Movie night: Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)

By: börek - June 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 29th 2014, Das Boot. Directed byWolfgang Petersen, 1981, 149 minutes, in German, English and French with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm..

Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey. There’s very little plot, so the movie’s power comes from both its riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the boring hours spent waiting for orders or signs of the enemy. With the exception of one staunch Hitler Youth lieutenant, none of the crew is particularly loyal to the Nazis, and some are openly hostile toward their Fuhrer; this allows viewer sympathy with the men as they perform their laborious, monotonous duties in cramped, filthy quarters, or await death as depth charges explode all around the sub. […Lees verder]

Movie night: Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)

By: börek - June 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 22th 2014, Night Train (Pociag). Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959, 99 minutes, in Polish with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Night Train begun like a classic Hitchcockian mystery thriller; but, by the time it got over, the tone and theme had subtly shifted towards human drama and even trenchant social critique – and therein lay the charm of this engaging but largely under-watched Polish film.

This is a more amorphous and ambiguous tale than other contemporary films of the Polish School, and Night Train seems to lack the direct references to recent history and the contemporary political situation of the Poland of the 1950s that are a hallmark of the style. However, the Hitchcockian atmosphere, the unimaginably tight shots and the overall sense of claustrophobia and dread evoke the sense of disappointment following in the wake of 1956 and the end of the Polish Spring. All of Kawalerowicz’s films deal with individual fate in a society being crushed by overwhelming external forces, whether war or politics, in an attempt to examine moral choice under pressure. Night Train is no exception, only here he has created an allegory of misfits among a society of passengers, a society that is predictable, suspicious of individuality, and eager to punish. All of Poland escaping though the night to the end of the line. Ironically, the film may represent in its way the end of the Polish School as well. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973)

By: börek - June 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 15th 2014, Fantastic Planet (La planète sauvage). Directed by René Laloux, 1973, 72 minutes, in French with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan of Ter, a minute human shaped Om slave, and pet, of the giant blue alien Draags. Escaping into the wilderness and with a devise used for intellectual advancement of the Draags, Ter finds refuge and support from fellow Om’s and using the learning tool, he finds that knowledge is power and then sets to use the new found knowledge to revolt against the Draag masters… […Lees verder]

Eenhorn Filmavond presents: Old Boy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)

By: börek - June 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 8th 2014, Eenhorn Filmavond presents: Old Boy. Directed by Park Chan-wook, 2003, 120 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook directed this violent and offbeat story of punishment and vengeance. Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is a husband and father whose reputation for womanizing is well known. One day, for reasons he doesn’t understand, Oh Dae-su finds himself locked up in a prison cell, with no idea of what his crime was or whom his jailers may be. With a small television as his only link to the outside world and a daily ration of fried dumplings as his only sustenance, Oh Dae-su struggles to keep his mind and body intact, but when he learns through a news report that his wife has been killed, he begins a long and difficult project of digging an escape tunnel with a pair of chopsticks. Before he can finish — and after 15 years behind bars — Oh Dae-su is released, with as little explanation as when he was locked up, and he’s soon given a wad of money and a cellular phone by a bum on the street. Emotionally stunted but physically strong after 15 years in jail, Oh Dae-su struggles to unravel the secret of who is responsible for locking him up, what happened to his wife and daughter, and how to best get revenge against his captors. Old Boy was screened in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and won the coveted Grand Prix

Film night at Joe’s Garage, warm and cozy cinema! Doors open at 8pm, film begins at 9pm, free entrance. You want to play a movie, let us know: joe [at] squat [dot] net

Movie night about Afghan refugees in Iran: “Three, Four Days Ago” & “Baran”

By: börek - June 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 1st 2014, Movie night about Afghan refugees in Iran. Short film: “Three, Four Days Ago” By “Dornaz Hajiha” (2011). Feature film: “Baran” by Majid Majidi (2001). Films with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Baran – After the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, over 1.4 million Afghans fled to Iran seeking sanctuary and work. In this extraordinarily spiritual drama by Majid Majidi (*Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise*), the plight of these refugees is vividly portrayed. They are strangers in a strange land forced to make do in dire circumstances after the loss of everything near and dear to them.
Synopsis: In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat’s secret changes both their lives. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Cravan Vs. Cravan (2002)

By: börek - May 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday May 25th 2014, “Cravan Vs. Cravan”, a documentary by Isaki Lacuesta, 2002, 100 minutes, with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Chic, chemical, whore, drunk, musician, worker, painter, acrobat, actor … Coward, hero, black, monkey, Don Juan, ruffian, Lord, farmer, hunter, industrial, fauna and flora. I am all things, all men and all animals           Arthur Cravan

In 2002 Isaki Lacuesta presents his “film-essay” about Arthur Cravan, a poet-boxer who dedicated his life to make fun of the world, until he disappeared in 1918 in the Gulf of Mexico while he was travelling to Argentina, where he was supposed to meet his partner, Mina Loy.

The documentary begins in Lausanne, Switzerland, in an exhibition about Cravan, in which nosey bodies and experts discussed his life toasting with champagne in a bourgeois environment that surely himself would have despised. Later on, the also boxer Frank Nicotra, appears driving a car on a road that takes you to the ruins of what used to be the old home of Arthur Cravan. Nicotra, as a sort of researcher, will follow the traces of Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, his real name , from Switzerland to Mexico via Paris, London and Barcelona.

As far as it is known, I will never be civilised. Arthur Cravan […Lees verder]

Eenhorn Filmavond presents: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998)

By: börek - May 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday May 18th 2014, Eenhorn Filmavond presents: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Directed by Guy Ritchie , 1998, 107 minutes, in English. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” is like Tarantino crossed with the Marx Brothers if Groucho had been into chopping off fingers, and it’s a bewilderingly complex caper film, set among the low-lifes of London’s East End.
Irreverent, violent and wickedly clever, this smart-mouthed UK crime picture concerns four nice lads who get into some bad company and must get themselves out before things get really ugly. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Silence (1963)

By: börek - May 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday May 11th 2014, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock: The Silence (Tystnaden). Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1963, 96 minutes, in Swedish with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Considered by most to be the final statement of Ingmar Bergman’s so-called “loss of faith” trilogy, it is also considered to be one of the most erotic films of Bergman’s career. For me it unfolds almost like a sci-fi film, about the lack of community we have these days, and the dark sinister forces that we no longer speak out against. A deep-rooted angst is at the core of the film, a kind of paralysis. But I must say that although that is sincerely my gut response to this film, it can also be interpreted in loads of other ways. […Lees verder]

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