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SPECIAL THANKS TO ROSS KLEIN, JAMES ORR (MGM); SUZANNE LEROY,
MICHAEL SCHLESINGER (SONY REPERTORY); MELANIE VALERA, BARRY ALLEN (PARAMOUNT);
PAUL GINSBURG, BOB O’NEIL (UNIVERSAL PICTURES); SCHAWN BELSTON,
CAITLIN ROBERTSON (TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX); AND RICK YANKOWSKI (CRITERION PICTURES). APRIL 27/28 FRI/SAT (1964, GUY HAMILTON) “Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” Bobbing up from under a stuffed seagull, a frogman strips to reveal an impeccably white dinner jacket — Sean Connery as James Bond, of course. Here, after Shirley Bassey belts the chart-busting title tune, 007 squares off against Gert Frobe’s eponymous master criminal and his fiendish plot to corner the world’s gold reserves, with Fort Knox (Kentucky) the prize; while dodging torture by laser and that steel-belted hat from Japanese sidekick “Oddjob” — and not dodging Honor Blackman’s Pussy Galore or the tragically golden-hued Shirley Eaton. 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 "Arguably the best Bond ever, the third entry in the franchise has it all: not one but two memorable villains, numerous gadgets, a provocatively named femme fatale, incredible set pieces and a laser aimed at somebody's crotch. What's not to love?" “THE BEST BOND MOVIE... The Aston Martin blowing its top. The gold-plated girl. The golf caddy with the lethal bowler. You don’t get much cooler than that in entire 007 oeuvre. It’s only the third film, but its packed with some of the most iconic moments and quotable lines in the whole franchise...as priceless as ever.” APRIL 29 SUN 1:00, 3:10, 5:20*, 7:30, 9:40 “Dr. No is still hot!” – Grady Hendrix, The New York Sun “The stripped-down look sure works for Ursula Andress. “Sets up a box office bonanza with its gleeful blend of sex, violence and wit, as memorable as anything in the series.”– Time Out (London) APRIL 30 MON (2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)
3:40, 7:30 "There are two reasons to sit through this spy spoof, and no, they're not the plot and script." – Time Out New York "A trim, zingy and splashy adventure-thriller." – New York Times (1968, MARIO BAVA) Mod, Mod 60s romp as John Phillip Law’s title super-criminal destroys Italy’s tax records and steals a 20-ton radioactive gold bar. 1:45, 5:35, 9:25 "You owe it to yourself... John Phillip Law plays the master thief of Angela and Luciana Giussani's comic books, gorgeous Marisa Mell is his moll, and you, my friends, will be in heaven." "A trip not to be missed! Based on a popular Italian comic strip with a lurid look to match, the flick works fine as a mod crime film. But it's Morricone's psychedelic pop tunes, especially Bond-worthy credits number 'Deep Down.' will have you Watusi-ing for days!" - "A stylish sci-fi thriller, made with the visual panache that was the stock in-trade of ex-cameraman turned director Bava." “Delightfully outlandish . . . hits a
high note of fantasy worthy of Cocteau.” MAY 1 TUE 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 “The movie that proved there would be life after Sean Connery. Savor some of the niftiest gadgets (a bullet-deflecting, chain-saw wristwatch) and cleverest action beats (Bond hopscotching through an alligator pond) of the entire series.” MAY 2 WED THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977, LEWIS GILBERT) “It’s the biggest. It’s the best. It’s Bond... and beyond!” Curt Jurgens is a man with a mission: stealing British and Russian submarines to destroy the world so he can repopulate it from his underwater city — and why not? Roger Moore’s 007, following a spectacular pre-credits entrance and opening titles featuring Carly Simon’s mega-hit “Nobody Does It Better,” teams with a deadly enemy, Russian Major Barbara Bach (later Mrs. Ringo Starr), to save the day, while fending off Richard Kiel’s seemingly-invincible, steel-toothed “Jaws.” 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 “One of the first movies to blow me away with its visual and sonic extravagance.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times MAY 3 THU (2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)
(1966, PHIL KARLSON) Sporting a bachelor pad so hip his bed slides right into an Olympic-sized bubble bath, professional lenser Dean Martin takes breaks from photographing beautiful women by foiling fiendish plots to take over the world — this time it’s Victor Buono’s sabotage plan involving sameday missile and underground bomb tests. Martin was never more Dino-ish than as super-spy Matt Helm, with Stella Stevens never more gorgeous than as a klutzy suspect. 1:30, 5:30, 9:30 “Crude but good-natured super-spy nonsense.” – Pauline Kael OUR MAN FLINT (1966, DANIEL MANN) “It has fifty-eight functions. Fifty-nine if you want to light a cigarette.” When the death rate for spies around the world suddenly spikes, and mad scientists team up to control the world’s weather, only one man can save the day, James Coburn’s omnitalented (when he goes to Moscow for the Ballet, it’s “to teach”) Derek Flint, the World’s Greatest Secret Agent, much to the chagrin of long-suffering boss Lee J. Cobb.
