Join the Dryden for your summer vacation, travelling from Sweden through Denmark, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Italy, and France to Spain, stopping for cinematic delights along the way. Mixing in world cinema classics with lesser-known films, preservations, and new experimental pieces, the series is as much an introduction to the cinema of Europe as it is a celebration of the vast array of films and artists working on the continent over the last seventy years.
Dates and Titles:
June 9: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1966, 83 min., 35mm, Swedish with English subtitles)
June 10: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark 1955, 126 min., DCP, Danish with English subtitles)
June 18: Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, Wim Wenders, West Germany/France 1987, 128 min., DCP, German with English subtitles)
June 24: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1974, 93 min., DCP, German and Arabic with English subtitles)
July 7: How I Celebrated the End of the World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfârsitul lumii, Cãtãlin Mitulescu, Romania/France 2006, 106 min., 35mm, Romanian with English subtitles)
July 8: Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera, Theodore Angelopoulos, France/Italy/Greece/Germany, 137 min., 35mm, Greek with English subtitles)
July 21: The Dream and the Lie (Elena Dorfman, Albania 2026, 67 min., DCP)
Events in this Series
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) | The Sight & Sound Club One night, Emmi (Brigitte Mira), an aging cleaning woman, wanders into an unfamiliar bar during a downpour. She ends up dancing with a young Moroccan guest worker named Ali (El Hedi ben Salem). Soon they are close friends, then lovers, then they decide to be married, despite their near 20 year age difference.
Larks on a String (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Private moments are hard to come by in post-war Czechoslovakia. Whether it’s the recitation of a poem, a philosophical conversation, the playing of a saxophone, or a simple flirtation, all are looked on with suspicion by the government and its agents.
Eternity and a Day (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) An elderly poet in Greece, alone and near death, takes comfort in memories of a happier time and the companionship of a young Albanian refugee.
Wings of Desire (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Guardian angels left to watch over West Berlin after the Second World War listen to the thoughts and dreams of its citizens from the city’s rooftops.
Ordet (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) | The Sight & Sound Club Director Dreyer explores multiple issues of faith through a family on the Danish highlands in 1925.
Persona (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) | The Sight & Sound Club Bergman’s once and future muses star together in this psychological drama examining the nature of identity. A young actress, Elisabet (Liv Ullmann), has suddenly stopped moving and speaking, leading to a stay in a hospital.