‘Forbidden Games’: A War Orphan’s Sweet, Ultimately Shattering Story
Hailed on its release as the most troubling French film made in the aftermath of World War II, it returns for a week at Film Forum.
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With ‘Él,’ Buñuel Turns His Gaze to Male Pathology
Luis Buñuel’s Mexican melodrama about a jealous husband who makes his young wife’s life a living hell opens at Film Forum.
‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’: Frank Capra’s Two-Fisted Santa
This 1936 comedy, starring Gary Cooper and showing for a week at Film Forum, turns the tables on the period’s metropolitan melodramas.
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‘Il Grido’: Love and Loss in Italy’s Po River Valley
Long overshadowed by Michelangelo Antonioni’s later work, this feature, newly restored, is being revived at Film Forum, complete with once-censored scenes.