The CCCNY resumes its year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana and joins forces with Anthology Film Archives to offer a wide-ranging film series inspired by Havana’s history and culture, including Hollywood classics, important Cuban and Cuban-American films, and innovative documentaries by both Cuban and European filmmakers.
Since the 1930s, Havana has long been a recurrent theme or served as a backdrop in many American films. And Cuban cinema itself, among the most acclaimed in Latin America since the 1960s, has produced numerous independent filmmakers, as well as groundbreaking documentaries on contemporary life in Havana.
Embracing this breadth of creativity and the authenticity of a city that has for so long captured the cinematic imagination, Quo Vadis Havana showcases a selection of films that are set in Havana or feature the city as a protagonist.
The series is bookended historically by John Huston’s Hollywood drama, We Were Strangers (1949), which depicts the political turmoil in 1930s Havana during the Machado dictatorship, and Lucy Mulloy’s riveting Una Noche (2012), which reflects the angst of contemporary life in the Cuban capital. In between are British director Carol Reed’s Our Man in Havana, filmed on location in the wake of the Revolution; Bitter Sugar, an AIDS-ridden story by Cuban-American director León Ichaso; The New Art of Making Ruins, an eloquent avant-garde documentary by German filmmaker Florian Borchmeyer on the city’s dilapidated landscape; and works by three of the best Cuban filmmakers of the last sixty years: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s legendary Memories of Underdevelopment, Sara Gómez’s exploration of gender and racial inequality in One Way or Another, and Fernando Pérez’s poetic and heartrending masterpiece, Suite Habana.
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 2nd Ave. (at 2nd Street), NYC
General Admission: $12
Students, Seniors: $9
Children (12 & under), AFA and CCCNY* Members: $7
*Please present CCCNY ID at the box office.
Several of the filmmakers will attend the screenings!
For a descriptive content of each film and last-minute details, click here:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/51361
Special thanks to Jed Rapfogel (AFA) for his invaluable role in making this series possible.
SCREENINGS:
Fri, Aug 23
6:45 Havana: New Art of Making Ruins (86 min)
9:00 Suite Habana (80 min)
Sat, Aug 24
4:15 We Were Strangers (109 min)
6:45 Our Man in Havana (111 min)
9:15 Bitter Sugar (75 min)
Sun, Aug 25
4:15 Memories of Underdevelopment (98 min)
6:30 De Cierta Manera (78 min)
8:30 Una Noche (90 min)
Mon, Aug 26
7:00 Bitter Sugar (75 min)
9:00 Havana: New Art of Making Ruins (86 min)
Tues, Aug 27
7:00 De cierta manera (78 min)
9:00 We Were Strangers (109 min)
Wed, Aug 28
7:00 Suite Habana (80 min)
9:00 Memories of Underdevelopment (98 min)
Thurs, Aug 29
7:00 We Were Strangers (109 min)
9:15 Una Noche (90 min)
Fri, Aug 30
7:00 Memories of Underdevelopment (98 min)
9:15 Our Man in Havana (111 min)
This event is co-sponsored by Anthology Film Archives
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
With the promotional collaboration of
This film series is presented as part of our year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of the City of Havana, culminating in our 18th annual flagship conference, Oda a La Habana: The first 500 years, to be held at Barnard College on Sunday, November 17, 2019.