Currently On Sale On Sale: 2008 Archive SE: Sinatra... SE: Puccini.... Manny Farber IN: Be Like Others YFF: Slumdog... MET Live: Dr Atomic Gr. Scr.: Panel Gr. Scr.: Farming... NYC Opera: Ivan... FCS: Changeling YFF: The man who... FCS: Che! Jon Jost Andrzej Wajda IN: Ice People MET Live: Salome Avant-Garde Oshima YFF: Sonetaula MET Live: Gala FCS: The Other Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands Latinbeat 08 Charlton Heston FCS: Captain Ahab Robert Gavaldón Never Apologize Revolutionary Romantic YFF: L.I.E. IN: Judge & General FCS: The Deal Kawakita Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel Dominique Delouche SE: Four Hands GS: The Cat and... YFF: American Teen Slovenian Cinema SE: Magic Lantern William Holden SE: Jazz on a... Satoshi Kon IN: Critical Condition HRW Collection Human Rights Watch Gr. Scr.: Biùtiful... New Italian Cinema YFF: Judy Berlin Israel @ 60 Charles Boyer Program Overview Le Bonheur Cluny Brown Conquest The Earrings of.... The First Legion Gaslight History Is Made... Hold Back the Dawn Love Affair A Woman’s Vengeance Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä Jennifer Jones SE: Robert Frank SE: Jerry Schatzberg SE: Joachim Trier 1968: Intl. Perspective Romanian Cinema Met: La Fille du Régiment SE: Ned Rorem GS: The Kid Brother YFF: Le Boucher Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop... IN: Phyllis and Harold NYAFF 2008 SE: Dreams... SE: On the Street Met: La Bohème ND/NF Classics 2008 Gr. Scr.: Garbage... Met: Tristan und Isolde Thorold Dickinson Met: Peter Grimes Infernal Machines Rendez-Vous 2008 Green Screens: Flow:... Met: Manon Lescaut YFF: Harold and Maude Film Comment Selects IN: From the Ground Up SE: Two Laws GS: Chang: A Story... Envisioning Russia YFF: The Ice Storm NYJFF 2008 Celebrate Alex Corti NYJFF JM Screens Met: Macbeth SE: City of Men DOC 2008 Met: Hänsel and Gretel On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

History Is Made at Night Series: Charles Boyer and The Art of Seduction [May 23 – 27] Director: Frank Borzage, Country: USA, Release: 1937, Runtime: 98 “For a statement of pure movie romanticism it’s hard to beat Frank Borzage’s History is Made at Night… Boyer is the story’s romantic fulcrum, and Borzage lights his eyes - they pop out of the layered shadows in early, noirish scenes - as carefully as Josef von Sternberg ever lit Marlene Dietrich.” - Rachel Saltz, The New York Times “A sensationally compelling Deco melange that may have inspired Casablanca......Deliriously impassioned climax aboard a sinking luxury liner that is more Titanic than, well, Titanic!" - David Noh, Gay City News In one of the most fitting movie titles of all time, History Is Made at Night alludes to the film’s content––part romance, part farce, part film noir, even part disaster film––and to its story, an unapologetic valentine to the indestructibility of love. Director Frank Borzage was, in the words of critic Andrew Sarris, “that rarest of rarities, an uncompromising romanticist…with a genuine concern for the wondrous inner life of lovers in the midst of adversity.” Paul Dumond, a headwaiter in a posh Paris restaurant (an ideally cast Charles Boyer), is witness to a nasty scene of domestic violence and rescues socialite Irene Vail (Jean Arthur) from her estranged, psychotic husband (Colin Clive). Spending the night in the restaurant where Paul works, the couple succumb to champagne and the late-night mood of romance. But when reality rears its ugly head, Irene must return to New York. Borzage’s talent is his ability to turn on a dime, flipping easily from one mood to another while making the shifts look spontaneous. The final shipboard sequence in which Paul and Irene reunite is truly an example of romance with a capital R, and the great Gregg Toland’s camerawork throughout is one of the film’s masterstrokes. Print courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Buy Tickets Mon May 26: 6 Tue May 27: 2:30