August Free Night Film Series

 

August 7:

The Blue Angel (Germany, Subtitles) (1931) (NR)

Starring: Emil Jannings & Marlene Dietrich

Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a professor at the town’s university. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he comes there to confront them. But he is attracted to Lola. The next night he comes again--and does not sleep at home. This causes trouble at work and his life takes a downward spiral.

 

August 14:

Barton Fink (1991) (R)

Starring: John Turturro & John Goodman

In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer’s block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.

 

August 21:

Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Approved)

Starring: Paul Newman & George Kennedy

Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, “You’re an original, that’s what you are!” Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

 

August 28:

Landscape in the Mist (Greece, subtitles) (1988) (NR)

Starring: Tania Palaiologou & Eva Kotamanidou

Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.