On Tuesday September 16 we'll meet at the AFI/Silver Theatre to see the classic film Dark Eyes.

Aboard a Mediterranean steamship around the turn of the century, Romano (Marcello Mastroianni), an aging, once-wealthy Italian gentleman, relates his tale of lost love to a Russian traveler. Via nostalgia-tinged flashbacks, he tells of a brief, bittersweet affair with a fragile young Russian woman: how they met at a spa, how he pursued her to Russia and how a knife twist of fate altered the course of his life. Weaving together multiple short stories by Chekhov (most notably “The Lady with the Dog”), this opulent, ironic romance is graced with a quintessential, Oscar®-nominated Mastroianni performance — by turns elegant, impish and melancholy. This passionate performance won Mastroianni the Best Actor award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. (Note courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center.) DIR/SCR Nikita Mikhalkov; SCR Alexsandr Adabashyan, from short stories by Anton Chekhov; PROD Carlo Cucchi, Silvia D’Amico Bendicò. Italy/USSR, 1987, color, 112 min. In Italian, Russian and French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

The film begins at 6:30, so we'll get together in the theatre lobby at 6:15. Tickets for seniors are $11.