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.
Andrei Rublev
- Sun, Feb 9
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: Andrei Tarkovsky Run Time: 185 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1966 Language: Russian
Starring: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Irma Raush, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolay Grinko
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting...
Yumeji
- Sun, Mar 9
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: Seijun Suzuki Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1991 Language: Japanese
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburo Bando, Tomoko Mariya, Yoshio Harada
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a...