LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, BIGGER THAN LIFE and Z
starts November 27
The CCA celebrates the vibrant world of film preservation with newly restored prints of three classic, rarely seen films in 35mm.
Leave Her to Heaven“Staggeringly beautiful … A strangely heartening reminder of just how exhilaratingly bizarre Hollywood moviemaking could get!” –The Auteurs
John Stahl’s gorgeously intense Technicolor masterpiece stars Gene Tierney (“the fatalest of the femmes in this melodrama” –NY Post) as a woman who meets and seduces a best-selling author on a train, setting off a spectacular series of deadly misadventures (including a scene in the New Mexico mountains). Unmissable. (U.S., 1945, 110m, 35mm, Criterion Pictures)
Bigger than Life “Revelatory! A revival not to be missed!” –The New Yorker
Scott Foundas calls it “Father Knows Best reconfigured as Greek tragedy”: Nicholas Ray’s unforgettable Cinemascope masterpiece—which has for years been nearly impossible to see—stars a terrifying James Mason as a man altered by an experimental drug … an experiment that ends up twisting the entire Rockwellian town where he lives. “One of the best, most radical, least-known American films … A canny retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde story.” –Village Voice.
(U.S., 1956, 95m, 35mm)
Z“An extraordinary thriller! One of the fastest, most exciting melodramas ever made” –Pauline Kael
The winner of the Cannes Jury Prize (awarded unanimously) and the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Costa-Gavras’ landmark counter-culture thriller dives deep into revolutionary street-level politics and brutal response by the powers-that-be. A touchstone of subversive cinema, Z remains as vibrant and relevant as ever, 40 years after its initial, worldwide-smash, release. With Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irene Papas. (Algeria, 1969, 127m, 35mm)