February 14 Opening Night Classic Horror - 7pm
Eyes Without a Face
(Georges Franju) 1959 France 88 mins
Eyes Without a Face
(Georges Franju) 1959 France 88 mins
Massively influential, chilling modernist horror classic featuring Pierre Brasseur as a genius plastic surgeon who uses scandalously unethical means to restore his daughter's mutilated face. Alida Valli, who scours the streets kidnapping young women, soulfully inhabits his dutiful assistant. Franju's haunting, oneiric, minimalist shocker is one of the great poetic works of French cinema. Moodily shot by Eugen Schufftan & scored by Maurice Jarre. Also stars Edith Scob. Imported 35mm print.
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February 14 Opening Night Classic Horror - 8.45pm
The Innocents
(Jack Clayton) 1961 Britain 100 mins
Freddie Francis' luscious cinematography & Georges Auric's atmospheric score enhance Jack Clayton's eerie rendering of Henry James' classic tale. Co-scripted by Truman Capote & featuring a tour-de-force performance from Deborah Kerr as a repressed governess whose charges appear possessed by ghostly apparitions. This chilling work remains one of the landmark horror films. With Michael Redgrave. Imported 35mm print.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Perfect Crime
(1957) 24 mins. An arrogant detective is confronted with evidence that he helped execute an innocent man. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock & starring Vincent Price.
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