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    By Admin on 08/25/2009 News
    Museum of Modern Arts, New York has announced their September screening schedule.
    Monday, September 7:
    4:00 Romeo + Juliet 1996.
    USA. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes.
    This time, the star-crossed lovers find themselves in the midst of a
    gangland battle when the rival Capulets and Montagues face off.
    Luhrmann remained faithful to Shakespeare’s language, but he updated
    the setting to modern-day “Verona Beach” and included a soundtrack
    replete with classic rock, punk, and opera. 120 min. Part of the Recent
    Film Acquisitions: Continuum film exhibition

    4:30 Amarcord 1973.
    Italy/France. Directed by Federico Fellini. Screenplay by Fellini,
    Tonino Guerra. With Pupella Maggio, Magali Noël, Armando Brancia,
    Ciccio Ingrassia. “After nearly a decade of descending into the
    phantasmagorical murk, Federico Fellini re-emerged with this wistful
    autobiographical dreamplay about his memories of growing up in an
    Italian coastal village in the fascist 1930s. The movie is nostalgia
    raised to the level of poetry. What lends it added poignance is that
    Amarcord, with its indelible folk images (who could forget the peacock
    in the snow?) and its sentimental evocation of small-town life, now
    summons our own nostalgia for an era when art filmmakers could be
    unblushing populists” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly). NYFCC
    Best Picture, 1974 In Italian; English subtitles. 125 min. Part of the
    Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film
    exhibition

    7:00 The New World 2005.
    USA. Written and directed by Terrence Malick. With Q’orianka Kilcher,
    Christian Bale. Two worlds collide when seventeenth-century English
    settlers inhabit Native American land in what would become Virginia.
    The film focuses on the relationship between Captain John Smith and
    Pocahontas, a young girl who acts as a bridge between the two
    societies—and ultimately loses her place in both. 138 min. Part of the
    Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum film exhibition

    8:00 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
    ) 2007. Romania. Written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. With Anamaria
    Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean. “Set two years
    before the bloody downfall of the Ceausescu regime, Mungiu’s brilliant,
    suspenseful exemplar of the new Romanian cinema tracks the ordeal, by
    turns harrowing and surreal, of a college student’s efforts to
    negotiate her best friend’s black-market abortion and that of the
    abortion itself. Graced by superb performances and quietly stunning
    camera work, Mungiu’s portrait of female friendship and oppression
    becomes a window on a corrupt, brutalized society approaching total
    collapse” (Karen Durbin, Elle). NYFCC Best Foreign Film, 2008 In
    Romanian; English subtitles. 113 min. Part of the Critical Favorites:
    The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    Wednesday, September 9:
    1:30 Pre-Cinema – Origins of the Motion Picture 1956. USA. Produced by the United States Naval Photographic Center. 21 min.
    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1975. USA. Directed by Thom Anderson. 60 min. Part of the An Auteurist History of Film exhibition

    4:00 All About Eve 1950.
    USA. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Bette Davis,
    Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm. “Mankiewicz’s quintessential
    backstager revived Davis’s career and gave Thelma Ritter and Marilyn
    Monroe two of their earliest plum supporting roles. Almost sixty years
    after its release, All About Eve remains one of the most quotable
    movies ever made: Filled with venomous barbs about ego, ambition,
    fame—and that nastiest of all species, the critic—the film says as much
    about what it means to be a star as to be a fan” (Melissa Anderson, The
    Village Voice). NYFCC Best Picture, 1950. 138 min. Part of the Critical
    Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    5:00 Elevated 2009.
    USA. Directed by Doug Aitken, Guy Maddin, Bill Morrison, Matt Mullican,
    William Wegman. Approx. 100 min. MoMA Premiere: Elevated

    7:00 Moulin Rouge!
    2001. USA. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.
    This glorious and wholly original reworking of the musical explores the
    love affair between Satine, a courtesan, and Christian, a penniless
    poet. Enter the Duke, a venal man whose riches rock Satine’s
    unadulterated belief in true love. Again, Luhrmann uses contemporary
    music to punctuate moments of great passion, exaggerated comedy, and
    diabolical evil. Drawing on his background in opera production,
    Luhrmann employed a visual and narrative technique he calls The Red
    Curtain, bracketing the film within a theatrical setting. 127 min. Part
    of the Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum film exhibition

