JULY
Xanadu
Friday, July 12 at 7pm outdoor screenings: TOTALLY TERRIBLE 80s! Xanadu dir. Robert Greenwald, US, 1980, digital, 93 min.
Join us at 7pm for DJs, drinks and dancing at our outdoor screening series opening party“ Nineteen Eighty-Disco.” Film starts at sundown.
Introduction by DJ and musician Maria T.
A campy guilty pleasure, this quintessential 1980’ s“ disco musical” was a box-office flop and despised by critics everywhere. True, the story of a muse( Olivia Newton-John) who comes to life to inspire a young artist( Michael Beck) is loaded with sappy and sometimes silly plot developments, and director Greenwald, while possessing a talent for visuals, hasn’ t an idea about narrative. But for those willing to bask in its unpretentious and curiously effective fantasy elements and musical numbers, Xanadu is a disco-thumping, roller-boogeyin’ lark. The good score helps. Gene Kelly, in his final dramatic role( if you can call it dramatic), appears as sort of a wise sage who opens a dance hall and gets to perform a dance or two.— TLA
City Tap House proudly sponsors International House Philadelphia’ s Outdoor Movie Series and offers 10 % off your check every Friday after 5pm all summer long. To redeem, pick up a coupon at an any IHP outdoor screening, or present your IHP ticket stub at City Tap House.
Free screening. Please bring chairs and blankets; rain or shine.
The Earrings of Madame De...
Saturday, July 13 at 7pm THE JANUS COLLETION The Earrings of Madame de... dir. Max Ophüls, France, 1953, 35mm, b / w, French w / English subtitles, 100 min.
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophüls, The Earrings of Madame de... is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de...( Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband( Charles Boyer) in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophüls’ s adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin’ s incisive fin de siècle novel employs to ravishing effect the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned. ihousephilly. org