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A portrait of the budding artist as a young boy, told completely from inside the child’s mind, The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies’s exquisitely beautiful work of autobiographical fantasia. Followed by book event celebrating the reissue of Terence Davies’s novel Hallelujah Now. 

Terence Davies’s first three shorts are among the most accomplished debuts in film history, profoundly personal in theme and with a preternatural grasp of cinematic grammar. Consisting of Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980), and Death and Transfiguration (1973), the films together form nothing less than the complete scope of a man’s earthly existence, set in the Liverpool of Davies’s youth.

Terence Davies broke through on the international cinema scene after his debut feature stunned audiences at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film illustrates with abstraction, beauty, and occasional horror Davies’s memories of his family in 1950s Liverpool.

Terence Davies’s magnificent, faithful adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph. Gillian Anderson’s performance is one of the cinema’s great embodiments of the ironic toll human virtue takes on the body and the soul. Introduced by Michael Barker, Co-President of Sony Pictures Classics.

Davies’s lush, meticulous, and deeply moving adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play stars Rachel Weisz as Hester Collyer, a woman who abandons her passionless marriage to a wealthy barrister, entering a torrid affair with a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot, the consequences of which plunge her life into ruin.

Peckinpah’s masterpiece is at once classical and revisionist, an exemplar of the very genre it so brilliantly subverts, building towards a famously violent climax that seemed to all but put a fork in the genre. 

Peckinpah’s masterpiece is at once classical and revisionist, an exemplar of the very genre it so brilliantly subverts, building towards a famously violent climax that seemed to all but put a fork in the genre. 

Following a series of mostly brainless early ’80s sex comedies and first-love dramas, Risky Business surprised with its sexual sophistication and sharp commentary on the growing capitalist mania of the Reagan era. Tom Cruise offers a pure, embryonic dose of the singular charms that would define a decade.

Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s epochal young adult novel, set in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a 1980s teen classic, breathtakingly acted by an astute cast of up-and-comers (including Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and a young Tom Cruise) and directed with an unmistakable humanity. Screens 6/21 and 6/22 on 35mm.

Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s epochal young adult novel, set in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a 1980s teen classic, breathtakingly acted by an astute cast of up-and-comers (including Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and a young Tom Cruise) and directed with an unmistakable humanity. Screens 6/21 and 6/22 on 35mm.

In this absurdly entertaining melodrama, Tom Cruise plays a business student turned strutting bartender whose formidable pouring skills prove to be no match for hard doses of reality after the mixologist gets mixed up in the unresolved life of his cynical bartender mentor (Bryan Brown), while also falling hard for Elisabeth Shue.

John Grisham’s best-selling novel about an idealistic young lawyer (Tom Cruise) fresh out of Harvard Law School who gets embroiled in the criminal machinations of a boutique law firm in Memphis, gets a full-bodied, gripping cinematic treatment from Sydney Pollack.