New Projector
Fundraiser!
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI IN-PERSON! with her new film LA CHIMERA
Wednesday, May 8th at 7:15 PM
$60 Public | $50 Members
All proceeds from this event will go to
paying for the Cinema’s new projector, which will be installed in June.
Join us for a special evening with legendary actress and author
Isabella Rossellini, featuring a screening of her new movie La
Chimera followed by a Q&A. In the years since her
breakthrough role in 1986’s Blue Velvet, Isabella Rossellini has
established herself as one of the great actresses in modern cinema with amazing
performances in films such as Death Becomes Her, Wild at Heart, Fearless,
Big Night, The Funeral, Left Luggage, The Impostors,
The Saddest Music in the World, Two Lovers, Brand Upon the
Brain!, Incredibles 2, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Problemista,
and now Alice Rohwacher’s magical La Chimera. In recent
years, she has also expanded into filmmaking with works including Green
Porno, Seduce Me, and Animals Distract Me. She has been part
of numerous projects celebrating her beloved parents, actress Ingrid Bergman
and film director Roberto Rossellini, as well as actively supporting local
movie theaters, including the Cinema Arts Centre, and Patchogue’s excellent
Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center. She is the author of several books,
including the best-selling memoir Some of Me, and is an active
campaigner for wildlife conservation. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to
see Isabella Rossellini in person!
La Chimera: With her customarily bewitching
mixture of earthiness and magical realism, filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher
conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught
between the ancient and the modern. Josh O’Connor (The Crown)
stars as Arthur, a ne’er-do well Englishman, handsomely rumpled and recently
out of prison, who returns to a rural town in central Italy where he hesitantly
reconnects with a ragtag group of tombaroli (tomb raiders), for whom he uses
his uncanny powers of divination to locate graves that date back to the
Etruscan period and teem with antiquities of immense value to collectors and
museums. Yet the melancholy Arthur has other ghosts on his mind, including his
long-lost love Beniamina, who haunts his memory like her own ghostly
civilization. Featuring gorgeous rough-hewn textures from the great
cinematographer Hélène Louvart and outstanding performances from Isabella
Rossellini, Carol Duarte, and Alba Rohrwacher, La
Chimera is a dreamlike descent into a majestically tattered world right
beneath our own. (Italy, 2023, 133 min., color, DCP)
“Critic’s Pick! La Chimera sneaks up on you.
Rohrwacher is a discreet virtuoso with a visual style that is appealing and
demonstrably unshowy.” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times
