TICKETS: $11 general, $8 seniors, $7 Film Society members, students, & children. View all three January programs with a Sampler Pass: $27 general; $21 seniors, $18 members, students. Automated schedule 212.875.5600; Box Office 212.875.5601; online at www.filmlinc.com ($1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online). MORE INFORMATION: www.PolishCulture-NYC.org, www.FilmLinc.com

CALENDAR OF SCREENINGS

ROMANCE IN LIGHT: FRYDERYK CHOPIN AND THE CINEMA, FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

Short film descriptions: www.PolishCulture-NYC.org, www.FilmLinc.com

Friday, January 8

2:00 PM Calling Mr Smith, dir. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, UK 1943, 10 min.

The Youth of Chopin (Mlodosc Chopina), dir. Aleksander Ford, Poland 1951, 121 min.

4:30 PM The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Film:

Archival Newsreel (1965), Born in Warsaw (Rodem z Warszawy) , dir. Maria Kwiatkowska, Poland 1995, and Under the Sign of Chopin (Pod znakiem Chopina), dir. Stanislaw Mozdzenski, Poland 1955, total running time: 86 min.

6:30 PM Calling Mr Smith, dir. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, UK 1943, 10 min.

The Youth of Chopin (lMłodosc Chopina), dir. Aleksander Ford, Poland 1951, 121 min.

9:00 PM Impromptu, dir. James Lapine, UK/France 1991, 107 min.

Sunday, January 10

1:00 PM The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Film:

Archival Newsreel (1965), Born in Warsaw (Rodem z Warszawy), dir. Maria Kwiatkowska, Poland 1995, and Under the Sign of Chopin (Pod znakiem Chopina), dir. Stanislaw Mozdzenski, Poland 1955, total running time: 86 min.

3:00 PM Calling Mr Smith, dir. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, UK 1943, 10 min.

The Youth of Chopin (Mlodosc Chopina), dir. Aleksander Ford, Poland 1951, 121 min.

Tuesday, January 12

1:00 PM Impromptu, dir. James Lapine, UK/France 1991, 107 min.

3:15 PM The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Film:

Archival Newsreel (1965), Born in Warsaw (Rodem z Warszawy), dir. Maria Kwiatkowska, Poland 1995, and Under the Sign of Chopin (Pod znakiem Chopina), dir. Stanislaw Mozdzenski, Poland 1955, total running time: 86 min.

Saturday, March 6

2:00 PM The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka or The Mystery of Chopin, dir. Tony Palmer, UK 1999, 109 min.

Saturday, April 10

2:00 PM Fryderyk Chopin in Experimental Film: Color Studies of Chopin, dir. Eugeniusz Cekalski, Poland/USA 1937/1944, 11 min.

The Orchestra, dir. Zbigniew Rybczynski, USA/France/Japan 1990, 57 min.

Attention: Light!, dir. Jozef Robakowski and Wieslaw Michalak, Poland 2004, 5 min.

Chop, Chop, Chop, Chopin…!, dir. Mariusz Wilczynski, Poland 1999, 13 min.

Novi Singers, dir. Daniel Szczechura, Poland 1995, 5 min.

Saturday, May 8

2:00 PM The Blue Note (La Note Bleue), dir. Andrzej Zulawski, France/Germany 1991, 135 min.

THE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE, established in 2000, is a diplomatic mission dedicated to nurturing and promoting cultural ties between the United States and Poland, both through American exposure to Poland’s cultural achievements, and through exposure of Polish artists and scholars to American trends, institutions, and professional counterparts.

The Institute initiates, organizes, promotes, and produces a broad range of cultural events in theater, music, film, literature, and the fine arts. It has collaborated with such cultural institutions as Lincoln Center Festival (Kalkwerk in 2009); BAM (Krum by TR Warszawa in BAM’s 2007 Next Wave Festival, which received a Village Voice Obie Award); Art at St. Ann’s (TR Warszawa’s Macbeth, 2008); Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center; La MaMa E.T.C.; Film Society of Lincoln Center; The Museum of Modern Art; Jewish Museum; PEN World Voices Festival; Poetry Society of America; Yale University; and many more. PCI co-produced the off-Broadway run of Irena’s Vow, with Tovah Feldshuh, which ran on Broadway in 2009.