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

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 16–23

Hamaguchi Ryusuke, The World as Stage

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 4

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

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection