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Satantango

Satantango
This very special event was made possible with help from Toby Leonard (Belcourt Theater, Nashville, TN), Dylan Skolnick (Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY), and Katalin Vajda (Magyar Filmunió, Budapest).
Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr's seven-and-a-half-hour-long masterpiece will be presented today as it was meant to be seen: in it's entirety and in one day. The first part (300 minutes) will begin at noon and will have one 15-minute break. After this there will be a dinner intermission with the second part (135 minutes) beginning at 7pm with no breaks.

This cinematic landmark is hailed as the definitive statement on the end of Communism in Eastern Europe and unfolds in 12 chapters inspired by the tango (six steps forward, six steps back). An excerpt from the Cleveland Cinematheque describes it as "a monumental black comedy with metaphysical overtones; a menacing mystery with an elaborate, interlocking jigsaw structure; and a technical tour-de-force with virtuoso long takes, gorgeous b&w cinematograpy, indelible sound effects, and an unshakeable mood of doom and gloom." This is a major and must-see event for anyone who is interested in the possibilities of cinema as great art.

Satantango

$7 ($5 for students, or 2 punches for punchcard holders

Sat January 27, 2007, Noon, Muenzinger Auditorium

Hungary, 1994, in Hungarian, Black and White, 450 min

recommend

Tickets

10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission. $7 w/UCB student ID, $7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.

Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

RTD Bus

Park elsewhere and catch the HOP to campus

International Film Series

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Established 1941 by James Sandoe.

First Person Cinema

(Originally called The Experimental Cinema Group)
Established 1955 by Carla Selby, Gladney Oakley, Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage.

C.U. Film Program

(AKA The Rocky Mountain Film Center)
First offered degrees in filmmaking and critical studies in 1989 under the guidance of Virgil Grillo.

Celebrating Stan

Created by Suranjan Ganguly in 2003.

C.U. Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

Established 2017 by Chair Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz.

Thank you, sponsors!
Boulder International Film Festival
Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

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