Film series. Oct 24–30, 2009. To inaugurate its seventh annual To Save and Project film-preservation festival, the Department of Film presents a special weeklong run of John Cassavetes’s masterpiece A Woman Under the Influence. Gena Rowlands, who introduces the opening-night screening on October 24, gives one of the great performances in cinema history as Mabel, the woman of the film’s title, a ravaged, vulnerable, and mercurial housewife and mother. Peter Falk also gives a heart-rending…
