The Films of Roy Andersson

10/1/04 to 10/2/04

  • Songs from the Second Floor |October 1 |

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  • Songs from the Second Floor

    Friday, October 1 7pm
    An intensely visual, surrealist, and frequently uproarious end-of-the-millennium epic about humanity's confusions, regrets, and needs. "Like an Ingmar Bergman film as realized by Monty Python."-Toronto Globe and Mail. Winner, Cannes Special Jury Prize.
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  • Commercials and Shorts by Roy Andersson

    Friday, October 1 9pm
    These hilarious little capitalist nightmares will change how you look at advertising. Droll, strange, completely original: "the best commercials in the world."-Ingmar Bergman. With shorts World of Glory and Something Happened.
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  • A Swedish Love Story

    Saturday, October 2 6:30pm
    A moped-riding Romeo loves a gum-chewing Juliet in late-1960s Sweden, but dreamless, refrigerator-selling parental figures stand in their way. A wry, Milos Forman–inspired look at youthful hopes and middle-aged sadness.
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  • Giliap

    Saturday, October 2 8:50pm
    A drifter gains employment in an isolated Swedish hotel with some peculiar goings-on. Tranquil long takes and bizarre humor create "visually a film in the masterpiece class…a thing of sheer beauty to behold."-Variety
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