THIS LAND IS MINE

(1943, Jean Renoir) Nerd teacher Charles Laughton blubbers during an air raid, yearns for Maureen O’Hara, truckles to nerve- ridden collaborator George Sanders, shrinks from Nazi Walter Slezak, but finds a kind of heroism at last, in Renoir’s study of Occupation guilts. Approx. 105 min. 35mm.
2:45, 7:00

FOREVER AND A DAY

(1943, René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Robert Stevenson, et al.) 140 years in the life of a London house, a Brits in the U.S. propaganda piece featuring 78 stars and 7 directors, with highlight 1850s butler Laughton directing two bumbling plumbers, Cedric Hardwicke and Buster Keaton. Approx. 105 min. DCP restoration.
12:40, 4:50, 9:10