SERIES
Summer at the Trylon
Cinema is uniquely capable of capturing time and space. The long take, also known as a continuous take, long shot, or oner, is a technique that fully embraces this advantage. Using this technique challenges filmmakers to choreograph complicated blocking in conjunction with camera movements. This sprawling series spans multiple genres, eleven countries, and sixty-six years.
(1958, 111m, 1998 reconstructed version) dir Orson Welles w/Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh. Mexican narcotics officer Mike Vargas (Heston) must interrupt his honeymoon with his new American wife, Susan, (Leigh) after a bomb planted on the Mexican side of the border explodes on the US side. Famous for its startling three-minute-plus opening shot, Touch…
Screenings: June 2 6:45, June 3 7:00, 9:15, June 4 7:00, 9:15
(1992, 124m) dir Robert Altman w/Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, and everyone else. Griffin Mill (Robbins) is a young studio executive lacking a moral compass. He finds himself caught up in an accidental murder, which would fit right in with the movie scripts he reviews. The Player is wonderfully clever, full of Hollywood in-jokes,…
Screenings: June 9 7:00, June 10 7:00, 9:30, June 11 7:00, 9:30
(1953, 105m, French w/English subtitles) dir Max Ophüls w/Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica. An aristocratic woman known only as “Madame de . . .” (Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Boyer) as a wedding gift. As the earrings pass hands, the unintended consequences lead to a domino…
Screenings: June 16 7:45, June 17 7:00, 9:00, June 18 7:00, 9:00
(1975, 126m, Spanish, German, and French w/English subtitles) dir Michelangelo Antonioni w/Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre. When a war correspondent who can’t find a war (Nicholson) exchanges identities with a businessman he finds dead in a North African hotel, he believes he’s starting anew—but the persona has a dangerous past. Antonioni’s exploration of identity…
Screenings: June 23 7:00, June 24 7:00, 9:30, June 25 7:00, 9:30
(1983, 125m, Russian w/English subtitles) dir Andrei Tarkovsky w/Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano. Andrei (Yankovskiy), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy, becomes obsessed with his translator Eugenia (Giordano) as he pines for his home. The evocative candle scene is a transformative long take among Tarkovsky’s best. New Restoration! SUN 7:00 MON/TUE 7:00 9:30
Screenings: June 30 7:00, July 1 7:00, 9:30, July 2 7:00, 9:30
(2017, 96m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Shin'ichirô Ueda w/Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Takayuki Hamatsu. A hack director and his team of actors must shoot a zombie film for live television—and attempt to accomplish it in a single take. Opening with a 37-minute continuous shot and created on a shoestring budget, One Cut is a charming…
Screenings: July 7 7:30, July 8 7:00, 9:00, July 9 7:00, 9:00
(2004, 100m) dir Jonathan Glazer w/Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall. Anna (Kidman) is a widow about to be remarried when a ten-year-old boy tells her he is the reincarnated soul of her dead husband. Opening with an impressive Steadicam shot through Central Park, Birth is an unsettling and underappreciated treasure of the early 2000s.…
Screenings: July 14 7:30, July 15 7:00, 9:00, July 16 7:00, 9:00
(2003, 120m, Korean w/English subtitles) dir Park Chan-wook w/Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong. Dae-Su Oh (Choi) is kidnapped and imprisoned for seemingly no reason. Fifteen years later, he is released and told he must find his captor in five days. Known for its famous one-shot hallway fight scene, Oldboy is Park’s disturbing masterwork. New…
Screenings: July 21 7:00, July 22 7:00, 9:30, July 23 7:00, 9:30
(1964, 141m, Spanish w/English subtitles) dir Mikhail Kalatozov w/Sergio Corrieri, José Gallardo, Luz María Collazo. Begun only a week after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this bold and humane look at the lives of Cubans under Batista evokes Sergei Eisenstein and Jean-Luc Godard. Cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky’s camera glides effortlessly through impossibly acrobatic continuous shots. SUN/MON/TUE 7:00
Screenings: July 28 7:00, July 29 7:00, July 30 7:00
(2006, 109m) dir Alfonso Cuarón w/Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor. A retired activist (Owen) lands at the center of a world-changing conflict when he’s forced to smuggle a young woman through a war-torn and childless United Kingdom. Cuarón’s masterpiece features some of the most complicated camera movements ever put to film. SUN 5:45 8:00…
Screenings: August 4 5:45, 8:00, August 5 7:00, 9:15, August 6 7:00, 9:15
(2004, 90m, Cantonese and Mandarin w/English subtitles) dir Johnnie To w/Richie Jen, Kelly Chen, Nick Cheung. When a disastrous police sting operation that causes a shootout in the streets is shown on live TV, Inspector Fong (Chen) works to spin the coverage in favor of the police. Opening with a crane shot that swoops and…
Screenings: August 11 7:00, August 12 7:00, 9:00, August 13 7:00, 9:00
(2019, 119m) dir Sam Mendes w/George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Daniel Mays. Lance Corporals Blake and Schofield (Chapman, MacKay) are assigned to deliver a message to prevent a battalion from heading over a wall into No Man’s Land and falling into a trap set by the Germans. Created with the conceit that the entire film is…
Screenings: August 18 6:30, August 19 7:00, 9:30, August 20 7:00, 9:30
(1990, 145m) dir Martin Scorsese w/Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci. Small-time gangsters Henry Hill (Liotta), Jimmy Conway (De Niro), and Tommy DeVito (Pesci) plot big scores, make stupid decisions, and try to live it up before falling into ruin. The film’s Copacabana shot is an impressive piece of Steadicam wizardry. SUN/MON/TUE 7:00
Screenings: August 25 7:00, August 26 7:00, August 27 7:00