Decameron Nights by Hugo Fregonese
The Museum of Modern Art will present the retrospective series “Hugo Fregonese: Man on the Run” screening eleven films by the Argentine director, which the museum refers as “perhaps history’s most restless filmmaker.” The series will take place September 1-15 in New York City.
Fregonese directed his first films in his native Argentina in the 1940s and then embarked on a globe-trotting career that took him to Hollywood, London, Paris, Rome, Munich, and eventually back to South America, continually exploring themes of claustrophobia, entrapment, and imprisonment.
This program, originally organized with Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival of archival film, includes a new restoration of Fregonese’s boldly stylized Western Apache Drums (1951), a vintage Technicolor print of Fregonese’s first European film, Decameron Nights (1953), and a new 35mm print of Fregonese’s masterpiece Black Tuesday (1954), a strikingly harsh and violent gangster film featuring Edward G. Robinson in his last thoroughly villainous role and spectacular noir cinematography by Stanley Cortez (Night of the Hunter).
For complete information visit moma.org/film.
