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We’ve extended our series “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” to include one more film. The add-on is the other phantasmagorical head trip from the director of the cult masterpiece The Saragossa Manuscript. Based (like the Quay brothers’ Street of Crocodiles) on the writings of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), The Hourglass Sanatorium tells of a young Jewish man whose visit to his ailing father in a remote, crumbling sanatorium soon devolves into a surreal journey through his own past, fears, and fantasies. “A two-hour continuous fantasia on the theme of a young Jew’s memories, childhood recollections, and complexes…A dazzling work, Has’s masterpiece.” –Int’l Film Guide 1975.