    8:00 Elevated
    2009. USA. Directed by Doug Aitken, Guy Maddin, Bill Morrison, Matt
    Mullican, William Wegman. Approx. 100 min. MoMA Premiere: Elevated

    Thursday, September 10:
    1:30 Pre-Cinema – Origins of the Motion Picture 1956. USA. Produced by the United States Naval Photographic Center. 21 min.
    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1975. USA. Directed by Thom Anderson. 60 min. Part of the An Auteurist History of Film exhibition

    4:00 A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria )
    1970. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf
    Sohlman, Anita Lindblom. Andersson’s first feature, his thesis film at
    the Swedish Film Institute, was a great critical and popular success in
    his home country. With the gorgeous Swedish summer as a backdrop, the
    film portrays the pure love that arises between the daughter of a
    refrigerator salesman and the son of a car mechanic, offering a glimpse
    into the lives and homes of the people of the Swedish Social Democracy
    during its heyday. Andersson’s debut is a typically stirring mélange of
    comedy and melancholy, the quotidian and the absurd. In Swedish;
    English subtitles. 119 min.

    4:30 Les Diaboliques 1955.
    France. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Screenplay by Clouzot,
    Jérôme Géronimi, René Masson, Frédéric Grendel. With Simone Signoret,
    Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel. “Les Diaboliques is to
    bathtubs what Hitchcock’s Psycho is to showers. Clouzot’s
    black-and-white chiller unfolds in a boys’ boarding school in rural
    France, where the tyrannical headmaster is marked for murder in an
    intricate plot hatched by his wife (Véra Clouzot, the director’s wife)
    and mistress (Signoret). Suspense builds slowly as we come to realize
    that nothing is as it seems at first. The 1996 Hollywood remake is best
    forgotten” (V. A. Musetto, The New York Post). NYFCC Best Foreign Film,
    1955. In French; English subtitles. 110 min. Part of the Critical
    Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    7:00 Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen )
    2000. Sweden/Norway/Denmark. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Lars
    Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C. W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström. In a
    glorious return from his prolonged hiatus from filmmaking following the
    1975 flop Giliap, Andersson won the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes for this
    magnificent third feature. Consisting of sixty vignettes, all produced
    by his own studio, the film takes the audience on a journey through a
    post-industrial, post-religious society in a seemingly constant state
    of purgatory—a society Andersson alternately blesses and rebukes. In
    Swedish; English subtitles. 98 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy
    Andersson film exhibition

    8:00 My Uncle (Mon Oncle)
    1958. France/Italy. Directed by Jacques Tati. Screenplay by Tati,
    Jacques Lagrange, Jean L’Hôte. With Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Alain
    Becourt, Adrienne Servanti. “Once a comic icon to rival Chaplin,
    Jacques Tati has been increasingly overlooked in recent decades. And
    yet his films, which chronicle the tug-of-war between nature and
    technology, have never been more relevant. In 1958’s Oscar-winning Mon
    Oncle, Tati’s everyman alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, navigates a
    dehumanized modernity in which stark suburban mansions isolate
    inhabitants obsessed by gadgetry. How prescient was Tati’s vision?
    Answer that question the next time you bypass the bookstore for your
    Kindle, or Twitter instead of talking” (Elizabeth Weitzman, New York
    Daily News). NYFCC Best Foreign Film, 1958. In French; English
    subtitles. 120 min. Part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film
    Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    Friday, September 11:
    1:30 Pre-Cinema – Origins of the Motion Picture 1956. USA. Produced by the United States Naval Photographic Center. 21 min.
    Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1975. USA. Directed by Thom Anderson. 60 min. Part of the An Auteurist History of Film exhibition

    4:00 Student Films – Visiting One’s Son (Besöka sin son )
    1967. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Maud Backéus, Lars
    Karlsteen, Kajsa Wilund, Peter Egge. Over the course of a meal, the
    father of two adult children has an increasingly difficult time keeping
    his opinions to himself and hiding his disapproval of his son’s
    lifestyle—not to mention his mustache! In Swedish; English subtitles. 9
    min.
    To Fetch a Bike (Hämta en cykel
    ) 1968. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Pierre Bené, Monica
    Lööf. Even in this early short, Andersson proved to be a master at
    portraying the drama of the quotidian. A minimalistic study of waking
    up on the wrong side of the bed, To Fetch a Bike shows two young lovers
    getting ready for a new day. Before the boyfriend can head to work, he
    must first fetch his bike from the attic with the help of his genuinely
    grumpy, monosyllabic girlfriend. In Swedish; English subtitles. 17 min.

