Events

[FILM] Another Tuesday night, another terrific movie at the Buffalo Film Seminars. It’s been that way for years, so many that you may well not remember a time when you couldn’t depend up on it to give you a chance to discover or revisit a film classic on the big screen, the way it was meant to be seen. Each film is presented by UB professors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, who introduce the film and conduct an audience discussion afterward. 

The spring semester kicks off, as has become a tradition, with a silent film. This time it’s Buster Keaton’s astonishing Civil War comedy The General (1926), co-written by Buffalo native Al Boasberg (who at the time was known as “The Funniest Man in Hollywood”). Continuing through May 9, the BFS will also present films from Hollywood’s golden era, some foreign films, and in what seems to have become a new tradition a recent film that’s you’ll want to see in order to find out just what the programmers saw in it that no one else did, in this case the 2014 war movie Fury. 

 Jan 31  Buster Keaton: The General 1926

 Feb 7  Ernst Lubitsch: Ninotchka 1939

 Feb 14  Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: The Red Shoes 1948

 Feb 21  John Huston: The Misfits 1961

 Feb 28  Stanley Kubrick: Dr Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  1964

 Mar 7  Robert Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar 1966

 Mar 14  Bahram Beizai: Downpour/Ragbar 1972

 Mar 28  Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975

 April 4   Nicolas Roeg: The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976

 April 11  Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in America 1984

 April 18  Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Double Life of Veronique 1991

 April 25  Kar-Wai Wong: In the Mood for Love 2000

 May 2  David Ayer: Fury  2014

 May 9  Mike Leigh: Topsy Turvy  1999