March 2012 Screenings

  • Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    Mar 01 Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962)
    Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Roma, a rural Italian hooker trying to create a new life for herself. This proves impossible when the past keeps rearing its ugly head in the form of Mamma Rosa's previous "johns." She returns to her old profession, whereupon her son Ettore Garofalo becomes a thief and is killed by the police. Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (his second film), Mamma Roma is …
  • Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    Mar 03 Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962)
    Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Roma, a rural Italian hooker trying to create a new life for herself. This proves impossible when the past keeps rearing its ugly head in the form of Mamma Rosa's previous "johns." She returns to her old profession, whereupon her son Ettore Garofalo becomes a thief and is killed by the police. Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (his second film), Mamma Roma is …
    w/ 'Film School' lecture & discussion
  • This Is Not A Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb/Jafar Panahi, 2010) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    Mar 30 Mojtaba Mirtahmasb/Jafar Panahi's This Is Not A Film aka In film nist (2010)
    It is not a protest; it is a plea. This is not a filmmaker who is a threat to his country; this is a national—and international—treasure.Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

    Jafar Panahi, the fifty-one-year-old Iranian film director, is a maker of nonpolitical films. Nevertheless, he has been sentenced by the Iranian authorities to six years in prison, and has been banned from directing, writing …