In film editor Paul Barnes’ next Master Class at the Center for Contemporary Arts, three scenes from Arthur Penn’s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde will be analyzed. Participants will screen each scene and then delve into a detailed analysis of the editing choices made by Dede Allen. Each scene employs a different editing style tailored to its storytelling needs.
The three scenes to be examined are the opening scene where Bonnie and Clyde meet, edited in a conventional yet distinctive manner with unique touches by Allen; the Parker family reunion scene, characterized by its poetic and lyrical style, incorporating jump cuts, slow motion, and innovative sound techniques; and the final ambush and killing of Bonnie and Clyde, renowned for its fast-paced editing montage, one of the most iconic in cinema history. The classes are at 1 p.m.
and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 3, and cost $20.
For more information, visit ccasantafe.org . AFRAID Curtis and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new device, a digital assistant called AIA, that takes smart homes to the next level.
As AIA begins to learn everyone’s behavior and anticipate their needs, it soon makes sure nothing and no one gets in the family’s way. Horror/drama, rated PG-13, 84 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown CITY OF DREAMS Jesús is a young Mexican farmer who travels to Los Angeles with the promise of training at a soccer camp. However, when he realizes he’s really been sold to a sweatshop to work grueling 18-hour days, he devises a daring plan to escape to freedom.
Thriller/drama, rated R, 96 minutes, Violet Crown CORALINE (2009) While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.
Family/horror, rated PG, 115 minutes, Violet Crown GOOD ONE 17-year-old Sam embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad and his oldest friend. As the two men quickly settle into a gently quarrelsome brotherly dynamic, airing long-held grievances, Sam, wise beyond her years, attempts to mediate. But when lines are crossed and Sam’s trust is betrayed, tensions reach a fever pitch as Sam struggles with her dad’s emotional limitations and experiences the universal moment when the parental bond is tested.
Drama, rated R, 90 minutes, Violet Crown MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose decades-long collaboration led to a series of classics that made the duo a crucial part of British cinema. Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and Pressburger when he was a child, sitting in front of the family TV. When their famous logo came up on screen, Scorsese says, “You knew you were in for fantasy, wonder, magic — real film magic.
” Now he tells the story of his lifelong love-affair with their movies, including The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp , Black Narcissus , The Red Shoes, and The Tales of Hoffmann . Documentary, not rated, 131 minutes, CCA MY PENGUIN FRIEND Humble fisherman João (Jean Reno) has turned away from the world in the wake of tragedy. But when he discovers a penguin drifting alone in the ocean, drenched in oil from a spill, his first instinct is to help.
To his wife’s dismay, he not only rescues the sea creature, but takes the flightless bird under his wing. When the penguin suddenly disappears back into the immense ocean, João believes it is impossible that he will ever see his friend again. But thousands of miles away, the penguin is caught in misadventures of his own, determined to use his unique GPS-like powers to find his way back to the place he now considers home.
Based on an a true story. Family/adventure, rated PG, 97 minutes, CCA REAGAN From the glitter of Hollywood to the world stage, Ronald Reagan (Dennis Quaid) overcomes the odds to become the 40th president of the United States. Drama/biopic, rated PG-13, 135 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Violet Crown THE WASP Estranged childhood friends Heather (Naomie Harris) and Carla (Natalie Dormer) reunite for a cup of tea only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.
As the two navigate a web of secrets and hidden agendas, the true nature of their meeting slowly comes to light, revealing a shocking and perilous reality that neither could have anticipated. Psychological thriller, rated R, 95 minutes, CCA THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947) Saturday, August 31 An in-depth exploration of the research, creation and utilization of the first atomic bomb alongside the bombing in Hiroshima. Screening as part of the 2024 Los Alamos Oppenheimer Festival.
Documentary, not rated, 112 minutes, SALA Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema , 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, ext.105, ccasantafe.org Dreamcatcher 10 , 15 State Road 106, Española; dreamcatcher10.
com Jean Cocteau Cinema , 418 Montezuma Avenue, 505-466-5528, jeancocteaucinema.com No Name Cinema , 2013 Piñon Street, nonamecinema.org Regal Santa Fe Place 6 , 4250 Cerrillos Road, 505-424-6109, sfnm.
co/3o2Cesk SALA Los Alamos Event Center , 2551 Central Avenue, Los Alamos; 505-412-6030; sala.losalamos.com Violet Crown , 106 Alcaldesa St.
, 505-216-5678, santafe.violetcrown.com DUNE (19 84) Wednesday, September 4 In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis.
A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens. However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul (Kyle MacLachlan), Leto’s son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle for control of the planet and its spice. Based on Frank Herbert’s epic novel.
Directed by David Lynch. Sci-fi/adventure, rated PG-13, 137 minutes, Violet Crown EASY RIDER (1969) Saturday, August 31, and Sunday, September 1 Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth. On their journey, they experience bigotry and hatred from the inhabitants of small-town America and also meet with other travelers seeking alternative lifestyles.
After a terrifying drug experience in New Orleans, the two travelers wonder if they will ever find a way to live peacefully in America. Adventure, rated R, 95 minutes, Jean Cocteau Cinema THE KILLERS (1964) Sunday, September 1 Two hitmen kill an ex-getaway driver, then hunt for the money he purportedly stole in a previous robbery. They probe their victim’s past, seeking clues on the robbery that should have made them rich.
Based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. With Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson, and Ronald Reagan in his last Hollywood film. Crime/thriller, not rated, 93 minutes, Violet Crown THE LEGO MOVIE (2014) Saturday, August 31 Emmet (Chris Pratt), an ordinary LEGO figure who always follows the rules, is mistakenly identified as The Special — an extraordinary being and the key to saving the world.
He finds himself drafted into a fellowship of strangers who are on a mission to stop an evil tyrant’s (Will Ferrell) plans to conquer the world. Unfortunately for Emmet, he is hopelessly — and hilariously — unprepared for such a task, but he’ll give it his all nonetheless. Part of the PJs and Movies Saturday morning series.
Comedy/family, rated PG, 95 minutes, SALA NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Wednesday, September 4, and Thursday, September 5 A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben does his best to control the situation, but when the reanimated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside.
One by one, the living humans become the prey of the deceased ones. Horror, not rated, 96 minutes, Jean Cocteau Cinema OPPENHEIMER AFTER TRINITY (2023) Saturday, August 31 Declassified documents, rare film footage, and exclusive interviews reveal the burden carried by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
Written and produced by Larry L. Sheffield (The Atomic Rocketeer). Screening as part of the 2024 Los Alamos Oppenheimer Festival.
Documentary, not rated, 58 minutes, SALA THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) Monday, September 2 The Video Library, America’s oldest video rental store, hosts Video Club free movie screenings each Monday at Jean Cocteau Cinema. This week’s film follows the exploits of Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine) and Danny Dravot (Sean Connery), English military officers stationed in India. Tired of life as soldiers, the two travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers.
After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can’t keep up their deception forever. Action/adventure, rated PG, 129 minutes, Jean Cocteau Cinema SALT OF THE EARTH (1954) Monday, September 2 At New Mexico’s Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife with a similar unfairness.
When an injunction stops the men from protesting, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home. Filmed in Silver City, this is the only blacklisted film in American film history. Created at the height of the McCarthyism scourge, the production was fraught with interference by thugs.
Because the producers feared both sabotage and destruction of the film, the exposed footage had to be developed in secret by a sympathetic lab technician, with the film delivered in unmarked canisters. Drama, not rated, 94 minutes, CCA THE THICKET Saturday, August 31 An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill (Juliette Lewis) and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage), a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute.
The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign. Western/thriller, rated R, 108 minutes, Jean Cocteau Cinema ALIEN: ROMULUS Space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station. Horror/sci-fi, rated R, 119 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown THE ATOMIC ROCKETEER The story of German scientist Wernher von Braun and his band of German Rocketeers acquired by the Americans days after the fall of Germany during WWII.
Screening as part of the 2024 Los Alamos Oppenheimer Festival. Documentary, not rated, 104 minutes, SALA BETWEEN THE TEMPLES Ben (Jason Schwartzman) is a 40-something cantor losing his voice and possibly his faith. Struggling to meet the expectations of his rabbi, congregation, and not one but two Jewish mothers, Ben finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) reenters his life as an adult bat mitzvah student.
Comedy/drama, rated R, 111 minutes, Violet Crown BLINK TWICE When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends for a dream vacation on his private island. Wild nights soon blend into sun-soaked days, but when strange things start to happen, Frida must uncover the truth if she hopes to make it out alive. Zoë Kravitz directs.
Mystery/thriller, rated R, 102 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown THE CROW In this reimagining of the 1994 cult classic, soulmates Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Draven returns to seek bloody revenge against the killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right. Action/fantasy, rated R, 111 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool.
They team up to defeat a common enemy. Comedy/action, rated R, 127 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown DESPICABLE ME Gru and Lucy welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr. Their peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal escapes from prison and vows revenge against Gru.
Family/comedy, rated PG, 95 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Violet Crown DÌDI In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love his mom. Comedy/drama, rated R, 93 minutes, Violet Crown FIRST WE BOMBED NEW MEXICO Director Lois Lipman’s untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb, detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima. Thousands of New Mexicans — mostly Hispanic and Native American — were exposed to radioactive fallout with generations of cancers following.
New Mexico cancer survivor Tina Cordova has catalyzed a movement seeking compensation for families who suffer multigenerational cancers tied to that bomb and who continue to be ignored. Screening as part of the 2024 Los Alamos Oppenheimer Festival. Documentary, not rated, 95 minutes, SALA THE FORGE A year out of high school with no plans for his future, a boy is challenged by his single mom and a successful businessman to start charting a better course for his life.
Drama, rated PG, 123 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10 INSIDE OUT 2 The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust have been running a successful operation by all accounts. However, when Anxiety shows up, they aren’t sure how to feel.
Family/comedy, rated PG, 96 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Violet Crown IT ENDS WITH US Lily Bloom moves to Boston to follow her dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with Ryle Kincaid sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall in love, she begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents’ relationship. When Lily’s first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with Ryle is upended, leaving her with an impossible choice.
Romance/drama, rated PG-13, 130 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning biographical feature film about American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. Drama, rated R, 180 minutes, SALA STRANGE DARLING Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Horror/mystery, rated R, 96 minutes, Violet Crown SUGARCANE In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, Sugarcane illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.
Documentary, rated R, 107 minutes, CCA TWISTERS Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is lured to the open plains to test a new tornado tracking system. She crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a storm-chasing social-media superstar. As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler, and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma.
Action/thriller, rated PG-13, 122 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Violet Crown SOURCES: Google, IMDb.com , RottenTomatoes.com , Vimeo.
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