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April at the Trylon
Known for his wide, gap-toothed grin and indelible screen presence, Ernest Borgnine was one of the movies’ great character actors. Deftly portraying reviled villains and endearing fellows, he had a career that spanned six decades. This month we screen five of our favorites.
(1967, DCP, 150m) dir Robert Aldrich w/Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes. On the eve of D-Day, a group of convicted killers is conscripted to go behind enemy lines and take out Nazi officers. Aldrich’s essential “guys on a mission” movie excels partly because of Borgnine’s scene-stealing General Worden. At Perisphere, Dylan Walker compares the use…
Screenings: April 2 7:00, April 3 7:00, April 4 7:00
(1969, 35mm, 145m) dir Sam Peckinpah w/William Holden, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates. As the sun sets on the Old West, a group of aging outlaws escape to Mexico, on the run from bounty hunters and soldiers alike. Peckinpah’s elegiac and hyper-violent western is a 1960s masterpiece. These screenings are presented in partnership with the Cult…
Screenings: April 11 7:00, 9:30, April 10 9:30, 7:00, April 9 7:15
(1973, DCP, 118m) dir Robert Aldrich w/Lee Marvin, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner. In the depths of the Great Depression, sadistic conductor Shack (Borgnine) will stop at nothing to keep hobos off his train. A-No.1 (Marvin) is set on challenging Shack and becoming “the Emperor of the North Pole” (the world’s best hobo, ruling a vast,…
Screenings: April 17 9:15, 7:00, April 16 7:00, April 18 9:15, 7:00
(1955, 35mm 90m) dir Delbert Mann w/Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell. Marty (Borgnine), an easily ruffled unmarried butcher, has given up hope of finding love—when along comes schoolteacher Clara Snyder (Blair). Winner of the Palme D’Or and Best Picture Oscar, Marty is brought to life by the sensitive performances of Borgnine (who won the Best Actor…
Screenings: April 23 7:30, April 24 7:00, 9:00, April 25 7:00, 9:00
(1972, DCP, 117m) dir Ronald Neame w/Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen. The aging cruise ship Poseidon is set to sail one last time before being scrapped. Its industrialist owners order the captain (Nielsen) to travel at full speed without sufficient ballast. Though countless disaster movies have tried to copy Poseidon, none has equaled it.…
Screenings: April 30 7:30, May 1 7:00, 9:15, May 2 7:00, 9:15