    Lördagen den 5.10
    (Saturday October 5) 1969. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Rose
    Lagercrantz, Bernt Hedberg. Andersson captures the essence of an
    easy-breezy weekend shared by two working-class lovers. Bernt meets his
    sweet-as-pie girlfriend, Marianne, as she finishes her shift at the
    bakery, and takes her to visit friends on the outskirts of town. The
    girls horse around, the guys prepare the garden for winter, and
    everyone goes for a brisk walk, leaving poor Marianne in bed with a
    cold the following day. In Swedish; English subtitles. 48 min. Part of
    the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson film exhibition

    4:30 Wall-E
    2008. USA. Directed by Andrew Stanton. Screenplay by Stanton, Jim
    Reardon. With Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard.
    “There’s never been anything in animation like the first forty minutes
    of Wall-E, a magical juxtaposition of a joyous song from Hello, Dolly!
    with a vision of a barren earth whose sole inhabitant—besides a
    cockroach—is a little trash-compacting robot that can’t stop building
    skyscrapers of garbage. And the latter section of the film, a satire of
    rampant consumerism dressed up as genial comedy, redoubles the daring
    of this Pixar masterpiece” (Joseph Morgenstern, The Wall Street
    Journal). NYFCC Best Animated Film, 2008. 97 min. Part of the Critical
    Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    7:00 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang
    ) 2008. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. With Ladya Cheryl, Pong Harjatmo,
    Carlo Genta. In a departure from the short films for which he is
    celebrated, Edwin brings his prodigious talent for episodic,
    kaleidoscopic storytelling to this compelling feature film. In a series
    of minimal, slightly surreal tales, characters loosely linked by their
    minority status as Chinese-Indonesians are set within a contemporary
    urban Indonesia beset by social and racial tension. Past and present
    are jumbled, and events are vaguely symbolic and doubtlessly—albeit
    obscurely—connected to the violent political events playing out on TV.
    In this expertly crafted universe, the one constant, bizarrely enough,
    is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You”—sung by each of
    the characters at different points in the film. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 77 min.

    Dajang Soembi, the Woman Who Was Married to a Dog (Dajang Soembi, perempoean jang dikawini andjing)
    2004. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. Following the examples of silent
    cinema, Indonesian filmmaker Edwin uses expressionistic sets
    reminiscent of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and plot overtones of
    Oedipus Rex to retell an Indonesian folk tale about a beautiful but
    dull-witted princess who marries a dog. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 7 min. Part of the ContemporAsian film exhibition

    8:00 Gilliap
    1975. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Thommy Berggren, Mona
    Seilitz, Wille Andréason. Giliap, the new waiter at the gloomy Hotel
    Busarewski, unknowingly initiates a peculiar love triangle when he
    falls in love with a beautiful waitress who may or may not already be
    involved with a curious Captain Hook–like character known as The Count.
    Andersson describes the film as his fabulous flop: three years in the
    making, it went over budget and bombed at the box office, rendering
    Andersson persona non grata of the Swedish film industry for
    twenty-five years. However misunderstood it was in his home country,
    the film was praised abroad and makes a beautiful, if perplexing,
    epilogue to A Swedish Love Story. In Swedish; English subtitles. 137
    min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson film exhibition

    Saturday, September 12:
    1:30 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi
    buta yang ingin terbang ) 2008. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. With
    Ladya Cheryl, Pong Harjatmo, Carlo Genta. In a departure from the short
    films for which he is celebrated, Edwin brings his prodigious talent
    for episodic, kaleidoscopic storytelling to this compelling feature
    film. In a series of minimal, slightly surreal tales, characters
    loosely linked by their minority status as Chinese-Indonesians are set
    within a contemporary urban Indonesia beset by social and racial
    tension. Past and present are jumbled, and events are vaguely symbolic
    and doubtlessly—albeit obscurely—connected to the violent political
    events playing out on TV. In this expertly crafted universe, the one
    constant, bizarrely enough, is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I
    Love You”—sung by each of the characters at different points in the
    film. In Indonesian; English subtitles. 77 min.

