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House of Mirth
SHOW DATE: 2/4
SPEAKER(S): Mike Giuliano
Here's some information about the film:
On Sunday, February 4, 2001 at 10:30 am, Cinema Sundays at the Charles presents the Baltimore Premiere of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about turn-of-the-Century New York society. Gillian Anderson, in a refreshing break from her television role of Scully on the X-Files, stars as Lily Bart, a ravishing socialite whose beauty and charm attract unwelcome suitors. While seeking to conform to societal pressures and marry rich, she finds herself at odds with her affection for the dashing Lawrence Selden (Eric Stoltz).
British director Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible, CSC 6/2/96) brilliantly directs an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me, CSC 12/10/00), Elizabeth McGovern, and indie stalwart Eric Stoltz.
Writer and Cinema Sundays favorite Mike Giuliano will be the guest speaker. Mike also spoke at the CSC screening of Terrence Davies' last film, The Neon Bible on June 2, 1996.
Before Night Falls
SHOW DATE: 01/21
SPEAKER(S): Rafael Alvarez
Here's some information about the film:
On Sunday, January 21, 2001, at 10:30 am, Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues the 2001 Winter Series #20 with a screening of the Before Night Falls, featuring a National Board of Review-winning and
Golden Globe-nominated performance by star Javier Bardem. The second film by painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) tells the dramatic story exiled Cuban poet Reynaldo Arenas. Tracing the writer's life from his childhood in rural Cuba through his original involvement in Fidel Castro's revolution, to his persecution at the hands of the Cuban government for his homosexuality, to his journey to the U.S. on the Mariel Harbor boat lift, to his death of AIDS in New York in the early ‘90s, this biography of the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas conceives the artist's life as a series of pictorial and sensual raptures. Throughout the episodic film, Schnabel employs expressionistic scenes of agony, ecstacy, and fantasy, linking the vignettes with lyrical imagery and startling segues–like the cut from Arenas' passage on a Mariel Harbor boat full of criminals, to a night
spent on a flatbed truck, feeling one's face spattered with new-fallen snow while cruising past the ugly office buildings of midtown Manhattan. Schnabel makes the images palpable.
In addition to supporting cameos by Johnny Depp (Chocolat, CSC 12/17/00), Sean Penn, and Robert Downey, Jr., Before Night Falls features original music by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.
Jonathan Palevsky from WBJC will take over host duties while Gabe is away in Park City, Utah for Slamdance, Sundance, etc. Writer Rafael Alvarez (Orlo and Leini) will share his thoughts about writing, this film, and whatever else come up.
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