CHAUVEL CINEMATHEQUE - May 09
April 24th 2009 07:31
Lets have a look at whats on at the Shovel this coming month. Remember that this may be one of teh very few times you get to see some classic films on a big screen.
Monday 27 & Monday 27 April
DAY OF THE LOCUST (USA/1975/144mins/Colour/16mm /NFVLS/MA15 )
Dir: John Schlesinger
A pessimistic, sordid tale of broken dreams and human weaknesses. The Locust focusses on the desperate lives of two failed entertainers who strive in vain, amongst other assorted losers on the fringe of Tinseltown, to gain entry into the glamorous world of the studios.
Monday 4 & Monday 4 May
FIXED BAYONETS (USA/1951/92mins/B&W/16mm/NFV LS/MA15 )
Dir: Samuel Fuller
Korea, 1950. A platoon of the toughest, most experienced soldiers is left behind to conduct a rearguard action for the retreating Americans - sacrifice of the few to save the many.
Monday 11 & Monday 11 May
IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (1978/Colour/123mins/16mm/NFV LS/MA15 )
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Along with the episode in 'Germany in Autumn' this is one of Fassbinder's most personal works, a working through of guilt following the suicide of his lover Armin Mein in 1978, a moon year and a year of thirteen new moons. This is an astrological conjunction likely to produce personal catastrophe. Set in Frankfurt, a city of expressionistic desolation, the film recounts the last days of a transsexual, Elvira.
Monday 18 & Monday 18 May
THE PORNOGRAPHERS (JAPAN/1966/B&W/128mins/16mm/ NFVLS/18 )
Dir: Shohei Immamura
A pornographic filmmaker is disgusted, yet obsessed with the lechery of his customers. Unable to escape from his marginal existence through an affair with his landlady he retires to a houseboat to construct the perfect facsimile of a woman.
Monday 25 & Monday 25 May
TALES OF UGETSU (JAPAN/1953/B&W/89mins/16mm/N FVLS/R18 )
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi's most acclaimed film is set during the civil wars of the sixteenth century. A potter, Genjuro, and his brother dream of better times. The first half of the film portrays the chaos and misery war brings to the villagers. Represented within the two families are different responses to war: opportunistic ambition and greed on the part of the men as opposed to endurance, devotion and optimism on the part of the women.
TICKET PRICING:
Mini Membership (1 month/4 screenings/1 guest) A$18/C$15
Quarterly Membership (12 screenings/3 guests) A$36/C$32
Annual Membership (52 screenings/12 guests) A$85/C$75
Membership covers cost of tickets for duration of membership.
The Chauvel Cinémathèque acknowledges the assistance of the National film and Video Lending Service and the National Film & Sound Archive in creating this program.
DAY OF THE LOCUST (USA/1975/144mins/Colour/16mm /NFVLS/MA15 )
A pessimistic, sordid tale of broken dreams and human weaknesses. The Locust focusses on the desperate lives of two failed entertainers who strive in vain, amongst other assorted losers on the fringe of Tinseltown, to gain entry into the glamorous world of the studios.
Monday 4 & Monday 4 May
FIXED BAYONETS (USA/1951/92mins/B&W/16mm/NFV LS/MA15 )
Dir: Samuel Fuller
Korea, 1950. A platoon of the toughest, most experienced soldiers is left behind to conduct a rearguard action for the retreating Americans - sacrifice of the few to save the many.
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Along with the episode in 'Germany in Autumn' this is one of Fassbinder's most personal works, a working through of guilt following the suicide of his lover Armin Mein in 1978, a moon year and a year of thirteen new moons. This is an astrological conjunction likely to produce personal catastrophe. Set in Frankfurt, a city of expressionistic desolation, the film recounts the last days of a transsexual, Elvira.
THE PORNOGRAPHERS (JAPAN/1966/B&W/128mins/16mm/ NFVLS/18 )
Dir: Shohei Immamura
A pornographic filmmaker is disgusted, yet obsessed with the lechery of his customers. Unable to escape from his marginal existence through an affair with his landlady he retires to a houseboat to construct the perfect facsimile of a woman.
TALES OF UGETSU (JAPAN/1953/B&W/89mins/16mm/N FVLS/R18 )
Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi's most acclaimed film is set during the civil wars of the sixteenth century. A potter, Genjuro, and his brother dream of better times. The first half of the film portrays the chaos and misery war brings to the villagers. Represented within the two families are different responses to war: opportunistic ambition and greed on the part of the men as opposed to endurance, devotion and optimism on the part of the women.
TICKET PRICING:
Mini Membership (1 month/4 screenings/1 guest) A$18/C$15
Quarterly Membership (12 screenings/3 guests) A$36/C$32
Annual Membership (52 screenings/12 guests) A$85/C$75
Membership covers cost of tickets for duration of membership.
The Chauvel Cinémathèque acknowledges the assistance of the National film and Video Lending Service and the National Film & Sound Archive in creating this program.
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