STAGING DEATH

STAGING DEATH Jan Soldat, Austria/Germany, 2022, DCP, 8’, English subtitles Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is chopped up, shot or takes his own life. Again and again his empty gaze, again and again his rigid body. In 54 years of acting career Udo Kier played in more [...]

MR. VAMPIRE

MR. VAMPIRE GEUNG SEE SIN SANG Ricky Lau, Hong Kong, 1985, DCP, 96', English subtitles ©2010 Fortune Star Media Limited All Rights Reserved. When Taoist priest and expert ghost buster Master Kou (Lam Ching Ying) is called in to supervise the relocation of a grave, he realises that the corpse inside the [...]

THE TAKING

THE TAKING Alexandre O. Philippe, USA, 2021, DCP, 76' The latest film from documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe (Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist) is a radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939). The Taking scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo [...]

THE GREAT SILENCE

THE GREAT SILENCE IL GRANDE SILENZIO Sergio Corbucci, Italy/France, 1968, DCP, 105', English subtitles Organized in cooperation with CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, the screening will include the presentation of the film's two alternative endings. Before the screening, Dr Austin Fisher from Bournemouth University (UK), a specialist in Italian Western and its political implications, will present [...]

APACHE DRUMS

APACHE DRUMS Hugo Fregonese, USA, 1951, DCP, 76' Images Courtesy of Park Circus/Universal. To become a respectable and appealing, western town Spanish Boot must rid itself of its prostitutes and its notorious gambler and gunslinger Sam. But a band of Apaches is descending upon them and Sam is the only one that can [...]

A LIFE ON THE FARM

A LIFE ON THE FARM Oscar Harding, UK/USA, 2022, DCP, 75' When filmmaker Oscar Harding's grandfather passed away in the rural English county of Somerset, his family inherited an extraordinary video tape – a feature-length home movie from neighbour Charles Carson, which can best be described as "Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". [...]

INEXORABLE

INEXORABLE Fabrice du Welz, Belgium/France, 2021, DCP, 98', English subtitles Inexorable, the latest creation of the Belgian master of arthouse genre fare Fabrice du Welz is a slow-burning thriller filled to the brim with tension, lies and desires. The premise is simple. There is a well-off family. There is the father, a successful novelist, [...]