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We remember the rock and roll, the fashion, and the whole kids-taking-over-the-world thing. But the Swinging London of the '60s was a font of great cinema, too. In these entertaining and revealing films, the heart of the era is captured, defined, and dissected. Shawn Levy, author of Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London, will present each film and moderate a post-screening chat.

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A Hard Day's Night

Monday, April 8, 10:30 PM

Digital restoration. Plays as part of our Swinging London Cinema Series, hosted by author Shawn Levy.

Swinging London Cinema Series - We remember the rock and roll, the fashion, and the whole kids-taking-over-the-world thing. But the Swinging London of the '60s was a font of great cinema, too. In these entertaining and revealing films, the heart of the era is captured, defined, and dissected.…

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Darling

Monday, April 15, 10:30 PM

Digital restoration. Plays as part of our Swinging London Cinema series, hosted by author Shawn Levy.

DARLING (1965) Sexy and cynical, John Schlesinger's tale of a young woman surfing the cultural and economic opportunities of the times is both a snapshot of the day and a critique of it. Sparkling, beguiling Julie Christie won an Oscar as a dolly bird claiming the prizes that life offers up t…

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Blow-Up

Monday, April 22, 10:30 PM

35mm print! Plays as part of our Swinging London Cinema series, hosted by author Shawn Levy.

BLOW-UP (1966) In a bona fide pop masterpiece, Michelangelo Antonioni aims his gaze at a photographer who thinks he has captured evidence of a crime. A cerebral vision of a hedonistic world, posing a haunting puzzle, preserving some real-life moments of the day, and coolly pointing a crooked finger at huma…

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Performance

Monday, April 29, 10:30 PM

35mm print! Plays as part of our Swinging London Cinema Series, hosted by author Shawn Levy.

PERFORMANCE (1970): When a reclusive rock star and a sadistic gangster become allies, co-directors Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg find rancid corruption at the bottom (the heart?) of the swinging scene. Mick Jagger wrapped in smoke and sex; James Fox flexing an animal cunning; and a thick air of raunch, …

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