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7/1/04 to 8/31/04
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Voyage in Italy
Thursday, July 1 7:30pmRoberto Rossellini directed Ingrid Bergman in this deeply moving film shot in Naples, with its "feeling of eternal life, something that has entirely disappeared from this world."-RosselliniView DetailsLyrical Nitrate
Tuesday, July 6 7:30pmPeter Delpeut's exquisite montage of hand-tinted films from before 1915 makes us aware of early cinema's rich colors, and of its mortality, "as image literally reverts to matter."-Village Voice. With Phil Solomon's Exquisite Hour and a rare relic from 1914.View DetailsThe Murderers Are Among Us
Tuesday, July 13 7:30The first and most famous of the postwar German "rubble films" is a stark and imaginatively visualized story of guilt and revenge, shot in a ruined Berlin just months after the war's end. Hildegard Knef stars, in her screen debut.View DetailsAnd Life Goes On
Thursday, July 15 7:30pmIn an Iranian village following the 1990 earthquake, Abbas Kiarostami created this "transcendent work of art that explores the difference between real life and its cinematic representation and celebrates the indestructibility of the human spirit."-Film Center, ChicagoView DetailsNostalghia
Thursday, July 22 7:30pmAndrei Tarkovsky's breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film's title describes.View DetailsThe Way Things Go
Tuesday, July 27 7:30pmThe dog-eared, the damaged, and the decayed: the filmmaker as salvage artist, or how one thing leads to another. Works by the artist team Fischli-Weiss, Janie Geiser, Chris Marker, the Quay Brothers, and Osamu Tezuka.View DetailsFellini Satyricon
Thursday, July 29 7:30pmThe great Italian director's most lavish and visually inventive film uses the self-consuming debauchery of the Roman elite in the time of Nero to create an allegorical satire on late-20th-century society-a ruin in the making. A must-see on the big screen.View DetailsCorridor
Tuesday, August 3 7:30pmThe inhabitants of an apartment building drift through a Lithuanian winter in this meditative feature shot in noirish tones. Fragments of memories, shards of experience in what director Sarunas Bartas calls "a stocktaking of the post-Soviet reality."View DetailsFrom the Pole to the Equator: Free Screening!
Thursday, August 5 5:30pmFree tickets available at the PFA Theater starting at 4:30. A remarkable collection of early footage from travels around the world, deftly re-edited by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi to reveal social and metaphorical meanings.View DetailsExisting on Its Ruins
Tuesday, August 10 7:30pmRuination is the backdrop to this group of moving works. Settings include a Palestinian refugee camp, the World Trade Center site, a destroyed Colombian village. Works by Louise Bourque, Abigail Child, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Tirtza Even and Bosmat Alon, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Julie Murray.View DetailsRuins
Tuesday, August 17 7:30pmWhen is a ruin not a ruin? When it's a work of art. The forger's craft may be more real than we know in Jesse Lerner's provocative look at colonialism, appropriation, and Mexican culture. With shorts by Lerner and Peggy Ahwesh.View DetailsNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Tuesday, August 24 7:30pmJudith Rosenberg on Piano. Made in 1922, Nosferatu is still the most unnerving and poetic of horror films, for the way director F. W. Murnau invests the natural world with eerie incandescence, and for Max Schreck's vampire, a living death, a walking ruin.View DetailsDecasia
Tuesday, August 31 7:30pmBill Morrison's film created from decomposing early footage has garnered wide praise. "Who knew that decay itself-artfully marshaled, braided, scored and sustained-could provoke such transports of sublime reverie amid such pangs of wistful sorrow?"-Lawrence Weschler, NY Times MagazineView Details
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