April 2008 - Repertory Cinema
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Monday 7th April: Luis Bunuel Double Bill 9.15pm: UN CHIEN ANDALOU 1929 | France | 16 mins |
| Luis Bunuel’s legendary first film, Un Chien Andalou written with Salvador Dali, created a scandal at its premiere and its startling eye-slicing opening sequence has continued to shock viewers ever since. Despite Bunuel and Dali’s energetic rejections of any rational meaning in the film, Un Chien Andalou is an exploration of desire and the obstacles in the path of instinctual passion, equally indebted to Surrealism and Freud. |
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9.45pm: L’AGE D’OR 1930 | France | 60 mins Venue: Café 1001 Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| L’Age d’Or is a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social criticism. A sinister and strangely poignant chronicle of a couple’s struggles to consummate their frenzied desire in the face of a stream of obstacles from bourgeois society and the Church, the film was banned and vilified for many years, becoming justly legendary for its subversive eroticism and its furious dissection of ‘civilised’ values. |
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Monday 14th April 9.15pm LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (L’Annee Derniere A Marienbad) Directed by Alain Resnais 1961 | France | 94 mins Venue: Café 1001 Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| Last Year In Marienbad is an astounding collaboration between director Alain Resnais (Night and Fog) and leading French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. In a vast and opulent hotel, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only met before, but that they were also romantically involved and had planned to elope together. The woman recalls no such encounter. Strikingly composed and beautifully shot, Last Year In Marienbad represents a key moment in the development of cinematic modernism. |
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Monday 21st April 9.15pm WILD STRAWBERRIES (Smultronstallet) Directed by Ingmar Bergman 1957 | Sweden | 91 mins Venue: Café 1001 Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| The film that catapulted Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director’s richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjostrom), is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind. |
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Monday 28th April 9.15pm THE THIRD MAN Directed by Carol Reed 1949 | UK | 104 mins Venue: Café 1001 Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime -and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas’s evocative zither score; Graham Greene’s razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker’s dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass. |
