Friday, April 05, 2024 - 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
Stella Dallas
1PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Henry King 1925 USA 110 minlanguage: English intertitles
**Introduction by Michela Bertossa (Ohio State University)
?Stella Dallas, the working-class mother who makes the ultimate sacrifice for her socially ambitious daughter, became one of the most resonant figures in American culture from the moment Olive Higgins Proutys novel appeared in 1923. A stage adaptation soon followed, as did this film version in 1925 (the first of three). Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Henry King, the film is a powerful indictment of the rigid class barriers then emerging in the prosperous, postwar America of the 1920s, but the emotional center of the film is Stella, who marries above her station but is unable to adapt her dress and behavior to the bourgeois standards of her new husband.
Accompanied by a new orchestral score composed by Stephen Horne and recorded at the films 2021 restoration premiere at the Venice Biennale.
?https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8847
Der Himmel Uber Berlin (Wings of Desire)
4PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Wim Wenders 1987 Germany 127 minlanguage: German, French, English, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Hebrew with English subtitles
**Introduction by Elizabeth Stine
?Wings of Desire is one of cinemas loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughtsfears, hopes, dreamsof all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
?https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAzYofuItM
La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday)
7PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mario Bava 1960 Italy 87 minlanguage: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Jim Parsons (UNH)
While not technically the first Italian horror film, Mario Bavas classic set a high bar for the short-lived genre. Bavas visually beautiful and imaginative style did not receive serious attention at the time, but his body of work was later rediscovered and internationally recognized for its ground-breaking artistry. The gothic tale is set in Eastern Europe and tells the story of an alluring witch executed in the 17th century only to be resurrected 200 years later.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05Bm7kOZgg
?Restored in 4K in 2023 by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Alfredo Leone and Naor World Media Films a L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Iron Mountain Entertainment Services.