    Dajang Soembi, the Woman Who Was Married to a Dog (Dajang Soembi, perempoean jang dikawini andjing)
    2004. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. Following the examples of silent
    cinema, Indonesian filmmaker Edwin uses expressionistic sets
    reminiscent of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and plot overtones of
    Oedipus Rex to retell an Indonesian folk tale about a beautiful but
    dull-witted princess who marries a dog. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 7 min. Part of the ContemporAsian film exhibition

    2:00 All About Eve 1950.
    USA. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Bette Davis,
    Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm. “Mankiewicz’s quintessential
    backstager revived Davis’s career and gave Thelma Ritter and Marilyn
    Monroe two of their earliest plum supporting roles. Almost sixty years
    after its release, All About Eve remains one of the most quotable
    movies ever made: Filled with venomous barbs about ego, ambition,
    fame—and that nastiest of all species, the critic—the film says as much
    about what it means to be a star as to be a fan” (Melissa Anderson, The
    Village Voice). NYFCC Best Picture, 1950. 138 min. Part of the Critical
    Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    4:00 Short Films and Commercials – World of Glory Härlig är jorden 1991.
    Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Klas-Gösta Olsson, Lennart
    Björklund, Christer Christensen. The opening scene of World of Glory is
    hard to forget, as Andersson reconstructs a brutal forerunner of the
    gas chamber: vans in which gas from the motor was piped into the
    storage compartment. As with Something Happened, Andersson explores the
    tragedies of recent history, where the most inhumane of events are
    portrayed with the most humane of approaches. In Swedish; English
    subtitles. 14 min.
    Something Happened (Någonting
    har hänt ) 1987. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Klas-Gösta
    Olsson, Anne Tubin, Lennart Björklund. Commissioned by the Swedish
    National Board of Health and Welfare as an educational film on AIDS for
    Swedish schools, Something Happened was rejected for being too dark for
    the Board’s tastes. First and foremost a biting critique of Western
    society’s response to the disease—largely focusing on fruitless efforts
    to place blame on someone, somewhere—the film is also surprisingly
    funny, as Andersson finds unexpected humor in the paralyzing apathy
    that follows crises. In Swedish; English subtitles. 24 min.
    A
    Program of Selected Commercials Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. In
    Swedish; English subtitles. 30 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy
    Andersson film exhibition

    5:00 Amarcord 1973.
    Italy/France. Directed by Federico Fellini. Screenplay by Fellini,
    Tonino Guerra. With Pupella Maggio, Magali Noël, Armando Brancia,
    Ciccio Ingrassia. “After nearly a decade of descending into the
    phantasmagorical murk, Federico Fellini re-emerged with this wistful
    autobiographical dreamplay about his memories of growing up in an
    Italian coastal village in the fascist 1930s. The movie is nostalgia
    raised to the level of poetry. What lends it added poignance is that
    Amarcord, with its indelible folk images (who could forget the peacock
    in the snow?) and its sentimental evocation of small-town life, now
    summons our own nostalgia for an era when art filmmakers could be
    unblushing populists” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly). NYFCC
    Best Picture, 1974 In Italian; English subtitles. 125 min. Part of the
    Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film
    exhibition

    6:30 Tomorrow’s Another Day (Det är en Dag Imorgen Också
    ) 2009. Swden. Directed by Johan Carlsson, Pehr Arte. Shot during the
    making of You, the Living, Carlsson and Arte’s compelling documentary
    illustrates the unique working environment and collaborative spirit
    that characterizes a Roy Andersson film. Members of “The Team” in
    various capacities for over twenty years, the filmmakers had intimate
    access to all involved. Their understanding of the working energies of
    Studio 24 and of the synergy between Andersson and his young
    collaborators placed them in the ideal position to illuminate the inner
    workings of the director’s creative process. In Swedish; English
    subtitles. 60 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson film
    exhibition

