Lillian Gish would have loved L'avventura's restoration! James Patterson

Screening September 24 at the famous Castro Theater in San Francisco! Buy your tickets soon.   TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 ANTONIONI DOUBLE FEATURE L'AVVENTURA 2:00, 7:00 New Restoration! A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Michelangelo Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love. Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti star in this milestone of film grammar of which Martin Scorsese proclaimed, "Changed my perception of cinema and the world around me, and made both seem limitless." In Italian with English subtitles. (1960, 145 min, 35mm) + RED DESERT 4:40, 9:40 Antonioni’s spellbinding first color film is a provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age. A disaffected woman, hauntingly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wanders through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirts with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris. With one startling, painterly composition after another, Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age. In Italian with English subtitles. (1964, 117 min, 35mm)