BAMcinemaFEST is in full swing. After a weekend filled with shorts programs and midnight movie marathons (we know you were all there for Sly Stallone’s Saturday Night Fever sequel, Staying Alive), this new kid on the film-festival block goes rarefied with tonight’s screening of Markéta Lazarová. This epic portrait of Europe during the changeover from paganism to Christianity—which has been compared to the cinema of Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Andrei Tarkovsky—was voted the best Czech film of all time in 1998. It’s almost never screened stateside, so take our advice and go worship at its altar, whatever your religious affiliation.
