The Owl's Legacy: Episodes 1-4

The Owl's Legacy, a 13-part, five-and-a-half-hour nonfiction film by France's cine-essayist Chris Marker (La Jetée and Sans Soleil) explores ancient Greece's lasting influence on Western civilization and culture. Made for French television and first broadcast in 1989, the film features a controversial interview with philosopher George Steiner, who angered one of the series' primary sponsors with his on-camera assertion that modern Greece has little connection to its glorious past. As a result, one of the film's financial backers suppressed the series for almost 20 years. Today at 1:45 p.m., the Cleveland Museum of Art shows the first four episodes. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel)