Out at the Roxy
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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In January 2023, The Roxy curated one of our most beloved series, a 15-film journey through the 2022 list of the greatest films ever made, curated by the journal Sight & Sound. This month, we return to the canon with SIGHT & SOUND: REDUX, another dazzling array of the world's best movies. Best of all, every ticket purchased to one of these films is an entry into a drawing to win subscriptions to Sight & Sound and the Criterion Channel. Happy New Year--we hope your resolution includes watching plenty of extraordinary movies!
1/1 - THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Liberated World Cinema)
1/6 - SUNSET BOULEVARD (Essential Cinema)
1/6 - 1/8 - MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
1/8 - DAYS OF HEAVEN (MTFF Presents)
1/9 - 1/11 - RIO BRAVO
1/11 - Sight & Sound Shorts: LA JETEE, UN CHIEN ANDALOU, and MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
1/14 - THE CONFORMIST
1/15 - THE WILD BUNCH (Knockout Cinema)
1/16 - 1/18 - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
1/18 - WINGS OF DESIRE
1/21 - STALKER
1/22 - PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Out at The Roxy)
1/23 - 1/25 - JOHNNY GUITAR
1/25 - NEWS FROM HOME
1/27 - BREATHLESS
1/28 - YI YI
1/29 - GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Persistence of Vision: Animated Masterworks)
1/30 - 2/1 - THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs. Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her. What unfolds in exquisite tension is an exchange of sustained gazes in which the two women come to know each other’s gestures, expressions, and bodies with rapturous intimacy, ultimately forging a subversive creative collaboration as well as a delirious romance. Charged with a yearning that almost transcends time and space, Portrait of a Lady on Fire mines the emotional and artistic possibilities that emerge when women can freely live together and see one another in a world without men.