James Gray’s Adventures in Moviegoing
13 Episodes
In the latest edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Queens-born filmmaker and famously delightful raconteur James Gray (TWO LOVERS, ARMAGEDDON TIME) discusses his filmic education courtesy of New York’s vibrant repertory cinemas and the formative discoveries that shaped his uniquely intelligent approach to moviemaking. The films he has selected—including exemplars of elegant, emotionally layered storytelling like Alexander Korda’s THAT HAMILTON WOMAN, Luchino Visconti’s ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, and Lina Wertmüller’s SEVEN BEAUTIES—reflect the commitment to careful craftsmanship and complex moral inquiry that have helped make Gray one of the most thoughtful and sincere American directors working today.
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23:36Episode 1James Gray in Conversation
Episode 1
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03:06Episode 2James Gray on MODERN TIMES
Episode 2
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1:27:16Episode 3Modern Times
Episode 3
Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1936 • United States
Starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry BergmanMODERN TIMES, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette...
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04:50Episode 4James Gray on THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
Episode 4
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2:05:39Episode 5That Hamilton Woman
Episode 5
Directed by Alexander Korda • 1941 • United Kingdom
One of cinema's most dashing duos, real-life spouses Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier live their greatest on-screen romance in this visually dazzling tragic love story from legendary producer-director Alexander Korda. Set against the backdrop ...
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05:17Episode 6James Gray on STROMBOLI
Episode 6
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Stromboli
Episode 7
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1950 • Italy, United States
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Mario VitaleThe first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic isla...
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05:23Episode 8James Gray on ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
Episode 8
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2:58:50Episode 9Rocco and His Brothers
Episode 9
Directed by Luchino Visconti • 1960 • Italy
Starring Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato SalvatoriLooking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and...
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04:17Episode 10James Gray on TUNES OF GLORY
Episode 10
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1:47:39Episode 11Tunes of Glory
Episode 11
Directed by Ronald Neame • 1960 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guinness, John MillsIn Ronald Neame’s TUNES OF GLORY, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair—a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclai...
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04:34Episode 12James Gray on TOBY DAMMIT
Episode 12
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43:36Episode 13Toby Dammit
Episode 13
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1968 • Italy
Starring Terence StampLoosely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s story “Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” Federico Fellini’s contribution to the omnibus film SPIRITS OF THE DEAD is one of the filmmaker’s most extravagantly stylized cinematic dreamscapes—a p...
