We've been showing movies at the studio - on random Friday nights. It's a blast. Packed houses, wonderful films, high spirits. We have projection equipment for VHS, DVD, PAL, HDTV and an 8 x 6 feet screen.
We started in January 2004, showing features and shorts that have directors or actors (or both!) from our Studio. We call it The Two Lights Cinema Randomly Scheduled, More-or-Less Ongoing Festival of Shorts and Features. We've had high quality films and full houses for every screening, it's been quite glorious. Any of you who have taken classes with me and would like to show one of your films, contact John at info@judithweston.com. We do not pre-screen the films – anyone who has taken class with me is welcome to show their film – the only limitations are the logistics of scheduling.
Here's a list of the films we've shown so far - and those that are scheduled for upcoming screenings. (Full cast and crew credits are not included here - the only personnel listed are those that have been participants in Judith's classes.)
If you scroll down past the list of Two Lights screenings you will find Judith’s extremely personal and probably woefully inadequate list of Great Movies.
6/13/07
A program of short films, including:
“Controlling Interest” directed by Wayne Rawley with Alyssa Bostwick
“The Night Girl” directed by Noah Harpster
“Grace” directed by Camille Cellucci
“The Box” directed by Joel Sadilek
“Losing Lusk” directed by Vance Malone
6/1/07
A program of short films, including:
“Muertas” directed by Ryan Piers Williams
“Scene” directed by Stephanie Argy
“A Death In The Woods” with Kathryn Hansen
“Bullets & Butterflies” directed by Robin Acutt
12/1/06
A program of short films, including:
"The Enfolding" directed by Miklos Phillips
"Louder Than Words" directed by Glenn Ripps
"Dead Ronnie" directed by Greg Swartz, with Courtney Lamb (also the writer of the film), Chip Sickler, Adam Noble, Robert DiTillio, Christine DiTillio
"Mothers Be Good" directed by Lynne Moses
"Something True" directed by Thor Gold
4/28/06
A program of short films, including:
"Ties That Bind" directed by Angela E. Gibbs, with Starletta DuPois
"In Order Of Appearance" directed by Michael Ruscio
“Wear Something Nice” directed by Camille Cellucci
"Stealing Innocence" directed by Nancy Stein
12/16/05
“Anne B. Real,” written by and co-starring Antonio Macia
7/22/05
A program of short films, including:
"Incontinent Wildness" with Robert DiTillio
"Greenwald’s Amazing Garden Tonic" with Robert DiTillio
“Betsy” directed by Greg Swartz
"Help Me, Oprah" directed by David Jackson Willis, with Chip Sickler
“The Meeting” directed by Michaela von Schweinitz, with Melissa Timme and Joel King
"The 3 Body Problem" directed by Tamara Maloney
“Waiting” directed by M.F. McDowell, with Kathryn Avery-Hansen
“False Promises” with Eric Peter-Kaiser
3/11/05
A program of short films, including:
"Down Dog" directed by Richard Roll
"Uncivil War" with Joel King
"Room Service" with Joel King and Carolyn Bielskis
"soap and roses" directed by Rae Shaw
2/5/05
"My Date with Drew," co-director Jon Gunn
9/24/04
A program of short films, including:
"Living in Walter's World" directed by Phil Kaufman with Ethan "Johnnie" Phillips
"Renaissance Girl" directed by David Willis www.inthedarkproductions.com
"Caruthers" directed by Bruce Muller
"The Mistress" with Mikael Forsberg
"What Happened During the Cuban Missile Crisis" directed by Charlie McNamara
6/25/04
A program of short films, including:
"Potosi Rd." directed by Deepika Daggubati
"From All Of Us" directed by Jennifer Pulver
"Max" directed by Jim O'Keeffe
"Kilgore Canyon" with Joel King
6/11/04
"Adrift" directed by Tom Curran www.adrift-movie.com
5/28/04
"Judy Berlin" cinematographer Jeff Seckendorf
5/21/04
"Benjamin Splits" directed by Seth Jaret (cast includes Ruthie Frank,
Bernard Van Bilderbeek, Margo Hara, Augi Caimi and Christopher Backus)
"Aerobic Dreams" directed by Juan Carlos Saizan (cast includes Max Bretos and Bernard Van Bilderbeek)
