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Cleveland Museum of Art’s International Film Series Premiers Five New Films
International Film Series Continues with the first Cleveland showing of five new films and a silent classic with live music. Unless noted, each film is $7, ($5 CMA members).
GodisGreatAudreyTautou.jpg; GodisGreatCouple.jpg Gartner Auditorium on Friday; Lecture Hall on Sunday
God Is Great, I’m Not
Friday, May 2, 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 4, 1:30 p.m.
(France, 2001, color, subtitles, 35mm, 95 min.) Directed by Pascale Bailly, with Audrey Tautou and Edouard Baer. Amelie’s Audrey Tautou plays a 20-year-old fashion model that tries on different boyfriends — and different religions — in this winsome romantic comedy. Rejecting Catholicism and Buddhism, she becomes fixated on Judaism when she starts dating a nonobservant Jewish veterinarian.
Lecture Hall
L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin!
Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 11, 1:30 p.m.
(USA, 2003, color/b&w, subtitles, Beta SP, 93 min.) Directed by Yale Strom. The new nonfiction film from the maker of The Last Klezmer is a fascinating portrait of the Soviet Union’s Jewish Autonomous Region, created by Stalin in remote eastern Siberia in 1934. The movie employs newsreels, clips from the 1936 Soviet propaganda film Seekers of Happiness, and interviews with pioneers to recount the history of this pre-Israel Jewish homeland built amid swamps and snow.
Gartner Auditorium
The Fall of Otrar
Wednesday, May 14, 6 p.m.
(USSR, 1991, b&w/color, subtitles, 35mm, 165 min.) Directed by Ardak Amirkulov. In this historical epic set during the 13"-century, a Muslim warrior tries to convince his ruler that the encroaching Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan poses a real threat to his Central Asian kingdom. This remarkable movie, co-written by Alexei Gherman, is presented in the U.S. with the support of Martin Scorsese.
Gartner Auditorium
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Lingua accompanies
Friday, May 16, 7:30 p.m.
(Germany, 1919, color-tinted b&w, English intertitles, 35mm, 60 min.) Directed by Robert Wiene, with Werner Krauss, Corad Veidt, and Lili Dagover. Cleveland’s Lingua — a band consisting of Dan Bode
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(harmonica), Al Moses (guitar), and Rick Kodramaz (bass) — will perform its original musical score to the great German Expressionist silent film, seen here in a beautiful new 35mm print! One of the most famous horror movies ever made, the film features striking painted backdrops and a creepy plot about a malevolent hypnotist and the somnambulist who carries out his evil bidding.
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Yellow Asphalt
Wednesday, May 21, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 23, 7 p.m.
(Israel, 2001, color, subtitles, 35mm, 87 min.) Directed by Danny Verete. This unique and eye-opening film, set in the Judean desert, tells three emotionally charged stories about the clash between ancient Bedouin culture and contemporary Israeli values. “A rare glimpse into a world we seldom, if ever, encounter.”—Time Out New York.
Gartner Auditorium
The Pinochet Case
Wednesday, May 28, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 30, 7 p.m.
(France/Chile/Belgium/Spain, 2001, color, subtitles, 35mm, 110 min.) Directed by Patricio Guzman. The director of the seminal The Battle of Chile chronicles the arrest, detention, and extradition of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet — along with his many human rights abuses — in this sobering study of post- Allende Chile. “Re-examines one of the most painful episodes of recent Latin American history.” —The New York Times.
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