    8:00 A Clockwork Orange 1971.
    Great Britain. Written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Malcolm
    McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke. “A notorious
    1971 movie based on a scandalous 1962 book, Kubrick’s A Clockwork
    Orange went its own way in explicating the violent abandon of Alex
    (McDowell) and his vicious droogs, who beat, rape, and rob their way
    across a moonscaped London to the strains of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
    (and “Singin’ in the Rain”). Although his film was condemned for its
    futuristic/nihilistic view of humanity-to-be, and long banned in
    Britain for a copycat assault, Kubrick’s argument was an aesthetic one:
    Alex, a derailed aesthete at heart, was really a victim of bad taste.
    It’s the visual gag in what remains an alarming movie” (John Anderson,
    Newsday/Variety). NYFCC Best Picture, 1971. 137 min. Part of the
    Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film
    exhibition

    You, the Living (Du levande)
    2007. Sweden/Germany/France/ Denmark/Norway. Directed by Roy Andersson.
    With Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund, Leif Larsson.
    The soft oompahs of the tuba (in a score composed by Benny Andersson of
    ABBA) provide the perfect background music for the numb, maladroit
    characters in You, the Living, as if to soothe their quiet despair. One
    woman claims that no one understands her to the muffled protests of her
    lover and her mother, while a young groupie is in constant search for
    her boyfriend at a bar that’s seemingly always about to close. As in
    Andersson’s short films and Songs from the Second Floor, references to
    human catastrophe and horrible wrongdoings abound; look out for the
    tablecloth trick that goes terribly awry! In Swedish; English
    subtitles. 93 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson film
    exhibition

    Sunday, September 13:
    2:00 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile )
    2007. Romania. Written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. With Anamaria
    Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean. “Set two years
    before the bloody downfall of the Ceausescu regime, Mungiu’s brilliant,
    suspenseful exemplar of the new Romanian cinema tracks the ordeal, by
    turns harrowing and surreal, of a college student’s efforts to
    negotiate her best friend’s black-market abortion and that of the
    abortion itself. Graced by superb performances and quietly stunning
    camera work, Mungiu’s portrait of female friendship and oppression
    becomes a window on a corrupt, brutalized society approaching total
    collapse” (Karen Durbin, Elle). NYFCC Best Foreign Film, 2008 In
    Romanian; English subtitles. 113 min. Part of the Critical Favorites:
    The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition

    2:30 A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria )
    1970. Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf
    Sohlman, Anita Lindblom. Andersson’s first feature, his thesis film at
    the Swedish Film Institute, was a great critical and popular success in
    his home country. With the gorgeous Swedish summer as a backdrop, the
    film portrays the pure love that arises between the daughter of a
    refrigerator salesman and the son of a car mechanic, offering a glimpse
    into the lives and homes of the people of the Swedish Social Democracy
    during its heyday. Andersson’s debut is a typically stirring mélange of
    comedy and melancholy, the quotidian and the absurd. In Swedish;
    English subtitles. 119 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy
    Andersson film exhibition

    5:00 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang )
    2008. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. With Ladya Cheryl, Pong Harjatmo,
    Carlo Genta. In a departure from the short films for which he is
    celebrated, Edwin brings his prodigious talent for episodic,
    kaleidoscopic storytelling to this compelling feature film. In a series
    of minimal, slightly surreal tales, characters loosely linked by their
    minority status as Chinese-Indonesians are set within a contemporary
    urban Indonesia beset by social and racial tension. Past and present
    are jumbled, and events are vaguely symbolic and doubtlessly—albeit
    obscurely—connected to the violent political events playing out on TV.
    In this expertly crafted universe, the one constant, bizarrely enough,
    is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You”—sung by each of
    the characters at different points in the film. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 77 min.

    Dajang Soembi, the Woman Who Was Married to a Dog (Dajang Soembi, perempoean jang dikawini andjing)
    2004. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. Following the examples of silent
    cinema, Indonesian filmmaker Edwin uses expressionistic sets
    reminiscent of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and plot overtones of
    Oedipus Rex to retell an Indonesian folk tale about a beautiful but
    dull-witted princess who marries a dog. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 7 min. Part of the ContemporAsian film exhibition

    5:30 Adalen Riots (Ådalen ’31
    ) 1969. Sweden. Written and directed by Bo Widerber. With Peter
    Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund. Right before Andersson made
    his own debut feature, he worked as assistant director to Bo Widerberg
    on this film, which is based on the notorious 1931 strikes in a small
    town in northern Sweden during which five workers were killed by the
    military. Widerberg’s realistic depiction of class conflict and his
    ability to situate people within a distinct environment would carry
    over into Andersson’s own work. Adalen Riots was awarded the Grand Jury
    Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and received an Oscar nomination. In
    Swedish; English subtitles. 113 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus:
    Roy Andersson film exhibition

