Currently On Sale On Sale: 2011 Archive On Sale: 2010 Archive On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive Classic Scorsese MET Live: Thaïs Roosevelt SE: Revolutionary Road SE: The Sky Crawlers SE: Making The Wrestler CO: The Magic Flute Spanish Cinema Now Cámara Spanish Experimental YFF: Short Cuts SE: Joseph Stiglitz SE: Secret...Grain Problem Child FCS: Les idoles MET Live: La Damnation GS: Docks of NY SE: Sinatra... SE: Puccini.... Manny Farber IN: Be Like Others YFF: Slumdog... MET Live: Dr Atomic Gr. Scr.: Panel Gr. Scr.: Farming... NYC Opera: Ivan... FCS: Changeling YFF: The man who... FCS: Che! Jon Jost Andrzej Wajda IN: Ice People MET Live: Salome Avant-Garde Oshima YFF: Sonetaula MET Live: Gala FCS: The Other Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands Latinbeat 08 Charlton Heston FCS: Captain Ahab Robert Gavaldón Never Apologize Revolutionary Romantic YFF: L.I.E. IN: Judge & General FCS: The Deal Kawakita Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel Dominique Delouche SE: Four Hands GS: The Cat and... YFF: American Teen Slovenian Cinema SE: Magic Lantern William Holden SE: Jazz on a... Satoshi Kon IN: Critical Condition HRW Collection Human Rights Watch Gr. Scr.: Biùtiful... New Italian Cinema YFF: Judy Berlin Israel @ 60 Charles Boyer Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä Jennifer Jones SE: Robert Frank SE: Jerry Schatzberg SE: Joachim Trier 1968: Intl. Perspective Romanian Cinema Met: La Fille du Régiment SE: Ned Rorem GS: The Kid Brother YFF: Le Boucher Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop... IN: Phyllis and Harold NYAFF 2008 SE: Dreams... SE: On the Street Met: La Bohème ND/NF Classics 2008 Gr. Scr.: Garbage... Met: Tristan und Isolde Thorold Dickinson Met: Peter Grimes Infernal Machines Rendez-Vous 2008 Green Screens: Flow:... Met: Manon Lescaut YFF: Harold and Maude Film Comment Selects IN: From the Ground Up SE: Two Laws GS: Chang: A Story... Envisioning Russia YFF: The Ice Storm NYJFF 2008 Celebrate Alex Corti NYJFF JM Screens Met: Macbeth SE: City of Men DOC 2008 Met: Hänsel and Gretel On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT		Experimental Cinema in Spain Spanish Cinema Now December 5 - 24, 2008 Although Spain more than made its mark in the most progressive and challenging reaches of many other visual arts, the tradition of experimental filmmaking in Spain has received less attention. Often the distinctions between “experimental” and other kinds of cinema have been rather arbitrary, hopelessly blurred by films such as Life in Shadows (Llobet Gracia, 1948) or the works of the ’60s Barcelona School. Selected by Jose Maria Prado, director of the Filmoteca Española, these two programs offer a brief introduction to this little-known strand of Spanish cinema. Our thanks to the Filmoteca Española for making these rare works available to us. Admission: $11 public; $8 seniors (62+); $7 Film Society & Instituto Cervantes members, students (with ID) and children (6-12, accompanied by an adult). Please note: $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office. Series Pass ($40 public/$30 Film Society member) admits one person to five titles in the series including the Cámara tribute and the experimental film programs. Available only at the Walter Reade Theater box office (cash only transactions); may not be combined with any other ticket offer. Individual screening tickets subject to availability. To purchase tickets online click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets.
			The Essence of the Fair Avant-Garde Shorts Spain; 69m This wonderful selection of experimental short films offers a glimpse of yet another Spanish film tradition. A masterpiece of stop-motion animation by Segundo de Chomon, The Electric Hotel (El hotel electrico, 1908) takes very good care of its guests. The Essence of the Fair (Esencia de verbena, Ernesto Gimémez Caballero, 1930) is a kind of “city symphony” or “documentary poem” of Madrid. An Announcement and Five Cards (Un anuncio y cinco cartas, 1937) and The Fakir Rodríguez (El fakir Rodriguez, 1938) are short works satirizing the commercial cinema, created by popular playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela. Sabino Antonio Micón’s The Story of a Bottle (Historia de una botella, 1948) follows the trajectory of a bottle as it passes through the various levels and corners of Spanish society. Director Jose Val del Omar — called “one of the great unknown filmmakers in world cinema” by no less than Amos Vogel — was a tireless researcher into shaping and modifying the sensual experience of the cinema. Part of his never-completed, four-part essay on Spain, Fire in Castille (Fuego en Castilla, 1958) is a mesmerizing journey through the city of Valladolid, blending Holy Week processions with natural imagery and works from the city’s remarkable Museum of Religious Sculpture. A visual tour-de-force.		Buy Tickets Sat Dec 20: 4:30
			The Sixth Sense / El Sexto sentido Nemesio M. Sobrevila & Eusebio Fernández Ardavín, Spain, 1929; 76m Live piano accompaniment by Carolyn Schwarz. The waves of avant-garde cinema that swept across Europe in the ’20s had a lesser impact in Spain, Buñuel and Dali notwithstanding. One remarkable exception was architect Nemesio Sobrevila’s The Sixth Sense. Carlos takes his chronically depressed friend León to the mysterious Professor Kamus, who demonstrates his latest invention, The Sixth Sense, a super-camera that captures images from anywhere and everywhere. During his “projection-therapies,” León chances upon some images of Carlos’s girlfriend Carmen that makes him suspect she’s not being totally honest. Part breezy Lubitsch-style comedy, part meditation on how to derive meaning from images, The Sixth Sense is a delightful, unexpected gem.		Buy Tickets Sat Dec 13: 1:30