1 Saturday
2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque. Borgnine. On New Year’s Eve, a tidal 2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque. With no script or score to preserve
Music by John Williams: Catch wave flips over a luxury ocean liner, Music by John Williams: E.T. The it, dance is passed from body to
Me if You Can, USA, 2002, leaving only its bottom sticking up Extra-Terrestrial, USA, 1982, 35 body, one generation to the next.
for schedule. 35 mm, 141 min. Directed by above water. A small group of crafty mm, 115 min. Directed by Steven This documentary follows a group
Steven Spielberg, cast: Leonardo survivors, led by man of the cloth Spielberg, cast: Henry Thomas, of New York City’s top modern
2–3 p.m. Gallery Talk: Join Chazen DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Hackman, face a number of deadly Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace. dancers as they bring back to
curator Maria Saffiotti Dale for a Walken. DiCaprio plays real-life obstacles as they try to make it to Elliott (Thomas), the 10-year-old tour of In the Light of Naples: The all-American con artist Frank the “top” of the vessel. The best son of divorced parents, finds a Art of Francesco de Mura. Abagnale, Jr., who, while still loved of the cycle of ‘70s disaster unique friend in an alien visitor century’s choreographic treasures.
a teenager in the 1960s, made movies, this Irwin Allen production stranded on earth. An enduring The film reveals this unfolding
millions while variously posing features a stormy score by John fantasy, Spielberg’s enormously process from studio to stage, as it
as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor. Williams, who also wrote the music successful blockbuster is also one confronts what it takes to prevent
Wisconsin Film Festival at the
Chazen check www.wifilmfest.org
2 Sunday
Wisconsin Film Festival at the
Chazen check www.wifilmfest.org
for schedule.
Last day to view In the Light of
Naples: The Art of Francesco de
Mura.
life Merce Cunningham’s 1968
“RainForest,” one of the twentieth
Hanks is the dogged FBI agent for Earthquake and Allen’s The of the great movies about childhood. the loss of masterworks to time.
who chases Abagnale around the Towering Inferno. The director’s vision is aided
world and an Oscar-nominated
Walken plays Abagnale’s father.
Spielberg’s typically fleet-footed
direction keeps this caper/
12:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon character study fascinating
Live at the Chazen: Nathan throughout. The director’s regular
Wysock, guitar. composer, John Williams, delivers
2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute an Oscar-nominated score that
tour, docent’s choice. returns Williams to his jazz roots.
6 Thursday 13 Thursday
12:30 p.m. A docent leads a 12:30 p.m. A docent leads a
40-minute tour in the permanent 40-minute tour in the permanent
collection. collection.
5:30 p.m. Lecture by the artist:
20 Thursday
12:30 p.m. A docent leads a
40-minute tour in the permanent
collection.
5:30–6:30 p.m. Inventing the
Samurai in Early Modern Japan,
a lecture by Michael Wert, associate
professor of East Asian history,
immeasurably by one of the most
emotional of all of John Williams
compositions. The original 1982
release version will be shown.
27 Thursday
12:30 p.m. A docent leads a
40-minute tour in the permanent
Chazen Auditorium.
30 Sunday
2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute
tour, docent’s choice.
2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque.
Music by John Williams: Dracula,
USA, 1979, 35 mm, 109 min.
Directed by John Badham, cast:
collection. Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier,
Kate Nelligan. Bram Stoker’s
Marquette University. Chazen 5–7 p.m. Preview reception for Auditorium. Middle Child: Photographs by legendary bloodsucker saga is
6:30–8 p.m. Preview reception for Alex Orellana. Paige Court. given a lush, fog-filled ‘70s update
Samurai: The Way of the Warrior. Live music, refreshments, cash bar. 28 Friday Night Fever. The suave and sexy
Mead Witter Lobby. Martha Glowacki’s Natural 16 Sunday Middle Child: Photographs by History, Observations and 2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute Reflections, Chazen Auditorium. tour, docent’s choice. 21 Friday 9 Sunday 2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque. Music by John Williams: The 2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute Poseidon Adventure, USA, tour, docent’s choice. 1972, 35 mm, 117 min. Directed
by Ronald Neame, cast: Gene
Hackman, Shelley Winters, Ernest
Alex Orellana opens to the public.
1:30 p.m. If the Dancer Dances,
Samurai: The Way of the Warrior a film presented with the UW–
opens to the public. Madison Dance Department
23 Sunday
2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute
tour, docent’s choice.
in celebration of its ninetieth
anniversary. Q & A with filmmaker
Lise Friedman follows screening.
from Badham, director of Saturday
Langella, recreating his turn from a
successful Broadway production, is
the perfect Dracula for the disco-era
and Olivier is an enjoyably hammy
Van Helsing. Badham eschews a
pop soundtrack however, opting
for a wonderfully doom-laden
orchestral sound courtesy of
composer John Williams.