Events

[FILM] If hearing about the 30th anniversary of the Buffalo Film Seminars makes you feel old, remember that there are two a year, so it’s only half that age. Still, 15 years is impressive by any standard. The now-venerable film series has survived its relocation from downtown’s Market Arcade to the Amherst Theater, and launches its spring schedule with a traditional silent film featuring live keyboard accompaniment by Philip Carli. This time it’s Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), a comedy that will look familiar even if you never seen it because so much of it has been used by other filmmakers over the years. Other highlights of this semester, which as always mixes classics and recent films from around the world with commentary by UB professors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, include Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby, a top contender for the title of funniest film ever made, on Feb 3; Bela Tarr’s Werkmeister Harmonies (April 21); the original Mad Max (March 24); and the campy 1960s sci-fi spoof Barbarella—you have to wonder what they’re going to have to say about that one come March 3.