Saturday | May 5, 2007 10:00 pm

Plácido

Free Admission

Directed by Luis Garcia Berlanga.
With Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá.
Spain, 1961, digital video, color, 85 min.
Copy source: Filmoteca Española

A truckdriver at risk of having his vehicle repossessed gets caught up in a charity drive in which wealthy families invite the poor to their homes for Christmas dinner. Berlanga received his one and only Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for this satire of bourgeois altruism.

April 25 – May 8, 2007

Alex de la Iglesia: Films and Inspirations

September 1–October 14

Música de Câmara. The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes

September 4–December 15

From the Harvard Film Archive Collection …

October 6–7

People and their Virtue. Two Films by Wang Bing

October 8–28

Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella

October 16–29

I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin

October 20–November 11

Filmmaker, Guest Worker: Zelimir Zilnik’s Expatriates

October 30

Adachi Masao’s Revolution+1

November 3–December 3

Out of the Ashes – The US-ROK Security Alliance & the Emergence of South Korean Cinema

November 6–13

Songs of Love and Loss. Elvira Notari’s Cinematic Realism