Starring Marcello Mastroianni

THE ORGANIZER   (I Compagni)

Sunday Schmooze

Sunday, July 27 @ 11am

(Hot Bagels @ 10am)

Guest Speaker: Vic Skolnick, CAC Co-director

$9 Members / $12 Public

Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets

toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No Refunds.

 

ALSO PLAYING:

Wednesday, July 30 at 7pm & 9:15pm

Regular Admission

 

 

Newly-restored 35mm print.  A towering classic of Italian cinema, The Organizer offers one of Marcello Mastroianni's best performances. He plays a soft-spoken professor who arrives in turn-of-the-century Turin, a ragged pedant in pince-nez and shabby clothes, on the run from the authorities. He unwittingly becomes an "organizer," inciting workers in a textile factory to strike because of their terrible conditions. The ensemble acting is very fine -Annie Girardot is memorable as the woman who becomes a prostitute to avoid the killing work in the mills - but Mastroianni is simply extraordinary as the seemingly absent-minded professor with a forza of steel. Winner of many awards, The Organizer was recently hailed in The New Yorker as "a nearly forgotten near-great movie. . . Giuseppe Rotunno did the masterly black-and-white cinematography, which is as evocative as old lithographs."

Italy, 1963, 126 min., b/w