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OUR SCREENING ROOM

SEPTEMBER 2010

Monday 6 September - 6.10pm

Stray Dog (Nora inu)

Japan | 1949 | 122mins d. Akira Kurosawa

Introduced by Mamoun Hassan
Kurosawa’s ninth film is a policier set on the sweltering streets of post-war Tokyo. Rookie detective Murakami (Toshirô Mifune) suffers the indignity of having his gun stolen on a crowded bus. Murakami’s pursuit of the criminal takes him into the underbelly of Tokyo and to a realisation that cop and criminal are closer than he would like to admit. Kurosawa combines a crime movie with a study of life in a defeated city.

Monday 13 September - 6.10pm

Man With a Movie Camera (Chelovek S Kinoapparatom)

USSR | 1928 | 90mins d. Dziga Vertov

Introduced by Ian Christie
A series of images drawn from the actuality of city life. The central figure of the film cameraman (Mikhail Kaufman), and the presence of the camera, sometimes glimpsed in reflective surfaces, remind us that the reality of what we see is the film process. A dizzying range of cinematic techniques including superimposition, animation, split screen, montage and virtuoso editing go to make this a masterpiece of Soviet cinema.

Showing with

Soviet Toys

Animation | USSR | 1924 | 10mins | d. Dziga Vertov

Monday 20 September - 6.10pm

Sabotage

Related article by Richard Combs html | pdf

UK | 1936 | 76mins d. Alfred Hitchcock

Introduced by Richard Combs
Hitchcock updates Joseph Conrad’s classic study of espionage, while revelling in the details of the seedy side of London life. Oskar Homolka is the spy hiding behind his persona as a married man while using a cinema as a cover for his terrorist activities. Hitchcock seems more interested in the domestic horrors rather than terrorist outrage, and Sabotage is one of the darkest movies from his English period.

Showing with

What Ho, She Bumps

Animation | UK | 1937 | 8mins | d. George Pal

Monday 27 September - 6.10pm

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse)

Italy/France | 1962 | 123mins | d. Michelangelo Antonioni

Introduced by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Leaving her lover of four years, Vittoria (Monica Vitti) embarks on an affair with a stockbroker (Alain Delon). But as the film progresses, her emptiness becomes more obvious, echoed in the buildings and the landscape around them, and she finally decides on a life of solitude rather than marriage or a failing relationship. Antonioni’s masterpiece creates a haunting vision of a city empty of life.

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