Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson discusses his career. The film series "Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Anderson" is playing at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, September 10-18. For more information and screening schedule, visit www.moma.org.
Events: Roy Andersson with be introducing his films at the screenings
Friday, September 11th, at 4:00 and at 8:00 pm
Saturday, September 12, at 4:00, 6:30, and 8:00 pm
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
More information here.
Guests:
Roy Andersson
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Several years ago, I used Andersson's work as part of a short lecture series given to 200 college Freshmen. I was shocked, frankly, by their unbridled enthusiasm to "Songs From the Second Floor." So immediately accessible were the gestures of visual humor and piercing observations of human life, that it was as if Andersson had rendered a world they already knew, inside and out - it needed no translation. I still use his work as a staple in teaching graduate film directing students at NYU. It is a thrill to have him at long last in New York City and to see his great work at MOMA.
"The Stranger" was made into a movie by Luchino Visconti in 1967 with Marcello Mastroianni in the lead
"Beloved be the one who sits down."
"Songs from the Second Floor" is so brilliant!The best, most depressingly accurate allegory for modern life since Godard's "Weekend."
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