The Long Wait (1954)

Posted on May 9, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

The Long Wait (1954)

THE LONG WAIT (1956)

When: Friday May 10 @ 7 PM
Feature: The Long Wait
Format: BW
Director: Victor Saville
Year: 1954
Genre: Film Noir
Photography: Franz Planer
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Peggy Castle
Country: US
Runtime: 85 Min
Cost: Free

It doesn’t get much better that this. Anthony Quinn is double crossed by a hood who wants his woman. Quinn plays a character that suffered a severe head trauma that made him lose his long term memory… he can’t remember who he is or anything from his past. This presents a huge problem as he is directed by the guy who wants his woman to pick up his reward in his old hometown.

THE Long Wait

Quinn’s character, Johnny McBride, heads for his hometown and learns that the reward is actually a bounty as he is wanted for MURDER. He is forced to defend himself with no knowledge of his past. The only way he can save himself is through past relationships with women that loved him. They hold the secret to his past! In Charles Bronson fashion, Quinn goes on a quest to find the true murderer and his true identity!

Cafe Cinema has weekly screenings of great films and is a production of and local filmic venue outlet for Idyllwild Film Festival.

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Posted in 1950s, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, USA

KOLYA (1996)

Posted on April 29, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

Kolya (1996)

KOLYA (1996)
When: Friday May 3 @ 7 PM
Format: Color
Director: Jan Sverak
Year: 1996
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Runtime: 105 Min
Cost: Free

The Green Cafe, celebrates its ‘Sweet 16′ birthday
(and folks, that’s not a typo!!) with a LIVE
performance by Cellist Mark
Votapek followed by a showing of a most
relevent film considering the occasion … the
recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film of 1996. This heartfelt story
concerns Franta Louka, a bachelor concert cellist
in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. He effortlessly
attracts women and enjoys their company. After
losing his job in a major orchestra, he turns to
odd jobs but its not enough to cover his
prodigious expenses.

Kolya

So Kolya turns to a particularly obtuse scheme to
make some extra money … he marries a Russian
woman so that she can immigrate to the Czech
Republic. Everything turns into the wrong
direction and Kolya must become responsible or
plummet further.




The Long Wait (1954)

Cellist Mark Votapek appearing @ 7pm Friday, May 3rd at Cafe Cinema Party

Following five years as associate principal
cellist of the Saint Louis Symphony, Mark Votapek
moved to Honolulu, Hawaii to begin performances in
the 2004-2005 season as the new principal cellist
of the Honolulu Symphony. His continued activities
on the mainland eventually led to his permanent
return in 2008, accepting a new appointment as
assistant professor of cello at the University of
Arizona. He maintains annual appearances as
teacher and performer at Indiana University’s
Summer Festival, and as a member of Ebb and Flow
Arts new music ensemble and of Pacific
International Concert Artists. Ebb and Flow Arts?
2007-2008 performances were on three of the
Hawaiian Islands and in South Korea.




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Posted in 1990s, French, Subtitled, UK

BLOOD OF A POET (1932)

Posted on April 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

Cafe Cinema Event
When: Friday April 26 @ 7 PM
Feature: Blood of a Poet
Format: BW
Director: Jean Cocteau
Year: 1932
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Runtime: 55 Min
Cost: Free

Blood of a Poet (1959)

This week, Cafe Cinema presents director Jean
Cocteau’s historic surrealist masterpiece, Blood of a
Poet. Surrealism was a cultural movement that
created really big waves in the 1920′s and was a reaction
to the excessive rational thought that surrealists
felt fomented many global maladies, including that
of war. Surrealism’s premise is that an
individual’s expression, in the form of writing,
verbal discourse, or visual artistic
pursuits, should follow the real function of
thought, in particular, those found in one’s
dreams. It is thought with no control or shaped in
anyway by reason, aesthetics or morality.

