The Inquiring Camera
8/2/03 to 8/28/03
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TIE XI QU: WEST OF THE TRACKS-PART ONE: RUST
Saturday, August 2 7:00"One of the year's most essential films"-Village Voice. This three-part documentary acclaimed for its artistic integrity is a fantastic journey through an industrial empire in decay: "A vivid picture of...China, between communist legacy and capitalist leanings. Director Wang Bing uncovers the dramatic in the everyday, all the while maintaining a supremely elegant, tableau-like camera style."-Variety. Continues August 9 and 16.View DetailsAH! THE HOPEFUL PAGEANTRY OF BREAD AND PUPPET
Tuesday, August 5 7:30DeeDee Halleck in Person. If you're weary of that other sideshow, you're probably ready for the joyful political circus that is Bread and Puppet Theater. Paper Tiger TV veteran DeeDee Halleck and Tamar Schumann discover a true society of spectacle around an annual pageant celebrating its tenth anniversary.View DetailsTRIAL
Thursday, August 7 7:30Prize-winner at the Tribeca Film Festival, Moslem Mansouri's Trial captures a passion for filmmaking-offbeat by nature, amateur by choice-that defies the law in a small village in Iran. With The Lost Film.View DetailsTHE LOST FILM
Thursday, August 7 7:30In The Lost Film Lebanese feature filmmakers Hadjithomas and Joreige, on the trail of a disappeared print in Yemen, "pose perplexing questions in a deceptively simple format."-Variety. With Trial.View DetailsINTOXICATED BY MY ILLNESS
Tuesday, August 12 7:30A new work by veteran Stephen Dwoskin gives intoxicating poetic meaning to the term intensive care. "At the...more naked extreme of personal cinema...[a] masterpiece."-Senses of Cinema. With Dwoskin shorts Another Time and Some Friends (Apart).View DetailsTHE DAMNED AND THE SACRED
Thursday, August 14 7:30"Acclaimed Dutch documaker Jos de Putter has found a deeply moving way to talk about the war in Chechnya-from the unexpected perspective of a children's folk dance company. Few will view the Chechens the same way after seeing these passionate performances [and] the kids' dramatic backgrounds [in] a film that is resolutely non-sentimental in approach."-VarietyView DetailsREMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME
Tuesday, August 19 9:00A "second chance" screening, by popular demand! The latest masterful cine-essay from Chris Marker expands a portrait of the photographer Denise Bellon into an intellectual and emotional history of 20th-century France.View DetailsA BIBÓ READER
Tuesday, August 19 7:30This lyrical film from Hungarian Péter Forgács, set to a haunting soundtrack by Tibor Szemö, explores the world and times of István Bibó, a political thinker of intelligence and compassion.View DetailsFOR ONE MORE HOUR WITH YOU
Thursday, August 21 7:30Alina Marazzi explores the life of the mother she barely knew. "A strikingly intimate biography told through Marazzi's compassionate mediation. Engrossing but not cheerful, this honest film is a must-see."-Variety. With short On My Knees.View Details'ÂSHÛRÂ': THIS BLOOD SPILLED IN MY VEINS
Tuesday, August 26 7:30A fascinating exploration of ritual and history, this is a document of 'Âshûrâ', the annual commemoration in Lebanon of the slaughter of the grandson of the prophet Muhammad. Intercut with the ritual of lamentation is commentary by Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and the director Jalal Toufic.View DetailsA GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
Thursday, August 28 7:30Long-awaited theatrical release! In 1968, revolution was in the air. Did it make it to the ground? Chris Marker's far-reaching look at the sixties as they turned into the seventies explores the international Left with all the wit and searching wisdom we expect from this director. "The documentary equivalent of the bon mot."-Village VoiceView Details
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