Cineastes Announces Poetic Cinema Titles for Spring

Contact: David Ramm, (740) 593-7511 or Nicholas Bittner, (740) 589-4432

ATHENS, Ohio (March 30, 2001) -- Poetic Cinema continues today on Ohio University's main campus in Athens.

Student organization Cineastes opens the series' second run with Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata." Films will be screened weekly at 8 p.m. Friday nights on East Green in Morton Hall, room 235. A special free screening of Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" takes place in April at the Athena.

The group will screen free to the public eleven international features in all, said Nicholas Bittner, a president of Cineastes. A surprise short film from directors such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton will follow the majority of screenings in Morton Hall.

"This series offers the opportunity to see films that might not normally be exhibited in Southeastern Ohio," Bittner said. From France, Japan and Sweden, Poetic Cinema's offerings include respected directors Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Marcel Carne.

"Children of Paradise," to be shown Apr. 6, is the first of two Carne films in the series including "Bizarre, Bizarre," which concludes Poetic Cinema June 1. The Athena shows "Throne of Blood" Apr. 7 and 8.

The series continues at Morton with Ozu's "Good Morning" Apr. 13, Antonioni's "La Notte" April 20, Ousmane Sembene's "Black Girl" April 27, Kenji Mizoguchi's "Utamaro and his Five Women" May 4, Jean-Luc Godard's "Band of Outsiders" May 11, Jean Renoir's "Toni" May 18 and then Bresson's "Diary of a Country Priest" May 25.

All films are free and open to the public.