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)
August 11: Alpe-Adria Underground (Ali je bilo kaj avantgardnega?, Matavez Jerman, Jurij Meden, Slovenia 2024, 98 min., DCP, Slovenian with English subtitles)
August 12: Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia, Roberto Rossellini, Italy/France 1954, 97 min., 35mm, Italian with English subtitles)
August 14: L’Avventura (Michaelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France 1960, 144 min., 35mm, Italian with English subtitles)
August 18: Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau, Jacques Rivette, France 1974, 193 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
August 21: Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5à 7, Agnès Varda, France/Italy 1962, 90 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
August 25: The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la colmena, Spain 1973, 98 min., DCP, Spanish with English subtitles)
Events in this Series
The Spirit of the Beehive (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it.
Cleo from 5 to 7 (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Unfolding almost in real time, this masterpiece from the “godmother” of the French nouvelle vague, and one of cinema’s greatest innovators follows a young woman in the liminal space between vitality and mortality.
Celine and Julie Go Boating (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Usually, it began like this…” Jacques Rivette’s recursive, surreal, haunted house film plays with narrative in ways never before seen on-screen, and in the process influenced dozens of filmmakers, from David Lynch to Richard Linklater and Olivier Assayas.
L’Avventura (35mm)
A Summer Trip Through Europe(an Cinema) Largely considered Antonioni’s breakthrough masterpiece, L’Avventura marked the director’s transition into his trademark deliberate pacing and careful composition. Based on a story written by Antonioni, the film chronicles the search for a woman whose disappearance leads to an illicit romance between her lover and her best friend.
Alpe-Adria Underground! (DCP)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Between 2013 and 2023, the Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production.