Organized And Presented By The Labor Heritage Foundation And The Afi Silver Theatre And Cultural Center, This Annual Series Features A Wide-Ranging Selection Of Films About Work, Workers And The Wider Issues Affecting Workers' Lives. With The Presentation Of A Union Card, Union Members Will Receive A Silver Cinema Club Ticket Discount At The Star Level.
Schedule Of Events:
4:30 pm: Calamity (Kalamita) - New 4k Restoration
Several Years After Returning To The Czechoslovak Film Industry From Political Excommunication, V?ra Chytilova Crafted One Of Her Finest Satires With 1982's Calamity, A Seemingly Conventional Sex Comedy That Takes Covert Aim At The Communist Government's Institutional Rot. When Directionless Slacker Honza (Bolek Polívka, Soon To Become A Chytilova Regular) Drops Out Of College, He Decides To Take On A Career As A Train Conductor, To The Perplexity Of His Father And Friends. Yet Almost Nothing Goes Right For Honza, Who Must Not Only Navigate The Bureaucratic Absurdities Of The State-Controlled Railway System But Also The Romantic Advances Of Three Different Women (Dagmar Blahova, Jana Synkova And Jaroslava Kretschmerova), Leading Up To An Uproarious Finale Set On A Snowbound Train. Employing Endlessly Inventive Narrative Left Turns, Chytilova Incisively Criticizes The Regressive Intransigence Of Czechoslovakia's "Normalization" Era With Her Patented Brand Of Gleeful, Anarchic Mirth. Dir-Scr Vera Chytilova; Josef Silhavy. Czechoslovakia, 1982, Color, 101 Min. In Czech With English Subtitles.
