Northern Lights Film Society
Northern Lights Film Society shows films both classic and contemporary from around the world. View movies on our 16-foot screen in our newly reconstructed theater. Together with the new projection and sound system in the Arts Center's 106-seat theater, we give the island city its first permanent cinema since the Wilbur Theater stopped showing movies in the early 1970s.
Northern Lights Film Society invites you to the next World of Film program in the Eastport Arts Center theater
Sunday, February 7, 7:00 pm.,
featuring: SEVEN BEAUTIES
Giancarlo Giannini plays Pasqualino Frafuso, an aspiring small-time gangster in Fascist Italy whose moral conscience is constantly overcome by his driving instincts for survival. His efforts lead him from jail to mental hospital to German concentration camp, in situations that are either comic or darkly despairing. A huge success in its U.S. theatrical release, Seven Beauties features first-rate performances from Giannini and Fernando Rey. In Italian with English subtitles.
"Seven Beauties, one of the strangest and most intriguing of recent European films, is absorbing and mysterious. It doesn't explain itself. It presents its funny scenes--Giancarlo Giannini preening himself in the mirror of his own mind, and then unwittingly behaving as a total fool--with the same detachment it uses in scenes of total pessimism. Its virtuoso style, demonstrating once again Miss Wertmuller's mastery of filmmaking, is used to tell us a story that's very opaque, despairing, and bottomless."-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Dir: Lina Wertmuller Italy 1976 111 mins.
Enrollment is at the door (no charge for film; suggested membership-donation $5 to help cover Society and Arts Center costs). Public is cordially invited to join, all are welcome.
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THANKS to all the individuals and organizations whose cooperation helps make it possible for Northern Lights to put on these seminar programs, including: Eastport Arts Center, Shead High School, The Quoddy Tides, Winstanley Institute and Winstanley Fund, Eastport Lycaeum, Shackford Institute, Eastport Unitarians, Quoddy Cinematheque, and Arts & Humanities Outreach Project, Inc.
N.B. The Society and the Lycaeum screen films in this seminar program series under the provisions of U.S. Code TITLE 17 CHAPTER 1 Sec. 110, and under the terms of the public performance umbrella license (12150210) issued to the Society by the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.