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Fourth Annual Romanian Film Festival
December 4-6, 2009
Friday-Sunday
'Police, adjective' by Corneliu Porumboiu
Presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, in collaboration with Transilvania International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival
The Fourth Annual Romanian Film Festival features, along with new releases from 2009, a special program dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the '89 Romanian Revolution and the fall of Communism, including The Oak (dir. Lucian Pintilie, 1992), and State of Things (dir. Stere Gulea, 1996).
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street (at Laight Street)
$10 Adults, $7 Students/Seniors
Tickets: www.tribecacinemas.com
www.icrny.org
A View from the East: Documentaries of Eastern Europe
January 19 and 26; February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2010
Tuesday at 2:30pm
Film still from Diamonds in the Dark (dir. Olivia Carrescia, 1999)
Presented by the Reserve Film and Video Collection at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Over the past 20 years, some of the most daring and innovative documentaries have come out of Eastern Europe. This film series spotlights post-1989 documentaries made in the Performing Revolution festival’s represented countries, including The Man Who Overestimated the Czech Soul: The Escapes of Josef Bryks (dir. Jan Novak, 2007); Diamonds in the Dark (dir. Olivia Carrescia, 1999); Cold Waves (dir. Alexandru Solomon, 2007); The Old and the New (dir. Neven Korda and Zemira Alajbegovic, 1997); The Orange Alternative (dir. Mirosław Dembicki, 1989), Dwarves Go to the Ukraine (dir. Mirosław Dembicki, 2005), and Do Communists Have Better Sex? (dir. Andre Meier, 2006). In addition to the screenings at the Library for the Performing Arts, programs will be arranged at neighborhood branch libraries in The New York Public Library system.
Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue (at 65th Street)
FREE
Information: 212-870-1700
www.nypl.org/research/lpa
Storm Cloud Warnings: Resistance and Reflection in Polish Cinema, 1977-1989
February 3-11, 2010
Adam Ferency and Krystyna Janda in Ryszard Bugajski’s 'Interrogation,' 1982 © Polish National Film Archive
Presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, in association with the Polish National Film Archive
Polish filmmakers working from the late 1970s to the fall of Communism faced enormous challenges and censorship from the totalitarian regime, yet produced extraordinarily rich films. Titles to be screened include classics from the Cinema of Moral Anxiety and a number of films that were banned: Krzysztof Zanussi’s Camouflage, Andrzej Wajda’s Rough Treatment, Feliks Falk’s Top Dog, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Camera Buff, Kazimierz Kutz’s Beads of One Rosary, Stanisław Bareja’s Teddy Bear, Barbara Sass’s Without Love, Marcel Łoziński’s How Are We to Live?, Agnieszka Holland’s A Woman Alone and Ryszard Bugajski’s Interrogation.
Made possible through a grant for new copies from the Polish Film Institute in Warsaw and additional support from Polish Television.
Walter Reade Theater
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
$11 adults/ $8 seniors/ $7 Film Society members, students, children
Tickets/Information: 212-875-5601
www.filmlinc.org
© The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 2009