FILM SCREENINGS

Hawks and Sparrows

1965–66. Italy. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi. “For the first time the most cultured figurative reference is given not by painting alone, but by the cinema.... We are nearly at the highest expression of specifically cinematographic competence because Pasolini intends to pronounce the same sort of funeral oration for cinematic neorealism as he did with his poetry for literary neorealism” (Gian Piero Brunetta, Italian Quarterly, Fall 1980–Winter 1981). In Italian; English subtitles. 89 min.