“James Coburn was always underrated as a comic actor and his supersuave spy Derek Flint MAY 4/5 FRI/SAT (1963, TERENCE YOUNG) “He seems fit,” allows Brecht/Weill legend Lotte Lenya after buffed-up hit man Robert Shaw (Jaws, The Taking of Pelham 123) shrugs off her brass-knuckled punch to his gut; then he proves it in a compartment-wrecking battle on a moving train with Connery’s Bond — himself on the trail of a Russian decoding device. Or is it a SPECTRE trap to pay Bond off for that Dr. No business? 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 “Lotte Lenya’s turn as a homicidal spy is the highlight of the second Bond picture— MAY 6 SUN (1971, GUY HAMILTON) “I didn’t know there was a pool down there.” In Connery’s Bond swan song (or so he thought at the time: see May 17), 007 kills Blofeld (Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Charles Gray) — or does he?; hurtles through the streets of Las Vegas in a frenetic car chase, and through the desert in a dune buggy; hooks up with “independent operator” Tiffany Case (Jill St. John) and “Plenty” O’Toole (Natalie Wood’s younger sister Lana); and gets his butt kicked by female strongarms Bambi and Thumper: all in search of smuggled diamonds. With Shirley Bassey once again belting the title tune. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 “Sean Connery returns to the fold for what some aficionados consider the last 'real' Bond film: a thrilling Las Vegas–set romp that evokes the casual sprightliness of silent serials.” MAY 7 MON (2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)
(1965, MARTIN RITT) “Communism. Capitalism. It’s the
innocents who get slaughtered.” Wanting out; going on a
drunken binge that ends in jail; and getting involved with
Claire Bloom’s Brit Communist: it’s clear Richard Burton’s
washed up as a spy and prime material for defection. But is
it all a sham? And when he does go over, is his mission what
he thought it was? Dark, gritty adaptation of John LeCarré’s
first international bestseller. 3:30, 7:40 “Richard Burton’s detached, cynical agent may be the performance of his career.” – Time Out New York OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959, CAROL REED) Havana vacuum cleaner salesman Alec Guinness gets mistakenly recruited by British spy Noël Coward, then, when he finds he’s in it for keeps, realizes that making up secrets is easier than discovering them. Graham Greene scripted from his own novel, with incredible cast including Ralph Richardson, Burl Ives and Ernie Kovacs, plus stunning views of pre-Castro Havana. 1:25, 5:35, 9:45 “Satirical comedy turns into a nightmarish thriller... its naughtiness is terribly funny. Greene employs the Cuban locations as wittily as he does the actors.” MAY 8 TUE (1983, JOHN GLEN) As the Soviets mass overwhelming armored forces along the border between East and West, maverick general Steven Berkoff is arguing they should throw in some nukes as well and — horrors! — the world’s art market is being flooded with fake Fabergé eggs! With Maud Adams in the title role (her first Bond girl role in almost a decade: see May 16); locations from India to Cuba to Germany; Louis Jourdan (Gigi) as Kamal Khan, arguably the series’ suavest villain; a title song from 70s icon Rita Coolidge; and Roger Moore’s Bond masquerading as a crocodile, gorilla, and clown. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 “More like the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road movies than the Bonds. Features a chase sequence in a crowded marketplace, with a great camera angle on a camel looking up and doing a double-take as an automobile flies over its head.” MAY 9 WED FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981, JOHN GLEN) “My nightie is slipping.” “So is your accent, Countess.” In a freighter sunk off Greece is a device that allows control of all of Britain’s nuclear submarines; and in the hunt are Roger Moore’s Bond, sly slimeball Julian Glover, gorgeous Carole Bouquet (Buñuel’s Obscure Object of Desire and Chanel commercial star), out for revenge on her father’s murderers, plus easy-going smuggler Topol (Fiddle on the Roof’s movie Tevye). With title song warbler Sheena Easton and stunts from mountaintops to underwater. MAY 10 THU (2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)
