Monday | September 27, 1999 6:00 pm

Wednesday | October 27, 1999 9:15 pm

Loves of a Blonde
(Lasky jedne plavovlasky)

Screening on Film

Directed by Milos Forman .
With Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Joseph Sebanek.
Czechoslovakia, 1965, 35mm, black & white, 82 min.
Czech with English subtitles.

When a young factory girl, dissatisfied with the men in her small town, meets a visiting pianist, she falls in love and thinks that she has finally found happiness. However, she is forced to reconsider the situation when she unexpectedly follows him to Prague and meets his parents. Famed director Milos Forman’s second film is by turns romantic and comic. Forman’s careful eye is able to treat with simplicity issues that are anything but clear-cut.

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