Thursday | June 10, 1999 7:00 pm

Faust

Screening on Film

Directed by Jan Svankmajer.
With Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla.
Czech Republic/UK, 1994, 35mm, color, 97 min.

Svankmajer’s Faust is an inquisitive Everyman who, exiting a Prague metro, is handed a map which leads him to his Mephistopheles in an abandoned theater. Brimming with seductions of the supernatural, shape-changing demons, puppet versions of characters from Goethe, leading Faust, attracted by satanic promises, toward his doom.

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

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The Lady and the Typewriter

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Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

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The Dutchman by André Gaines

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Tarr / Krasznahorkai

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Little Fugitive