Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: The Letter Never Sent @ National Gallery of Art
by Svetlana 
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| June 29, 2008 | ||
| 4:30 pm |
The Letter Never Sent
June 29 at 4:30
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
Hundreds of miles from nowhere in forsaken Siberia, a team of geologists (Russian superstars Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Tatiana Samoilovna, and Vasili Livanov among them) makes a diamond strike. As a harrowing man-against-wilderness epic, The Letter Never Sent is in a class by itself—the hair-raising highlight is a fast tracking shot through a forest fire, with flames seemingly inches from lens and actors. (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1959, Russian with subtitles, 35 mm, 97 minutes)
details here:
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/envisioning_russia.shtm
