Bangalore Film Society - Year end film show

December 24th, 2007

Bangalore Film Society is proud to call it a year. 2007. The
International Water Film Festival finally came into being in an
auditorium near you. The erratic screenings which happened all over
town, all over the calendar, were given an once-a-month-at-Aashirvad
order. We’d also like to announce that `Deep Focus Film Quarterly’
last seen in bookshelves some two years ago, has all-new issue in the
presses. Also the BFS ID cards managed to get everyone in sans the
entrance fee into the over-priced and over-hyped `Oktoberfest’.

We’d like to thank our members, students and all who came to our
screenings for actively participating in our film screenings- the
special Human Rights segments and the monthly trilogies. Thank you
Alliance Francaise for inviting us to participate in the Cine-Club.
Thank you, the newspapers and websites and the Collective Chaos
mailing list for spreading the word in a city that has more cultural
events in a week than auditoriums (Thank you Aashirvad). A special
`thank you’ to Vishwanath Subramaniam of `Deccan Herald’ and
EventsBangalore.net for giving us center-stage over tiny, camouflaged,
tucked away, two-bit columns. Thank you Arghyam (Vishwanath `zen
rainman’ Srikanthiah. Rohini, Sunitha, Manohar), Vikalp Bangalore
(Sushma Veerappa) and URC (Gururaj) for coming together for Voices
from the Waters. One round for Breakthrough for letting us into a
vault of the most powerful human rights films. And above all, one big
hand and rumbling drumroll for our members who have not only
contributed to our screenings with dialogues and suggestions but also
sat patiently through power-cuts and errant equipment in the name of
cinema. (the most patient were present for the screening of David
Lynch’s `The Straight Story’ which started almost an hour and a half
later as we incompetently fidgeted around with wires and switches).

And to all that and much more and some more again that may have
slipped our memory during the drafting of the Thank you’s, BFS is
happy to announce `this one’s on us’. We are proud to present `Cinema
Under the Influence’.

Friday 28th December, 2007
Time: 6.30pm

Blow-Up (Color, 1966)

Pulsing to a soundtrack by Herbie Hancock and the Yardbirds, Late
auteur Michelangelo Antonioni’s stylish romp through the decadence of
the swinging London of the 60s follows a photographer who tries to
solve the mystery of a murder which may or may not have occurred.
Highly influential and venerated by the next generation of directors
the likes of Coppola, Lynch, De Palma and our own Kundan Shah, Blow-Up
won the Palm D’ Or at Cannes 67′.

Saturday 29th December, 2007
Time: 6.30pm

Withnail & I (Color, 1987)

Cut in 24-carat cult, quoted endlessly, inspiring a series of sketches
from underground artist Ralph Steadman who worked on `Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas’ and spawning a dangerous drinking game that has
resulted in not a few hospitalizations, Director Bruce Robinson’s
uproarious black comedy set in the late 60s as the `season of love’
dawns to an end, chronicles a damp weekend that two unemployed actors
spend in a country cottage with a sleaze-bag of an uncle and alcohol
like bullets in a Robert Rodriguez or Rajiv Rai film… there’s always
enough to go around. Like Withnail puts it,” We want the finest wines
available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!”

Sunday 30th December 2007
Time: 6.30pm

The Saddest Music in the World (B & W/Color, 100min)

Avant-garde director Guy Maddin tweaks a screenplay by Booker Laureate
Kazuo Ishiguro’s arcane script with a dash of black-and-white classic
motion-picture nostalgia and MTV quirk to come up with a dazzling
mélange of melancholy, music and beer. Set in 1930s Winnipeg, the
saddest city in the world, in the midst of an economic depression when
Lady Helen Port-Huntley of Port Huntley beer announces a world wide
competition where the musician who can conjure up the saddest music
walks away with the bounty of ‘25,000′ depression-era dollars. Africa
mourns with strange rituals, Sarajevo weeps for the victims of the
World War while America believes `sadness is just happiness turned
over its ass’!

CHEERS.

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 so that they can avail of the special discount on the
Bangalore International Film Fest from 3rd to 10th January, 2007)

Venue: Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark’s Road cross, Near Noon Wines Scottish
Pub, Nearer Dewars Wine Shop, Op. State Bank of India
Tel: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705/ 9480090128

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