Sight & Sound: Redux
The Conformist
Julie Gardner Properties!
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
The Conformist: In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class hall. But those are only a few of this political thriller's anthology pieces, others including Trintignant's honeymoon coupling with Sandrelli in a train compartment as the sun sets outside their window; a bimbo lolling on the desk of a fascist functionary, glimpsed in the recesses of his cavernous office; a murder victim's hands leaving bloody streaks on a limousine parked in a wintry forest. Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece, adapted from the Alberto Moravia novel, boasts an authentic Art Deco look created by production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, a score by the great Georges Delerue and breathtaking color cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.