Movie Night: A Scanner Darkly (2006)

By: börek - November 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday November 3rd 2013, Movie night, A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006, 100′). Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00

The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in director Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel. With stratospheric concern over national security prompting paranoid government officials to begin spying on citizens, trust is a luxury and everyone is a suspected criminal until proven otherwise. Bob Arctor is a narcotics officer who is issued an order to spy on his friends and report back to headquarters. In addition to being a cop, though, Arctor is also an addict. His drug of choice is a ubiquitous street drug called Substance D, a drug known well for producing split personalities in its users. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: It’s Gonna Get Worse (2007)

By: börek - October 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday October 27th 2013, Movie night, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. It’s Gonna Get Worse (Directed by Petr Nikolaev, 2007, 86 minutes, In Czech with English subtitles). Original title: A bude hůř.  Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00

This movie has become a renowned cult film in Czechoslovakia, but has been basically unseen anywhere else. Shot in a beautifully rough b&w, this film is like no other in taking us back to Czechoslovakia and how alternative-types lived under Communist rule. The main characters are hippies, but a much rougher type than what was found in America. These are guys who drink incredible amounts of hard alcohol, take drugs and have hard sex…. but listen to psychedelic rock music and have found their own way to be alternative. Wow, this film is incredible in capturing that whole milieu. […Lees verder]

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Voices of Women Media Benefit/ Screening – a collection of migrant women’s stories

By: börek - October 1st, 2013  Filed under: Benefiet, Filmavond, Gender, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

missing Monday October 14th 2013, Voices of Women Media Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm

Time for a new Voices of Women Media evening! We are a women’s organization that works with different communities of girls and women to encourage the understanding and making of media.

We are in the process of raising funds for our latest project. The project, called ‘Displaced,’ aims at providing young first or second-generation migrant women living in the Netherlands, Romania, Greece and Spain with video and photography tools to allow them to create and tell their own stories, as well as control their own images of representation.

We want to provide a safe and creative space for young migrant women to celebrate their identity and belonging and share them with the world using multimedia. Join us on Monday for a screening of selected videos done by our former participants – all migrant stories told my migrants themselves. And, of course, for a discussion. Vegan dinner will be served at 19:00, as usual. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Eyes Wide Shut

By: börek - October 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday October 13th, Movie night: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, 159′). Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him. […Lees verder]

Movie night: This Is Spinal Tap

By: börek - October 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday October 6th, Movie night: This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984, 82′), 8pm Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Director Rob Reiner’s largely improvised cult classic follows the key members of fictional British heavy metal band Spinal Tap – lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), lead singer/guitarist David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) – as they embark on their first American tour in years, with filmmaker/TV commercial director Marty DiBergi (Reiner) on hand to document the occasion and retrace the group’s evolution. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Billy Jack (1971)

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday September 29th 2013, Movie night, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Billy Jack (Directed by Tom Laughlin, 1971, 114 minutes, In English). Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00

People are still discussing whats going in the middle east, but of course the whole issue if whether violence can can be used to create peace has been heatedly debated for the last few thousand years in Western culture. Nowhere in cinema is this question as relevantly and poignantly addressed as in this 70s utra-cult classic.

What a film. This is the film that kicked off the whole Billy Jack phenomena in the states in the early 70s. What the hell was that, you ask? It was something that was totally unprecedented. The director and main actor Tom Laughlin made an independent film that was able to become a smash box office success, only by word of mouth…no big advertising campaigns for this small budget feature. It was a tiny, but well aimed spark that caused a tremendous cultural forest fire in American cinema…and the film was made totally outside of the Hollywood system. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Black Block

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond, Infoavond
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Sunday September 22nd, Movie night: Black Block (Carlo Bachschmidt, 2011, Italy, 75′, documentary) with info about the 10×100 Campaign. Door opens at 20:00, film and discussion begin at 21:00.

In July 2012, 11 years after the protests against the G8 summit in Genoa, 10 people have been convicted for taking part in the demonstrations, the sentences vary from 6-14 years. Following the recent Benefit Voku for the activists convicted after the G8 protests, we are screening the documentary film Black Block from Carlo Bachschmidt.
The law that allowed this insane sentence is named “Devastation and Looting”: this law was included in the Italian Penal Code in 1935, to protect the so called “public order” under the fascist regime. In the last decade this law has been used multiple times to convict political activists.
In 2004 SupportoLegale (LegalSupport) started a campaign to raise money to support the people involved in the trials connected to the demonstrations of Genova2001 and now, after all these years, SupportoLegale launched the 10×100 campaign. One of the aims of this campaign is the abolition of this fascist law, that is being used more and more often to convict political activists. […Lees verder]

Psychedelic Film Night: Midnight Cowboy (1969)

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday September 15th 2013, Psychedelic Film Night: Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969, USA, in English). Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00

Dustin Hoffman is Ratso Rizzo, a sleazy small-time conman who dreams of a better life. Jon Voight is Joe Buck, a hunky naive Texan cowboy and gigolo, out searching for love and money amongst the wealthy and love-starved older women of New York. Joe Buck thinks he’s God’s gift to women, but everyone else thinks he’s a joke. Both try and make a life for themselves and end up kicking together in the diners, bedsit and sleazy cinemas of downtown New York, looking for money and human warmth.. “Midnight Cowboy” won an Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and boasts two incredible lead performances. It’s also a frank and provocative look at the realities of life in 1960s New York, from the rat-infested bedsits to the glamorous art parties. […Lees verder]