a scene from
ONE FINE DAY
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SUNSET ACROSS THE BAY
Stephen Frears, 1975, 70 minutes; film
A moving and memorable portrait of an elderly couple whose
decision to live out their retirement at a favorite holiday resort
leads to disillusionment.
With:
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Giles Foster, 1982, 48 minutes; video
Patricia Routledge performs an intense and harrowing monologue
in three acts about a middle-aged woman whose uneventful life is
falling to pieces.
Wednesday, October 22: 6:30 pm
SOLDIERING ON
Tristram Powell, 1985, 34 minutes; video
Stephanie Coles' newly widowed Muriel has courage
beneath her cardigan. Bombarded with little darts of
suspicion about her son and her late husband, she
never retreats, but soldiers on into a void of her own
making.
With:
HER BIG CHANCE
Giles Foster, 1985, 34 minutes; video
Julie Walters is Lesley, an aspiring star for whom acting
is three parts self-delusion. Landing a role in an exploita-
tion film, Lesley valiantly attempts to give Meaning and
Depth to her part even as she sheds her clothes.
and:
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
(See Above)
Sunday, October 26: 3:45 pm
ME, I'M AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
Stephen Frears, 1978, 75 minutes; video
Hopkins, unhappy and hypochondriac, is a bit of a Bennett
self-portrait, The angst of this Beatle-coiffed English teacher
with thick glasses isn't much eased by literature, his mother, or
his yogurt-eating, macramé-making, yoga-teaching girlfriend,
Then Skinner, a new student, appears, spotting earring and
leather jacket...and new and exotic vistas open up.
with:
CHIP IN THE SUGAR
Stuart Burge, 1985, 40 minutes; video
Alan Bennett himself delivers a monologue for two voices:
Graham Whittaker and the mother he lives with, whose every
trill he has down to a T. Slowly it emerges who is taking care
of whom, and why. When Mam's relationship with a man from
her past gets "beyond the tea-cozy stage,'' Graham's terrors
send his articulate musings into overdrive. Restoring the
balance of power is the subtle narrative thrust of this play,
Bennett's sly embrace of his character, its brilliance.
Wednesday, October 22 : 4:15 and 8:45 pm
Saturday, October 25: 3:45 and 9:35 pm
AN AFTERNOON OFF
Stephen Frears, 1979, 75 minutes; video
A Chinese waiter wanders through a Northern seaside town as
he searches for Iris, a girl he thinks fancies him. Carrying a
large box of Canturbury chocolates and speaking very little
English, Lee is variously taken for a visiting delegation, a
bomb-carrying Aladdin, a Buddhist, an industrial spy, and
Mao-Tse Tung. Aprés Jane Austen, Bennett and Stepeh Frears
keenly observe how the English still take pride in prejudice, With
Bennett, Pete Postlethwaite, Anna Massey, et al.
With:
VISIT FROM MISS PROTHEROE
Stephen Frears, 1978, 30 minutes; video
Mr. Dodsworth, in contented retirement after a lifetime of diligent
service, has his illusions systematically destroyed during a visit
from Miss Protheroe.
Thursday, October 23: 2 and 9 pm
DORIS AND DOREEN
Stephen Frears, 1978, 80 minutes; video
Two clerical officers' routine shuffling of papers is disturbed when
sinister forces are mounted against them.
Thursday, October 23: 4 pm
Saturday, October 25: 8 pm
AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD
John Schlesinger, 1982, 65 minutes; film
Coral Browne's real-life meeting with Guy Burgess in Moscow in
1958 is the basis for this witty and eloquent discourse on loyalty and
the English. (With Alan Bates.)
With:
A QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION
John Schlesinger, 1991, 70 minutes; film
Sir Anthony Blunt, royal art historian, investigates a puzzling Titian
in the Queen's collection and is himself investigated. Inspired by a
true incident, QUESTION is an elegant story of irony, intrigue and
loyalty in art and government. (With James Fox and Prunella
Scales.)
Friday, October 24: 2 and 6:30 pm
Saturday, October 25: 8 pm
Sunday, October 26: 8 pm
ONE FINE DAY
Stephen Frears, 1979, 95 minutes; video
A realtor whose low self-esteem renders him virtually invisible
escapes by camping out in an empty high-rise and there
undergoes an unexpected rite of passage.
Friday, October 24: 4:35 and 9:10 pm
Sunday, October 26: 6 pm
A BED AMONG THE LENTILS
Alan Bennett, 1985, 49 minutes; video
Maggie Smith is a study in pinch-cheeked despair as the wife of a
North English vicar. "Mrs. Vicar'' sees right through her
husband and his bosom buddy, the Deity. But there's one secret
only she, and we, will ever know about.
With:
A LADY OF LETTERS
Giles Foster, 1985, 48 minutes; video
Patricia Routledge plays a woman of many words, the
self-appointed guardian of her street. Letters of com-
plaint are her contribution to a society that has no use
for her, but when Good Samaritanism reaches fever
pitch, our Miss Ruddock is gently relieved of her
torturing freedom.
Saturday, October 25: 6 pm
INTENSIVE CARE
Gavin Millar, 1982, 80 minutes; film
Alan Bennett plays Denis Midgley, a 30-year-old
schoolteacher whose hospital vigil by his dying father's
bed heralds the beginning of his own life.
Wednesday, October 29: 2 and 9:30 pm
Thursday, October 30: 4 pm
THE INSURANCE MAN
Richard Eyre, 1985, 77 minutes; film
At the Workers Accident Insurance Institute where
Kafka spent his working life, a young man named Franz
who suffers from a disfiguring skin disease seeks help
from the kindly Dr. Kafka. (With Robert Hines and
Daniel Day-Lewis.)
Wednesday, October 29: 4 and 8 pm
Thursday, October 30: 2 pm
SUNSET ACROSS THE BAY
Stephen Frears, 1975, 70 minutes; film
A moving and memorable portrait of an elderly couple whose
decision to live out their retirement at a favorite holiday resort
leads to disillusionment.
With:
A CREAM CRACKER UNDER THE SETTEE
Stuart Burge, 1985, 31 minutes; video
Thora Hird plays seventy something Doris, who in her
mania for dusting has fallen and can't get up, The
problem is the dread Zulema, who "half-dusts'' and
thinks Doris would be happier in a home.
Wednesday, October 29: 6 pm
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