Movie Night: Wild Romance

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

Sunday March 9th 2014, Movie night, Wild Romance by Jean van de Velde (2006, 103 minutes). In Dutch with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. The film is partially filmed in squats. Junky and cult figure, Herman Brood committed suicide in July 2001.
Herman Brood probably never outgrew his petty native Groningen bars scene, hadn’t publican Koos van Dijk neglected his pub and wife to become Brood’s devoted manager, even supplying drugs. They form a band, Brood and his Wild Romance, mainly more junk punks, but gradually build a reputation and after replacing the loser musicians launch a record, largely financed by Koos’s conservative pa. […Lees verder]

Movie night: Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi, 2006)

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

Sunday March 2nd 2014, Movie Night: Half Moon by Bahman Ghobadi (2006, 114′). With English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Mamo, an old renowned Kurdish musician, has begun a journey to Iraq with his sons to perform a concert after the fall of Saddam Hossein. Kako, a middle-aged man and a huge fan of Mamo’s, enthusiastically escorts them in an orange mini bus which he has borrowed from a friend. Mamo gathers his sons one by one from different areas. The last son who joins the team insists on speaking to Mamo in private. He explains to Mamo that the Wise man of the village has predicted that Mamo should not go on the trip because, as the full moon nears, something awful will happen to him. Mamo persists on continuing his journey. He claims that he must continue his trip despite all the obstacles because he was not allowed to perform in Iraq for many years. Mamo intends to take Hesho, a female singer who lives with 1334 other women in exile, as part of his team. But the strength of Hesho’s voice has dwindled along with her self confidence. While crossing the borders, Mamo’s team faces many difficulties as their journey is wrought with adventure and disaster each step of the way. […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: Spirited Away (2001)

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

Sunday February 23rd 2014, Movie Night: Eenhorn Filmavond presents Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001). Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. With the narrative drive of a live-action feature and the imaginative leaps of East Asian manga, Japanimation B.O. phenom “Spirited Away” is an out-and-out charmer. Spirited Away is a story that both kids and adults can tune in to, a Niponese “Alice in Wonderland” with a totally convincing world of humans, ghosts, animals and other beings in which a 10-year-old girl spends a short period. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Out of the Blue (1980)

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

Sunday February 16th 2014, Movie night, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock: Out of the Blue. Directed by Dennis Hopper, 1980, 94 minutes, in English. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

As a true low-budget independent work, this film delivers more art and honesty than most indie films before and after. The film opens with Dennis Hopper drunkenly driving his big truck with his daughter (Linda Manz- *Days of Heaven*) in clown make-up and asking her if he is sexier than Elvis. Then he crashes into a busload of screaming children, destroying the lives of the children, his daughter and himself. The film follows the wake of this incident and the black clouds that follow him and his daughter. The film climaxes with one of the most over-the top, crazed endings of any film. That final scene with Hopper and Manz has to have influenced Hopper’s role in David Lynch’s *Blue Velvet*. […Lees verder]

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Movie Night: The Society of the Spectacle

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

Sunday February 9th 2014, Movie night: The Society of the Spectacle. Director: Guy Debord. Writers: Guy Debord (book), Guy Debord (screenplay), 90 minutes, French videocopy with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the most influential figure in the Situationist International, a small experimental group that played a key role in catalyzing the May 1968 revolt in France. The Society of the Spectacle (1973) is Debord’s film adaptation of his own 1967 book. As passages from the book are read in voiceover the text is illuminated, via direct illustration or various types of ironic contrast, by clips from Russian and Hollywood features (Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Shanghai Gesture, Johnny Guitar, Mr. Arkadin, etc.), TV commercials, publicity shots, softcore porn, street scenes, and news and documentary footage, including glimpses of Spain 1936, Hungary ’56, Watts ’65, France ’68, and other revolts of the past. Intertitle quotes from Marx, Machiavelli, Clausewitz or Tocqueville occasionally break the flow. […Lees verder]

Movie night: Ex Drummer (2007)

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

Sunday February 2nd, Movie night: Ex Drummer by Koen Mortier, 2007, 104′, in flemish with english subtitles. Exceptionally, the film will start at 10pm. Door opens after 9pm.

Flemish film directed by Koen Mortier, Ex Drummer is an underground classic of punk overkill. The film is based on a novel by Belgian author Herman Brusselmans.
Three drug-addled, misfit punk rock musicians are looking for a drummer. They approach Dries, a well known writer whose arrogant self assurance and yuppie lifestyle make him an unlikely candidate, but the fact that he can′t play the drums appeals to the band′s punk sensibility. Fascinated by these dysfunctional characters, Dries joins the group. His arrival awakens the personal disputes and family feuds latent in the band. A shocking, hardcore, blood-spattered depiction of small time rock musicians losing the plot rather than living the dream. […Lees verder]

Movie Night: Eenhorn filmavond presents The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

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

Sunday January 26th 2014, Eenhorn films presents ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ (El secreto de sus ojos). Directed by Juan Jose Campanella, 2009, 129 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles. Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00

Retired legal counsellor Benjamin Esposito is about to start his first novel: an account of the brutal murder of a young woman in the flower of her life and the investigation that followed it. Telling us the story takes us back to the ‘Dirty War’ period in Argentina, where not only justice was hard to find, but even when it was found it could be subverted. On this note flows Esposito’s tale, which reminisces not only about the unfulfilled attempts to assist a grieving widower with fair justice, but also the unfulfilled love for his superior. Haunted by the events of the past, an ageing Esposito must thus try and search his mind, to seek the ghosts of his past so that he can now find an ending of these two stories for his novel. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)

By: börek - January 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond
The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sunday January 19th 2014, Movie night, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. The Spook Who Sat by the Door, 1973, directed by Ivan Dixon, 102 minutes, in English. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Talking about a volatile film! Someone should have made Obama watch this black-power thriller before he got into office! This cult classic was driven underground immediately after it was made… and the studios have kept the negatives locked in a vault for over 30 years. It is only now, after all these decades, that this seminal black power movie can properly be seen for the first time. […Lees verder]

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