A Season of Postwar Hungarian Films
Spring 2009

Part II: March 17 to April 14, 2009

Time: Tuesdays 6:00 p.m. (Please be prompt)
Location: Room 402, Fourth floor, Dey Hall

**Unless otherwise noted**

MARCH 17 Egymásra nézve/Another Way (Károly Makk, 1982) -- Challenging (and linking) sexual and journalistic conformity, a superbly-crafted film from the director of our earlier Szerelem/Love

MARCH 24 Napló gyermekeimnek/Diary for My Children (Márta Mészáros, 1984) -- The first part of a trilogy by Hungary’s greatest woman director gives the first honest portrait of the postwar period and the early 1950s. NEWLY-AVAILABLE DVD VERSION

MARCH 31 Édes Emma, drága Böbe/Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (István Szabó, 1992) – The director of Mephisto’s bitter view of the end of Communism

**APRIL 8** Kontroll/ Control (Antal Nimród, 2003) – An example of a professional, popular film: are Hungarians just like us now?
***PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND DIFFERENT VENUE*** WEDNESDAY APRIL 8TH ROOM 302 DEY HALL (immediately below 402) Same time: 6:00 p.m.

APRIL 14 Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002) – An almost wordless, visually endlessly inventive and subtly amusing postmodern film you’ll want to see more than once.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

IN SPRING 2010 WE HOPE TO BE BACK WITH A SEASON OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN MOVIE CLASSICS –
KEEP IN TOUCH FOR DETAILS!

Peter Sherwood, Laszlo Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
peter_sherwood@unc.edu

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Part I: January 20 to March 3, 2009

Time: Tuesdays 6:00 p.m., January-March 2009 (Please be prompt)
Location: Room 402, Fourth floor, Dey Hall

Please join us for FREE screenings of some of the greatest Hungarian movies of the last 60 years. All are high-quality DVDs, some re-mastered, with English subtitles (usually decent!). No need to book, just drop by.

JANUARY 20 Valahol Európában/Somewhere in Europe (Géza Radványi, 1947-8). A masterpiece of Hungarian neo-realism, up there with Bicycle Thieves.

JANUARY 27 Ludas Matyi/Mattie the Gooseboy (Kálmán Nádasdy, László Ranódy, 1949-50). Socialist realism that’s subtly subversive: you’ve seen nothing like this.

FEBRUARY 3 Körhinta/Merry-Go-Round (Zoltán Fábri, 1955). The first great postwar film produced in Hungary, with remarkable camerawork.

FEBRUARY 10 Így jöttem/My Way Home (Miklós Jancsó, 1964). The film that launched the Hungarian ‘New Wave’, by Hungary’s most distinctive auteur.

FEBRUARY 17 Szegénylegények/The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1965). A masterpiece of pure cinema, on every critic’s list of the "100 best films of all time".

FEBRUARY 24 Szerelem/Love (Károly Makk, 1971). A delicate yet powerful account of love and loyalty during the worst years of Hungarian Stalinism.

MARCH 3 Mephisto (István Szabó, 1981). Hungary’s first Oscar-winner, a stunning portrait of the artist under totalitarianism.

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