3 – 24 November 2009: Repertory Cinema
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Tuesday 3 November 8pm THE PIANO TEACHER Directed by Michael Haneke 2001 | France/Austria | 129 mins | Colour |
| To conclude our season on Michael Haneke we are delighted to present The Piano Teacher. Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother, with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire. |
| Venue: The Workingmen's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
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Tuesday 10 November 8pm LE CORBEAU (The Raven) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot 1942 | FRANCE | 90 mins | B&W |
| A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Made during the Nazi Occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the Liberation. But some-including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre-recognized the powerful subtext to Clouzot's anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable, and worked to rehabilitate Clouzot's directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures a spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. |
| Venue: The Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
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Tuesday 17 November 8pm LES DIABOLIQUES Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 | FRANCE | 116 mins | B&W |
| An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic is the story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the pool is drained, no corpse is found. |
| Venue: The Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members |
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Tuesday 24 November 8pm HISTORIES OF THE AVANT-GARDE PART II: GUY SHERWIN IN PERSON – SHORT FILMS SERIES + MAN WITH MIRROR |
| We are delighted to present this rare chance to see a large group of Guy Sherwin's interconnected 3 minute films as well as the wonderfully subtle Expanded Cinema performance of Man With Mirror followed by a Q&A with the artist. This ongoing and incredibly diverse series examines themes of Landscape, Auto-Biography, Portraiture and act as exquisite, controlled studies of light as well as demonstrations of a wide range of filming techniques. Click here to view the programme details |
| Venue: The Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB | Ticket: £7/£5 to Close-Up members |
