April -Dotches bring cornflowers, but May brings a whole bouquet of movie beads to the transition from spring to summer. Perhaps the most current of all options listed below Michael Mann’s bite removal of American business and its effect on the mass media, the “insider.” Nominated to the best picture on 2000 Academy Awards, The film Follows “60 minutes” producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) when he works to grow and protect a tobacco company Whistleblower (Russell Crowe) that may carry the most important public health in the 1900s.
Unfortunately, when the legal team behind “60 minutes” the parent company CBS captures the story – in the midst of an important merger with Westinghouse Electric no less – they do everything they can to prevent the news from not increasing a possible business. For those who pay attention to current issues, the story will have an echo for a new conflict that still plays between “60 minutes” and its current parent company, Paramount Global, which has reportedly tried to introduce editorial overview for the series. This in the end resulted in departure from News Show’s long -term executive producer, Bill Owens, as well as a hardened in the air punishment of Paramount’s actions From host Scott Pelle.
Want to avoid a little real life? Try to go back in time with a Western on Moma or a Chambara on the new Bev. Continue to read below to find the best films as screening in New York and Los Angeles repertoire Theaters in the coming month.
New York
Metrogent
Although the feeling of end times is on us may be cause for concern, Metrograph chooses to find a way to celebrate with its upcoming series “Scenes from“ the end of the story. ”” Inspired by political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s 1992, “The End of History”, the arrangement of films curated by the Metrograph Center around the large global upheaval and settlement that took place in the late 1980s/early 1990s after the break-up of the Soviet Union, the case of the Berlin Wall and the protests in the Tianamtorg. The work in this series extends from gloomy satires such as “Khrustalyov, my car!” to epic blockbuster like “Air Force One”, with much more in between to please all types of movie guests.
Looking up as many shows as possible is the move, but if you just had to choose one or two, we would probably go with Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Three colors: White,” Playing the 2, 4 and 8 or Michael Mann’s The “insider” May 23. The former is probably the easiest and most fun of all the films presented in Kieślowski’s series “Three Colors” and centers around the Polish immigrant in Paris who want to be smuggled back to his home country after his wife (played by a young Julie Delpy) frames him for a crime he did not go. The “insider” is a different but still fast beast completely. With the lead role of Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, the BioDrama follows the story of the “60 minutes” piece that turned out that large tobacco had lied to the American public. Both films will appear at 35 mm.
Moma
Travel west, my friends. Or at least to the western side of Manhattan, where you can catch the Columbia Classics at the Museum of Modern Art all month. This series was shown in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival and was shown earlier at the 2024 party to celebrate the famous studio’s 100th anniversary. Titled, “The lady at 100,” Movies presented as part of this showcase include Nicholas Ray’s “in a lonely place”, Fritz Langs “The Big Heat” and even David Fincher’s “The Social Network” for the theater guests who are looking for more modern prices.
Although Noirian classics like “Gilda” and “The Lady From Shanghai” are definitely worthy of a look, those who don’t miss this month are the Westerners. Screening on Saturdays, May 3 and May 10, Anthony Mann’s “The man from Laramie” will play on Moma. Jimmy Stewart plays in what would be his fifth and last Western with Mann and Oh Boy, they saved the best for last. Shots in fantastic techniques, it was also one of the first films that used Cinemascope to produce a wider, deeper image. Another favorite from the trail is Budd Beteticher’s “Ride Lonesome,” Screening at Moma on Thursday, May 8 and Sunday, May 18. Part of Beticher’s “Ranown Cycle” with actor Randolph Scott, “Ride Lonesome” is another tense thriller who sets himself against Wilds of the Western Expansse.
Los Angeles
Academy Museum
Life and work with actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman is always worth celebrating, but the Academy Museum goes beyond by devoting almost two months’ views showing the Oscar winner’s huge talents. “Something mysterious: The Art of Philip Seymour Hoffman” Extinguish at the end of May, but there are still plenty of his films that are worth catching, some of which will be accompanied by Q & AS from special guests. Another huge advantage is that everyone except one of the films (“a most sought after man”) will be shown on film, including Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” at 70mm.
Get to the academy early in the month of May 1 to capture one of Hoffman’s more devastating performances in Todd Louiso’s “Love Liza.” Louiso will be on hand for the show, as does Hoffman’s brother Gordy who wrote the script for the film. It is part of a double feature that also includes Hoffman’s only feature efforts, “Jack Goes Boating”, along with John Ortiz, who will also be present. Later this month, on Monday 19 May, director Spike Jonze will make a look to present Charlie Kaufmans “Synecdoche, New York,” which he served as a producer on. A postmodern, surreal drama, the film follows Hoffman as a theater director whose epic vision begins to blur the boundary between reality and fiction.
New Beverly Cinema
As always, New Beverly Cinema Switching from spring to summer with a blow. Early in the month will have some of the cinema’s best shoot-’em-ups, including John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valense”, with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Leonardo, May 1, and Matte, and Mamt, Mon May and 4. Weapons may be worth picking up.
Screening on 9, 10 and 11, a double function in the fourth and fifth episode in the 26-part series “Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman”. Both were released in 1963, “Zatoichi the fugitive” and “Zatoichi on the run” follows the protagonist Ichi when he offers his leaf to those he encounters and takes down all Yakuza or Samurai who get in the way. And while swords and weapons can lead to violent purposes, let’s not forget that nature is the biggest weapon of all. In front of the film’s 50th anniversary this summer, everyone’s favorite beach team “Jaws” will play May 23, 24 and 25.
