Past Programs

2024

• Monday, January 29, 2024
  

  CMIA - Vertigo

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Vertigo
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA, 129 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, January 30, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Space of Viewing

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Sherlock, Jr.
  (Buster Keaton, 1924, USA, 45 minutes, Blu-ray) Rear Window
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA, 124 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, January 31, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Beginnings of Neorealism

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Paisà, Sixth Episode
  (Roberto Rossellini, 1946, Itay, 23 minutes) Ossessione
  (Luchino Visconti, 1943, Italy, 134 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 5, 2024
  

  CMIA - Animation and Abstraction

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Films by Oskar Fischinger, Walter Ruttmann, and Len Lye The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  (Walt Disney and Clyde Geromini, 1949, USA, 34 minutes, 35mm)*
              *IB Technicolor PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 6, 2024
  

  CMIA - Silent Art Films

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Kid
  (Charles Chaplin, 1921, USA, 72 minutes, 35mm) Sunrise
  (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA, 91 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, February 7, 2024
  

  CMIA - Neorealist Sources

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Toni
  (Jean Renoir, 1935, France, 85 minutes, 35mm) The Postman Always Rings Twice
  (Tay Garnett, 1946, USA, 112 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 12, 2024
  

  CMIA - Technicolor

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Pink Panther
  (Blake Edwards, 1963, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)*
              *Original IB Technicolor Print The Red Shoes
  (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK, 132 minutes,
              35mm)*
              *Restoration PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 13, 2024
  

  CMIA - Montage

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Un Chien Andalou
  (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, 1929, France, 16 minutes, 35mm) Battleship Potemkin
  (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, USSR, 75 minutes) Méditerranée
  (Jean-Daniel Pollet, France, 1963, 45 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, February 14, 2024
  

  CMIA - Neorealism and the Italian Film Industry

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Rome, Open City
  (Roberto Rossellini, 1945, Italy, 100 minutes) Bellissima
  (Luchino Visconti, 1951, Italy, 113 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 19, 2024
  

  CMIA - Psychological Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Blue
  (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993, France/Poland, 98 minutes, Blu-ray) Morvern Callar
  (Lynne Ramsay, 2002, UK, 99 minutes, Blu-ray)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 20, 2024
  

  CMIA - Film Sound

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  La Chienne
  (Jean Renoir, 1931, France, 95 minutes, 35mm) M
  (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany, 118 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, February 21, 2024
  

  CMIA - Canonical Neorealism

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Bicycle Thieves
  (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy, 90 minutes) La Terra Trema
  (Luchino Visconti, 1948, Italy, 150 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 26, 2024
  

  CMIA - Technicolor II

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Hell in the Pacific
  (John Boorman, 1968, USA, 106 minutes, 35mm)*
              *IB Technicolor Print The Fall of the Roman Empire
  (Anthony Mann, 1964, USA, 150 minutes, 35mm)*
              *IB Technicolor PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 27, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Red Shoes

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Red Shoes
  (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK, 132 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Restoration PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 27, 2024
  

  CMIA - Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 90 minutes, 35mm) Ran
  (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Japan, 162 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, February 28, 2024
  

  CMIA - Visconti and the Operatic Imagination

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Senso
  (Luchino Visconti, 1954, 126 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, March 4, 2024
  

  CMIA - Impressionism

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Le Bonheur
  (Agnés Varda, 1965, France, 80 minutes) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 91 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 5, 2024
  

  CMIA - Color, Part II

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 90 minutes, 35mm) Ran
  (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Japan, 162 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, March 6, 2024
  

  CMIA - White Nights

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  White Nights
  (Luchino Visconti, 1957, Italy/France, 102 minutes) Two Lovers
  (James Gray, 2008, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, March 11, 2024
  

  CMIA - Lives of the Artists

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Lust for Life
  (Vincente Minnelli, 1956, USA, 118 minutes) Van Gogh
  (Maurice Pialat, 1991, France, 158 minutes)
   Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, March 13, 2024
  

