Thursday | June 24, 1999 7:00 pm

Lightning Over Braddock

Screening on Film

Directed by Tony Buba.
US, 1988, 16mm, color, 80 min.

There are few legendary "cult" documentaries, but this is one of them, a charming, hilariously ironic, piece of Americana to set alongside Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March. The filmmaker, Tony Buba, plays himself as a director trying to make a movie with a crazy street hustler named Sal. The setting is Buba’s incredibly ill-luck home town, Braddock, Pennsylvania, which once flourished as "Pittsburgh’s shopping center."

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960