5/7/04
A program of short films, including:
"The Handkerchief" directed by Amanda Mears www.crazypup.tv
"Boomerang" directed by Jennifer Farmer
"Ice Cream Man" directed by Jennifer Pulver
"A Single Rose" directed by Hanelle Culpepper (cast includes Sonya Maddox)www.hillview798.com
"Touched by an Atheist" directed by David Willis www.inthedarkproductions.com
4/16/04
"Death: A Love Story" directed by Michelle Le Brun www.harkenprods.com
4/9/04
A program of short films, including:
"Parallel Passage" directed by Mandi Riggi
"Double Trouble" directed by Thor Gold (with Mary Pringle)
"Bad Assassin" directed by Dono Knowlton
"The Crux" directed by Jeff Seckendorf www.thecruxmovie.com
3/5/04
A program of short films, including:
"Love/Hate" directed by Gary Abramson (with Todd Malta, Heather Levenson, Melissa Timme, Amanda Sickler, Mary Pringle)
"Home" directed by Nancy Deren (with John Hoskins) www.secretplanet.net
"Kiss Me" directed by Michaela Von Schweinitz www.kissproductions.net
"Western Avenue" directed by Sumi Yang Reeves www.breeves.com/westernave
"True Love" directed by David Willis (with John Burton, Jr., Dorka Hegedus, Zsuzsa Holp) www.inthedarkproductions.com
"To Kill a Child" co-directed by Bjorne Larson www.mrsjohansson.com
2/6/04
A program of short films, including:
"The Flood" directed by Ryan Williams (with Dave Clark and Morgan Vukovic)
"Robber" directed by Karen Aschenbach
"Blue Caviar" directed by Mikael Forsberg www.caviarfilm.com
"After Love" directed by David Willis (with Tom Beckett) www.inthedarkproductions.com
"Family Tree" directed by Vicky Jenson (with Dave Clark and Ethan Phillips)
1/30/04
"Extreme Walking" directed by Wayne Pere
1/16/04
"The Snow Queen" directed by Paivi Hartzell
We will also, from time to time, screen rarely seen classic films, such as "Children of Paradise" ("Les Enfants du Paradis"), or Barbara Loden's 1971 "Wanda" - these screenings will be known as "The Living Room Series."
By the way, sometimes people have asked me for a copy of my very idiosyncratic list of Great Movies (in chronological order, and with apologies to any and all great movies that are somehow left off), so here it is:
Pandora's Box, 1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst; Louise Brooks
The Blue Angel, 1930, Josef von Sternberg; Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
Trouble in Paradise, 1932, Ernst Lubitsch; Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins
Grand Hotel, 1932, Edmund Goulding; Greta Garbo
Baby Face, 1933, Alfred E. Green; Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent
Dodsworth, 1936, William Wyler; Walter Huston
My Man Godfrey, 1936, Gregory LaCava; Carole Lombard
Gone with the Wind, 1939, Victor Fleming; Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
The Philadelphia Story, 1940, George Cukor; Cary Grant, Kathryn Hepburn
My Favorite Wife, 1940, Garson Kanin; Cary Grant, Irene Dunn
His Girl Friday, 1940, Howard Hawks; Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
The Lady Eve, 1941, Preston Sturges; Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
The Little Foxes, 1941, William Wyler; Bette Davis
Casablanca, 1942, Michael Curtiz; Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
To Be or Not To Be, 1942, Ernst Lubitsch; Jack Benny, Carole Lombard
Children of Paradise, 1945, Marcel Carne; Jacques Prevert, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault
Notorious, 1946, Alfred Hitchcock; Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
Day of Wrath (a/k/a Day of Anger), 1948, Carl Dreyer
The Third Man, 1949, Carol Reed; Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton
All About Eve, 1950, Joseph Mankiewicz; Bette Davis
Rashoman, 1950, Akira Kurasawa; [ensemble]
Sunset Boulevard, 1950, Billy Wilder; William Holden, Gloria Swanson
Harvey, 1950, Henry Koster; James Stewart
An American in Paris, 1951, Vincent Minelli; Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron
A Place in the Sun, 1951, George Stevens; Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor
Streetcar Named Desire (restored cut), 1951, Elia Kazan; Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh
Marty (Playhouse 90), 1953, Paddy Chayefsky; Rod Steiger, Nancy Marchand
On the Waterfront, 1954, Elia Kazan; Brando, Eva Marie Saint
The Ladykillers, 1955, Alexander Mackendrick; Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness
East of Eden, 1955, Elia Kazan; James Dean
The Seventh Seal, 1956, Ingmar Bergman; Max van Sydow
Nights of Cabiria, 1957, Federico Fellini; Guilietta Massina
A Face in the Crowd, 1957, Elia Kazan; Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal
Requiem for a Heavyweight (Playhouse 90), 1957, Ralph Nelson; Jack Palance
Days of Wine and Roses (Playhouse 90), 1958, John Frankenheimer; Piper Laurie, Cliff Robertson
Vertigo, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock; James Stewart, Kim Novack
Some Like it Hot, 1959, Billy Wilder; Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
The Fugitive Kind, 1959, Sidney Lumet; Marlon Brando, Anna Magnini
The Entertainer, 1960, Tony Richardson; Lawrence Olivier
The Hustler, 1961, Robert Rossen; Paul Newman, Piper Laurie
The Misfits, 1961, John Huston; Monroe, Gable, Montgomery Clift
West Side Story, 1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins; Natalie Wood
The Exterminating Angel, 1962, Luis Bunuel; [ensemble]
Jules and Jim, 1962, Francois Truffaut; Jeanne Moreau
Hud, 1963, Martin Ritt; Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal
A Shot in the Dark, 1964, Blake Edwards; Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove, 1964, Stanley Kubrick; Peter Sellers, George Scott
Zorba the Greek, 1964, Michael Cacoyannis; Alan Bates, Anthony Quinn
The Pawnbroker, 1965, Sidney Lumet; Rod Steiger
Seconds, 1966, John Frankenheimer; Rock Hudson
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966, Mike Nichols; Richard Burton, Liz Taylor
Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, Arthur Penn; Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
The Graduate, 1967, Mike Nichols; Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft
Oliver! , 1968, Carol Reed; [ensemble]
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, Stanley Kubrick; Keir Dullea
Faces, 1968, John Cassavetes; Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel
Midnight Cowboy, 1969, John Schlesinger; Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voigt
I Never Sang for My Father, 1970, Gilbert Cates; Gene Hackman, Melvyn Douglas
Little Big Man, 1970, Arthur Penn; Dustin Hoffman
Five Easy Pieces, 1970, Bob Rafelson; Jack Nicholson, Susan Anspach
Minnie and Moskowitz, 1971, John Cassavetes; Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel
The Last Picture Show, 1971, Peter Bogdanovich; Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 1971, Robert Altman; Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
Carnal Knowledge, 1971, Mike Nichols; Jack Nicholson
Wanda, 1971, Barbara Loden; Barbara Loden
Macbeth, 1971, Roman Polanski; Jon Finch, Francesca Annis
Cabaret, 1972, Bob Fosse; Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey
Godfather, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola; Brando, Al Pacino
Fat City, 1972, John Huston; Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrell
Last Tango in Paris, 1973, Bernardo Bertolucci; Marlon Brando
The Iceman Cometh, 1973, John Frankenheimer; Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin
Solaris, 1973, Andrei Tarkovsky; [ensemble]
The Gambler, 1974, Karel Reisz; James Caan
Godfather II, 1974, Francis Ford Coppola; Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro
Woman under the Influence, 1974, John Cassavetes; Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk
Chinatown, 1974, Roman Polanski; Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Amarcord, 1974, Federico Fellini; [ensemble]
