July 2009 - Repertory Cinema
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Tuesday 7 July, 8pm LOVE STREAMS Directed by John Cassavetes 1984 | USA | 138 mins | Colour |
| To conclude our season on John Cassavetes we are delighted to present a very rare screening of Love Streams. Based on a play by Ted Allan, Love Streams is a haunting, provocative, and brutally honest examination of love, emotional needs, loneliness, and longing. In contrast to the active and confrontational camerawork of his earlier films (most notably in Faces), John Cassavetes creates a spare, muted, and objective portrait, capturing with underlying compassion the empty lives of emotionally adrift characters who act out the ache of their unarticulated despair through incomprehensible, cruel, and often self-destructive acts. |
| Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
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Tuesday 14 July, 8pm KILLER OF SHEEP Directed by Charles Burnett 1977 | USA | 81 mins | B&W |
| Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community. This acclaimed tale of a disillusioned slaughterhouse worker, and the solace to be found in the simplest moments of life, is tender, witty and affectionate. With lovely neorealist photography - capturing the long, hot days of 1970s Los Angeles - and a gorgeous blues soundtrack (Dinah Washington, Paul Robeson and Little Walter all feature) the film has a quiet emotional power. It received widespread critical acclaim following its recent rediscovery and restoration. |
| Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
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Tuesday 21 July, 8pm PARIS, TEXAS Directed by Wim Wenders 1984 | USA | 147 mins | Colour |
| With his outsider’s view of America, Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Alice in the Cities) transforms Paris, Texas into a haunting tale of loss, redemption and the ties that bind families together, and is arguably Wenders’ greatest achievement. Beautifully shot by Robbie Muller, Sam Shepard’s beguilingly simple story is stunningly realised by Wenders, whose stark imagery is accompanied by Ry Cooder’s acclaimed score. Paris, Texas is rightly regarded as one of the artistic triumphs of contemporary world cinema. |
| Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
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Tuesday 28 July, 8pm DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY Directed by Jim McBride 1967 | USA | 74 mins | B&W |
| Shot in 1967, David Holzman’s Diary is a milestone in contemporary film history. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it manages to simultaneously be very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. The film tells the story of David Holzman, a young man infatuated with film and film-making. Newly unemployed and beset with doubts and worries, Holzman thinks that filming his everyday existence will ‘bring life into focus’. Staged to seem like a documentary of a real person’s life, Holzman’s filming of his life starts to take over his life. |
| Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
