Thursday | July 22, 1999 7:00 pm

Saturday | July 24, 1999 7:00 pm

Swan Lake - The Zone
(Lebedyne ozero. Zona)

Directed by Yuri Ilyenko .
With Victor Solovyov, Liudmyla Yefymenko, Maya Bulhakova.
Ukraine/Canada/Sweden, 1990, 35mm, color, 96 min.
Ukranian with English subtitles.

This dense, visually potent political allegory from the Ukraine was directed by Sergei Parajanov’s virtuoso cinematographer and based loosely on Parajanov’s own prison experience in the late days of Communism. A man escapes from a notorious jail in the Ukraine and takes refuge in a huge hammer-and-sickle monument. The Los Angeles Times: "A film of astonishing beauty."

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100