ASSAYAS RETROSPECTIVE AT YALE, ANTHOLOGY
Over the next eleven days, Anthology Film Archives, in association with Yale University, is hosting the first serious stateside retrospective of Olivier Assayas, one of the most consistently daring Gallic auteurs working today. He’ll be at Yale today having tea with students and introducing the first American screening of his Boarding Gate, which played Cannes last year to mixed notices. Tomorrow he’ll sit down with Kent Jones of Film Comment, one of the first American critics to recognize Assayas’ work, for a long public chat before heading to Manhattan to introduce Irma Vep at Saturday night’s Anthology screening.
It’s poised to be a terrific month at the little downtown repository for Avant-Garde and other forms of non-pasteurized cinema. Right on the heels of the ten day Assayas retro, Anthology plays host to a Charles Burnett retrospective, featuring not only the recently rereleased Killer of Sheep and My Brother’s Wedding, but his forays into early 90s indiewood, To Sleep With Anger and The Glass Shield. Also on tap are a number of shorts spanning his entire career, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, his part doc part experimental deconstruction of the myths surrounding the slave rebellion leader, and an extremely rare revival of Billy Woodberry’s 1983 feature, Bless Their Little Hearts, which Burnett shot for his UCLA classmate and friend.