Blood of a Poet (1932)

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Posted in 1930s, Controversial Film, Cult Movie, Cultural Window, Foreign Film, France, Genuine Classic, Historically Relevant, Important Director

HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1959)

Posted on April 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

Cafe Cinema Event
When: Friday April 19 @ 7 PM
Feature: Hiroshima, mon amour
Format: BW
Director: Alain Resnais
Year: 1959
Genre: Drama
Country: France/Japan
Runtime: 90 Min
Cost: Free

Hiroshima mon Amour (1959)

This week, Cafe Cinema presents director Alain
Renais’s award winning story of a French actress
and a Japanese architect brief and torrid affair
in postwar Hiroshima. This year’s nominee for Best
Actress, Emmanuelle Riva, stars in this most
evocative and poetic collage of recollections of
two lovers that have been been thru heartbreaking
times in their home countries.

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

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Posted in 1950s, Controversial Film, Cultural Window, Foreign Film, Foreign Language Film, French, Genuine Classic, Historically Relevant, Important Director

CONTRABAND (1940)

Posted on April 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

Contraband (1940)

Cafe Cinema Event
When: Friday April 5 @ 7 PM
Feature: CONTRABAND
Format: BW
Director: Michael Powell
Year: 1940
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Comedy, Suspense, Adventure
Country: UK/Denmark
Runtime: 92 Min

This Friday, April 5, Cafe Cinema will present an
alternative take on the the beloved Hitchcock
films we all grew up on … spy suspense and
romance between lovers argumentative lovers
enveloped in dangerous predicaments. CONTRABAND, a
delightful comedic film was directed by England’s
legendary director, Michael Powell and is also a
terrific spy story from the prodigeous writing
team of Powell and Pressburger. A Danish freighter
captain, Conrad Veidt, is detained due to wartime
Contraband Control. To free his ship, he is forced
to trail temptress Valerie Hobson through blacked
out London.

Contraband (1940)

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Posted in 1940s, Adventure, British, Comedy, Drama, English, Foreign Film, Important Director, Romance, Thriller, UK

THE RETURN (2003)

Posted on March 28, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

Lonesome (1928)

LONESOME
When: Friday Mar 29 @ 7 PM
Format: B/W
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Year: 2003
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Runtime: 105 Min
Cost: Free

This Friday, March 29, Cafe Cinema will exhibit a
film that brings back the grand tradition of
Russian Cinema, THE RETURN. The narrative centers
around a village in a remote Russian wilderness
where two brothers must embrace strange and
conflicting feelings when their father returns, a
person they only know thought a single photograph.

THE RETURN (2003)

The young actors playing the two brothers are
simply astonishing in the way they use their
facial manerisms to convey every imaginable
emotion. The storytelling is reserved enough not
to distract from extreme visualness of the film.
Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film
Festival (2003), THE RETURN is a stark yet
expressive work of great art from first time
director, Andrey Zvyagintsev.

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Posted in 2000s, Drama, Foreign Film, Foreign Language Film, Subtitled

LONESOME (1928)

Posted on March 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

Lonesome (1928)LONESOME
When: Friday Mar 15 @ 7 PM
Format: B/W
Director: Pál Fejös
Year: 1928
Genre: Romance Comedy
Country: Germany
Runtime: 75 Min
Cost: Free

 

This Friday, March 8, Cafe Cinema will show the
newly restored silent classic from the Wiemar
Republic, LONESOME. The film tells the story of
two lonesome people, who meet accidentally on
their Saturday-off at Coney Island. It is love at
first sight and enjoy a particularly surreal and
bewildering day at the amusement park.

How to Survive the Plague (2012)

The great advancement in film history from
director Paul Fejos’s was his brilliant use of
dialogue (there is partial sound) in this story of
two lonely people trying to find love in New York
and includes a fantastic jazz parade in Coney
Island.

The Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

MORE INFO SHORTLY.

The Music Box (1932)

MORE SOON …….

Academy Awards

On Sunday, February 24, at 5:00 PM, Cafe Cinema will broadcast live the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony.

Cafe Cinema has weekly screenings of great films and is a production of and local filmic venue outlet for Idyllwild Film Festival.

