film series
Rimsky-Korsakov and the Poetry of Cinema The 2018 SummerScape Film Series explores the influence on international filmmaking of Russian nationalism, folk music, and exoticism—in pieces by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, other members of the Mighty Five, and the pioneering Mikhail Glinka—through overlapping pairs of films. Two of the films, Alexander Sokurov’s single-shot exploration of the State Hermitage Museum and the socialist realist biopic Man of Music, use the music of Glinka to address
The Cranes Are Flying, 1957, Mikhail Kalatozov. ©Warner Bros./Photofest
questions of aesthetic continuity across the tumultuous history of modern Russia. A pair of adventurous animated films, screened during the first weekend, adapt Modest Mussorgsky’s A Night on Bald Mountain in strikingly original ways, setting the stage for the stylistic
Thursday, July 26
Thursday, August 9
Russian Ark
Man of Music
Alexander Sokurov, 2002, Russia/Germany/ Canada/Finland, 96 minutes
Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Glinka (composer), 1952, USSR, 100 minutes
known as “the Thaw”). A final pair of realist films utilizes music by Rimsky-Korsakov and
Sunday, July 29
Sunday, August 12
Alexander Borodin—Terence Davies employs part of the same Borodin string quartet that
Night on Bald Mountain
The Cranes Are Flying
Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker, 1933, France, 8 minutes and
Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957, USSR, 97 minutes
exuberance of the classical Hollywood features the following weekend. Nationalist concerns are central to the third weekend’s pair of films, which demonstrate the dramatic stylistic transformation that took place in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” (The Cranes Are Flying is the emblematic film of the period
inspired the musical Kismet—to complement their nuanced, outsider’s views of American life.
jim ottaway jr. film center Thursdays and Sundays, July 26 – August 19 at 7 pm
Fantasia Walt Disney, 1940, USA, 126 minutes
Thursday, August 16
Atlantic City Louis Malle, 1980, Canada/France, 104 minutes
Thursday, August 2
tickets
The Devil Is a Woman
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Josef von Sternberg, 1935, USA, 79 minutes
Members may reserve up to four complimentary tickets for the film series.
Sunday, August 5
Sunday, August 19
The House of Mirth Terence Davies, 2000, UK/Germany/USA, 140 minutes
Kismet Vincente Minnelli, 1955, USA, 113 minutes
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