Join us at 6 p.m. for a special room dedication and memorial reception honoring the CF Ira Holmes International Film Series founder, the late Ira Holmes. Following an introduction by CF president Dr. Henningsen, attendees will have the opportunity to share their memories of Ira before the film screening. Light refreshments will be served. We will end the night and begin the official 2024-2025 season with a screening of a film Ira Holmes selected as a message of hope before his passing on Sunday, June 9, 2024. Please RSVP below.

All films will be shown Tuesdays at 2 p.m. at the Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, and at 7 p.m. at the College of Central Florida, 3001 S.W. College Road, Building 8, Room 110, unless otherwise noted. Films at the Ocala Campus are free and open to the public. Films at the Appleton are free to all museum and film series members; nonmembers pay museum admission. Films may contain mature content.

About the Film

“The Seventh Seal”(NR, Sweden, 1957, 1 hour, 36 minutes)

Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning, The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art-house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.

For a full series list and more information on the Ira Holmes International Film Series, contact Wendy Adams at 352-873-5800, ext. 1546, or visit www.CF.edu/filmseries.