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WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ST. LOUIS - Jan/Feb 2004

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Friday, January 16	Visconti Film Series	Art Museum
The Italian Club of St. Louis and the Saint Louis Art Museum are co-sponsoring a film festival highlighting three films by the great Italian film director Luchino Visconti. The films, which examine Visconti's impressions of the German culture, are tied in with the German Art Now exhibit. All films will be shown in the Auditorium at 7 p.m. The cost is $5 for the general public and $3 for Art Museum and Italian Club of St. Louis members. "Ludwig" (1972, 184 min.)This biography follows King Ludwig of Bavaria, consumed by the arts and destroyed by politics, from his coronation to his descent into madness and death.
Friday, January 23	Visconti Film Series	Art Museum
"Death in Venice" (Morte a Venezia)(1971, 130 min.) In his definitive film, director Visconti adapts Thomas Mann's classic novel about avant-garde composer Gustave von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) and his travels to a Venetian seaside resort. This film will be introduced at 6:45 p.m. by Prof. Michael Syrimnis, professor of Italian Cinema at Washington University.
Friday, January 30	Visconti Film Series	Art Museum
"The Damned" (La caduta degli dei) (1969, 150 min.)Dirk Bogarde and Helmut Berger star in this gripping drama about the downfall of a decadent aristocratic family of German industrialists during the rise of Nazism.
Sunday February 22	Carnevale	Christy's Banquet Center
The Sicilian Cultural Association Presents CARNEVALE DINNER DANCE PARTY Call Tony Lombardo 314-638-3446 or Vince Monteleone 314-991-1933