August screening

3.30 pm The Cranes Are Flying Dir: Mikhail Kalatozov ( Russia/1957/96 mins/B&W) Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova) and Boris (Alexei Batalov), a couple who are blissfully in love until World War II tears them apart. With Boris at the front, Veronica must try to ward off spiritual numbness and defend herself from the increasingly forceful advances of her beau’s draft-dodging cousin. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, The Cranes Are Flying is a superbly crafted drama, cinematography(ahead of its times) by Kalatozov’s regular collaborator Sergei Urusevsky. This Film by Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. 5.40 pm Mr. Turner Dir: Mike Leigh (UK/2014/150 mins) Spanning the last 25 years of Britain’s most revered painter JMW Turner (1775-1851), is a rich portrait of the artist whose personal life was as turbulent as the canvases he painted. Timothy Spall (playing Mr. Turner) won the best actor award…