Update · Francesco Rosi’sCHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI

ADDED SCREENINGS!*

DAILY (besides SAT/SUN)  12:30*   2:00   5:40*   7:00

SAT, April 6  1:00   2:30*   7:00*   8:20

SUN, April 7  12:15*   1:00   5:30*   7:15

SAT/SUN April 13/14  1:00   7:30
Wednesday, April 3 – Thursday, April 18

U.S. premiere of the entire, uncut model

Translator Michael F. Moore will introduce the Wednesday, April Three screening at 7:00

(1979) In 1935, painter, author, physician and anti-Fascist chief Carlo Levi (1902-1975) – performed by the good Gian Maria Volontè (Rosi’s Lucky Luciano and Mattei Affair, Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge, Leone dangerous man, and so forth.) – is exiled from Turin to Lucania, a area deep into the instep of southern Italy, a spot so abject even Christ has forsaken it. In this most desolate of landscapes, present aspect by aspect with ravishing pure magnificence, he finds Gagliano, a city with one automobile and just one porcelain rest room; the place magic spells, healing cash, and evil spirits exist aspect by aspect with Christianity – the drunken, disgraced priest denounces the locals as “donkeys, not Christians;” the place cleansing woman Irene Papas (Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek) is the one girl who can enter his home as a result of she’s already had 17 kids with 17 totally different males; and the place, till Levi is allowed to observe, there are not any competent, trusted docs. And but, as Levi lives amongst them, humanity begins to interrupt by way of. Based on Levi’s best-selling 1945 memoir (nonetheless in print from FSG Classics and out there at our concession). Made for Italian tv in 4 55-minute elements, it was reduce in half for its 1980 U.S. launch (to 2 hours — Rosi’s personal theatrical reduce was 2½) and senselessly re-titled Eboli. DCP. Approx. 220 min, plus intermission.

Read The New York Times journey article on Matera, Europe’s 2019 Capital of Culture, and the setting of Levi’s story.

A RIALTO PICTURES RELEASE

Reviews

“ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL.”
– David Denby

“A secular miracle! The director’s masterpiece and a stunning introduction to his work.”
– Michael Sragow

“Best viewed as a meditation, not a conventional drama… An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight.”
– David Sterritt

“I was completely absorbed… the audience seemed hushed, as if at a concert where the musicians were playing very softly.”
– Pauline Kael

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