Medieval Film Festival
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
NY, NY 10016-4309
October 16th through November 6th, 2002
— Brought to you by the CUNY Ph.D. Programs in Mathematics and French —
Admission is free!
- - The Program - -
1) Wednesday, Oct. 16th, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. C204/C205
Synopsis: A knight, home from the crusades, seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God during a game of chess with the Grim Reaper - - played in order to keep his life - - while the Black Plague ravages everyone around him.
2) Thursday, Oct. 17th, at 2:30pm (doors
open 2pm) in Rm. 9204
Synopsis: The trial and martyrdom of Joan of Arc in the year 1431. This silent film classic features new music, the "Voices of Light" oratorio, by composer Richard Einhorn.
3) Tuesday, Oct. 22nd, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. 9206
Synopsis: Based on the well-known English legend, Robin of Locksley is a noble who is forced to become an outlaw when Prince John the usurper tries to take the throne from his absent brother. Robin flees to Sherwood forest where he gathers together his Merry Men who rob the rich and give to the poor, the townfolk who are heavily-taxed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin also finds time to woo his childhood sweetheart, the lovely Maid Marian.
4) Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. C204/C205
Synopsis: Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, complications ensue after Quasimodo, a deformed bell-ringer who lives in the cathedral of Notre Dame, falls in love with an enchanting gypsy girl, Esmerelda.
5) Tuesday, Oct. 29th, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. C205
Synposis: As a young man, Martin Guerre leaves his farm, family, and wife. Years later, returning from war, he appears to be a changed man. But soon suspicions begin to circulate that he may not in fact be Martin.
6) Wednesday, Oct. 30th, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. C204/C205
Synopsis: A Dominican friar visits a French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he soon finds a perfect candidate: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people using herbs & folk remedies.
7) Tuesday, Nov. 5th, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. C205
Synopsis: Abelard, a respected philosopher and teacher in 12th-century Paris, is hired to tutor the intelligent and beautiful Heloise. They soon fall in love, but the custom that professors must be celibate causes complications.
8) Wednesday, Nov. 6th, at 6:30pm (doors
open 6pm) in Rm. C204/C205
Synopsis: In 1327, an intellectually nonconformist Franciscan monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated Benedictine monastery.
