In Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” housewife Roberta Glass reads the personals section and is taken by the story of the bold and mysterious Susan Thomas (Madonna, in her first major screen role) and Jim Dandy, who appear to be involved in a torrid love affair. Their lives soon become dramatically mixed up.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ’35 Shots of Rum’ (2008) Tuesday night
Join us this month for Claire Denis’ 2008 film “35 Shots of Rum,” which the Village Voice called her “warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two’s extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation.”
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Late Spring’ (1949) Tuesday night
Subtle and devastating, Roger Ebert described Yasujirō Ozu’s “Late Spring” as a film about two people who are “undone by their tact, their concern for each other, and their need to make others comfortable by seeming to agree with them.”
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Bergman Island’ (2021) Tuesday night
French director Mia Hansen-Løve’s meta-drama about a filmmaking couple working on their respective screenplays shows at Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema on April 16.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens Martin Scorsese’s ‘Kundun’ (1997) tonight
More internal struggle than a traditional narrative and propelled by a hypnotic score by Philip Glass and cinematography by the legendary Roger Deakins, Martin Sorsese’s 1997 film “Kundun” is an epic about the early years of Tenzin Gyatso, who was identified as the 14th (and current) Dalai Lama at the age of 2.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Imitation of Life’ (1959) Tuesday night
Despite its outsize acting and bold Technicolor, “Imitation of Life” (1959) — director Douglas Sirk’s final Hollywood film — offers a subversive critique of American notions of race, gender and class.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ (1994) Tuesday night
In keeping with our November tradition of celebrating food through film in all its gastronomic glory, we’re screening Ang Lee’s 1994 comedy-drama “Eat Drink Man Woman,” an early offering by the Taiwenese filmmaker who went on to direct “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Wes Craven’s New Nightmare’ (1994) Tuesday night
Wes Craven’s 1994 attempt to rejuvenate the “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise is a meta offering that’s even darker than the original.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘The Mirror’ (1997) Tuesday night
Partway through Jafar Panahi’s second feature film, the main character breaks the fourth wall, rips off her costume and declares she doesn’t want to act anymore, leaving it up to the crew to decide how to respond.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019) Tuesday night
Though many of writer and director Céline Sciamma’s films interrogate the complicated act of looking, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” takes direct aim at the notion of the artistic muse, a tension that’s heightened by a backdrop of forbidden queer romance and the female gaze.