World AIDS Day
December 1–7, 2005

In marking World AIDS Day on December 1, the Department of Film and Media remembers Robert Beers, its longtime Executive Assistant in Film Exhibitions, who, after living for twenty years with HIV, died on April 17, 2005. Beers loved the cinema, and made a list of films that influenced him. Two of these, Carl Th. Dreyer’s Ordet (1954) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), both from MoMA’s film archives, are presented.

Organized by the Department of Film and Media.

Ordet (The Word). 1954. Denmark. Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer. With Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye. Based on the play by Kaj Munk, Dreyer’s penultimate feature, his first after ten years, is an exalted work. Beautiful in its visual and aural spareness, rapturous in its simple camera movements, Ordet pits pious orthodoxy against intense and personal prayer, and finds the latter transcendent. In Danish, English subtitles. 125 min.
Thursday, December 1, 6:00; Wednesday, December 7, 8:15. T2

Notorious. 1946. USA. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Ben Hecht. With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Gripping and emotionally complex, this ironclad melodrama imagines the U.S. government putting a reluctant woman in harm’s way, planting her among Nazis in Buenos Aires. Arguably Hitchcock’s most adult thriller in its merciless treatment of love and betrayal. 101 min.
Thursday, December 1, 8:30. T2; Friday, December 2, 5:30. T1

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