The Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies and Nuray Pictures are proud to present a new 2k restoration of Orson Welles’s THE STRANGER to commemorate the maverick’s centennial birthday. THE STRANGER is an intriguing noir-thriller with stunning images in which An investigator from the War Crimes Commission (Edward G. Robinson) travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor (Orson Welles). Also co-starring Loretta…

    The School of Communication Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies is delighted to host special guest and international film star Liv Ullmann for the November 23rd screening of AUTUMN SONATA (1978). There will be a Q & A with Ms. Ullmann following the film, which will be projected on 35mm as part of the Herrick Center’s Cosford Classics series.   Ms. Ullmann has acted in over fifty films (nine directed by Swedish legend Ingmar Bergman) and directed five…

Presented by the Curtiss Mansion and the School of Communication Norton Herrick Center at the University of Miami   Spend an evening with Buster Keaton in the glorious outdoor courtyard of the Glenn Curtiss Mansion! Movie screening: Sherlock, Jr. (1924)  with an Introduction by Professor Christina Lane, University of Miami.   Plus a Costume Contest: Come dressed in 1920s styles  and enter a Prize Raffle   Sunday, November 16 7:00 p.m. Curtiss Mansion Courtyard Donations gratefully accepted   This is…

Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Filmed in the great tradition of Italian Neorealism, Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy, and highlights director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifelong fascination with the marginalized and dispossessed. Though banned upon its release in Italy for obscenity, today MAMMA ROMA remains a classic, featuring a powerhouse performance by one of…

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were helped define the decade, and RED DESERT, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of…

Fresh off of the international success of LA DOLCE VITA, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini’s alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The…

Theo is a successful doctor in the wealthy suburbs of São Paolo. Having always placed his job before his family, he is a failure as both a father and husband. But when his 15-year-old son disappears, having sold all his belongings and left town on a newly acquired black stallion, Theo goes to great lengths not only to find his son, but to rediscover himself. Rambling through the São Paolo nightscape, from shiny new suburbs to shantytown slums, first-time director…