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Boyfriends and Girlfriends<\/a> (1987) – July 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Eric Rohmer<\/p>\n

Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb \u201cles amis de mes amis sont mes amis\u201d (\u201cthe friends of my friends are my friends\u201d) in the final episode of his \u201cComedies and Proverbs\u201d series. Taking an identifiable stab at a yuppie(ish) set, Rohmer\u2019s witty Shakespearean roundelay involves the buttoned-up Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet, in a superb debut) and the free-spirited Lea (Sophie Renoir), and their current amours. The pair are tempted by each other\u2019s love interests, testing both their friendship and their understanding of matters of the heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Aviator’s Wife <\/a>(1981) – July 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Eric Rohmer<\/p>\n

The inaugural film of Rohmer\u2019s \u201cComedies and Proverbs\u201d cycle, The Aviator\u2019s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis that finds the director exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork in following a narrative expression of the opening epigraph: \u201cIt is impossible to think of nothing.\u201d A young man sees his girlfriend\u2019s ex leaving her apartment one early morning, and his imagination is off to the races, as stars Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivi\u00e8re introduce a younger, less perfectly articulate type of Rohmer character than those of the \u201cMoral Tales.\u201d A Metrograph Pictures release.<\/p>\n

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Call Me By Your Name <\/strong><\/a>(2017) – July 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by<\/p>\n

The splendors of rural Lombardy provide the backdrop to the cagey romance between teenager Elio (Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a graduate student assisting Elio\u2019s archaeologist professor father. \u201cIn Mr. Guadagnino\u2019s work, passion and drama are expressed in words, deeds and surging music but also in the vibrant, visceral textures that envelop his characters\u2014the cool marble, succulent fruit, shadow and light, sheens of sweat. These are movies that turn your gaze into near-touch, inviting you to see and almost caress their sun-warmed bodies.\u201d\u2014Manohla Dargis, The New York Times<\/p>\n

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Barbarella<\/a><\/strong> (1968) – July 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Roger Vadim<\/p>\n

Among the earliest and most successful of De Laurentiis\u2019s forays into live-action comic adaptations, a retrofuturist pop culture phenom based on the sexily scintillating French comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest, Barbarella teamed Vadim and his then-wife Jane Fonda, who plays the role of the title character, a buxom space traveler using her wits and feminine charms in order to track down scientist Durand Durand, whose new \u201cpositronic ray\u201d poses a threat to the whole of humanity. Cheeky, kitschy, and cheerfully salacious fun, with colorful and fanciful production design that imagines a positively swinging future.<\/p>\n

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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach<\/a>\u00a0(1968) – July 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Dani\u00e8le Huillet<\/p>\n

Renowned harpsichordist Gustave Leonhardt plays\u2014and plays as\u2014Johann Sebastian Bach in Straub and Huillet\u2019s remarkable film on the composer, based in part on a fictional journal by his second wife, and built around live-sound recordings of Leonhardt performing in the actual locations where his works originally premiered. Explaining their unique and radical reinvention of the oft-clich\u00e9d musician biopic, Straub explained: \u201cThe point of departure for our Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach was the idea of attempting to make a film in which we use music, not as accompaniment, nor as commentary, but as aesthetic material.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Possession <\/a><\/strong>(1981) – July 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski<\/p>\n

\u017bu\u0142awski\u2019s one-of-a-kind genre pastiche has spy Sam Neill returning to his Berlin home from a mission abroad to discover that wife Isabelle Adjani wants suddenly to split up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times<\/a> (1970) – July 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Dani\u00e8le Huillet<\/p>\n

Straub and Huillet\u2019s first film shot in Italy, amidst the ruins of Rome\u2019s Palatine Hill with a toga-clad cast, and their first in color, adapts Pierre Corneille\u2019s Othon, a lesser-known 1664 drama describing the machinations and scheming that followed the death of Emperor Nero, as pretenders to the throne angle to fill the sudden power vacuum. Of the plain, affectless performance of the text, Straub would write: \u201cIf at every moment one can keep one\u2019s eyes and ears open to all of this, it\u2019s possible to even find the film thrilling and note that everything here is information\u2014even the purely sensual reality of the space which the actors leave empty at the end of each act.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stealing Beauty<\/a>\u00a0(1996) – July 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Bertrand Bertolucci\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the death of her poet mother, 19-year-old American Lucy (Liv Tyler) travels to a Tuscan villa near Siena owned by family friends in hopes of exploring her family\u2019s history and reuniting with her first kiss, though soon finds herself contending with a crowded field of would-be suitors. Working in his native Italy for the first time in 15 years, and in his only collaboration with DP Darius Khondji, Bertolucci creates a film of warm, mellow light; lyrical grace notes; and exquisite performances from Tyler, Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Rachel Weisz, and others.<\/p>\n

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