THE SEVENTH SEAL on 35MM | Art House Cinema (1945-2000)

Name: THE SEVENTH SEAL on 35MM | Art House Cinema (1945-2000)
Start: 2025-09-08T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117

Schedule

Mon, 08 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117 | Richmond Heights, MO

Join us this fall for our series in collaboration with Washington University, ART HOUSE CINEMA 1945-2000, a look at international films shown in U.S. art house cinemas from 1945 to 2000, with a special focus on the role of music in shaping their impact and reception. With special introductions for all screenings by Todd Decker, Professor of Music and Film and Media Studies at Washington University, experience the films from a college-level film history course—no homework, just great cinema! https://hipointetheatre.org/film-series/art-house-cinema/
SPECIAL 35MM PRESENTATION
Ingmar Bergman, 96m, 1957, Swedish with English subtitles
Starring: Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Nils Poppe
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning, The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art-house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.
Stark and mythic, drawing its power from the symbolic repertoire of medieval religious painting and an utterly modern spiritual quest, The Seventh Seal “contains some of the most extraordinary images ever committed to celluloid.” (Time Out)