  CMIA - Fellini and Pasolini

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Federico Fellini Film
  (Federico Fellini) Oedipus Rex
  (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967, Italy, 105 minutes, 35mm)
   Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 26, 2024
  

  CMIA - 2001

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA, 142 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, March 27, 2024
  

  CMIA - Rocco and His Brothers

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Rocco and His Brothers
  (Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy, 179 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 1, 2024
  

  CMIA - Pharaoh

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Pharaoh
  (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1965, Italy, 175 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 2, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Master and Margarita (Special Guest Event with Director Michael Lockshin)

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  5:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Master and Margarita
  (Michael Lockshin, 2024, Russia, 157 minutes)**Followed by a discussion with the director. Organized in collaboration with Russian and Eurasian Studies and the CCE.
  
  Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 8, 2024
  

  CMIA - Color and Camera Movement

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998, Taiwan, 117 minutes, 35mm)*
              *New 35mm Print The Wedding
  (Andrzej Wajda, 1973, Poland, 106 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 9, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Godfather

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Godfather
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA, 179 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, April 10, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Cinema of Poetry

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Sandra
  (Luchino Visconti, 1965, Italy, 105 minutes) Red Desert
  (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964, Italy, 122 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 16, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Godfather, Part II

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Godfather, Part II
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA, 200 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Restored printPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, April 17, 2024
  

  CMIA - Ludwig

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Ludwig
  (Luchino Visconti, 1974, Italy/Germany, 238 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 23, 2024
  

  CMIA - Animation

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Fantasmagorie (Émile Cohl, 1908, France, 1 minute) The Cameraman’s Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912, Russia, 13 minutes) Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1928, USA, 5 minutes) Carmen (Lotte Reiniger, 1933, Germany, 9 minutes) Circles (Oskar Fischinger, 1933, Germany, 3 minutes) Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, 1936, UK, 4 minutes) Tale of Tales (Yuri Norshtein, 1979, USSR, 26 minutes) My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989, Japan, 91 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, April 24, 2024
  

  CMIA - Visconti and the Fin-de-siècle

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Death in Venice
  (Luchino Visconti, 1971, Italy, 117 minutes)            The Innocent
  (Luchino Visconti, 1976, Italy, 112 minutes)
   Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Friday, April 26, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Tree of Wooden Clogs

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Tree of Wooden Clogs
  (Ermanno Olmi, 1978, 179 minutes, Blu-ray)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 30, 2024
  

  CMIA - The Mirror

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Mirror
  (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR, 106 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, May 1, 2024
  

  CMIA - Confronting the Catastrophe

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Conformist
  (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy/France, 108 minutes, 35mm) The Damned
  (Luchino Visconti, 1969, Italy/West Germany, 167 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, May 6, 2024
  

  CMIA - Digital Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  In Praise of Love
  (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001, France/Switzerland, 96 minutes, 35mm) Dancer in the Dark
  (Lars von Trier, 2000, Denmark, 140 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, May 7, 2024
  

  CMIA - Thrillers and History

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Woman in the Fifth
  (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2011, France/Poland/UK, 84 minutes, 35mm) Heartbeat Detector
  (Nicolas Klotz, 2007, France, 143 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Wednesday, May 8, 2024
  

  CMIA - Visconti's Legacies

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Boys from Fengkuei
  (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983, Taiwan, 105 minutes) Landscape in the Mist
  (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988, Greece, 127 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Friday, May 10, 2024
  

  CMIA - Visconti's Legacies, Part 2

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Raging Bull
  (Martin Scorsese, 1980, USA, 122 minutes) The Age of Innocence
  (Martin Scorsese, 1993, USA, 128 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Saturday, May 11, 2024
  

  CMIA - Casino

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Casino
  (Martin Scorsese, 1995, USA, 178 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, May 13, 2024
  

  CMIA - Color and Structure

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Taboo
  (Nagisa Oshima, 1999, 100 minutes, 35mm) Red
  (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994, 104 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, May 14, 2024
  

  CMIA - Twenty-First Century Cinema

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Beau Travail
  (Claire Denis, 1999, France, 93 minutes, 35mm) In the Mood for Love
  (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong, 98 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.