FLAM Special Limited Engagement: A week of curated new release and restored classic Films on Literature, Art and Music. You may purchase tickets at regular price for any individual film in the series, or purchase a series pass to see all six movies for one low price: $30 for non-members, and $20 for members. Passes available at the Box Office or online at www.icfilmscene.org/flam-pass.

FLAM lineup: Music of the Moment; Burroughs: The Movie; Rome, Open City; Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets; 20,000 Days on Earth; National Gallery. See icfilmscene.org/calendar for showtimes.

ROME, OPEN CITY

Newly Restored and Released by Janus Films!

"The most precious moment of film history" -Martin Scorsese

"A LEGENDARY CINEMATIC ACHIEVEMENT! Its justly celebrated documentary aesthetic and naturalistic performances, aided by the filmmakers' budgetary restrictions and the ruinous state of the postwar Italian film industry, help the work achieve moments of devastating, near miraculous beauty." -Oleg Ivanov, Slant

This was Roberto Rossellini's revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the other films that would form this trilogy and starring some well-known actors—Aldo Fabrizi as a priest helping the partisan cause and Anna Magnani in her breakthrough role as the fiancée of a resistance member—Rome Open City (Roma città aperta) is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in its wake.