Starring: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin
Scientist Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill) and his wife, Ann (Gayle Hunnicutt), lead a team into the infamous Belasco House, supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a notorious serial killer. Though the rational Barrett does not believe in ghosts, the other members of his group do, include devout spiritualist Florence Tanner (Pamela Franklin) and psychic medium Benjamin Fischer (Roddy McDowall), who has been in Belasco House before and seen what horrors can befall those who enter it.
Delia Derbyshire (Composer)
Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music who carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has been referred to as “the unsung heroine of British electronic music”, having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital. Her only film score was to 1973’s Legend of Hell House.
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Hugh Marlow, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Ann Baxter) is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). Eve maneuvers her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynical drama critic (George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Barbara McLean (Editor)
With 62 film credits to her name, Barbara “Bobby” McLean was 20th Century Fox’s most prominent editor, ultimately the head of its editing department, in the studio’s period under Darryl F. Zanuck. She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Wilson (1944) and was nominated for the same award another six occasions, including All About Eve (1950). Her total of seven nominations for Best Editing Oscar was not surpassed until 2012.
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders
The second Mrs. de Winter is a shy and naive young woman, besotted with charming and urbane Maxim de Winter. They meet and fall in love while vacationing on the Riviera, and after a speedy marriage, return to Maxim’s vast English estate, Manderly. His wife is introduced to an army of servants who immediately, if subtly, display hostility towards her, as they all adored Rebecca, Max’s first wife, whose death is shrouded in mystery. As the servants become more hostile, the second wife grows more fearful, until she eventually learns the secret of what really happened to Rebecca.
Joan Harrison (Co-Writer)
Joan Harrison, an English screenwriter and producer who worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1941: Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebecca and Best Original Screenplay for Foreign Correspondent.
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset
Elegant, escapist entertainment at its stylishly European best. This Agatha Christie whodunit boasts an incredible international cast as some of the most wonderfully eccentric characters ever created. Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for her slightly dim-witted, Bible-quoting Swedish missionary. Albert Finney is the dapper detective Hercule Poirot, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train’s Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive. Packed with sparkling dialogue and visually rich in texture, this incomparable thriller received six Academy Award nominations.
Anne V. Coates (Editor)
Anne V. Coates, ACE and OBE, edited more than 60 films in a prolific career that lasted for six decades. One of cinema’s most influential film editors, she was best known for her work on David Lean’s 1962 classic, Lawrence of Arabia, for which she won an Academy Award. She received further Oscar nominations for Becket (1964), directed by Peter Glenville; The Elephant Man (1980), by David Lynch; In the Line of Fire (1993), by Wolfgang Petersen; and Out of Sight (1998), by Steven Soderbergh. – American Cinema Editors.
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Tom Atkins
A weather-beaten old fisherman tells an ancient tale of betrayal and death to fascinated children as they huddle together by their campfire. As a piece of driftwood in a child’s hand glows with spectral light an eerie fog envelops the bay, and from it’s midst emerge dripping demonic victims of a century old shipwreck, seeking revenge against a small California coastal town.
Starring: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse
The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a rendition of the classic Frances Hodgon Burnett novel about a young girl (Kate Maberly) who discovers an abandoned garden on her uncle’s large Victorian country estate, as well as an invalid cousin she didn’t realize she had. With the help of a local boy, the girl sets out to restore the garden and, once it is blooming again, she discovers it has magical powers.
Caroline Thompson (Writer)
Caroline Thompson is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer. She wrote the screenplays for Tim Burton’s films Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and Corpse Bride (2005) as well as The Addams Family (1991). She also directed Black Beauty (1994).
Isabelle Lorente (Editor)
In addition to The Secret Garden, Isabel Lorente has edited films such as The Governess (1999), Total Eclipse (1995), Jefferson in Paris (1995), and Europa, Europa (1990).
Starring: Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan
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Adventures in Black Cinema and The Future of Film is Female celebrate Women’s Month with a 25th anniversary screening of Kasi Lemmons essential debut film Eve’s Bayou. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson) is a popular physician in 1960s Louisiana who has a beautiful wife (Lynn Whitfield), a loving family and a weakness for women. While his wife ignores his infidelities, his youngest daughter Eve is crushed when she catches her dad in a compromising situation. Her subsequent revelations tear the family apart in Kasi Lemmons’ powerful film, which won Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.
An intimate portrait of the band Swans, told with unprecedented access to the band as well as never before seen archive material and interviews documenting their 35-year career.
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the 1980’s era NYC to their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the ’90’s indie-rock gold rush through breakups and chaos (on and off stage) to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world.
Director Marco Porsia embedded himself in the band’s tight inner circle for five years, filming rehearsals, songwriting sessions, the grind of life on the road, petty arguments and transcendent performances, including their final shows under the last long standing iteration of the band.
Starring: April Billingsley, Kelsey Scott, Conal Byrne
The Dark Red is the story of Sybil Warren (April Billingsley), a seemingly mentally disturbed woman who’s confined to a psychiatric hospital, convinced that a cult kidnapped her newborn baby in order to harness its telepathic powers. Told mostly through a series of flashbacks as Sybil recounts her story to the doctor assigned to her case, the audience is led down a trail of mystery involving secret rituals, double-crosses on top of double-crosses, and an evil conspiracy that seems too impossible to be true. All the while, director Bush keeps the validity of Sybil’s story intentionally obfuscating – is she telling (some of) the truth, or is she truly delusional?