    Monday, September 14:
    4:00 Gilliap 1975.
    Sweden. Directed by Roy Andersson. With Thommy Berggren, Mona Seilitz,
    Wille Andréason. Giliap, the new waiter at the gloomy Hotel Busarewski,
    unknowingly initiates a peculiar love triangle when he falls in love
    with a beautiful waitress who may or may not already be involved with a
    curious Captain Hook–like character known as The Count. Andersson
    describes the film as his fabulous flop: three years in the making, it
    went over budget and bombed at the box office, rendering Andersson
    persona non grata of the Swedish film industry for twenty-five years.
    However misunderstood it was in his home country, the film was praised
    abroad and makes a beautiful, if perplexing, epilogue to A Swedish Love
    Story. In Swedish; English subtitles. 137 min. Part of the Filmmaker in
    Focus: Roy Andersson film exhibition

    4:30 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986.
    USA. Written and directed by Woody Allen. With Allen, Michael Caine,
    Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher. “Released in a year of filming dangerously
    (Blue Velvet, River’s Edge), Allen’s career-high romantic roundelay
    achieves the bold by, paradoxically, hewing within the boundaries. The
    setup is Chekhovian, even conventional: A trio of urbanite sisters is
    psychologically transformed by middle age, marriage, and personal need.
    And still, the drama that Allen mines, from his strongest ensemble cast
    to date and a vivid New York City, yields a grace that’s close to
    mysterious” (Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York). NYFCC Best Picture,
    1986. 106 min. Part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film
    Critics Circle at 75 film exhibition
    7:00 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang
    ) 2008. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. With Ladya Cheryl, Pong Harjatmo,
    Carlo Genta. In a departure from the short films for which he is
    celebrated, Edwin brings his prodigious talent for episodic,
    kaleidoscopic storytelling to this compelling feature film. In a series
    of minimal, slightly surreal tales, characters loosely linked by their
    minority status as Chinese-Indonesians are set within a contemporary
    urban Indonesia beset by social and racial tension. Past and present
    are jumbled, and events are vaguely symbolic and doubtlessly—albeit
    obscurely—connected to the violent political events playing out on TV.
    In this expertly crafted universe, the one constant, bizarrely enough,
    is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You”—sung by each of
    the characters at different points in the film. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 77 min.

    Dajang Soembi, the Woman Who Was Married to a Dog (Dajang Soembi, perempoean jang dikawini andjing)
    2004. Indonesia. Directed by Edwin. Following the examples of silent
    cinema, Indonesian filmmaker Edwin uses expressionistic sets
    reminiscent of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and plot overtones of
    Oedipus Rex to retell an Indonesian folk tale about a beautiful but
    dull-witted princess who marries a dog. In Indonesian; English
    subtitles. 7 min. Part of the ContemporAsian film exhibition

    8:00 You, the Living (Du levande)
    2007. Sweden/Germany/France/ Denmark/Norway. Directed by Roy Andersson.
    With Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund, Leif Larsson.
    The soft oompahs of the tuba (in a score composed by Benny Andersson of
    ABBA) provide the perfect background music for the numb, maladroit
    characters in You, the Living, as if to soothe their quiet despair. One
    woman claims that no one understands her to the muffled protests of her
    lover and her mother, while a young groupie is in constant search for
    her boyfriend at a bar that’s seemingly always about to close. As in
    Andersson’s short films and Songs from the Second Floor, references to
    human catastrophe and horrible wrongdoings abound; look out for the
    tablecloth trick that goes terribly awry! In Swedish; English
    subtitles. 93 min. Part of the Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson film
    exhibition

    Public Information: The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
    Hours: Films are screened Wednesday-Monday. For screening schedules, please visit www.moma.org.
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    Admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D. $6
    full-time students with current I.D. (For admittance to film programs
    only.) The price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a
    Museum admission ticket when a film ticket stub is presented at the
    Lobby Information Desk within 30 days of the date on the stub (does not
    apply during Target Free Friday Nights, 4:00–8:00 p.m.). Admission is
    free for Museum members and for Museum ticketholders.
    http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html#filmtickets
    http://www.moma.org/calendar/film_screenings.php

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