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

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