Thirty
Years of Film at International House
THE
JANUS COLLECTION
Truly
one of our national treasures, American film culture without
Janus Films is unimaginable. Film @ International House is celebrating
our 30th birthday with a selection of titles from Janus’ extraordinary
collection, all in brand-new or restored 35mm prints.
Here’s your chance to celebrate their achievements and to be
dazzled all over again by highlights from their incomparable
collection.
FILM
DISCUSSION GROUP
 To
coincide with the 30th Anniversary of Film at International
House and the Janus Collection series, IHouse introduces the
Film Discussion Group led by curator Robert
Cargni. We meet on the second Saturday of each month after the
Janus Collection screening for coffee and conversation. Come
and add your voice to this lively conversation.
Saturday,
May 17 at 7pm
Tokyo
Story
(Tokyo monogatari)
dir.
Yashujiro Ozu, Japan, 1953, 35mm, 135 mins, b/w, Japanese w/
English subtitles
 Borrowing
its premise from Leo McCarey's Depression-era masterpiece Make
Way for Tomorrow (1937), as well as incorporating elements
from Ozu's own Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family,
Tokyo Story follows the journey of an elderly couple
(Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama) from the countryside, whose
visit to the titular metropolis finds them callously treated
by their self-absorbed offspring. Only the surprising
kindness of their widowed daughter-in-law (a luminous Setsuko
Hara) provides a measure of spiritual relief.
The
occasion for the most inspired pairing of Hara and Ryu since
their collaboration in Late Spring, Tokyo Story
climaxes with a poignant, quietly electrifying exchange
between the in-laws acknowledging life's inevitable disappointments
that Ryu's otherworldly serenity renders little short of sublime.
Deservedly a perennial favorite of the Greatest Films Ever Made
polls (among its many directorial partisans are Jim Jarmusch,
Paul Schrader, Lindsay Anderson and Aki Kaurismaki), Tokyo
Story was also Ozu's first film to receive theatrical
distribution in the US, introducing American audiences to the
director posthumously in 1972.
Click
Here for Tokyo Story Program Notes
Free admission members
above Internationalist level; $5 Internationalist members, students
+ seniors; $7 general admission.
In
advance at 
and 866.468.7619 or 1/2 hour before showtime.
Saturday,
June 14 at 7pm
Cria
Cuervos
dir.
Carlos Saura, Spain, 1976, 35mm, 107 mins, color, Spanish w/
English subtitles
 Ana
Torrent (star of Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive)
plays Ana, witness to (and perhaps responsible for) her father’s
death. Communicating with the spirit of her beloved mother (Geraldine
Chaplin), she wanders through a tragically curtailed childhood.
Torrent’s wide dark eyes were made to absorb the sins of the
adult world and reflect them back to the audience; and they
are perfectly matched, visually and spiritually, with the haunted
adult eyes of Chaplin, who also plays the grown-up Ana.
Free admission members above Internationalist
level; $5 Internationalist members, students + seniors; $7 general
admission.
In advance at 
and
866.468.7619 or 1/2 hour before showtime.
30
Years of Film Archive
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