held in detention. It also will open at the IFC Center Friday, but only receives a single showing each day.

Onto this week’s docs. If you’re in New York, you won’t want to miss Amazing Grace, also at Film Forum. If you hadn’t heard about it, this is a 1972 concert film showing Aretha Franklin performing gospel tunes with full band and choir, and it’s an amazing document of the Queen of Soul while at her peak, singing the hymns that she would sing in her father’s church. It plays for one week only at the Film Forum to qualify it for Oscars, but doesn’t have distribution yet.

Alexis Bloom’s doc Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (Magnolia,A&E IndieFilms), exec. produced by Alex Gibney, will open in select cities and On Demand Friday. It’s a comprehensive look at the life and career of the late Fox News CEO, who died less than a year after being fired for sexual harassment. I though this was an excellent doc with a lot of people talking about Ailes you might not expect (like Glenn Beck) but watching this movie made me feel very slimy since Ailes was such a low-life in high places. You can watch it On Demand or in select cities starting Friday, though I’m not sure who might be interested in this, especially since so many liberals I know didn’t want to watch Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc when it played the festival circuit.

Onto the VOD specials i.e. movies getting limited theatrical releases that you’re more likely to see on demand and on digital outlets:

Frequent Guillermo del Toro collaborator Ron Perlman stars in Michael Caton-Jones’ new film Asher (Momentum Pictures) as a former Mossad agent, now a gun-for-hire living in Brooklyn, who breaks his oath when he falls in love with Famke Janssen’s Sophie.

Matthew Hope’s action-thriller All the Devil’s Men (Lionsgate Premiere) stars Milo Gibson, Wililam Fichtner and Sylvia Hoeks. It involves a manhunt through the streets of London for a CIA operative who might be involved in terrorism.

Karen Gillen’s directorial debut The Party’s Just Beginning (The Orchard) is released in theaters Friday and on VOD on Tuesday, Dec. 11, following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Also on Thursday begins Russian Film Week, taking place at the SVA Theater between Dec. 8 and 14, showcasing the best of Russian cinema, both old and new, including Russia’s submission for the Oscars, Sobibor, and Timur Bekmambetov’s Yolki Posledniye, which never received a U.S. release.

STREAMING (VOD)

I haven’t had a chance to see the Dolly Parton-produced Netflix comedy DUMPLIN’, but it stars Patti Cake$ breakout Danielle Macdonald as the plus-size daughter of a Texas beauty queen (played by Jennifer Aniton) who decides to shake things up by entering a local pageant. It features a new song by Parton, and it will play in a few theaters for awards eligibility. From Italy comes Marco Risi’s 5 Star Christmas(akaNatale A 5 Stelle), a wacky comedy about the Italian Prime Minister visiting Hungary and while spending time with his secret lover, they discover a corpse in their hotel suite. (I’m loving that these international hits that would never get distribution in the U.S. are finding a home.) Also, from director Bert Marcus comes The American Meme, which follows the journey of four “social media disruptors” including Paris Hilton, Josh Ostrovsky (aka Fat Jew) and two others as they build their online empires. I missed this at Tribeca, so glad it found a home. Last week’s Andy Serkis-directed Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle will also be streaming on the network this weekend, and I recommend it but not for kids under 8.

Also premiering on VOD Thursday (before its DVD/Blu-ray release next Tuesday) is Christina Kallas’ mystery drama The Rainbow Experiment (Gravitas Ventures), which premiered at Slamdance earlier this year. It’s a whodunnit set in a NYC high school where a student is permanently injured during a science experiment.

Also, my good friend Ned Ehrbar (who I haven’t seen since he moved to New York!) has his directorial debut California No available on digital platforms starting today. It’s about a “rudderless junketeer” (something I know about from experience) played by Noah Segan (Looper, Brick) whose wife (something I don’t know about from lack of experience) confesses that they’re in an open marriage, something he did not realize. This sends him into a tailspin as he falls for another woman and moves in with a former A-lister.

REPERTORY

On top of the usual repertory offerings in New York and L.A., old movie lovers across the country can catch the 25thAnniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Schindler’s List, which will play at select theaters across the nation starting on Thursday night.

