The Rep Report (December 13 - 24)

Posted by Peter Smith
NEW YORK: Thursday, December 13, Film Society of Lincoln Center has an intriguing double bill: Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, a new documentary directed by the critic Kent Jones, and produced and narrated by Martin Scorsese, will be shown along with the classic Lewton production I Walked with a Zombie. Installed on the RKO lot and given his own production company and a bagful of nickels, Lewton developed horror films in his own distinctive house style, long on angled shadows, underpopulated sets, and the tingly dread that talented directors like Zombie's Jacques Tourneur could create out what remained unsaid and unseen. Jones will be on hand to talk about his own movie and introduce Zombie.

On Sunday the 16th, Lincoln Center has another double bill, this time starring the face that launched a thousand bathtub-gin parties: the iconic flapper heroine of the silent era, Clara Bow. The Film Society, with a little help from the Library of Congress, will be showing Helen's Babies, a 1924 comedy starring Edward Everett Horton, and James P. Hogan's newly restored melodrama Capital Punishment. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by pianist Donald Sosin.

The period of Woody Allen's career when he seemed to be the New York Times' officially selected poet laureate of the Upper East Side may have peaked with the 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters, a sprawling (for Woody) family comedy-drama that includes one of Allen's finest performances as Woody Allen, given a few years before he started to look a little too old for the part. Film Forum brings it back for an eleven-day run starting December 14. On the 14th, the 7:40 P.M. screening will be introduced by Eric Lax, author of the new Conversations with Woody Allen. — Phil Nugent
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Posted Dec 13 2007, 03:00 PM
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