7 – 28 January 2008: Repertory Cinema
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Monday 7th January 9pm WOMAN OF THE DUNES (Suna No Onna) Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964 | Japan | 141 mins Venue: Café 1001 | Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| Hiroshi Teshigahara's fable Woman Of The Dunes (based on the novel by existentialist writer Kobo Abe), remains as mystifying, serene and provoking as when it was first released. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1964 the film combines an extremely erotic drama with a terrifically gripping thriller. It is also a work of great visual inventiveness and beauty featuring startling high-contrast black and white photography from Hiroshi Segawa and a minimalist score by Toru Takemitsu. |
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Monday 14th January 9pm LES VACANCES DE Mr. HULOT Directed by Jacques Tati 1953 | France | 84 mins Venue: Café 1001 | Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| The film that brought Tati international acclaim also launched his on-screen alter ego: the courteous, well-meaning, eternally accident-prone and much loved Monsieur Hulot. Les Vacances De Mr. Hulot is set in a sleepy French coastal resort which is seasonally disrupted by fun-loving holidaymakers. At the centre of the chaos is the eccentric Hulot, struggling at all times to maintain appearances, but somehow entirely divorced from his immediate surroundings. There is virtually no plot – the film is a series of incidents, a seamless succession of gently mocking studies of human absurdity. |
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Monday 21 January 9pm THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER Directed by Tony Richardson 1962 | UK | 104 mins Venue: Café 1001 | Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| Tom Courtenay, in his debut role, plays Colin Smith, a juvenile delinquent sentenced to a Borstal for burglary. Sullen and antisocial, he finds freedom in the solitude of cross-country running. When his sporting prowess catches the eye of the smug governor (Michael Redgrave) he is coached to compete in a race against a local public school. The governor dreams of sporting glory, but Colin dreams of revenge. Out of the screenplay by Alan Sillitoe, based on his own story, director Tony Richardson created one of the most powerful dramas of the 1960s. |
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Monday 28th January 9pm 8½ (Otto E Mezzo) Directed by Federico Fellini 1963 | Italy | 138 mins Venue: Café 1001 | Ticket Price: £3/£2 members |
| Federico Fellini's 8½ turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose film-and life-is collapsing around him. As Guido struggles half-heartedly to work on the film, a series of flashbacks and dreams delve into his memories and fantasies; they are frequently interwoven and confused with reality. 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film-8½ is one of the greatest films about film ever made and one of the most written about, talked about and imitated movies of all time. |
