(Note: regular PFA admission prices apply.) "The Romanian director Alexandru Tatos (b. 1937) succumbed to lung cancer in January just after the fall of the dictator he so loathed. He was a courageous filmmaker, still little known in the West, whose talent, intransigence, tenderness and lucidity will be sorely missed" (Peter Scarlet). Tatos' films include Gently Was Anastasia Passing, Forest Fruit, Sequences and The Secret of the Secret Weapon which the Festival presented this year. Sequences is perhaps our favorite at PFA. Among other things it is one of the great films on filmmaking, surpassing even Truffaut's Day for Night and Godard's Passion in its treatment of that billowing border between illusion and reality, as a film crew at work passes almost unnoticeably from one to the other. Three separate episodes (based on three short stories) emerge from the experiences of the film crew. "The Telephone," in which the loneliness of the film-within-a-film's protagonist begins uncomfortably to parallel the emotions of the director himself, poses the ancient chicken-and-egg question of the arts-is art imitating life or is the opposite true?-in a highly original way. In "The Prospecting," an insignificant family drama involving a restaurant manager reveals tensions that extend far beyond the movie set. The third, most remarkable episode, "Four Slaps," is a Pirandellian excursion into man's relationship to history as two aged extras on the set of a film dealing with the underground Fascist movement find that they were on opposite sides of the actual struggle. "This is a harsh parable with no heroes, just victims" (Manuela Cernat).