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]
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964) and The Miners’ Hymns (Bill Morrison, 2011)
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 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]
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: La Voie lactée (Luis Buñuel, 1969)
Sunday July 8th 2012, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema, THE MILKY WAY 1969 (La Voie lactée). Directed by Luis Buñuel, 101 minutes, In French with English subtitles. High-definition screening. A movie night by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock. door opens at 20pm, film starts at 21pm,
The way that Monty Python was influenced by Luis Buñuel is clear. When Michael Palin wrote the obituary of Buñuel in Rolling Stone magazine, he said that all they were trying to do in their films was be Buñuel. He then listed every Monty Python film and which Buñuell film they were ripping off in each. He said that Bunuel was one of their main inspirations. But at the same time there are differences, in that Buñuel was a bit more intelligent and stylish, where Python was more crass and almost totally non-aesthetic.
In Buñuel’s La Voie lactée we follow two clochards (bums, drifters) who are traveling through the countryside on their way to the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, and go into a time warp…. coming across all the dogmas and hypocrisies of Christianity throughout the ages. Filled with absurd images and heretical black humor, the film continues surrealism’s attack on normality and blind belief.
One viewer’s comment: “One of best movies that analyzes European Catholicism with a Surrealistic microscope. Two allegorical pilgrims on there way to Santiago de Compostela from Paris see 2000 years of Orthodoxy through a series of unrelated vignettes dealing with heresies and anathema.
Get this movie. Pierre Clementi rules as the Destroying Angel! Original language: French with a touch of Spanish and Mystical Latin. I see this movie as the natural sequel to Simon of the Desert. Luis Bunuel, filmmaker, Surrealist Extraordinaire, we’ll never see his kind again!”
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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Vanishing Point (Richard Sarafian, 1971)
Sunday June 17th 2012, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema, VANISHING POINT (1971), Directed by Richard Sarafian, 105 minutes, in English. A classic anti-authoritarian cult film, high-definition screening, screened by guest programmer Jeffrey Babcock. 8pm
Since law-abiding conformity seems to be running rampant these days, I think its time to re-screen this rebellious one-of-a-kind ultra-cult classic! Art film and exploitation road movie come together in Vanishing Point, an existential car chase film that races across the desert in a post- Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a drug dealer who bets that he can drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He then loads up on amphetamines and begins his full-throttle journey through the American desert, picking up the wrath of the cops who are trying to stop him. When a hip black DJ (Cleavon Little) learns about Kowalski’s odyssey, he turns the driver into a folk hero on his radio broadcasts, declaring him the “last free Man on Earth“. The amazing car chases and excellent stunt work are set against the American west, beautifully captured by cinematographer John A. Alonzo. Vanishing Point is most assuredly a product of its time, the heady, anything-goes era of rebellion in the early 1970s.
And maybe you know already, but this is the wonderful film that Tarantino rants on about in his film Deathproof. […Lees verder]
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