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'PASSION AND DEFIANCE: SILENT DIVAS OF THE ITALIAN CINEMA'
September 23-October 6
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, 875-5600

photo: Jean-Paul Kieffer

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Part of the 38th New York Film Festival.

'LON CHANEY: MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES'
October 7-29
American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Queens, 718-784-0077

Sixteen films featuring the American silent cinema's renowned chameleon. Includes a restored print of Phantom of the Opera (1925), shown with live musical accompaniment.

'NEW FACES IN CZECH FILM'
October 13-15

BAMcinématek, 30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, 718-636-4111
Celebrate Czech Independence Day with this five-film series.

TOTO RETROSPECTIVE
October 17-31
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, 875-5600

A tribute to the prolific Italian comic.

COMPLETE PASOLINI RETROSPECTIVE
October 26-November 8
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 505-5181

Includes television projects never seen in the U.S.

THE BRITISH NEW WAVE
October 27-November 16
Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, 727-8110

Thirty films by Britain's original angry young men, from Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger (1958) to Lindsay Anderson's If . . . (1968).

HOU HSIAO-HSIEN RETROSPECTIVE

November 2-12
BAMcinématek, 30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn,718-636-4111

Seven films from the Taiwanese virtuoso.

RUSSIAN FILMS OF THE 1960S
November 10-30
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, 875-5600

A 25-film series featuring a new print of Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962).

14TH ANNUAL MIX FESTIVAL
November 15-19
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 505-5181

Experimental lesbian and gay film festival.

'EVERYDAY COURAGE: CZECH FILMS BY GUSTAV MACHATY AND BEYOND THE '60S'
November 17-December 17
BAMcinématek, 30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, 718-636-4111

Three films by Czech pioneer Machaty—including the notorious Ecstasy(1932), in which Hedy Lamarr bares all—and selections from '60s new wavers Milos Forman, Ivan Passer, and others.

TROMA RETROSPECTIVE
December 1-7
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 505-5181

A bad-taste extravaganza celebrating masters of the form Troma Studios. Includes the, um, eagerly anticipated New York premiere of Citizen Toxie.