National Film and Sound Archive.(Aus)251109
November 30th 2009 01:49
What's On 25 Nov -- 9 Dec 2009
PROJECTING ON THE WALL
The personal stories, collective experiences and the unique cinema legacy of divided Berlin and a Cold War-divided world is examined in our program to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. There's familiar Hollywood spy thrillers such as the Michael Caine black-comic Funeral in Berlin (1966), as well as classic West German films Like Wim Wenders' 1987 Wings of Desire or Jurgen Klaus's 1981 The Border.
But it is a rare chance to also see the eastern perspective, in now-bizarre propaganda films such 1962's as Look at this City, dramas which dealt with the daily realities for East Berliners (1957's Berlin Schonhauser Corner), or painter and filmmaker Jurgen Buttcher's stunning and complex The Wall, from 1990. Presented in association with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, and with support of the Goethe-Instiut.
A SAMPLE OFSCREENINGS
GOODBYE LENIN (2003, M) THU 26 NOV, 2PM
An East German man can't bring himself to tell his mother, just awakened
from a coma, about the fall of communism and recreates the GDR around her.
All tickets $5
LOOK AT THIS CITY (1962, unclassified 18 ) SAT 28 NOV, 4.30PM
A fascinating compilation of newsreels that make the case for the necessity
of building the Berlin Wall to preserve the GDR. From the collection of
the NFSA.
ONE-TWO-THREE (1961, G) SUN 29 NOV, 4.30PM
In Billy Wilder's riotous Cold War satire, Jimmy Cagney is the loud-mouth
head of a major softdrink company in Berlin, converting his boss's new
communist son-in-law to the joys of capitalism.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006, MA15 ) THU 3 DEC, 2PM
A Stasi investigator sets up a surveillance operation on one of the state's
favourite celebrity acting couples. Oscar-winning Best Foreign Film. All
tickets $5
COMING OUT (1989, unclassified 18 ) THU 3 DEC, 7PM
East Germany's first 'Queer' film, combining Socialist cinema with an
acceptance of a local gay identity.
FUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966, M) SAT 5 SEC, 4.30PM
Michael Caine stars as a cockney anti-James Bond in Berlin to bring in a
Russian defector.
DIVIDED HEAVEN (1963, unclassified 18 ) SUN 6 DEC, 4.30PM
Konrad Wolf's film explores the psychological and symbolic meaning of the
Wall's construction for East Berliners.
PROJECTING ON THE WALL
The personal stories, collective experiences and the unique cinema legacy of divided Berlin and a Cold War-divided world is examined in our program to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. There's familiar Hollywood spy thrillers such as the Michael Caine black-comic Funeral in Berlin (1966), as well as classic West German films Like Wim Wenders' 1987 Wings of Desire or Jurgen Klaus's 1981 The Border.
But it is a rare chance to also see the eastern perspective, in now-bizarre propaganda films such 1962's as Look at this City, dramas which dealt with the daily realities for East Berliners (1957's Berlin Schonhauser Corner), or painter and filmmaker Jurgen Buttcher's stunning and complex The Wall, from 1990. Presented in association with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, and with support of the Goethe-Instiut.
A SAMPLE OFSCREENINGS
An East German man can't bring himself to tell his mother, just awakened
from a coma, about the fall of communism and recreates the GDR around her.
All tickets $5
LOOK AT THIS CITY (1962, unclassified 18 ) SAT 28 NOV, 4.30PM
A fascinating compilation of newsreels that make the case for the necessity
of building the Berlin Wall to preserve the GDR. From the collection of
the NFSA.
ONE-TWO-THREE (1961, G) SUN 29 NOV, 4.30PM
In Billy Wilder's riotous Cold War satire, Jimmy Cagney is the loud-mouth
head of a major softdrink company in Berlin, converting his boss's new
communist son-in-law to the joys of capitalism.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006, MA15 ) THU 3 DEC, 2PM
A Stasi investigator sets up a surveillance operation on one of the state's
favourite celebrity acting couples. Oscar-winning Best Foreign Film. All
tickets $5
COMING OUT (1989, unclassified 18 ) THU 3 DEC, 7PM
East Germany's first 'Queer' film, combining Socialist cinema with an
acceptance of a local gay identity.
FUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966, M) SAT 5 SEC, 4.30PM
Michael Caine stars as a cockney anti-James Bond in Berlin to bring in a
Russian defector.
DIVIDED HEAVEN (1963, unclassified 18 ) SUN 6 DEC, 4.30PM
Konrad Wolf's film explores the psychological and symbolic meaning of the
Wall's construction for East Berliners.
WIN TICKETS!
To go in the running to win one of five double passes to Billy Wilder's One-Two-Three, email competitions.arc@nfsa.gov.au with the correct answer to the following question: Which major softdrink company does James Cagney's character work for?
To go in the running to win one of five double passes to Billy Wilder's One-Two-Three, email competitions.arc@nfsa.gov.au with the correct answer to the following question: Which major softdrink company does James Cagney's character work for?
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