Bard SummerScape Presents
Film Series: Reinventing Mexico
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
To pay tribute to the confluence of influences shaping the work of Carlos Chávez, the SummerScape 2015 Film Series will explore the relationship between realism, modernism, and nationalism in films from and about Mexico. The series will begin with the landmark, proto-neorealist Redes (The Wave), which brought together photographer Paul Strand, director Fred Zinnemann, Chávez, and fellow composer Silvestre Reveultas. It will conclude with a group of international films—including Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished Mexican project and John Ford’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory—that treat nineteenth and twentieth century Mexican history from different vantage points. These programs bookend an extensive retrospective of surrealist master Luis Buñuel, who worked in Mexico for nearly two decades and whose peripatetic career mirrored that of Chávez.5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Films will screen Saturdays at 5 pm and Sundays at 7 pm.
Saturday, July 11 | Redes (The Wave) Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann, 1936, Mexico, 65 minutes |
Sunday, July 12 | Land Without Bread Luis Buñuel, 1933, Spain, 30 minutes and Simon of the Desert Luis Buñuel, 1965, Mexico, 45 minutes |
Saturday, July 18 | Los Olvidados Luis Buñuel, 1950, Mexico, 80 minutes |
Sunday, July 19 | The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz Luis Buñuel, 1955, Mexico, 89 minutes and Mexican Bus Ride Luis Buñuel, 1952, Mexico, 85 minutes |
Saturday, July 25 | Viridiana Luis Buñuel, 1961, Spain, 90 minutes |
Sunday, July 26 | The Exterminating Angel Luis Buñuel, 1962, Mexico, 95 minutes |
Saturday, August 1 | Que viva México! Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, 1932-1979, USSR/USA/Mexico, 84 minutes |
Sunday, August 2 | Vera Cruz Robert Alrich, 1954, USA, 94 minutes and The Fugitive John Ford and Emilio Fernández, 1947, USA/Mexico, 104 minutes |
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=128715.
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Ticket Information: Tickets: $10Buy Tickets