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On July 21, a 35mm double feature of two Randolph Scott classics, 7 Men From Now and Buchanan Rides Alone, should provide ample evidence of the chemistry between Boetticher and his frequent leading man, while the July 24 pairing of the matador saga Bullfighter and the Lady (screening digitally) and the CinemaScope spectacle Ride Lonesome (on 35mm), also starring Scott, should speak just as ably to the poetic grandeur of the directorвЂ™s most enduring accomplishments.

JORDAN CRONK CINESCOPE SERIES

The perennially under-recognized Hollywood journeyman Budd Boetticher is the subject of a two-night, four-film series at Santa MonicaвЂ™s Aero Theatre, a brief but essential opportunity to become acquainted with the directorвЂ™s unique take on his most beloved genre, the Western. With its garish designs, exaggerated mise en scГЁne and propulsive score by Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, the film is an infectious visual and aural experience, occasionally inscrutable in its logic yet compulsively watchable.Д«UDD BOETTICHER AT THE AERO | 1328 Montana Ave. Fassbinder in his final acting role as a flamboyantly outfitted detective on the brink of exhaustion, GremmвЂ™s dystopian vision of underworld anarchy and corporate conspiracy holds more than a little contemporary relevance. Fairfax Ave.Д¬inefamilyвЂ™s вЂњAll of Them WitchesвЂќ series, outlined in last monthвЂ™s recommendations, has been extended through July (and features some choice additions, including a 35mm screening of Carl Theodor DreyerвЂ™s immortal Day of Wrath on July 23), but the monthвЂ™s most enticing offering is a restored 35mm print of Wolf GremmвЂ™s cyberpunk extravaganza Kamikaze вЂ™89 on July 15. Proceeding roughly chronologically, the series begins July 22 with a double bill of Naked Childhood and Graduate First, two films dealing with adolescents at defining moments in their youths, and from there moves through the directorвЂ™s devastating mid-period films We WonвЂ™t Grow Old Together (July 23), ГЂ nos amours (July 29) and The Mouth Agape (July 29) before arriving with the sterling late-career masterpiece Van Gogh (July 31), a biographical film of rare insight and intimacy.Дavid Chute, Influential Film Critic and Writer, Dies at 71

Pialat, who often drew on his own experiences and tumultuous romances to imbue his work with a powerful and oftentimes painful authenticity, made character-based dramas that forewent moralizing and focused instead on the irreconcilable essence of the human condition. MAURICE PIALAT RETROSPECTIVE AT THE BILLY WILDER THEATERВ | 10899 Wilshire Blvd.ДЇrench director Maurice Pialat, one of the great figures of the first generation of post- Nouvelle Vague filmmakers, receives a partial but crucial 35mm retrospective beginning in July (and concluding in August) at the Billy WIlderВ Theater courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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