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Posted in 1920s, Comedy, Cultural Window, Drama, Romance, Silent

THE GATEKEEPERS (2012)

Posted on February 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

The Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)When: Friday Feb 24 @ 3 PM
Feature: THE GATEKEEPERS
Format: Color with some Subs
Director: Dror Moreh
Year: 2012
Genre: Documentary
Country: Israel
Runtime: 95 Min
Cost: Free

This Friday, just before the Oscar ceremony (which we , February 24, Cafe Cinema will show a film from Israel that is one of
this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary, THE GATEKEEPERS (2012).

How to Survive the Plague (2012)

A documentary consisting of interviews with all
surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli
secret security agency.

The Gatekeepers (2012)

On Sunday, February 24, at 5:00 PM, Cafe Cinema will broadcast live the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony.

Academy Awards

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Posted in 2010s, Controversial Film, Documentary, Indie, Israel, Oscar Winner or Nominee

STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940)

Posted on February 17, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

The Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)THE STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR
When: Friday Feb 22 @ 7 PM
Format: Color
Director: Boris Ingster
Year: 1940
Genre: Film Noir
Country: USA
Runtime: 75 Min
Cost: Free

 

Everybody is invited Friday, February 22, when Cafe Cinema honors
the birthdays, complete with cake and ice cream, of two of our
regular movie nuts, Svetlana and Charles, by showing the seminal
and utterly creative film that is now considered the birth of
“true” film noir, STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR, starring
ultra-creepy Peter Lorre and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

How to Survive the Plague (2012)

What makes this taut and weird psychothriller the first film noir?
It has many of the trademarks associated with noir: an urban
setting, deep shadows, preference for obtuse and oblique lines, a
dreamy look and feel, persistent low camera angles, staircases,
and an innocent man accused of a serious crime trying desperately
to clear his name.

The Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

The cinematographer on STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR was Nicholas
Musuraca, who perfect the noir visual style in other films such as
CAT PEOPLE, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, and OUT OF THE PAST. Without a
doubt, the the film’s most memorable scene is out of a Salvador
Dali playbook. It’s an out of this world nightmare experience in
which the central character has his imagination run wild.

The Music Box (1932)

Before STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR, we will be showing the first
film to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, THE
MUSIC BOX (1932), starring the legendary comedic duo, Laurel and
Hardy. This comedy classic short depicts, in utterly hilarious fashion, Laurel and Hardy attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps. In 1997, THE MUSIC BOX was selected for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’.

Academy Awards

On Sunday, February 24, at 5:00 PM, Cafe Cinema will broadcast live the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony.

Cafe Cinema has weekly screenings of great films and is a production of and local filmic venue outlet for Idyllwild Film Festival.

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Posted in 1940s, Crime, Drama, English, Film Noir, RKO Radio Pictures

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (2012)

Posted on February 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

 

How to Survive the Plague (2012)

Cafe Cinema Event
When: Friday Feb 15 @ 7 PM
Feature: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
Format: Color
Director: David France
Year: 2012
Genre: Documentary | History | News
Country: USA
Runtime: 120 Min
Cost: Free

On Friday, February 15, Cafe Cinema presents one of this year’s
Academy Awards nominated films for Best Documentary, HOW TO
SURVIVE A PLAGUE. In 1987, gay activists formed a national
organization to battle the AIDS epidemic. The US government did
virtually nothing to pursue a plan of attach, much less a cure.
This lack of effort was contributed by many as an astounding homophobic
bias.

How to Survive the Plague (2012)

How does one fight a problem when the government is asleep? The
members of ACT UP organized and performed relentless non-violent
guerrilla type warfare by using trial lawyers and the contempt of
the inflicted to radically change the effects of the epidemic. Their work
helped change AIDS infliction from a death sentence to a manageable illness with a minimal if not zero decrease in life expectancy.

How to Survive the Plague (2012)

On Sunday, February 24, Cafe Cinema will broadcast live the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony.

Cafe Cinema has weekly screenings of great films and is a production of and local filmic venue outlet for Idyllwild Film Festival.

 

 

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Posted in 2010s, Cultural Window, Documentary, English, Historically Relevant, Indie, Oscar Winner or Nominee, USA

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