CONTOURS
CONTOURS is a monthly screening series at Paradise Theatre spotlighting films which thematize the world of visual art:painting, sculpture, sketching, and performance. Each feature is preceded by a short film and an introduction by curator and host Saffron Maeve. Maeve also writes an accompanying column for Screen Slate, which covers art films playing in New York.
Pearls of the Deep
- Sun, Sep 21
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Evald Schorm, Jan Němec, Jaromil Jireš, Jiří Menzel, Věra Chytilová Run Time: 107 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1966 Language: Czech
Starring: Alois Vachek, Emil Iserle, Ferdinand Krůta, Miroslav Nohýnek, Pavla Maršálková
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression...
Color Me Blood Red
- Sun, Oct 5
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Run Time: 79 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1965
Starring: Candi Conder, Elyn Warner, Gordon Oas-Heim, Jerome Eden, Pat Finn-Lee
Fiendish is the word for it!
Hour of the Wolf
- Sun, Nov 2
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1968 Language: Swedish
Starring: Erland Josephson, Georg Rydeberg, Gertrud Fridh, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow
The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real.
Utamaro and His Five Women
- Sun, Dec 7
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1946 Language: Japanese
Starring: Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Hiroko Kawasaki, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kōtarō Bandō, Toshiko Iizuka
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his...