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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
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(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
December 24th, 2007
Meta-Culture Dialogics On the occasion of the Conflict Resolution Week, October 15th - 21st, 2007
In collaboration with The Bangalore Film Society, Max Mueller Bhavan, The Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and Breakthrough
presents:
Beyond Good and Bad! Dispute and Resolution in Cinema. A selection of movies and documentaries from across the world, for an alternative perspective on conflict.
A unique Film Festival with post screening discussions facilitated by Meta-Culture, conflict resolution center.
Humorous, touching, compelling!
Schedule:
Monday : Kids in conflicts and in resolutions.
4:15 pm The war of Buttons, Yves Robert, France, 1962
6:15 pm First Lesson in Peace, Yoram Honig , Israel, 2005
Tuesday: Love and Conflict
4:15 pm Arth, Mahesh Bhatt , India, 1983
6:15 pm Angst Essen Seele Auf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1973
Wednesday: Truth and taboos
4:15 pm Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950
6:15 pm Un Air de Famille, Cedric Klapisch, France, 1996
Thursday: Village water conflicts
4:15 pm The Little Republic, Anwar Jamal, India, 2002
6:15 pm Milagro Beanfield War, Robert Redford, US, 1988
Friday: Labour conflicts
4:15 pm Human Resources, Laurent Cantet, France, 1999
6:15 pm The Take, Avi Lewis, Canada 2004
Saturday: People in the midst of war
4:15 pm Wall, Simone Bitton, France/Israel, 2004
6:15 pm No more Tears Sister, Helene Klodawsky, Canada, 2004
Sunday: The absurdity of war
4:15 pm To Disobey, Patricio Henriquez , Chile, 2005
6:15 pm No Man’s Land, Danis Tanović, Bosnia, 2001
ENTRY IS FREE!
Venue: Ashirvad, #30 St Mark’s Road Cross, Opp. State Bank of India
For information, please contact: Rafael: 9945207719 or Narahari: 9480090128
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October 9th, 2007
Bangalore Film Society presents ‘3-2-1′, a weekend of three films that remember the lesson that the world forgot.
radio:…garrison already decimated by the Vietcong, who lost 115 of their men…
woman: It’s awful, isn’t it, it’s so anonymous.
man: What is?
woman: They say 115 guerrillas, yet it doesn’t mean anything, because we don’t
know anything about these men, who they are, whether they love a woman,
or have children, if they prefer the cinema to the theatre, We know
nothing. They just say…115 dead.
Jean Luc Godard in ‘Pierrot Le Fou’
There was a lesson to be learnt. Over two days in August when the earth forgot to breathe, over 200, 000 corpses and charred earth. A lesson learnt under the great white mushroom of the urgency of peace and the horrors of modern warfare, of dark days and doomed generations, of extermination of life. It was a lesson that should have been remembered.
As we are urged by the world around to count what comes after ‘1-2-3′, let us remember that moment in history that teaches us to count after ‘3-2-1′
Friday 24th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) (126min) Dir: Roland Joffe
An epic saga of the moral and ethical bankruptcy of the officials and scientists of the Manhattan Project that ushered the world into the nuclear age, ‘Fat Man and Little Boy’ chronicles General Leslie Groves’ misuse of power as he guides the naïve scientists under him into developing and testing the very first atomic bomb. Nominated for the Golden Bear, Berlin 90′.
Saturday 25th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (96min)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick’s masterpiece, written by counter-culture guru Terry Southern and starring Peter Sellers in 3 different roles- a cutting satire of politics, paranoia and power struggle set in the Cold War is disturbingly as urgent and as crazy as ever even more than forty years after it was first screened. US Air Force General is worried about the Russians’ ‘poisoning all our precious bodily fluids’ and calls for nuclear warfare. What he isn’t aware of is that the Russians have perfected a doomsday machine which would retaliate and destroy the whole world in case of Russia being attacked, all because ‘it was to be announced at the party convention next week’. Adding to the chaos are a worried president, an exchange officer from Britan, an obese ambassador, a philandering Air Force Chief and a pilot with severe Wild West delusions.
Sunday 26th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Hiroshima Mon Amor (1959) (90min) Dir: Alain Resnais
In Hiroshima, 14 years after the bomb was dropped, a French Actress falls in love with a Japanese architect during the filming of an international peace film. Weaving through the poetry of conversation and unforgettable images Director Resnais crafts a profound and moving elegy to shroud the victims and the survivors and the memories that remain. A milestone in cinema, Hiroshima Mon Amor was nominated for the Palm D’Or at Cannes, 59.
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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August 21st, 2007
Bangalore Film Society and Alliance Francaise de Bangalore are proud to present auteurs Louis Malle and Mira Nair as they explore life and landscape to capture the spirit of the land, the time and its people.
Cine-Club, August presents: ‘Town & Country’
Friday 10th August, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Atlantic City (1980, 104min) Dir: Louis Malle
Director Malle sets up an exciting drug-money-mobs payoff in a dilapidated building in the gambling town of Atlantic City and infuses it with warmth, lyricism and melancholy. Lou, an aging small-
time number runner with delusions of past grandeur and sharing jail cells with ‘Bugsy’ is employed in the service of Grace, an aging moll of a once respected gangster and gets infatuated with his young
neighbor, Sally who is training to be a croupier in one of the city casinos. Lou gets to be a part of the cocaine deal as the dreams and destinies of the characters intertwine, soar and collapse in bright
crazy neon streets of the gambling town of ‘ Atlantic City’. Golden Lion winner at Venice 80′.
Saturday 11th August, 2007 Time: 4.00 pm
May Fools (1990, 107min) Dir: Louis Malle
Set in the backdrop of 1968 student unrest, ‘May Fools’ takes place far away from the processions and burning streets of Paris, in a quiet estate in France where the matriarch has passed away and her family among whom all but one son, Milou had left the estate, now gather together to squabble over the distribution of inheritance. Plotting, back-stabbing, double crossing, lunching, falling in love-
Malle’s film freewheels through the pleasant May weather even as news of the unrest keeps pouring in.
Time: 6.30 pm
Salaam Bombay! (1988, 113min) Dir: Mira Nair
Highly cclaimed Mira Nair’s masterpiece explores the myth behind Mumbai’s glitz and fascination through the eyes of a 10 year old boy Krishna who runs away from his hometown to the city in search of Rs. 500/- that will allow him to repay and rejoin his family. Once in Mumbai, Krishna first is lost and naïve but quickly picks up street- smart and learns his grind among the colorful characters of Mumbai’s gritty underbelly. But his dream of returning to his family is thwarted and he finds himself confounded by the very streets of Mumbai that help him survive. Winner of Camera d’ Or at Cannes 88′.
Venue:- Alliance Française de Bangalore,
No. 108, Thimmaiah Road ,
Vasanthnagar Bangalore - 560052
Tel: 25492774/ 25493705
Mob: 9886213516
http://bfs.wikia.com
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August 8th, 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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July 25th, 2007
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