hey max, OSS double feature!
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pixitude (aka chris)
Mar 1 '12, 14:41
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, March 1-4, 2012:
Two from the Academy Award-winning
director (Michel Hazanavicius), star (Jean Dujardin),
and composer (Ludovic Bource) of THE ARTIST.
Both films were also photographed by THE ARTIST's Oscar-nominated cinematographer, Guillaume Schiffman, and the first film also stars THE ARTIST's Bérénice Béjo.
New Beverly CinemaNew Beverly Cinema
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006, France, 99 minutes, 35mm, Music Box Films
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo, Aure Atika,
Philippe Lefèbvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Saïd Amadis, Claude Brosset
In French with English subtitles
Trailer
Thu & Fri: 7:30 pm; Sat & Sun: 3:20 & 7:30 pm
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From Music Box Films' website:
A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France's reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East. A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism, ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East.
What the critics say:
"This inspired piece of silliness boasts gorgeous period design, deftly tweaks French colonial smugness and, in Jean Dujardin's self-mocking playfulness as Agent 117, offers a charging comic turn, closer in spirit to Cary Grant than Mike Myers." Vogue
"Sparkling production design, a jubilantly retro score and a genuine flair for using the film and TV vocabulary of the '60s to revisit colonial arrogance put pic in the same conceptual ballpark as Austin Powers or The Naked Gun series." Variety
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PLUS, on the same double feature:
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
2009, France, 97 minutes, 35mm, Music Box Films
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Starring Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Rüdiger Vogler,
Alex Lutz, Reem Kherici
In French with English subtitles
Trailer
Thu & Fri: 9:30 pm; Sat & Sun: 5:20 & 9:30 pm
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From Music Box Films' website:
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath code named OSS 117 has a new mission that takes him to the Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960's. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with an embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators.
With a jubilantly retro score and production design along with flair for 1960s era cinematic vocabulary, the filmmakers again have the perfect man to send up Western arrogance, French chauvinism and bigotry in general with biting satire and scathing wit.
"Naughty, silly, and wildly non-PC!" The Guardian (UK)
"A classic comic creation!" Vogue
Buy tickets
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Please note that the appearance of Roger Corman with a screening of THE INTRUDER originally scheduled for Sunday, March 4 has been postponed to a later date TBD. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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