Monday | September 20, 1999 7:00 pm

Wednesday | September 22, 1999 9:00 pm

Friday | September 24, 1999 7:00 pm

Intimate Lightning
(Intimni osvetleni)

Newly Restored 35mm Print
Screening on Film
Recently Restored

Directed by Ivan Passer.
With Zdenek Bezusek, Vera Kresadlova, Jaroslava Stedra.
Czechoslovakia, 1965, 35mm, black & white, 72 min.
Czech with English subtitles.

Before leaving his homeland for the USA in 1969, Passer made two films, including this gentle masterpiece. A Prague cellist and his beautiful, sophisticated mistress visit old friends in a provincial town, where they eat, drink, play music and reminisce. The film demonstrates Passer’s enchantment with nature and music and his great interest in the psychological observation of character. A tender, well-observed comedy about life’s everyday pleasures and lost opportunites.

September 20 – October 30, 1999

Before "Normalization":
The Czech New Wave

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