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

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

March 7–April 12

Albert Serra, or Cinematic Time Regained

April 4–May 5

Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy

April 7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

April 11–May 9

Planet at 50

April 13

The Yugoslav Junction Continues!

April 14

Theo Anthony, Subject to Review

April 17

The Ideal Cinematheque of the Outskirts of the World

April 18–May 18

From the collection – Satyajit Ray