CineClassics

2024.09.06. 12:11

Founded in 2010, CineClassics is one of Hungary’s longest-running film history programs. The focus has long been on filmmakers from Miskolc and its surroundings, from Hungary and Central Europe: in the past few years, dozens of events have commemorated many of the world’s greatest filmmakers, from Emeric Pressburger to Zoltán Korda, from Alexandre Trauner to Gabriel Pascal, from Ephraim Kishon to Michael Curtiz, who took something with them from Hungary to Paris and Hollywood. The series has inspired books, films, conferences, festivals and exhibitions at home and abroad. This year’s Miskolc selection is as diverse as ever: from exhibitions to book launches and audience meetings, there is something for everyone.

In focus: Ferenc Rofusz
The Fly 1980
Deadlock 1982
Gravitation 1984
The Last Supper 2019
The Hell Panel 2021

The Fly was the first Hungarian film to win an Academy Award – but it was not the director, Ferenc Rofusz, who collected the prize, as he was not allowed to travel to Hollywood. The film and its creator received many other awards at home and abroad, from the Kossuth Prize to the Order of St. Stephen. At the 1981 Miskolc Film Festival, he decided to withdraw The Fly – so that his colleagues would not have to compete with an Oscar-winning film. The festival then awarded him an unconventional fair play prize. The Last Supper was made in 2018, after 40 years of waiting: in 1978, the film was not allowed to be made for political reasons. Host: Péter Muszatics, curator of CineClassics.

10 September, 5 PM, Béke room

In memoriam Gusztáv Schubert
Minimal
16 minutes, 2013
Gusztáv Schubert (1955-2024) and the monthly Filmvilág are synonymous: the spirit and intellectual heights he represented in Hungarian film criticism and journalism are unparalleled. His friends and collaborators remember him in this discussion, preceded by a screening of Márton Szirmai’s 16-minute masterpiece Minimal, starring Gusztáv Schubert. He plays a university lecturer who takes part in a reality TV show. The stakes: who spends the least in a day… A sad Hungarian humor, with timeless overtones.
In Hungarian
12 September, 5 PM, Béke room

 

Péter Bacsó : The Fatal Shot
95 minutes, 1968
The film is based on a true story, a newspaper report, and was considered by director Péter Bacsó to be one of his best films. The protagonists Kati Kovács and Károly Horváth (Charlie) are emblematic singers in Hungary, but the film is not dominated by them, rather by the simple storyline, the earnest, no-nonsense photography of János Zsombolyai and the detailed, unflinching portrayal of Hungary at the 1960s. Two boys and a girl decide to commit suicide – that’s how the film begins, and the situation itself explains why Péter Bacsó’s film was rather “tolerated” at the time, similar to The Witness, which was filmed at roughly the same time.

Premier plan
Actor portraits from the other side of the filmstrip
Photo exhibition of György Paraszkay
Joint program of the Museum of Actors and CineClassics
György Paraszkay, graphic artist and photographer, has been the engineer of the P’ART Cinema in Szentendre for the past decade. During this period he also took pictures at the Szentendre Theatre’s performances. A selection of photographs and portraits of great Hungarian actors and actresses show more than a hundred contemporary artists. Some of them are no longer with us, but almost all age groups are represented in the exhibition, from college students to great old masters. Éva Keleti, the grande dame of Hungarian photography and Kossuth and Príma Primissima Prize-winning photojournalist, was György Paraszkay’s partner in compiling the exhibition.
Opening: 6 September 2024, 3 pm
Museum of Actors
Miskolc, Déryné u. 3.
The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until 27 October 2024, in the Attila Veres exhibition hall of the Museum of Actors.

FILM:
A LÉGY (informal screenings)
FEJLÖVÉS (CineClassics)
MINIMÁL (CineClassics)
CineFest
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