July 2006 Programme:
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Dir: Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
- Monday, July 3
Perennial unlucky tough-guy Warren Oates plays a washed-up piano player-cum-“headhunter”. Set in Mexico, this sweat-drenched, fly-blown, blood-spattered, idiosyncratic and operatic road movie was a huge influence on Tommy Lee Jones’ recent “The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada”.
SVS (Dir: Adam Spellicy, 2006)
- Monday, July 10
Documents the performance of a 40-minute improvised piece by drone-rock duo Second Viennese School. Musical echoes of Suicide and The Velvet Underground are coupled with a visual aesthetic that pays homage to 60s cinema icons Jean-Luc Godard and Factory-era Andy Warhol. NOTE: This premiere screening will be followed by an exclusive performance by the Second Viennese School.
THE BIG HEAT (Dir: Fritz Lang, 1953)œ
- Monday July 17
Stripped back, lean-and-mean policier, with Glenn Ford as a stand-up cop surrounded by corruption on all sides and in danger of succumbing to his own dark impulse for revenge. Striking, sharp dialogue and direction, with brilliant supporting performances by Lee Marvin and the great Gloria Grahame.
BAND A PARTE (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
- Monday, July 24
One of Godard’s most playful, casually inventive and enjoyable films. A meandering portrait of Parisian youth meets B-Hollywood heist picture, this is a movie of “moments”; the Madison dance scene, Anna Karina’s eyes, the high-speed tour of the Louvre, a minute’s silence, the death of Billy The Kid, etc. Punk, fresh and truly inspirational.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (Dir: George Roy Hill, 1972)
- Monday, July 31
Interesting, adventurous screen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s modern classic novel. Billy Pilgrim’s temporally-dislocated optometrist careens back and forth from his experiences a WW2 prisoner surviving the firebombing of Dresden, to his adventures as a kidnapped “zoo exhibit” on the planet Tralfamadore. Wiggy.
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