October 27 - November 16, 2006 - The Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC

Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Plaza level

RESISTANCE AND REBIRTH

The Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with the
Hungarian Cultural Center presents three Hungarian Film series:

REMEMBERING ‘56

A TRIBUTE TO MIKLÓS JANCSÓ

NEW CINEMA FROM HUNGARY

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HUNGARIAN POSTERS:

The vintage film poster collection of Ernst Gallery contains almost 200 unique works by towering talents of Hungarian poster art dated between 1912-1945

October 27, 2006

FILM SERIES AND EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION

and screening of

JOHANNA
a film by director Kornél Mundruczó

Photos: Gabriella Gyorffy

Korani Eleni and Ernst Wastl, owners of Ernst Gallery and sponsors of
the exhibition "The Golden Age of Hungarian Film Posters" with Sally L. Steinberg
and Mitchell Wolfson, collector Stewart Program for Modern Design

David A. Hanks, curator Stewart Program for Modern Design and Ernst Wastl

Eleni Korani interviewed by Karl Bardosh, First American Hungarian Television

Prof. Steven Mansbach, art historian, Maryland University

Ambassador Gábor Bródi, Peter Vasvari, and Laszlo Laskai

Ernst Wastl with Michael Szarvasy and Eve M. Kahn,
journalist, free-lance writer, New York Times

Kornél Mundruczó film director >>>

Mr. and Mrs. Quittner, collectors

Ernst Wastl signing "The Golden Age of American Film Posters"

Korani Eleni with Marcel Fournier and Marie Fournier, collectors

Charles Legendy was the young man on Erich Lessing's photo of 1956,
displayed near Times Square, one of two posters of the
Hungarian Cultural Center billboard project "Our Revolution was Not a Movie"

Gábor Kovács and Jakab Orsós, Hungarian Cultural Center, NY
with Charles Legendy, his wife and son

Mrs. Legendy coincidentally noticed the poster and recognized
her husband, 50 years younger on that photo. Read more about the
interesting story in a New York Times article >>>

Screening was followed with an introduction and Q&A moderated by
Richard Penja, the director of the New York Film Society of Lincoln Center

 Kornél Mundruczó, director talked about Johanna, one of the most hotly
debated films at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and answered questions