Currently On Sale On Sale: 2010 Archive On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive All That Fosse GS: Clara Bow Met: Roméo et Juliette Val Lewton Spanish Cinema Now Pilar Miró La Guerra Filmada Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 YFF: ...Dollhouse Accattone in Jazz GS: Battling Butler Pasolini The Iron Horse Freewheelin’: Music Docs David Fincher Whole Shootin' Match Rolex Art Weekend NYWIFT: Attica YFF: Murmur... Beyond Boundaries IN: Greensboro 10 Years HK Leo Awards 07 Chinese Modern Avant-Garde De Andrade For Goodis Sake YFF: Run Fatboy... Zeki Demirkubuz FCS: The Last Winter Latinbeat 07 Latinbeat 07 Sidebar Gerard Depardieu IN: Life on the Mesa YFF: Bullets over B'way FCS: Executioner’s Song FCS: Them Green Screens: 11th Hour Polanski Scanners: NY Video Fest Woodfall Studios FCS: Norman Mailer SFP: Way Down East SE: After This... YFF: King of New York SE: Talk To Me Kino Live Earth FCS: Joshua Next Gen.: Scorsese Human Rights Watch IN: Banished SE: Evening New Italian Cinema YFF: The Story of Qiu Ju Magnum Barry Lyndon 4 from Schlesinger Lee Marvin Wide Awake White Nights Paul Mazursky Duke Ellington SE: Il Trittico YFF: Waitress SFP: Toons, Tunes... Carlos Saura China's Independents FCS: Electra FCS: Hot Fuzz African Film Festival Daniel Barenboim ND/NF Classics Tian Zhuangzhuang Offside Rendez-Vous FCS: P. Verhoeven IN: A Dream in Doubt Film Comment Selects YFF: In the Soup Donald Cammell SE: Days of Glory Farmanara Retro NY Jewish Film Festival Whitaker Films SE: Forest Whitaker SE: For Goodis Sakepostponed Dance on Camera 2007 On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT		The War on Film / La Guerra filmada A Premiere Look at a Landmark Series December 7 - 27, 2007 To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, TVE and the Filmoteca Española created a remarkable eight-part series, La Guerra filmada, or The War on Film. Seen by millions of Spaniards during the weeks of its presentation, the series was not a polemic about the Civil War but a fascinating compilation of films shot and edited by both sides during the three years of struggle. Grouped into various themes and topics and presented by noted historian Julián Casanova, The War on Film renders with startling vibrancy one of the key events that shaped the 20th century. We are delighted and deeply grateful that the producers of this monumental work have created an English-subtitled version for this year’s Spanish Cinema Now — the first time the series will be seen in its entirety outside of Spain. For his help in making this screening possible, we’d like to thank Jose Maria Prado of the Filmoteca Española. Admission: $11 general public; $7 members & students; $7 seniors weekday matinee screenings only. Please note: there is a $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office. The programs in The War on Film are included in our special Series Pass ($40 for the public, $30 for Film Society members ~ limited availability); the pass admits one person to five titles in the series. The pass is available for purchase (cash only) at the Walter Reade Theater box office. To purchase tickets online click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets.
