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

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue