TSL Events: Death of a Cyclist
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Maria Jose, accidentally hit a cyclist, and run. The resulting, exquisitely shot tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain.
Thursday, 9/04: 5:00Thursday, 9/04: 9:00Friday, 9/05: 5:00Friday, 9/05: 9:00Sunday, 9/07: 5:00Man on a Wire
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers.
Thursday, 9/04: 7:00Friday, 9/05: 7:00Saturday, 9/06: 9:00Sunday, 9/07: 7:00Thursday, 9/11: 7:00Friday, 9/12: 7:00Saturday, 9/13: 7:00Sunday, 9/14: 7:00War: Material and Lies
Includes Janet Cooper, Grier Horner, Jackson, Berta Leone, Sam Sebren, Ed Smith, and Cat Thompson. The opening will also highlight the music of Shelving Rock led by Stephen Iachetta playing "new environ-rock-electric" violin, mandolin and guitar.
Saturday, 9/06: 6:00Saturday, 9/13: 6:00Saturday, 9/20: 6:00Saturday, 9/27: 6:00Bend It Like Beckham
A young Indian girl falls in love with soccer and goes against the traditions of her gender and her culture. She dreams of learning to "bend it like David Beckham," the soccer star who can curve a ball past the goalie.
Tuesday, 9/09: 8:00Caravaggio
Reveals the seventeenth-century painter's complex life - his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the underworld
Thursday, 9/11: 5:00Thursday, 9/11: 9:00Friday, 9/12: 5:00Friday, 9/12: 9:00Saturday, 9/13: 5:00Saturday, 9/13: 9:00Sunday, 9/14: 5:00Edward Scissorhands
The bizarre fairy tale about a curious young man with scissors for hands and a helpful Avon lady who goes out of her way to help with make-up and kindness. Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest. Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, and Conchata Ferrell.
Tuesday, 9/16: 8:00Chris & Don: A Love Story
The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior.
Thursday, 9/18: 7:00Friday, 9/19: 7:00Saturday, 9/20: 7:00Sunday, 9/21: 7:00Burmese Harp
An eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy.
Thursday, 9/18: 5:00Thursday, 9/18: 9:00Friday, 9/19: 5:00Friday, 9/19: 9:00Saturday, 9/20: 5:00Saturday, 9/20: 9:00Sunday, 9/21: 5:00Met Opera Opening Gala
SOLD OUT! For the season-opening gala starring Renee Fleming, Music Director James Levine and Marco Armiliato conduct fully staged performances.
Monday, 9/22: 6:30The Wiz
Starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson in Sidney Lumet's film version of the Broadway musical that retells the classic Wonderful Wizard of Oz .
Tuesday, 9/23: 8:00Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine
A film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. She is "the real McCoy," as Jerry Gorovoy, her assistant of 30 years, puts it. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day.
Thursday, 9/25: 5:00Thursday, 9/25: 9:00Friday, 9/26: 5:00Friday, 9/26: 9:00Saturday, 9/27: 5:00Saturday, 9/27: 9:00Sunday, 9/28: 5:00Trouble The Water
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen.
Thursday, 9/25: 7:00Friday, 9/26: 7:00Saturday, 9/27: 7:00Sunday, 9/28: 7:00