Young Frankenstein, 1974, Mel Brooks; Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn
Nashville, 1975, Robert Altman; [ensemble]
Three Days of the Condor, 1975, Sydney Pollack; Robert Redford
Dog Day Afternoon, 1975, Sidney Lumet; Al Pacino
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975, Milos Forman; Jack Nicholson
The Day of the Locust, 1975, John Schlesinger; Donald Sutherland
Shampoo, 1975, Hal Ashby; Warren Beatty
Taxi Driver, 1976, Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader; Robert DeNiro
Slapshot, 1977, George Roy Hill; Paul Newman
Annie Hall, 1977, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
The Deer Hunter, 1978, Michael Cimino; DeNiro, Chris Walken, Meryl Streep
A Dream of Passion, 1978, Jules Dassin; Ellen Burstyn, Melina Mercouri
Autumn Sonata, 1978, Ingmar Bergman; Liv Ullman, Ingrid Bergman
Alien, 1979, Ridley Scott; Sigourney Weaver
Being There, 1979, Hal Ashby; Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine
Ordinary People, 1980, Robert Redford; Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton
The Elephant Man, 1980, David Lynch; John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins
Resurrection, 1980, Daniel Petrie; Ellen Burstyn
Playing for Time (TV), 1980, Daniel Mann; Vanessa Redgrave
Excalibur, 1981, John Boorman; Nigel Terry, Helen Miren
Modern Romance, 1981, Albert Brooks; Albert Brooks
Body Heat , 1981, Lawrence Kasdan; William Hurt, Kathleen Turner
My Dinner with Andre, 1981, Louis Malle ; Wallace Shawn
Tootsie, 1982, Sidney Pollack; Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
Sophie's Choice, 1982, Alan Pakula, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline
The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982, Peter Weir; Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver
Tender Mercies, 1983, Bruce Beresford; Robert Duvall
Ran, 1985, Akira Kurasawa; [ensemble]
The Singing Detective (TV), 1986, Jon Amiel/Dennis Potter; Michael Gambon
Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986, Woody Allen; Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest
The Dead, 1987, John Huston; Angelica Huston
Broadcast News, 1987, James Brooks; Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks
The Decalogue, 1987, Krzysztof Kieslowski; [ensemble]
Raising Arizona, 1987, Joel and Ethan Coen; Nicholas Cage, Holly Hunter
Wings of Desire, 1987, Wim Wenders; Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk
Distant Voices, Still Lives, 1988, Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite
Say Anything, 1989, Cameron Crowe; John Cusack
Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1989, Woody Allen; Martin Landau, ensemble
Sex, lies and videotape, 1989, Steven Soderbergh; [ensemble]
Map of the Human Heart, 1992, Vincent Ward; Jeanne Moreau, John Cusack
The Player, 1992, Robert Altman; Tim Robbins, ensemble
In the Soup, 1992, Alexandre Rockwell; Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener
Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992, James Foley; Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin
Simple Men, 1992, Hal Hartley; Karen Sillas
Careful, 1992, Guy Maddin; [ensemble]
Farewell My Concubine, 1993, Chen Kaige; Gong Li
Groundhog Day, 1993, Harold Ramis; Bill Murray
Six Degrees of Separation, 1993, Fred Schepisi; Stockard Channing, Will Smith
Schindler's List, 1993, Steven Spielberg; Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes
Household Saints, 1993, Nancy Savoca; Tracey Ullman
Blue Sky, 1994, Tony Richardson; Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones
Dead Man Walking, 1995, Tim Robbins; Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon
Leaving Las Vegas, 1995, Mike Figgis; Nicholas Cage, Elizabeth Shue
Living in Oblivion, 1995, Tom DiCillo; Steve Buscemi
Heavy, 1995, James Mangold; Liv Tyler
Richard III, 1995, Richard Loncraine; Ian McClellan
Nixon, 1995, Oliver Stone; Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen
