May 30

Beauty Knows No Pain / Think of England

Two works by longtime Magnum photographers that expand the concerns and styles seen in their still work to moving pictures. Elliott Erwitt's delightful Beauty Knows No Pain is a poker-faced look at the selection and training of the Kilgore College Rangerettes, a female marching and cheerleading squad run by the exacting Gussie Nell Davis, who could hold her own against any Marine drill sergeant. In Think of England, Martin Parr travels around his native England with the question "What is Englishness?" He comes up with some surprising answers as he moves from north to south, from lawn parties to working-class neighborhoods.

Beauty Knows No Pain
Elliott Erwitt, US, 1971; 26m

Think of England
Martin Parr, UK, 1999; 50m