Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema (Venue Partner)
40 Arts Circle Drive
Northwestern University
847 491 4000
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Milos Forman, 1967, Czechoslovakia, color, 35mm, 71 minutes
- When
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Thursday Feb 25, 2010 (7pm)
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Directions: On the south end of Northwestern University's campus, just off Sheridan Road. Free parking at NU after 4 pm weekdays and all day weekends. Near the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops and the Metra Davis stop.
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$6-4
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Director Milos Forman’s masterful The Firemen's Ball reads like a comic condemnation of the rampant hypocrisies of communist Czechoslovakia. A half-baked attempt at celebrating a fire chief’s retirement goes completely awry, with raffle prizes stolen before they can be given away and a beauty pageant with contestants who turn out to be neither beautiful nor particularly enthusiastic. Whether subtle satire or apolitical slapstick,The Firemen's Ball inarguably finds humor in the frustrations and indignities suffered under a bumbling bureaucracy.
