In 2015 it is suggested that you go out and purchase a few good books. It is also suggested that you take in a few significant movies.
I’m not talking about the next Dumb and Dumber or any of the other silly sequels that will hurt your brain. I’m talking about movies that have transcended the ages. Movies like Roger Vadim’s Barbarella (1968) and Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz (1979). But where on earth can you find these types of movies still playing on the silver screen, where they were intended to be viewed?
Simple. Just check out Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian’s Buffalo Film Seminars, which take place at the Dipson Amherst theater. “All films are at the Dipson Amherst, beginning, as always, with the two of us introducing the week’s film at 7:00 p.m, screening it, then having an open discussion with students in our UB film class and anyone in the audience who wants to join us,” says Bruce.
The Buffalo Film Seminars take place Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. promptly, at the Dipson Amherst Theatre, 3500 Main St., Buffalo, NY. Free parking.
Following is the spring 2015 line-up:
Jan 27 Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush, 1925
Feb 3 Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby, 1938
Feb 10 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, ‘I Know Where I’m Going,’ 1945
Feb 17 Carol Reed, Odd Man Out, 1947
Feb 24 Budd Boetticher, Seven Men from Now, 1956
March 3 Roger Vadim, Barbarella, 1968
Mar 10 Bob Fosse, All That Jazz, 1979
Mar 24 George Miller, Mad Max, 1979
Mar 31 Karel Reisz, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981
Apr 7 Gregory Nava, El Norte, 1983
Apr 14 Bryan Singer, The Usual Suspects, 1995
Apr 21 Bela Tarr, Werkmeister Harmonies, 2000
Apr 28 Sylvain Chomet, The Triplets of Belleville, 2003
May 5 Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men, 2007