BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave
718.636.4100
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The Firemen's Ball
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Dec 12, 2008 – Dec 18, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$11
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Note:
There's a Q&A with Milos Forman on Friday, December 12 at 7:30pm.
Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in 1968, and precipitated Milos Forman's move to our auteur-inviting shores. Although the country's communist officials saw the black comedy as hammering a sickle into its inept bureaucracy, Forman's send-up diverts with its humanistic portrait of an annual firemen's ball doused by self-inflicted misfortune. BAM's new print from Janus Films highlights the fête's charming and hilarious defeats — whether the girls' motley motives for competing in an ill-fated beauty contest or, as the absurd evening advances, the slow and amusing disappearance of lottery prizes.
