Posted inClement, Rene Film Forum Forbidden Games (Movie) Movies ‘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. Posted by By J. Hoberman
Posted inBunuel, Luis El (Movie) Film Forum Movies 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. Posted by By J. Hoberman
Posted inCapra, Frank Cooper, Gary Film Forum Movies Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Movie) ‘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. Posted by By J. Hoberman
Posted inFilm Forum Il Grido (Movie) Movies ‘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. Posted by By J. Hoberman