By: Lightbox Film Center
1/30/2019
2019 marks 40 continuous years of film programming at International House Philadelphia. To celebrate, we're putting together a list of our top ten films screened each decade, starting at the beginning. Stay tuned as we release more throughout January.
March 7, 1979 – One Way or Another (Sara Gomez, 1975) introduced by Ruby Rich
February 22, 1980 – A Dream is What you Wake up From (Carolyn Johnson/Larry Bullard, 1978) introduced by Carolyn Johnson
November 19, 1980 – Radio On (Chris Petit, 1979) Philadelphia Premiere
February 6, 1981 – The Offenders (Beth B & Scott B, 1979) introduced by Beth and Scott B, Philadelphia Premiere
March 6, 1981 – Films from Buffalo (featuring Tony Conrad, Barbara Lattanzi, Paul Sharits) presented by Bruce Jenkins
March 12, 1981 – The Apple Game (Vera Chytilova, 1976) Philadelphia Premiere
July 9 – 17, 1982 – The First Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
October 16, 1982 – Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982) introduced by Kathleen Collins, Philadelphia Premiere
March 30, 1983 – Black Wax (Robert Mugge, 1983) Philadelphia Premiere
January 25, 1984 – Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983) introduced by Lizzie Borden, Philadelphia Premiere (pictured left)
October 7, 1987 – Video from the 1987 Whitney Biennial: I Do Not Know What it is I am Like (Bill Viola, 1987) (pictured left)
March 11, 1988 - An Evening with Julie Gustafson: The Pursuit of Happiness (1983) + The Trial of the AVCO Plowshares (1986)
April 21, 1989 – Latin American Visions program begins
November 7 – 11, 1990 – Kazakhstan New Wave film series
May 6 – 17, 1992 – The first Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
May 8, 1996 – The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) Philadelphia premiere
April 1997 – The Films of Claire Denis (PFWC spotlight director)
October 23 – 29, 1997 – Jubilee of Indian Cinema
June 12 – 17, 1998 – Crime Jazz: film series inspired by the compilation Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree
January 22 – 26, 1998 – The Cinema of Andrei Konchalovsky
March 5, 1999 – Eat the Document (Bob Dylan, 1966)
May 14 – 27, 1999 – 2000 Seen By: An International Collection, featuring films by Hal Hartley, Tsai Ming-Liang, Miguel Albaladejo, and more
September 20, 2002 – Text of Light (Stan Brakhage, 1974) with live soundtrack by William Hooker, Alan Licht, Christian Marclay, and Lee Ranaldo
September 12 & 13, 2004 – Kinetica 4: Abstraction/Animation/Music presented with the IOTA Center
December 10 – 19, 2004 – Camera Stylo: The Writer as Director
September 8, 2006 – The Valerie Project – screening of Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires, 1970) with live soundtrack by members of Espers, Fern Knight, Fursaxa, Mary Lattimore and Jesse Sparhawk (pictured left)
April 25 – 29, 2007 – From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Fantastik Cinema
September, 19, 2008 – The newly named Ibrahim Theater opens with a screening of Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
May 6 – 10, 2008 – Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa
December 10, 2009 – Chick Strand: Image, Word and First Person Epistolary
September 11, 2010 – Utopia in Four Movements (Sam Green/Dave Cerf, 2010) – live documentary with soundtrack by The Quavers (Philadelphia premiere)
September 8 – 12, 2011 – Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy, 2011) Philadelphia premiere
August 15 – 17, 2013 – Sergei Parajanov: Surrealist Poet of Soviet Cinema
January 5 – 26, 2013 – L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
January 10 – February 15, 2014 – Free to Love: The Cinema of the Sexual Revolution funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
August 14 – 30, 2014 – Martin Scorsese presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
November 7 – 8, 2015 – Out 1: Noli me Tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971) Philadelphia premiere
April 1, 2015 – Babette Mangolte in Conversation with Thomas Beard (Light Industry), Stuart Comer (MoMA), Alex Klein (ICA), and Yvonne Rainer (part of Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies co-presented with the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania)
August 12 – 26, 2016 – This is Now: Film and Video After Punk
May 18, 2017 – Gas, Food, Lodging (Allison Anders, 1992) Lightbox Launch Party with Allison Anders in person/in conversation with Elisabeth Subrin (pictured left)