Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Presented at:
Market Arcade Film and Art Center
| February 2 – March 16, 2005 CUBAN FILM SERIES Wednesday evenings, 7:30 p.m. at the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre 639 Main Street, Buffalo Presented by Hallwalls and the Burchfield Penney Arts Center in conjunction with the Burchfield Penney’s ’s exhibition Art on the Hyphen: Cuban-American Artists of Western New York State, January 15 – April 3, 2005 $8 General; $6 Burchfield-Penney and Hallwalls Members (with valid membership card); $5.50 students/seniors. Program schedule subject to change without notice. Wednesday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (1968, 110 mins.) Directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea As the first film from post-revolutionary Cuba to be released in the U.S., this had a widespread impact unequalled in the history of Third World cinema. Set in the early 1960s, the film centers on a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, but too decadent to fit into the new society. |
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