PAST FILMS

7/8: THE RED BALOON & THE GOLDEN FISH

(Albert LaMorisse, 1956 & Edmond Sechan, 1959) In 1956, the great Albert LaMorisse directed the former, and better known, of these two sacraments of the modern cinema.  Telling the eternal tale of a boy befriended by a red balloon, LaMorisse manages to use simple images to craft a story of elemental power.  Building on those techniques,  LaMorisse’s cinematographer Edmond Sechan gave us The Golden Fish a few years later, telling the story of a cat, a fish, and some really fine dancing!

Ages 6 and up!

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7/22: TUVALU

(Viet Helmer, 1999) A modern fable, Tuvalu is set amid the industrial wastes of an unnamed Eastern European nation, where Anton (The miraculous Denis Lavant) tends to his blind, puffed-up father’s decrepit bathhouse.  When the beautiful Eva, evicted from her own house, moves in, the stage is set for a a madcap tale of love, betrayal, and crumbling Rococo architecture, all told in a herky-jerky silent-film style that is as ravishing as it is ridiculous. 

Some tasteful nudity. Ages 8 & Up.

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8/12: L’OURS (w/A TINY TALE) 

(Jean Jaques-Annaud, 1988) The first—and still the best—real-life “nature drama,” L’Ours tells the incredible tale of an orphaned bear cub befriending an adult grizzly in the Yukon.  Banding together against the predations of a local crew of hunters, the bear and his adoptive father brave a landscape that is rife with both peril and majesty.  Incredible in its detail, and mind-boggling in its ability to coax nuanced “performances” from its ursine protagonists, L’Ours remains a watershed in Children’s cinema. 

Ages 6 and up!

Fridays, 7:30pm                            $5 Suggested, includes popcorn!

Cinema may be sight and sound--but that doesn’t necessarily mean talking.  Join us upstairs in the recital room for a series of near-wordless cinema that is sure to appeal to children from 8 to 80! As always, free popcorn.