Events

[FILM] And they said it wouldn’t last. This week brings the opening of the 16th year of the Buffalo Film Seminars, in which UB professors Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson (also editor-at-large for The Public) open up their film class to the public. They cast their net wide for a range of features from classic noirs to foreign films that haven’t previously been screened in Buffalo. After opening this Tuesday, September 1 with Louise Brooks in the silent classic Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), the semester includes a generous helping of the noir-ish, including Humphrey Bogart in The Petrified Forest (1936), Robert Montgomery as a POV Philip Marlowe in Lady in the Lake (1947), and Lawrence Kasdan’s deceptively sunny update/tribute Body Heat (1981). If you’ve never seen Citizen Kane on the big screen, you’ll get your chance on September 15. And I dare you—I double-dog dare you—to sit through BFS fave Bela Tarr’s mesmerizing, maddening final film The Turin Horse (2011) on Dec. 1.