Movie night: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

By: börek - September 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday September 1st, Movie night: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (Sophie Fiennes, USA, 2006, 150 minutes, documentary). Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00.

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Žižek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. http://www.thepervertsguide.com/about.html

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: The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

By: börek - August 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday August 25th, Movie night: The Firemen’s Ball (Miloš Forman, 1967, 71 minutes, In Czech with English subtitles). Original title: Horí, má panenko. Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00.

The film follows a pattern common enough in Eastern Europe, where small human stories seem to be a slice of life, but might actually be subtle parables about the restrictive Soviet system. Screenplays had to be approved by censors, but many a change took place between approval and premiere, and in the case of “The Firemen’s Ball” that was almost fatal. The movie was co-financed by the Italian producer Carlo Ponti, but after Czech authorities withdrew their approval, Ponti pulled out, and only the intervention of French director Francois Truffaut saved the film and found it international distribution. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Waltz with Bashir (2008)

By: börek - August 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday August 18th 2013, Movie night: Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, Israel, 2008, 86 minutes, English subtitles). Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00

‘Waltz with Bashir” is a devastating animated film that tries to reconstruct how and why thousands of innocent civilians were massacred because those with the power to stop them took no action. Why they did not act is hard to say. Did they not see? Not realize? Not draw fateful conclusions? In any event, at the film’s end, the animation gives way to newsreel footage of the dead, whose death is inescapable. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Le corbeau (1943)

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

Sunday August 11th 2013, Movie night. Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20:00, film begin at 21:00

Le corbeau: The raven (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1943, 92 min.) In French with English subtitles

This is a wild little French thriller with a wonderful punch directed by the great Henri-Georges Clouzot (Wages of Fear, Inferno, Les Diabolique). Made during the German occupation of France, the movie is about an unknown informant who is writing poison-pen letters about the villagers of a small French provincial town. The letters are accusing certain townspeople of taking drugs, adultery, of half-truths, and a variety of petty crimes….and the letters are signed anonymously with just “The Raven”. This informant throws the entire city out of balance, resulting in a series of tragedies including accusations, suicide and murder. […Lees verder]

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Andy Warhol’s movie night: Trash (1970)

By: börek - August 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday August 4th, Andy Warhol’s movie night: Trash (1970, directed by Paul Morrissey, 110 minutes, in English), Door opens at 20:00, film begins at 21:00.

This Andy Warhol production finds Joe Dallesandro as Joe, a lice-ridden impotent junkie who lives with Holly (Holly Woodlawn) in a Lower East Side slum in New York. Holly is a transvestite who spends time collecting trash, going to the Fillmore East, and cruising for sex. Joe is only interested in his next fix, and graphic displays of needles piercing flesh and degrading human situations deglamorize drug use better than any board of education film or public service messages. Jane (Jane Forth) is the acid casualty housewife who listens to Pink Floyd. Male and female nudity and masturbation are featured. The color process is not credited, but technical aspects are better overall than most previous Warhol productions. Woodlawn was the inspiration for the Lou Reed song “Take a Walk on the Wild Side.” […Lees verder]

Movie night: Bloody Sunday (2002)

By: börek - July 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday July 28th 2013, Movie night: Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002, 105 minutes, in English) Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) —sometimes called the Bogside Massacre— was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army. Thirteen males, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon after, while the death of another man four-and-a-half months later was attributed to the injuries he received on that day. Two protesters were also injured when they were run down by army vehicles. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. The incident occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march; the soldiers involved were members of the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Who’ll stop the rain (1978)

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

Sunday July 21th 2013, Movie night. Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20:00, film begin at 21:00

 Who’ll stop the rain (Karel Reisz, USA, 1978, 126 min.) In English

Hey, what ever happened to all those powerful films that came out in the 60s and 70s which have totally disappeared….. and why have they been killed off? Based on Robert Stone’s Award-winning novel “Dog Soldiers”, “Who’ll Stop the Rain” is both a great thriller and a meditation on the chaos and disillusionment of the Vietnam war era in America. The film centers on a journalist called Converse (Michael Moriarty) who went to Vietnam looking for a heroic story but instead finds only madness and abject fear. He also discovers that, in a world where nothing makes sense, people are just naturally going to want to get high. So rather than getting a story, he instead gets involved in the heroin market, and attempts to head an operation to smuggle drugs back into the United States…. and that’s where the story really kicks off. The film encapsulates the end of the 60s, employing the novel’s biting, cynical perspective on the despair and chaos surrounding both the war in Vietnam and the end of the counter-cultural revolution after Charles Manson and Altamont. […Lees verder]

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Psychedelic Film Night: Barbarella (1968)

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

Sunday July 14th 2013, Psychedelic Film Night: Barbarella (Roger Vadim, France, 1968, 98 min.) English. Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

1968 is well known for its revolutionary fever, but less so for its plastic cinematic futurism. Both Roger Vadim’s science-fiction tale Barbarella (1968) and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) present us with their visions of the future, and in the words of The Graduate (1967): that future is “Plastics”. The heroine (Jane Fonda) is a liberated space goddess of the 41st century, who is assigned by the President of Earth (Claude Dauphin) to retrieve Doctor Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea) from the planet Tau Ceti. Durand Durand is the inventor of the Positronic Ray, a weapon. Earth is now peaceful, and to stop these weapons falling into the wrong hands, Barbarella sets out to find the scientist and save the world. That is, until she crashes on Tau Ceti.
Barbarella was described by Roger Vadim as “a kind of sexual Alice in Wonderland of the future”. The outfits, as much as the kitsch furnishings, are incredible – and created by Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne using rhodoid (an unusual plastic made from purified cellulose), which was both silky and pliable. Much of this cultural forecasting now looks wonderfully out-of-date. Cultural evolution has accelerated so quickly that a 1960’s vision of the 41st century looks remarkably like 1968. […Lees verder]