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AP BIO

AP BIO

at the Philadelphia Film Center

No late night study sessions or textbooks needed for these adventurous films that forego the standard, Oscar-baity practices synonymous with the cinematic biopic tradition for more imaginative, unique, and illuminating interpretations of life.

Tickets
$13 | $9 for PFS Members


8 1/2
FEDERICO FELLINI | ITALY, FRANCE | 1963 | 138 MIN
September 9 | 6:30 PM | Film Center
A famous Italian director’s writer’s block leads him to seek inspiration from the people of his past in Fellini’s timeless and dreamy rumination on the director’s life and creative process.

 

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MIRROR
ANDREI TARKOVSKY | SOVIET UNION | 1975 | 107 MIN
September 10 | 6:00 PM | Film Center
Unraveling like a stream of consciousness, Andrei Tarkovsky’s most intimate and visually stunning work finds a dying poet reflecting upon different stages of his life in the Soviet Union.

 

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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
TERRY GILLIAM | USA | 1998 | 118 MIN | R
September 10 | 9:00 PM | Film Center
Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson’s psychedelic odyssey into Sin City to rue the decimation of the American Dream is filled with bats, lizard people, and a trunk full of drugs.

 

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BONNIE AND CLYDE
ARTHUR PENN | USA | 1967 | 111 MIN | R
September 11 | 3:00 PM | Film Center
New Hollywood was ushered in with a bang, and some sex, when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty took on the roles of the eponymous, free-wheeling bank robbers that would come to define an era.

 

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THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
SERGEI PARAJANOV | SOVIET UNION | 1969 | 79 MIN
September 11 | 6:00 PM | Film Center
Often cited as one of cinema’s greatest achievements, the life of Armenian poet Sayat-Nova is visually told through jaw-dropping and surreal tableaux from director Sergei Parajanov.

 

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PERSEPOLIS
MARJANE SATRAPI, VINCENT PARONNOUD | FRANCE, USA | 2007 | 96 MIN | PG-13
September 16 | 7:00 PM | Film Center
With evocative animation, Marjane Satrapi adapts her own graphic novel about coming of age during the Iranian Revolution and her family’s strength and survival under a new regime.

 

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NAKED LUNCH on 35MM
DAVID CRONENBERG | CANADA, UK, JAPAN | 1991 | 115 MIN | R
September 16 | 9:30 PM | Film Center
Welcome to Interzone as David Cronenberg blends the life of the Beat Generation’s godfather, William S. Burroughs, with the junk-fuelled hallucinations of the author’s most famous work.

 

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MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS
PAUL SCHRADER | USA, JAPAN | 1985 | 120 MIN | R
September 17 | 5:00 PM | Film Center
The life and work of conflicted Japanese writer Yukio Mishima is genuinely intertwined with Phillip Glass’ rousing score in Paul Schrader’s brilliant masterpiece about the sacrifice made for art.

 

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BADLANDS
TERRENCE MALICK | USA | 1973 | 94 MIN | PG
September 18 | 6:00 PM | Film Center
Inspired by true events, Terrence Malick’s revered 1973 debut captures the dissolution of innocence in America when a young girl involves herself in the midst of a killing spree with her hot-headed boyfriend.

 

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