By Zee Grega
December 21st, 2007 @ 10:03 AM
film
- As I previously mentioned, the Gene Wilder-starring Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is this weekend’s midnight movie at The Egyptian.
- The Grand Illusion continues its holiday run of Bad Santa and It’s a Wonderful Life, two very different holiday films.
- Central Cinema is screening Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, a film I only got around to watching this year, despite my decades-long love for Hitch’s work. This is less film than “stage play on film”–a film subtype that almost always does justice to neither the stageplay nor the film itself–and seems to me to be far too clever by half. There are some interesting film techniques in it and Farley Granger makes an impressive screen debut, holding his own against the novelty of Jimmy Stewart playing a moral relativist.
- Northwest Film Forum has a newly restored 35mm print of From Here to Eternity, the film with perhaps the most famous make-out scene of all time.
- Francis Ford Coppola makes some pretty fine wine and he makes some great movies, too. His latest is Youth Without Youth in which Tim Roth’s professor of linguistics gets his youth restored to him just in time to reunite with his lost love and get chased by Nazis. At the Harvard Exit.