			Program 1 Chapter One: The Republic at War Chapter Two: Heroic Spain 136m The Republic at War includes three pieces. Loyalist Spain in Arms was produced by the Propaganda Ministry of the Republic, and was written and produced by none other than Luis Buñuel. The Burial of Durutti records the funeral commemorations for the famed anarchist leader and demonstrates a massive show of forces loyal to the Republic. The third work records the first meeting of the Cortes, the Spanish parliament, after the outbreak of the war. It includes a famed and often-quoted speech by Largo Caballero, president of the Cortes. Heroic Spain is the name of a Spanish-German co-production made on Nationalist rebels, showing their progress during the first year of the conflict. The film begins with the attack on Toledo, includes the siege of the famed Alcazar Fortress and celebrates the progress of Franco’s troops in Málaga, Bilbao and Asturias. A final commemoration of their fallen soldiers brings together a galaxy of Franco’s supporters.		Buy Tickets Sun Dec 9: 2:50 Sat Dec 22: 12:30
			Program 2 Chapter Three: The Social Revolution Chapter Four: The Defense of Madrid 118m The defense of the Republic was often joined by demands for an economic and political restructuring of society––the social revolution––that could be the only true guarantee of victory. The first film in this third chapter was produced by Barcelona’s FAI, an Anarchist movement. Cataloguing attacks on the Church and other symbols of power, the film shows the radical forces unleashed by the insurrection. The second film includes footage of the anarchist military campaign in Aragon, documenting not only the military operation but also the aftermath of collectivization and other reforms. The final film, Barcelona Supports the Front, also produced by the Anarchists, shows the re-ordering of both work and daily life to provide maximum support for the military struggle. Chapter Four chronicles the defense of Madrid. Franco, undisputed head of the uprising, made the conquest of Spain’s capital a priority, and for several weeks in late fall of 1936, it seemed as if he would succeed—but the city held. The first two films included here exhort madrileños to hang tough. In the first, actress Montserrat Blanch compares the struggle to the resistance against Napoleon, while in the second poet Rafael Alberti recites “Madrid, Heart of Spain.” Also featured are two documentaries about the fighting made by Soviet film crews who accompanied their troops to the defense of Madrid. Finally, the chapter ends with a documentary on the battle for Madrid made by Franco’s forces.		Buy Tickets Wed Dec 12: 7:00 Sat Dec 22: 3
			Program 3 Chapter Five: Battlefields and Homefront Politics Chapter Six: The International War 109m Chapter Five reflects the evolution of the Civil War; after the initial, often very hard-fought battles, both sides settled into more strategic postures, shoring up support behind their lines while planning for new actions. We begin with a tribute to the Nationalist rebels in Pamplona, following their victory in the north. Military parades blend seamlessly with religious processions. A series of Republic documentaries chronicle everything from the meeting between José Antonio Aguirre, President of Euzkadi (the Basque region) with Cataluña’s President Lluis Companys; the treatment of captured Italian soldiers; and the delivery of ambulances donated to the Republic by American supporters. Finally, the battle for Teruel, the only provincial capital to have been captured by Franco, then lost, then re-taken, is seen from a variety of viewpoints. Probably no aspect of the Spanish Civil War is better known than its international character: German and Italian regular military forces rushed to aid Franco’s cause, while the Republic counted on the support of Soviet forces as well as several thousand international volunteers. Chapter Six shows how the presence of “outsiders” in the struggle was used propagandistically by both sides, to show how each represented the “true Spain.” There is also incredibly moving footage of departure of the Republican International Brigades in the fall of 1938. The chapter concludes with a fragment of a German film about the achievements of the infamous Condor Legion in Spain.		Buy Tickets Fri Dec 14: 7 Sun Dec 23: 12:30
			Program 4 Chapter Seven: Resistance and Conquest: The End of the War Chapter Eight: The Victory 101m By mid-1938 it was clear that the Civil War was winding down. Despite continuing to lose territory, the Republic’s President, Juan Negrín, called for resistance until the end. For his part, Franco refused to even discuss a negotiated settlement. The first film included here, Spain Will Live, released in February 1939, was a last-ditch effort to drum up support for the Republic, bitterly attacking the “non-intervention” policies of the Western democracies. The other two films are Nationalist accounts of the conquest of the Catalan region and the occupation of Barcelona. The final chapter includes examples of the “Noticiario Español,” the official Nationalist and now government newsreel, recording the celebrations in the weeks following the end of the fighting on April 1, 1939. In the first, 120,000 Nationalist troops parade before Franco, who wears both the blue shirt of the fascist Falange Party as well as the red beret of the monarchist Carlists. The chapter and the series end with a speech by Franco in which he declares Spain “a totalitarian state.”		Buy Tickets Tue Dec 18: 8:30 Sun Dec 23: 2:45