Muskegon, Museum of Art

Cinema Sundays Film Features

The Muskegon Museum of Art offers the opportunity to see classics in cinematic art on Cinema Sundays.

Cinema Sundays films are screened in the MMA auditorium at 2:00 pm. Admission is free for MMA members, Muskegon Community College students, or with paid Museum admission. Films are presented and introduced by E.J. Hamacher, a film scholar and instructor at Muskegon Community College. Cinema Sundays films are underwritten by Muskegon Community College.

January 22
Knife in the Head (Messer im Kopf)
Director Reinhard Hauff
1979, 109 mins.
(German with English subtitles)
In this taut thriller, Bernhard Hoffman (Bruno Ganz) is shot in the head during a political demonstration. Accused by the police of terrorist assault and hailed by the radicals as a martyr, Hoffman
struggles to discover who he really is during the painful rehabilitation from his brain trauma.

February 5, 2:00 pm

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye)

Director Larissa Shepitko

1976, 110 mins.

(in Russian with English subtitles)

In the snow-covered landscape north of the Ukraine, two Russian soldiers are captured when they become separated from their platoon. Confined to a prison camp, each man embarks on a moral and spiritual struggle with the meaning and value of staying alive when set against the ideals of patriotism and commitment.

February 19, 2:00 pm

The Ear (Ucho)

Director Karel Kachyňa

1970, 91 mins.

(Czech with English subtitles)

After his superiors are arrested, a ministry official's troubled marriage comes further unglued as he and his wife spend a paranoid, soul-searching night convinced they are being watched, and frantically awaiting the arrival of the secret police. This charged chamber piece was banned for over 20 years.