BFS Presents: ‘You Said It’ Screenings on 27,28,29

July 25th, 2007

There is a man for his time, a man of values and integrity, as common as he is uncommon, in tune and at home with the age he inhabits. As his age inevitably draws to an end and the world as he knew it begins to change its hues, all that remains of him is etched in time and memory as the ’spirit’ or ‘zeitgeist’ of a age gone by. Bangalore Film Society presents ‘You Said It’ a weekend of three classics that celebrates the indomitable spirit of ‘the common man’.

Friday 27, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
The Straight Story (Color, 112min) Dir: David Lynch
Artist-Director David Lynch moves away from his unique brand of morbid nightmares and dreamscapes to recount the incredibly true story of Alvin Straight who traveled cross country in his lawn-mower to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged brother. A quiet, eccentric tribute to the stubborn spirit of man, the movie features a performance of tremendous grace and ’salt-of-the-earth’ wisdom from 73 yr old Richard Farnsworth who in this, in final film, managed a lead role in a career relegated to playing extras and henchmen. Nominated for Palm D’ Or 99.

Saturday 28, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Color, 121min) Dir: Sam Peckinpah

Before Sam Peckinpah began to addressed as ‘Sam Bloody Sam’ and redefined celluloid violence and nihilism to pave way for the likes of Scorsese and Tarantino, he made a lyrical, poetic ode to ‘butterfly mornings and wild flower afternoons’, an intimate document of times gone by and a one-of-a-kind western that meditated on forgiveness and redemption instead of the law of the bullet. When wayfaring stranger Cable Hogue is double-crossed and left to die among ‘fifty thousand
gallons of sand’, his life changes as he discovers water where there was thought to be none and begins in his own inimitable way to set up ‘Cable Springs’ ranch, fall in love, strike up a friendship while vengeance against his double-crossers is always on his mind.

Sunday 29, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Umberto D. (B & W, 91min) Dir: Vittorio De Sica

De Sica’s powerful masterpiece follows an elderly pensioner struggling to make his ends meet in postwar Italy. In a city where human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization, Umberto D. and his dog Napoleane wander through the streets in search of the fundamental human needs- food, shelter, companionship and dignity. Nominated for the Grand Prix, Cannes 52′.

Venue: Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark’s Road cross, Op. State Bank of India

Tel: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705/ 9886213516

ADMISSION FOR MEMBERS ONLY. NON-MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO ARRIVE 15
MINS EARLY AND REGISTER.
(Members whose membership has expired are requested to kindly renew their membership.)

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