METROGRAPH (NYC):

I know absolutely nothing about photographer/writer Mario Ruspoli, but restorations of his short films and Florence Dauman’s 2011 documentary Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales (finally translated into English) will screen starting Thursday and through the weekend with Dauman doing intros and QnAs throughout the weekend. Those who want to learn more about the French New Wave will have two more opportunities this weekend as the Metrograph screens two 35mm prints of Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Jean Renoir’s French Cancan (1955), the latter both Saturday and Sunday. Also, on Friday, the Metrograph will start screening a new restoration of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (MGM/Park Circus), the Oscar-winning 1960 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine that I only discovered for the first time last year when the Metrograph screened a 35mm print. The 1938 Japanese horror film Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen from Kiyohiko Ushihara will screen on Thursday and Friday nights.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

In its second weekend since returning post-renovation, the New Bev is offering double features of The Untouchablesand Capone on Weds and Thursday, Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Machine Gun McCain on Friday, as well as Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs at midnight Friday, afternoon screenings of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas on Friday and Saturday, as well as Death Race2000 at midnight on Saturday to commemorate David Carradine’s birthday. Sunday and Monday sees a Western double feature of The Magnificent Seven and Guns of the Magnificent Seven. This weekend’s Playtime: Family Matineeis Charles Lane’s Sidewalk Stories (1989), a silent movie about homelessness in New York that takes cues from Chaplin’s The Kid.

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

Christian Pentzold: The State We Are In continues this weekend with more screenings of the German filmmaker’s work including The State I Am In*, The Young Lieutenant and one of my personal favorites, Phoenix, on Sunday night. (*I saw Pentzold’s first theatrically-distributed feature this past weekend, and it was fantastic, following a young woman (Julia Hummer) living in hiding with her parents. Definitely can recommend that and Phoenix.)

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Ingmar Bergman’s classic masterpiece The Seventh Seal (1957), starring Max von Sydow, will screen from a new 4k restoration from Janus Films, playing for two weeks beginning Friday. This weekend’s Film Forum Jr. is the classic Oscar-winning movie musical West Side Story (1961), currently being remade by Steven Spielberg.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

Continuing the repertory love for Orson Welles with his latest film, the long-lost The Other Side of the Wind, the Quad is launching Actor For Hire: The Other Side of Orson Welles, which as explained, is a series featuring Orson Welles as actor including The Black Rose, Butterfly,Compulsion, The Third Man, A Man for All Seasons and many, many more.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Beginning a month-long screening of the Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) with scattered appearances by Donna Reed’s daughter Mary Owen between Dec. 11 and 24. Sure, it will be on TV a lot but when was the last time you saw it on the big screen? Late Night Favorites features midnight screenings of David Fincher’s Fight Club on Friday and Saturday, Weekend Classics continues its Coen Brothers retrospective with the Oscar-winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men, while Shaw Brothers Spectaculars continues with the classic Five Deadly Venoms.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

To celebrate its 20thanniversary, the renovated Grauman’s Theater will screen a digital restoration of Ernst Lubitsch’s Rosita (1923), starring Mary Pickford on Friday night. Spike Lee will continue his repertory run (after appearing at Metrograph this past weekend) by showing his new film BlacKkKlansman and introducing his 1992 biopic Malcolm X, starring John David Washington’s father Saturday night. Then on Sunday, there will be a double feature of Do the Right Thing (1989) and Crooklyn (1994) with a discussion with Lee in between.

AERO (LA):

Following a special screening of Tamara Jenkins’ latest Private Life on Thursday night, the Aero will do a FREE two-film tribute to Jenkins on Friday, showing The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and The Savages (2007). Kids of all ages will want to check out the Aero’s Looney Tunes Winter Wonderland on Saturday night and The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) on Sunday afternoon. Plus they’re showing the Coens’ The Big Lebowski just because they can… oh, and it’s the movie’s 20th anniversary.

BAM CINEMATEK(NYC):

Apparently, BAM is trying to compete with Film Forum by presenting An Evening with Liv Ullman with the actress/director celebrating her 80thbirthday with the theater on Thursday night with a screening of Jan Troell’s 1971 film The Emigrants, starring Ullman and Max von Sydow (from The Seventh Seal).

MOMA (NYC):

Modern Matinees: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. presents A Woman of Affairs (1928) on Wednesday, 1938’s The Young in Heart on Thursday, and That Lady in Ermine (1948) on Friday, so you can see how Fairbanks changed across three decades.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

A new era begins with new chief curator Eric Hynes taking over for from founder David Schwartz, although this weekend only sees Family Matinee showings for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas on Saturday and Sunday. This series continues through the end of the year.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Still showing the Italian drama Senso through Thursday and then a midnight screening of Nicolas Cage’s Mandy on Friday with producer Daniel Noah doing a QnA with director Joe Lynch moderating.

That’s it for this week. Next week… NEW MOVIES!!!! Spider-Man: Into the Spider-versewill take on the Peter Jackson production of Mortal Engines, while Clint Eastwood returns with The Mule.

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