Monday | January 14, 2008 9:00 pm

The Face, aka The Magician
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Screening on Film

Directed by Ingmar Bergman.
With Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Åke Fridell.
Sweden, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 100 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.

When a mid-nineteenth century traveling magician and hypnotist rolls into town, he is summoned to give a command performance for the authorities, who are eager to debunk him. He proves too clever for them in this allegory about art as artifice and its ability to outflank those who think they are immune to it. The Face is at once a spooky Gothic and a darkly erotic comedy.

January 11 – 14, 2008

Winter Light: A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue