Three Films by Lech Majewski to be Shown at Duke

Sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program, the Center for EuropeanStudies, the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and the Centerfor Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies.

MAJEWSKI WILL BE ON HAND TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AT THE SEPTEMBER 23RDSCREENING OF WOJACZEK

Time: Tuesdays, September 16, September 23, October 7, 2008
Location: The Griffith Theatre Housed in the Bryan Center, Duke

ANGELUS
Tuesday Sept 16, Griffith (8pm)

(Lech Majewski, 2000, Poland, in Polish with English subtitles, 103 min, Color, 35mm)

Polish director Lech Majewski followed up his 1999 film Wojaczek with this dark fantasy comedy based on true events that took place in a Silesian town beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1950s.

As World War II looms, the leader of an occultist commune in a small Polish mining town makes three prophecies before dying, the third prophecy predicting the demise of the human race. Over the years, the members of the commune watch with great anxiety as the the first two prophecies appear to come true. Believing that the Apocalypse is fast approaching, they select a virgin boy from the commune to sacrifice himself and save the world from certain destruction.

Cinematographer Adam Sikora won the Silver Frog for Angelus at Poland's 2001 Camerimage film festival.

WOJACZEK
Tuesday Sept 23, Griffith (8:30pm)

(Lech Majewski, 1999, 90 min, Poland, in Polish with English subtitles, B/W, 35mm)

TO BE FOLLOWED BY A QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH LECH MAJEWSKI

Lech Majewski, a poet and screenwriter for Basquiat (1996), directs this stylized biopic of Rafal Wojaczek, a rebellious poet who died prematurely in his twenties. Drunk and depressed, Wojaczek walks through windows, jumps from two story buildings, and gets into frequent fights. Though he has frequent sexual dalliances with the nursing staff during his recurrent trips to the hospital, his true love remains his poetry. Conscious of the need for myth in the mythless reality of communist Poland, he burns his life as an offering.

GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Tuedays Oct 7, Griffith (8pm)

(Lech Majewski, 2004, 103 min, Great Britain/Italy, in English, Color, 35mm)

In this intense tale of passion and mortality, a beautiful but dying London art historian named Claudine, obsessed with Hieronymus Bosch?s Garden of Earthly Delights, spends her last months in Venice with her lover, Chris. The movie is made up of the images Chris gleans with his video camera and follows the pair as they hang out, bum around, make love, go swimming, rent an apartment, look at art, recreate vignettes from the Bosch and discuss life, art, philosophy, history ? you name it.

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