SPECIAL SCREENINGS Rediscovered! THE AMUSEMENT PARK George A. Romero, USA, 1973, 53' Filmed for a Lutheran charity in 1973 as a public service announcement but never released, the long lost newly restored The Amusement Park is an angry denouncement and a surrealist horror take on the dangers of ageism, [...]
A MESSENGER FROM THE SHADOWS (NOTES ON FILM 06 A/MONOLOGUE 01) Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Austria, 2013, DCP, 60' Double Bill: 2551.01 + A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01) Screening followed by a talk with director Norbert Pfaffenbichler, moderated by Austrian film critic and curator Christoph Huber. [...]
2551.01 Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Austria, 2021, DCP, 65’, English subtitles Double Bill: 2551.01 + A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01) Screening followed by a talk with director Norbert Pfaffenbichler, moderated by Austrian film critic and curator Christoph Huber. A monkey-faced man with a nose ring rescues an [...]
SORCERER William Friedkin, USA, 1977, DCP, 121' Four foreigners, fugitives from the law wanted in their countries, take on a deadly mission to drive a convoy of explosive nitroglycerin through a treacherous South American jungle. William Friedkin’s adaptation of the Georges Arnaud novel The Wages of Fear (previously filmed by Henri Georges-Clouzot) [...]
ROAD TO SALINA LA ROUTE DE SALINA Georges Lautner, France/Italy, 1970, 35mm, 96', in English When a lone traveller stops at a desert roadside café, the owner Mara is convinced that he is Rocky, her son who mysteriously disappeared four years ago. Her mind must be clouded by grief, thinks the tired [...]
THE CHASE Arthur Penn, ZDA, 1966, DCP, 134' A small and cosy Texas town is preparing for a party in honour of local bigwig, banker and oil baron Val Rogers, when news spreads that young rebel Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) has escaped from prison. But in this septic tank of greed, prejudice, [...]
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! Russ Meyer, USA, 1965, DCP, 83’ Three go-go dancers, as sexy as they are furious, rush behind the wheels of their sports cars. Avid for thrills and turning fugitives after a killing, they embark on a mad run in the Californian desert! With its frenetic style of [...]
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK John Sturges, USA, 1955, 35mm, 81' In the remote town of Black Rock in the middle of the Arizona desert, a train stops, and a one-armed stranger gets off. He came to deliver a medal to the father of his fallen comrade from World War II. [...]
MANIVELLE - LAST DAYS OF THE MAN OF TOMORROW Fadi Baki, Germany/Lebanon, 2017, DCP, 29', English subtitles Screening followed by a talk on Middle Eastern cinema in collaboration with Ekran magazine. Guests: Bernadette Klausberger and Niklas Hlawatsch (producers of Manivelle), Adham Youssef (Berlin based film critic and specialist on Egyptian cinema). [...]
A DRAGON ARRIVES! EJDEHA VARED MISHAVAD! Mani Haghighi, Iran, 2016, DCP, 108', English subtitles Screening followed by a talk on Middle Eastern cinema in collaboration with Ekran magazine. Guests: Bernadette Klausberger and Niklas Hlawatsch (producers of Manivelle), Adham Youssef (Berlin based film critic and specialist on Egyptian cinema). In collaboration with FIVIA [...]
