Hillsborough Classic Film: Tarkovsky’s “Mirror” (Russian, 1975)

Please join the Hillsborough Classic Film Society on September 14th at 2PM at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough, NC for the first movie of the 2025-2026 series, “The Mirror,” a 1975 film by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is considered to be Tarkovsky’s masterwork and it is consistently listed as one of the top movies of all time. In 2022, the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound poll of directors and critics ranked it 8th overall by directors and 31st overall by critics. Rotten Tomatoes has it receiving 100% from the critics and 91% from audiences.

Our speaker is Gustavo Furtado, one of the society’s favorite presenters. Gustavo is associate professor of Romance Studies and Arts of the Moving Image as well as Co-Director of the Amazon Humanities Lab at Duke.

The film is free and the popcorn is free as well. To register call the Passmore at 919 245-2015 or visit our website at hillsboroughclassicfilms.com. (Please do register if you intend to be there.)