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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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

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

Sunday June 23th 2013, Movie night. Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20pm, film begin at 21:00

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, UK, 1962, 104 min.) In English with English subtitles!

Directed by Tony Richardson and based on a short story by Alan Sillitoe, this drama movie was the epitome of the “angry young man’ films that came out of England in the 60s. It centers on Colin, a rebellious youth who is sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery. While there he throws himself into becoming a marathon runner and trains himself to become the very best. While running he can forget, at least for a short while, the prison-like conditions that he’s living in. The wonderfully poetic/edgy atmosphere that is created in this movie, the riveting black and white cinematography, and the uncompromising theme of youth rebellion means that this film will never become obsolete…. it still remains as relevant and fresh today as when it was made. You will never see a film with this amount of guts and integrity anywhere today, pure and simple. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: F For Fake (1974), Death in the Port Jackson Hotel (1972)

By: börek - March 27th, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday April 28th 2013, Movie night, double bill! Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20pm, films begin at 21:00..

F For Fake (Orson Wells, 1974, 85′). In English with English subtitles!
The great Orson Wells (Citizen Kane), nearing the end of his career of filmmaking, created this crazy film about magic, illusion and truth. In a sense this is a documentary about the illegitimacy of all documentaries. This film is totally bizarre even within the catalog of Orson Wells, being unlike anything else he ever created. What a magnificent final film for a wild, uncompromising career! Even with his last breath Orson Welles, pulls out something that you would never expect.

Trickery. Truth. Deceit. Magic. The art world. So-called experts. In Orson Welles’ free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) jumps head-long into the central theme of his career- the tricky line between truth and illusion, art and lies. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Frances

By: börek - February 16th, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 3rd 2013, Movie night: Frances (Graeme Clifford, USA, 1982, 140′). In English. Screened by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20pm, film begins at 21:00..

The 1980s bio-pic about the restless and uncompromising Hollywood actress Frances Farmer. Frances was on her way to becoming one of the world’s leading actresses- but she had a wild streak that she wouldn’t let go of. After being stopped one day for speeding she ended up getting into a fistfight with a policeman. One thing lead to another and from cherished movie star her life fell to the very bottom, since she was considered rebellious and subversive by the police. Frances was locked away and would end up spending much of her life in mental institutions. And, hey… it all really happened. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Little Otik (2000)

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

Sunday January 27th 2013, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinemat: Little Otik (Otesánek by Jan Švankmajer, CZ, 2000, 126′). In Czech with English subtitles. Screened by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20pm, film begins at 21:00.

The visionary Czech stop-motion animator Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Faust) conjured up this phantasmagorical film which is based on the old Czech fairy tale Otesánek or as its translated into English “Greedy Guts”.
This bizarre film follows the story of a loving but childless couple, Karel and Bozena, whose biggest dream is to have a baby…. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Jonas will be 25 in the year 2000

By: börek - October 19th, 2012  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday November 11th 2012, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Jonas will be 25 in the year 2000. Screened by Jeffrey Babcock,  in high-definition. Door open at 20pm (films start at 21:00pm)
Jonas will be 25 in the year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000), Directed by Alain Tanner, 116 minutes, In French with English subtitles.

There are a few films which for me are almost like good friends. Films that few other people know about, but which I have seen dozens of time, and which warms my heart and stimulates my creativity every time I see it. JONAS is one of those rare films. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)

By: börek - September 20th, 2012  Filed under: Events, Filmavond

Sunday October 14th 2012, Movie night with Cold Water. Screened by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock,  in high-definition. Door open at 20pm (films start at 21:00pm) L’EAU FROIDE, (Cold Water) 1994. Directed by Olivier Assayas, 92 minutes. In French with English subtitles
An amazing film from Oliver Assayas (Carlos, Irma Vep) about growing up in Europe in the 70s. Strangely enough, it feels that now, after all the large alternative movements have died, and the only culture left seems to be business-culture, that young people today are faced with a similar situation. This film captures perfectly the tone of being young and rebellious, but having nothing in society to connect to. […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964) and The Miners’ Hymns (Bill Morrison, 2011)

By: börek - August 19th, 2012  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday September 16th 2012, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema with a double feature: Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964) and The Miners’ Hymns (Bill Morrison, 2011). Screened by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock,  in high-definition. Door open at 20pm (films start at 21:00pm)

Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964)DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT   1964
(Démanty noci)
Directed by Jan Němec
63 minutes
In Czech with English subtitles

This film is a intense, illuminating and harsh story of two Czech boys who escape from a train taking them from Prague to a concentration camp. As they run wildly through the hilly, forested landscape they are being hunted down by armed German villagers. The film is visceral and visual, with very few words spoken. It is an anti-war film that doesn’t deal with actual warfare, but rather focuses on human survival in almost surrealistic dimensions. The film constantly breaks with normal storytelling, intersecting hallucinations and flashbacks into the two boy’s exhaustive physical journey. […Lees verder]

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