| European Film
Masters Survey opens to the public on Tuesday, January 23, presented by the North
Theatre, with assistance from the City of Danville Local Government Challenge
Grant and the Corning Incorporated Foundation. Over a course of nine Tuesdays
at 3 and 7 PM the theatre will present films from three recognized master filmmakers
from Italy, France and Germany. The tickets are $10.00 for nine films and proceeds
support the ongoing programming of the North Theatre, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3)
charitable cultural arts organization. Tickets can be purchased by sending
a check for $10.00 to the North Theatre at 629 North Main Street, 24540, please
note Film Survey on your check, your tickets will be waiting for you in the theatre
box office one hour before any film survey show time. In person you can buy tickets
at Intermission, serving dinner in the North Theatre complex, and also, at the
Brown Bean, The Danville Museum of Fine Arts Gift Shop and at YENE, a fusion cafe. The
survey opens Tuesday, January 23, with Italian film master Federico Fellini's
La Notti de Cabiria(Nights of Cabiria), in which a waifish prostitute wanders
the streets of Rome looking for true love. Two more from Fellini follow on Tuesday,
January 30 with, La Dolce Vita(The Sweet Life), the classic tale of a playboy
strung out on the party life and celebrity, and playing on February 20, the surreal
visual adventure SATYRICON, set in first century Rome and telling of an
argument between two school boys over the ownership of a slaveboy. French
film master, Jean Renoir's La Crosse d'or(The Golden Coach), plays on Tuesday,
February 27, set in 18th Century Central America, telling the tale of an actress
torn between three men. French Can Can, Renoir's capturing of the revival
of the notorious Parisian Dance, plays on Tuesday, March 27th and the last of
the French films playing on April 3 is the beloved La Grande Illusion(The Grand
Illusion), a World War II, prison escape drama. German films, by Volker
Schlondorff start on Tuesday, May 1 with Die Blechtrommel(The Tin Drum),
winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the story of an unusual boy,
equipped with full intellect from birth and deciding not to grow up in a world
gone crazy. The Handmaid's Tale, plays on May 8, a story of a young woman
placed in sexual slavery by a polluted right wing religious tyranny. The final
film of the entire survey will play on May 15, Der Unhold(The Ogre), a
film set against the back drop of Nazi occupied Europe, stars John Malkovich,
as a misunderstood common man that is falsely accused of child molestation, when
his attempts to protect children are misunderstood. For more information
call the theatre at: (434)792-2700, or go to www.norththeatre.com
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