Metro Cinema Society: University of Alberta Film Studies Dep't

University of Alberta Film Studies Dep't

Metropolis

Director: Fritz Lang

Germany 1927, 124 min, 35mm

Sep 24 (2009) @ 7pm

Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions. Now, restored in Germany with state-of-the-art digital technology, under the supervision of the Murnau Foundation, and with... view more

Vertigo

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

USA 1957, 128 min, 35mm

Oct 27 (2009) @ 7pm

Hitchcock and James Stewart collaborated for the fourth and final time on this strange story of loss and obsession that was voted the second greatest film of all time by a recent Sight & Sound International Critics poll. Stewart plays... view more

Late Spring

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Japan 1949, 108 min, 35mm

Nov 26 & 29 (2009) @ 7pm
Nov 27 (2009) @ 9:30pm
Nov 30 (2009) @ 9pm

One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu’s family portraits, Late Spring tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu players Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara command this poignant... view more

Foolish Wives

Director: Erich von Stroheim

USA 1922, 143 min, 35mm

Jan 17 (2010) @ 6:30pm

As artistically brilliant as it is gleefully perverse, Foolish Wives is Erich von Stroheim's epic-scale account of an American diplomat's wife (Mrs. Dupont) who falls under the spell of a phony Russian Count (von Stroheim). With his trademark eye for... view more

Taxi Driver

Director: Martin Scorsese

USA 1976, 113 min, 35mm

Mar 9 (2010) @ 7pm

"All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s... view more

Morocco

Director: Josef von Sternberg

USA 1930, 97 min, 35mm

Mar 14 (2010) @ 7pm

"Von Sternberg's poetic, atmospheric mise en scène is the perfect vehicle for the birth of the Dietrich legend. In this sumptuously designed film, The Blue Angel's provocative cabaret tart evolves into a world-weary chanteuse running from her past in North... view more

Shanghai Express

Director: Josef von Sternberg

USA 1932, 82 min, 35mm

Mar 21 (2010) @ 7pm

“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily,” purrs Marlene Dietrich to old flame Captain Harvey (Clive Brook) in this exquisitely lurid melodrama, set on a train en route from Peking to Shanghai. The reunited... view more

The Scarlet Empress

Director: Josef von Sternberg

USA 1934, 109 min, 35mm

Mar 28 (2010) @ 7pm

Filmmaker-svengali Josef von Sternberg escalates his obsession with screen legend Marlene Dietrich in this lavish depiction of sex and deceit in the 18th-century Russian court. A self-proclaimed “relentless excursion into style,” the pair’s sixth collaboration follows the exploits of Princess... view more

Picture of Light

Director: Peter Mettler

Canada 1994, 83 min, 35mm

Apr 7 (2010) @ 8pm

Picture of Light is an hallucinatory tale which documents a filmmaker's journey to Canada's arctic in search of the Northern Lights. While combining glimpses of the characters who live in this environment and the crew's both comic and absurd attempts... view more

The Devil is a Woman

Director: Josef von Sternberg

USA 1935, 82 min, 35mm

Apr 11 (2010) @ 7pm

Adapted from the same Pierre Loüys novel that spawned Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire, The Devil Is a Woman is set in a studio version of Spain, intricately conceived with typical Sternbergian flair, and situates coquettish Dietrich in... view more