Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: Divine Comedy @ National Gallery of Art
by Svetlana 
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| August 30, 2008 | ||
| 4:30 pm |
Born one hundred years ago in Oporto, Manoel de Oliveira embodies the last of the great twentieth-century auteurs. Today he is still making cinema of profound depth and candor with a style that is recognizable but never repetitive. During the last two decades he has released, on average, one film a year. All of this suggests that, at age 100, he has achieved critic Edward Said’s definition of an artist who refuses to go gently into the night, “a restless sensibility, turning out works of unresolved contradiction.” Thanks to the Embassy of Portugal, Instituto Camões, Cinemateca Portuguesa, ICA, Lusomundo, Antonio Pedroso, Florence Almozini, João Bénard da Costa, BAM Cinematek.
free
details here:
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/portuguese_marvel.shtm
A Divina Comédia (Divine Comedy)
August 30 at 4:30
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
Rather than following Dante’s trek through the realms of the dead, Oliveira gives each patient in a mental asylum the role (or sometimes more than one) of a figure from literature or history. Adam and Eve meet characters from Dostoyevsky, while others select from Nietzsche, José Régio, or the Latin classics. The obvious message: Western civilization is a madhouse. (1991, 35 mm, Portuguese with subtitles, 140 minutes)
