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

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

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

April 9

The Dutchman by André Gaines

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Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive