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Footprints, fingerprints, bits of cloth lint and lipstick on a cigarette butt…
Bangalore Film Society and Alliance Francaise de Bangalore are proud to unveil a dark and twisted weekend of death, deception and detection.
Cine-Club, May presents: “The Simple Art of Murder”
Admission Free.
Venue:- Alliance Française de Bangalore,
No. 108, Thimmaiah Road,
Vasanthnagar Bangalore - 560052
Tel: 25492774/ 25493705
Mob: 9886213516
Friday 25th May, 2007 Time: 6.30 pm
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003) Dir: Bruno Podalydes
An attempt is made on the life of Mathilde Stangerson while she is in her bedroom – The Yellow Room – a room with barred windows, one locked door and no other obvious means of entrance or egress. In a classic adaptation of what is probably one of the most influential detective novels, influencing the likes of dame Agatha Christie and several film and stage versions, `The Mystery of the Yellow Room’ is an intriguing mystery about the seeming unsolvable, implausible
murder attempt that becomes a ragging obsession for two men- an inspector and a reporter who compete with each other to arrive at startling revelation.
Saturday 26th May, 2007 Time: 4.00 pm
8 Women (2002) Dir: Francois Ozon
With a cast featuring exclusively the very best of French actresses
from across the ages, from thespians Isabelle Huppert and Catherine
Denueve to their deserving successors, Emanuelle Beart and Ludivine
Sagnier, acclaimed director Francois Ozon conjures a crafty,
stylish, lively and whimsical `who-dun-it’ set during Christmas in a
quaint country home in the 1950s about 8 women who must solve the
mystery of who among them has stabbed their host mercilessly in the
back and why and in the meantime, also inexplicably break into
inspired song and dance numbers. Winner of the Silver Bear and the
Reader Jury Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival.
Time: 6.30 pm
Khamosh (1985) Dir: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
“What could be better than suicide?” the director and the
screenwriter ponder.
“Murder”
and the conversation turns out to be eerily ironic when the next
day, Soni Razdan who was supposed to rehearse the change in script
winds up dead for real. Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Hitchcockian Bollywood
calling card puts the very best of the Indian New Wave under
suspicion as a shrewd detective (Naseerudin Shah) turns up on the
film sets to investigate. Did Shabana Azmi kill Soni Razdan? Or
maybe Amol Palekar? Or perhaps, it’s Pankaj Kapoor? A satire on
Bollywood, a homage to the genre noir, `Khamosh’ is another one-of-a-
kind Indian movie that for all its ingenuity remains largely
unheard.
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May 21st, 2007
Bangalore Film Society is proud to present `Years Gone By…’ a weekend of fond nostalgia, of lilting memories, lost pleasures, homespun myths, idyll days, awkward moments, secret rituals, forbidden whispers, adventure- the trials of growing up and eventually, with sacrifice and gain, coming of age.
Friday 18th May, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Machuca (2004) Dir: Andres Wood
The first Chilean film to confront the tumultuous political coup and unrest of 70’s Chile, Director Andres Wood’s beautifully observed, bitter-sweet, semi-autobiographical coming of age tale follows Machuca, an 11 year old living in an illegal shantytown and the unlikely friendship he forms with Gonzalo, another 11 year old who comes from a wealthy background, when an idealistic priest admits children from poor families to an elite private school. The film played to be an art house favourite across the world, sweeping audience awards and is regarded as one of the classics of the Latin American New Wave of the 2000s.
Saturday 19th May, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
Koktebel (2003) Dir: Boris Khlebnikov & Alexei Popogrebsky
Compared favorably to the likes of Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick, directors Khlebnikov and Popogrebsky paint a lush, melancholy dreamscape with Russia’s expansive and mesmerizing terrain as their acclaimed debut `Koktebel’ depicts the journey of a father and his son, after the death of the mother and the loss of the father’s job, to the mythic resort of Koktebel on the shores of the Black Sea in an attempt to piece together their broken lives. Winner of the Fipresci Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Sunday 20th May, 2007 Time: 6.30pm
A Scene at the Sea (1991) Dir: Takeshi Kitano
Cult favorite and auteur of gangster chic Takeshi Kitano makes an absolute departure from his violent mob sagas to direct a quiet story about love, belonging and surfing. While `A Scene at the Sea’ may seem at first glance to be any other sports drama, Kitano infuses every
scene and every cut with a quiet poetry and turns out a lyrical masterpiece that bears testimony to the power of images. Winner of Best Film, Best Director, Best Score and Best Actress at the 92′
Yokohama Film Festival.
Venue: Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark’s Road cross, Op. State Bank of India
Tel: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705 Mob: 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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May 15th, 2007
“All 100% Talking, Singing, Dancing, Living, Breathing, , Peak Drama, Essence of Romance, Brains and Talents unheard of, all under one banner.”
- From Poster of `Alam-Ara’ (1931)
Bangalore Film Society and Alliance Francaise de Bangalore are proud to present the magnificent grandeur of the cinema musical.
Cine Club, April presents `The Grand Musicals’
Friday April 20th, 2007
Time: 6.30 pm
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) Dir: Jacques Demy
Director Demy follows his groundbreaking `Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ with another colorful confection about two sisters who run a music and ballet school and in their spare time seek love and adventure. Hysterically paced to the tune of an Oscar nominated score- Characters meet, story lines cross, families expand. And all is expressed in booming song, exploding color, and elegant choreography.
Saturday April 21st, 2007
Time: 4.00 pm
Same Old Song (1997) Dir: Alain Resnais
Director Resnais’s rousing musical set to contemporary pop melodies follows a Parisian woman in search of a more spacious apartments and impossible as it may seem to anyone who has house-hunted in Bangalore, finds love in a real estate agency. From the ballads of Edith Piaf to the pop songs of Jane Birkin, this happy-go-lucky, tongue-in-cheek, sing-along comedy of manners proves there’s an appropriate song for every situation in life. Nominated for the Golden Bear at 97′ Berlin Film Festival.
Time: 6.30 pm
Pakeezah Dir: Kamal Amrohi
Featuring the timeless classics `Inhi Logone’, `Chalte Chalte’, `Chandi Raat’ and others, Kamal Amrohi’s opulent masterpiece, 14 years in the making, evocatively chronicles the
turbulent life of a courtesan. Featuring Meena Kumari in the performance of her career, Pakeezah is a tale of the despair and euphoria of human desire.
Venue:- Alliance Française de Bangalore,
No. 108, Thimmaiah Road,
Vasanthnagar Bangalore - 560052
Tel: 25492774/ 25493705
Mob: 9886213516
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April 18th, 2007
Bangalore Film Society is proud to present ‘The Vision Artistic’, a weekend of cinema that bear testament to `integrity and purity of vision’. Films made during turbulence, films that dared to take a
stand, films that are unlike any film ever made, banned by governments, dumped in the forgotten studio bins, booed by conservative audiences… films that soared above petty politics and
indifference, withstanding the passage of time to become classics that forever entice and provoke cinema-lovers the world over.
Friday 13th April,2007
The Red and The White (1968) Dir: Milkos Jansco
Banned for many years in the U.S.S.R, Hungarian auteur Milkos Jansco’s haunting masterpiece chronicles the absurd brutality of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, featuring groundbreaking cinematography, the story details the murderous entanglements between
Russia’s Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. Sparse, dream-like, visceral `The Red and The White’ is unlike any war film before it.
Saturday 14th April,2007
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Dir: Luis Bunuel
At the time of its release, Spanish political exile and avant-gardist
Luis Bunuel’s final master-piece shocked audiences world-wide with its
celebration of obsession and sovereignty of the subconscious, bringing
full-circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side
of desire. It is the director’s last word on this, his great subject.
Known for his eccentric and radical approach to film-making, Bunuel
had refused to answer the actors’ questions and even switched off his
hearing device during the making of his movie. Chronicling the
obsession of an urbane widower for an elusive woman, Bunuel crafts a
dizzying and extreme comedy of manners.
Sunday 15th April,2007.
Arizona Dream (1993) Dir: Emir Kusturica
When Emir Kusturica fresh off a critically acclaimed, much feted
trilogy (Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, When My Father was Away on
Business and Time of the Gypsies) set in native `Yugoslavia’ decided
to take his quirky, mad talents to Warner Brothers Studio, Hollywood,
he ended up with a typically funny and surreal spectacle involving a
young New York fish tagger who lays claim to an ability to listen to
the fishes’ dreams who is taken by his brother back to native Arizona
to help his uncle in a Cadillac showroom, where he falls first for an
eccentric widow and then her daughter. And Warner Brothers typically
relegated the batty delight straight to the cans.
Venue: Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark’s Road cross, Op. State Bank of India
Tel: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705 Mob: 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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April 10th, 2007
BFS and AF, Bangalore presents three films Ridicule , Le Temps Retrouvé and Shatranj Ke Khilari. Read below for more details.
2nd March, Friday (at 6:30pm on the Terrace)
Film: Ridicule (Ridiculous)
Director: Patrice Leconte
Duration: 100mins
Starring: Fanny Ardant
Charles Berling
Bernard Giraudeau
Judith Godereche
Jean Rochefort
Versailles, 1780, the young baron Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy try to convince the ministers of Louis XVI to dry out the everglades of his province infested by fevers. But before reaching the King, he will have to be well-known in the court of the countess de Blayac that is the waiting-room to the power, where the wittiness can build a career whereas a “ridiculous” can beak it for ever.
3rd March, Saturday (at 3.30pm in the Auditorium)
Film: Le Temps Retrouvé (Time Regained)
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Duration: 158mins
Starring: Catherine Deneuve
Emmanuelle Béart
John Malkovich
Vincent Perez
Marcello Mazzerella
The great French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed, looking at photographs that brings him memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Proust at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure- seeking Baron de Charlus, with his lover Albertine, and with all his
relatives. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. Time Regained is a fascinating exploration of he relationship between the writer and his
creations and a triumphant cinematic achievement.
3rd March, Saturday (at 6:30pm in the Auditorium)
Film: Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
Director: Satyajit Ray
Duration: 129mins
Starring: Sanjeev Kumar
Saeed Jaffrey
Shabana Azmi
Farida Jalal
Victor Bannerjee
Wazed Ali Shah is the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an
annexation. While pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, Ali Shah composes poems and listens to music, secluded in his palace. The court is of no help, as exemplified by nobles Mir and Mirza, who, ignoring the situation of their country and all their
duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless parties of chess.
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March 2nd, 2007
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