(1965, SYDNEY J. FURIE) After enough top government
scientists go missing and then return brainwashed, Michael
Caine’s bespectacled Cockney Harry Palmer must track down
a traitor, contending with upper-class snobbery, bureaucratic
red tape, and a psychedelic torture chamber en route, with a
supermarket cart as dangerous weapon. Caine’s star-making
role as Len Deighton’s nameless — in the books — secret
agent; plus John Barry score and
a barrage of eccentric camera
angles. 3:30, 7:40 “Michael Caine is magnificent!” – Grady Hendrix, The New York Sun BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (1967, KEN RUSSELL) So broke even an assignment to carry a thermos flask to Finland looks good, Michael Caine’s ex-secret agent Harry Palmer lands right in the midst of right-wing zillionaire Ed Begley’s plan to take out those Russkies with his private army, aided by a supercomputer with a strangely engaging personality of its own. Early, relatively mainstream work from certified wild man Ken Russell, with final reel parody of Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and beautiful Françoise Dorléac (sister of Catherine Deneuve) in her final role. 1:25, 5:35, 9:45 MAY 11 FRI (1967, LEWIS GILBERT) “... and twice is the only way to live!” When a spacejacking leads to harsh words between the superpowers, it’s obvious that SPECTRE’s up to its old tricks, and it’s time for Connery’s Bond to head for the Far East, and encounters with Japanese cutie Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama), German Karin Dor, subway-riding secret service head “Tiger” Tanaka (samurai regular Tetsuro Tamba), and, at last, SPECTRE’s Number One, pussycat-stroking Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). With Bond’s bizarre makeover into a Japanese fisherman, fake volcano finale, and Nancy Sinatra title song. Screenplay by Roald (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Dahl! MAY 12 SAT (1969, PETER R. HUNT) “Someone is re-arranging a few bodies... and a few bodies are arranging themselves for him.” Blofeld’s back (this time played by a pre-Kojak Telly Savalas), planning to wage biological warfare from a spectacular Alpine aerie. But it’s a post-Avengers Diana Rigg who’s got George Lazenby’s 007 (the Australian model’s one and only appearance in the role); as the daughter of crime boss Gabriele Ferzetti (Antonioni’s L’Avventura), she links up with Bond for the series’ one true love story. But there’s also series action peaks in a nighttime ski sequence, a car chase down icy streets, and a bobsled showdown. Director Hunt was the innovative editor of the first four Bonds. 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 “The only Bond movie with an actual love story.” - Joshua Rich, Entertainment Weekly MAY 13 SUN (1965, TERENCE YOUNG) “What I did tonight was for Queen and country!” After Adolfo Celi, SPECTRE’s Numero Due, steals two nukes for international blackmailing purposes, Connery’s Bond takes on his foe’s widow (or is she?), makes a getaway via Jet Pack, handles dangerous redhead Luciana Paluzzi with care, has fun with “Domino” Derval (Miss France Claudine Auger) at the bottom of the sea, then joins a mass underwater showdown. When Tom Jones recorded the title song, he asked what “strikes like thunderball” meant; even the lyricist couldn’t tell him. See the remake on May 17. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 “Such a catchy plot it’s been copied and spoofed for 40 years. Bond in the Bahamas remains hard to beat and that flying jetpack is still one of 007’s suavest exits.” MAY 14 MON (2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)
