The UW Cinematheque announced its summer schedule today and things are a little different this year. The University-curated repertory program will be screening films for seven consecutive weeks beginning on Wednesday June 17 only unlike summer seasons past, you won’t be attending any screenings over the weekend.
Then again, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Wednesday’s programming is comprised of C’tek’s bread and butter — a handful of French restorations — and it kicks things off with Jacques Becker’s Antoine et Antoinette. Your Wednesdays will also be dominated by Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest (Jun 24), Hiroshima mon Amour (Jul 8) from Alan Resnais, and Éric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale (Jul 22).
As has been hinted at for several months now by C’tek staffers, the Orson Welles centennial celebration will also rage on this summer, with Robert Stevenson’s Jane Eyre (Jun 25), Carol Reed’s The Third Man (Jul 2) and Mexican spaghetti Western Tepepa (Jul 16) serving as highlights. Where this spring’s program and an entire Wisconsin Film Festival series focused on Welles as auteur, “Part III” indulges a fascination with the Kenosha native as performer.
Friday nights this summer are for Cinematheque’s “Special Presentations,” which include George Armitage’s 90s thriller Miami Blues (Jul 3) and (all due respect to Tone Madison‘s Chris Lay) the summer’s highlight: what appears will be Madison’s first chance to see Asghar Farhadi’s new missing person drama, About Elly (Jul 10). The summer series wraps on Jul 31 with a 35mm presentation of Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life. Not too shabby.
- You can find the entire summer Cinematheque schedule online at cinema.wisc.edu