Mexico’s submission to the 1993 Oscars, Like Water for Chocolate, brings together traditional melodrama with magical realism to tell an irresistible story of transformation through food, love and death.
Our free screening series at the Calgary Central Library continues with Purple Noon (1960) René Clément's lush, colourful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 crime thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Madeline got the part! She’s going to play the lead in a theater piece! Except the lead wears sweatpants like Madeline’s. And has a cat like Madeline’s. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother’s face – like Madeline is.
One of the last acknowledged masterpieces in Hitchcock’s career, Marnie (1964) stars Tippie Hedren as the eponymous character: a frigid woman with a mysterious past, a penchant for kleptomania and colour coordinated panic attacks. As her husband Mark (Sean Connery) gamely tries to manage and control Marnie’s aberrant and destructive drives, it slowly becomes clear that Mark may be harbouring as much pathological impulse as Marnie herself.
The film in which Kiarostami’s Persian poetic sensibility is most foregrounded, The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) follows journalist Behzad and a camera crew who have been sent to a remote Kurdish village where they are to wait for the death of a one-hundred-year-old woman so that they can subsequently film a traditional funeral ceremony.
