Double Feature
Wild Strawberries
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg – masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström – is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries dramatizes one man’s remarkable voyage of self-discovery. This richly humane masterpiece, full of iconic imagery, is a treasure from the golden age of art-house cinema and one of the films that catapulted Ingmar Bergman to international acclaim. (Janus Films)
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Starring
- Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Folke Sundquist, Ingrid Thulin
- Year
- 1957
- Country
- Sweden
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 92 minutes
The Straight Story
Academy Award nominee Richard Farnsworth (Misery, The Natural) stars as Alvin Straight – a no-nonsense man who has never been one to lean on others. Now at an age when his eyesight denies him the ability to drive, and walking is accomplished only with the help of two canes, Alvin lives a quiet life with his daughter Rose (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek). But when the call comes that Alvin’s estranged brother Lyle has suffered a debilitating stroke, Alvin embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends. With little money, but plenty of patience and tenacity, he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and plots the 260-mile course from his small Iowa town to Lyle’s home in Wisconsin. (Disney)
- Director
- David Lynch
- Writer
- John Roach & Mary Sweeney
- Starring
- Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek
- Year
- 1999
- Rated
- G
- Country
- USA/UK/France
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 112 minutes