Tuesday | September 28, 1999 9:00 pm

Tuesday | October 26, 1999 9:00 pm

Saturday | October 30, 1999 7:00 pm

Closely Watched Trains
(Ostre sledované vlaky)

Screening on Film

Directed by Jiri Menzel.
With Václav Neckár, Jitka Bendová, Libuse Havelková.
Czechoslovakia, 1966, 35mm, black & white, 92 min.
Czech with English subtitles.

Possibly the best known and most commercially successful film of the Czech New Wave, this first feature from then twenty-eight-year-old Jiri Menzel, is a comic, humanistic look at a pubescent railway trainee caught in the midst of World War II. Focusing primarily on the naïve protagonist’s efforts to lose his virginity, this is an offbeat, ironic and tender work, perfectly balanced between comedy and tragedy. In critic Tom Milne’s words Menzel’s film "celebrates a whole universe of frustration, eroticism, adventure and romance." 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

September 20 – October 30, 1999

Before "Normalization":
The Czech New Wave

June 29–August 18, 2006

Eight Weeks of Film History: 1960 - 1979

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy