On Friday November 13 2009 Alliance Française of Miami & Società Dante Alighieriopens Presents: “TRILOGY image -sound “. Three Uruguayan artists get together to present an exhibit featuring works by Mario Marinoni (paintings and boxes/sculpture mixed media); Federico Britos, (contemporary violin compositions); and Gabriel Orenstein (video art) “TRILOGY image - sound ...
One to 3-week residencies for visual artists, writers and the public in primitive and glorious historic dune shacks in Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, MA USA; one residency offers a $500 fellowship and a 3-week stay. No fee to apply. Deadline February 15, 2010; www.thecompact.org
ARTErra, is a private structure of incentive to the creation. In a laboratory logic, the artist finds in the Arterra a house with a series of comforts and a yard of creation, where several spaces for the creation and development of an artistic work. This structure ...
8:40 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1955). Frank Sinatra has a dope addiction that jazz can’t cure in this groundbreaking film, censored for its frank treatment of a tough subject. “Sinatra’s performance is pure gold.”—Pauline Kael (119 mins) Part of PFA Series Otto ...
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1957). Jean Seberg was chosen from thousands of applicants to play the Maid of Orléans in Preminger’s version of George Bernard Shaw’s play, adapted for the screen by Graham Greene. (110 mins) Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger ...
8:20 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1953). Condemned by the Legion of Decency for using terms like “virgin” and “pregnant,” Preminger’s indie sex comedy is more surprising in its frothiness than for its alleged prurience. (99 mins) Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of ...
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1972). Jancsó won Best Director at Cannes for this riveting psalm-song set during an ill-fated Hungarian farmworkers’ revolt. “Perhaps the most ecstatic fusion of political and formal radicalism since Dozvhenko’s Earth.”—J. Hoberman (88 mins) Part of PFA Series Four ...
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater (France, 1950-58). Resnais in short, from eloquent essays on art and cultural memory to a surreal “song of styrene.” (108 mins) Part of PFA Series In Time: The Films of Alain Resnais.
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1962). This decades-old drama of Beltway intrigue reads like a contemporary playbook for political maneuvering, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton among the players. “By far the best political movie ever made in this country.”—Peter Bogdanovich (140 mins) Part ...
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1967). Central Russia during the 1918 Civil War is the setting of Jancsó’s disquietingly beautiful ballet of war and death, shot in breathtaking black-and-white CinemaScope. (90 mins) Part of PFA Series Four by Hungarian Master Miklós Jancsó.
3:00 p.m., PFA Theater Heddy Honigmann (The Netherlands, 1997). A portrait of the buskers of the Paris Métro—a Venezuelan harpist, an Algerian singer, a violinist from Sarajevo—becomes a document of survival in exile. “A splendid example of how illuminating and entertaining a documentary can be.”—L ...
3:00 p.m., Gallery B The women of the acclaimed University Chamber Chorus will perform Guillaume de Machaut’s Le lai de la fonteinne, a series of short intricate rounds in praise of the Virgin Mary, and Hildegard of Bingen’s O tu illustrata, along with other a cappella ...
8:00 p.m., PFA Theater Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1960). In celebration of his new book The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, Thomson introduces a special screening of Hitchcock’s film. (109 mins) Part of the PFA Series Readings on Cinema: Hitchcock’s ...
6:00 p.m., PFA Theater Miklós Jancsó (Hungary, 1966). A prison on the vast Hungarian plains, and the prisoners and guards that circle therein, are at the crux of this critique of the relations between the powerful and the powerless. “Boldly stylized, a synthesis of Antonioni, Bresson, and Welles ...
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater Otto Preminger (U.S., 1950). “Can a man make a woman do things she doesn’t want to?” Preminger’s most overtly psychological noir finds Gene Tierney married to analyst Richard Conte but under the sway of smarmy hypnotist Jose Ferrer. (97 mins) Part ...