Romeo + Juliet, 1996, Baz Luhrman; Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio
Secrets and Lies, 1996, Mike Leigh; Brenda Blethyn
Breaking the Waves, 1996, Lars Von Trier; Emily Watson
Fargo, 1996, Joel and Ethan Cohen; Frances McDormand
Big Night; 1996, Campbell Scott/Stanley Tucci; Tucci, Tony Shalhoub
Affliction, 1997, Paul Schrader; Nick Nolte, James Coburn
The Sweet Hereafter, 1997, Atom Egoyan; Ian Holm
The Ice Storm, 1997, Ang Lee; Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver
Jackie Brown, 1997, Quentin Tarrantino; Pam Grier, Robert Forster
Buffalo 66, 1998, Vincent Gallo; Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci
The Celebration (Festen), 1998, Thomas Vinterberg/Mogens Rukov; [ensemble]
Thin Red Line, 1998, Terrence Malick; [ensemble]
The Straight Story, 1999, David Lynch; Richard Farnsworth
Magnolia, 1999, Paul Thomas Anderson; [ensemble]
Being John Malkovich, 1999, Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman; John Cusack
The Dreamlife of Angels, 1999, Erick Zonca; Elodie Bouchez, Natacha Regnier
Judy Berlin, 1999, Eric Mendelsohn; Madeline Kahn, Edie Falco
Three Seasons, 1999, Tony Bui, Harvey Keitel
Galaxy Quest, 1999, Dean Parisot, Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub
East-West, 2000, Regis Wargnier; Sandrine Bonnaire
George Washington, 2000, David Gordon Green; [ensemble]
Timecode (2000). 2000, Mike Figgis; [ensemble]
You Can Count on Me, 2000, Kenneth Lonergan; Mark Rufalo, Laura Linney
American Beauty, 2000, Sam Mendes; Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
Boys Don't Cry, 2000, Kimberly Pierce; Hilary Swank
House of Mirth, 2000, Terence Davies; Gillian Anderson
Dancer in the Dark, 2000, Lars Von Trier; Bjork
Things You Can Tell By Just Looking at Her, 2000, Rodrigo Garcia; Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Cameron Diaz
Chopper, 2000, Andrew Dominik; Eric Bana
Eyes Wide Shut, 2000, Stanley Kubrick; Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
Ghost World, 2001, Terry Zwigoff; Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson
Amores Perros, 2001, Alejandro Gonzàlez Iñarritu; Gael Garcia Bernal
Lantana, 2001, Ray Lawrence; Anthony LaPaglia, Barbara Hershey
Waking Life, 2001, Richard Linkletter; [ensemble]
Mulholland Drive, 2001, David Lynch; Naomi Watts
Donnie Darko, 2001, Richard Kelly; Jake Gyllenhall
An American Rhapsody, 2001, Eva Gardos; Scarlett Johansson
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, 2002, Jill Sprecher; [ensemble]
Secretary, 2002, Steven Shainberg; Maggie Gyllenhall, James Spader
Far From Heaven, 2002, Todd Haynes; Julianne Moore
Thirteen, 2003, Catherine Hardwicke/Nikki Reed; Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood
The Station Agent, 2003, Thomas McCarthy; Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson
Bad Santa, 2003, Terry Zwigoff; Billy Bob Thornton
American Splendor, 2003, Berman & Pulcini; Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis
Angels in America, 2003, Mike Nichols/Tony Kushner; Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson
Monster, 2003, Patty Jenkins; Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci
Hotel Ruanda, 2004, Terry George; Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, Michel Gondry; Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
Vera Drake, 2004, Mike Leigh; Imelda Staunton
Crash, 2005, Paul Haggis; Don Cheadle and ensemble
The Constant Gardener, 2005, Fernando Meirelles; Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
The Weather Man, 2005, Gore Verbinski; Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis
Babel, 2006, Alejandro Gonzàlez Iñarritu; [ensemble]
The Queen, 2006, Stephen Frears; Helen Mirren
Little Children, 2006, Todd Field; Kate Winslet
Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006, Guillermo Del Toro, [ensemble]
The Good Shepard, 2006, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon
The Lives of Others, 2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; [ensemble]