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 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 [...]
MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE DU BI QUAN WANG DA PO XUE DI ZI Jimmy Wang Yu, Hong Kong/Taiwan, 1976, 35mm, 83', English language version + short film: STAGING DEATH Jan Soldat, Austria/Germany, 2022, DCP, 8’ Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is chopped up, shot or takes his [...]
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 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 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 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 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, [...]
MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON Ana Lily Amirpour, USA, 2021, DCP, 106' Mona Lisa Lee (Jeon Jong-seo), a mysterious young woman of Korean descent, escapes from a mental hospital with the help of her supernatural abilities. As she tries to navigate the outside world, she is taken under the wing of an exotic [...]
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleischer Camp, USA, 2021, DCP, 90' Images Courtesy of Park Circus/Universal. Marcel is a tiny talking shell, living in a human Airbnb house with his grandma Connie. When a filmmaker moves into their house, he starts making a documentary about this wee whimsical soul with one [...]