(1967, JOHN HUSTON, ET AL.) “My doctor says I can’t have bullets enter my body at any time.” Five (count ‘em!) directors; seven 007s, including David Niven, Peter Sellers, Dr. No’s Ursula Andress, and the even-more-unlikely Woody Allen; and an all-star-cast-to-end-all-all-star-casts, including Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, William Holden, John Huston and, as the biggest of all the Bond super-villains, Orson Welles. 2:45, 7:00 “The big budget Monty Python movie that never was… Truly psychedelic and deeply anti-establishment. Casino Royale manages to be the only Bond movie actually engaged with reality. It’s so surreal that 40 years later it feels real.” “Woody Allen has his best moments yet on film.” – Pauline Kael (1965, NORMAN TAUROG) “Super sexbots... built to kill!” As silk smoking-jacketed Vincent Price lurks in his laboratory/dungeon beneath a funeral parlor, his sexy gold-bikini-clad robots set out to divest the world’s richest men of their gazillions. Can “secret” agents Frankie Avalon and Dwayne (Dobie Gillis) Hickman save the world from this fiendish plot? Title song sung by The Supremes. From the Oscar-winning director of Boys Town and nine Elvis musicals! 1:00, 5:10, 9:25 “Leering silliness and ingénues in bikinis.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum MAY 15 TUE (1985, JOHN GLEN) 007 for the 80s. Industrialist Christopher Walken decides to corner the world computer chip market the easy way — he’ll simply destroy Silicon Valley with an earthquake — and he’s got scary Grace Jones as his sidekick! Roger Moore (in his final Bond outing) does a routine entrance via skiis, snowmobile, and snowboard, then teams with Avengers legend Patrick Macnee and ex-Charlie’s Angel Tanya Roberts; with a leap from the Eiffel Tower, and a firetruck/police car chase across San Francisco among the action highlights. Plus Duran Duran’s super-hit title song. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 MAY 16 WED (1974, GUY HAMILTON) “The girls are willing... the pace is killing.” A car rotates 360 degrees as it flies over a river; luscious babes fling themselves at OO7 amid exotic locations (Hong Kong, Thailand, etc.), while our hero once again saves the world, here from a scheme to corner a solar energy device. Roger Moore, in his second essay of the part, squares off against Christopher Lee’s gold-loving gunman Scaramanga, Britt Eckland’s good Bond girl Mary Goodnight, Maud Adams’s bad Bond girl Andrea Anders, Hervé Villechaize’s Nick Nack (unofficial prototype of his later Fantasy Island Tattoo), and Clifton James in a reprise of his Live and Let Die redneck sheriff. 60s pop idol Lulu sings the title song. MAY 17 THU (1983, IRVIN KERSHNER) That dastardly Largo, SPECTRE’s Number Two, steals two nukes en route to world blackmail — sound familiar? For complex contractual reasons, this was a free remake of Thunderball, with a different M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny — but with Sean Connery returning as Bond after 12 years (the title refers to his onetime vow not to play the role ever again). This time it’s Kim Basinger as Domino, Barbara Carrera as the temptress, and, acting-wise, the most formidable villains ever: Klaus Maria Brandauer (Mephisto) as Largo and, as Blofeld, Ingmar Bergman great Max von Sydow. 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 |
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GOLDFINGER
DR. NO
(1962, TERENCE YOUNG) When a
British agent disappears in
Jamaica, Sean Connery’s 007 is
sent in to investigate — why does
nobody come back alive from Crab
Key? First big screen Bond
adventure is perhaps closest to
the books, and sans the later
gadgetry and pyrotechnics, but
who cares when Ursula Andress’s Honey Ryder rises bikiniclad
from the surf? With Joseph Wiseman (Brando’s Judas in
Viva Zapata!) in the missile-redirecting title role.
DANGER: DIABOLIK
LIVE AND LET DIE
THE SILENCERS
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
THE SPY WHO CAME IN
FROM THE COLD
OCTOPUSSY
YOU ONLY
LIVE TWICE
ON HER MAJESTY’S
SECRET SERVICE
THUNDERBALL
CASINO ROYALE
DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE
BIKINI MACHINE
A VIEW TO A KILL
THE MAN WITH THE
GOLDEN GUN
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN