Currently On Sale On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive SE: Magic Flute Viva Pedro! Returns SE: Inland Empire Next Gen.: Affleck YFF: Bad Company Spanish Cinema Now FCS: Charles Grodin SE: Alan Arkin Dance on Camera Jewish Film Festival Film Comment Selects Mariinsky Theater SFP: Broken Blossoms The New World Hearing Images ND/NF Classics SE: Elaine May IN: kabul transit SE: For Your Consideration Janus Films Two from Lebanon U.S. vs Lennon Prairie Home SFP: Head over Heels Anne Fontaine Lulu Forever Leo Awards Kaufman Brothers Film & Citizenship Sensations in Sound Next Gen.: Scorsese Austrian Cinema YFF: Nosferatu IN: Home Hungarian Cinema Avant-Garde LatinBeat OC: Miami Vice A Killer Life Emergence Sholay YFF: Factotum Russian Fantastik Program Overview Zero City Stalker Roundtable Planet of Storms To the Stars... Ruslan and Ludmila Aelita The Amphibian Man The Heavens Call Solaris A Spectre Haunts... Night Watch First on the Moon Evenings on a Farm... Cosmic Voyage The Lift Project SFP: A Cottage on... IN: Manhattan Kansas RockDocs Judy Holliday SE: A Scanner Darkly Heroic Grace II Shaw Bros Classics Scanners: NY Video Fest Flying Daggers OC: Touch the Sound FCS: The Descent OC: Superman Returns Benoît Jacquot Human Rights Watch The Unburied Man OC: United 93 YFF: Big Night IN: Holy Modal Syrian Cinema Balanchine Klimov & Shepitko FCS: Pine Flat Irving Berlin New Italian Cinema Kieslowski Series YFF: Salaam Bombay! African Film Festival SFP: The Eagle Film in Catalunya YFF: Lonesome Jim YFF: Big Chill YFF: Bob the Gambler French Docs Rendez-Vous Contempt Film Comment Selects On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

THE AMPHIBIAN MAN / CHELOVEK AMFIBIYA Series: From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema [Aug 11 – 24 2006] Director: G. Kazansky & V. Chebotarev, Country: USSR, Release: 1961, Runtime: 95 One of the most beloved of all Russian films (65 million admissions in 1962, which roughly translates into 520 million current American box-office dollars), this tall tale of a handsome, gilled mutant named Ichtyandr (Vladimir Korenov) whose father has replaced his faulty lung with the gills of a young shark, unfolds in a very oddly conceived coastal locale among pearl divers, rogues and old salts. When Ichtyandr saves a local fisherman’s daughter (Anastasiya Vertinskaya) from a shark attack, he falls in love with her and wants to give up the water for a life on land. Perhaps the ultimate product of the late 50s-early 60s “thaw,” this enchanting hybrid of The Little Mermaid and The Creature from the Black Lagoon surreally brims with Latin song-and-dance numbers and Russian stars in brownface (shot on beautiful Cuban locations) that must be seen to be believed. Korenov and Vertinskaya (who went on to play Ophelia in Kozintsev’s Hamlet and the Princess in Bondarchuk’s War and Peace) both became huge Soviet stars as a result of this film’s massive success.

Buy Tickets Thurs Aug 17: 6:15 Thurs Aug 24: 1:30, 5 & 8:15