Regis Dialogues

	September 18 - October 17, 2009 Joel and Ethan Coen: Raising Cain Dialogue: Joel and Ethan Coen “It’s probable that most filmmakers love making movies, but few of them express this love with such voracious, crazy ardor. The brothers are a pair of brilliant oxymorons: shaggy-dog formalists, at once obsessed with every detail and apt to let their stories run wild.” —A.O. Scott,...

	May 15 - June 26, 2009 In & Out of Fashion: The Films of William Klein Dialogue: William Klein and Paulina del Paso William Klein has spent six decades producing works that are raw, direct, and confrontational. As an artist, he has resisted categorization and worked within and across many mediums. His vision embraces a moral conscience and a passion for discord, and his films fall into two disparate but...

	October 3 - 25, 2008 Mike Leigh: Moments Dialogue: Mike Leigh and Scott Foundas Area Premiere: Happy-Go-Lucky “A film can only be interesting if it’s rooted in reality in some way, things can only be funny if they’re rooted in reality, and they can only be tragic if they’re rooted in reality.” —Mike Leigh ...

	April 1 - 22, 2008 Miloš Forman: Cinema of Resistance Dialogue: Miloš Forman and Scott Foundas Nearly 50 cinematic luminaries, visionaries, and dignitaries have come to the Walker via its Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective. Miloš Forman, the subject of the Regis spotlight in April, is typically associated with the celebrated and award-winning films he has made in the United States over...

	September 14 - October 21, 2007 Bla Tarr: Mysterious Harmonies Dialogue: Béla Tarr and Howard Feinstein Regional Premiere: The Man from London (A Londoni férfi) “Some of the very few heroic violations of cinematic norms of our times.” —Susan Sontag (on Béla Tarr’s films) The mesmerizing work of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr,...

	May 11 - June 23, 2007 Michel Gondry: The Science of Dreams Dialogue: Michel Gondry and Jonathan Rosenbaum “Imagination transports you to a place that feels magical. I think people want to kill it because they want you to rationalize it. Life is much more complex than that.” —Michel Gondry Art and film come together easily in the vividly imaginative mind of Michel Gondry. His sets...

	November 4 - 18, 2006 Isabella Rossellini: Illuminated Dialogue: Isabella Rossellini and John Anderson Regional Premiere: The Feast of the Goat “She is sometimes an awestruck little girl, sometimes a regal serenity, sometimes a bawdy beauty with a hair-trigger laugh and a taste for Grand Guignol. She’s always frank and practical, vulnerable and...

	February 3 - 19, 2006 Lili Taylor: Independent Spirit Dialogue: Lili Taylor and B. Ruby Rich Regional Premiere: Factotum Dubbed the “first lady of the indie cinema” by Variety and “irreplaceable” by Roger Ebert, actress Lili Taylor has helped shape the American independent film movement. During a career...

	November 11 - December 13, 2005 Ang Lee with James Schamus: East Meets Western Dialogue: Ang Lee and James Schamus Regional Premiere: Brokeback Mountain “Let’s jump from genre to genre and be filmmakers and see what we can make of these gifts; whether from Hong Kong or Hollywood, these genres are now so often ossified relics. [We need to] go back in there and...

	June 3 - 11, 2005 Alexander Payne: Sideways Glance at America Dialogue: Alexander Payne and Kenneth Turan