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Fri 20 September, 8.15pm: Nostalghia

Fri 20 September, 8.15pm: Nostalghia

A film of stark symbols and mesmerizing long takes, Nostalghia’s nearly agonizing picture of personal loss is tempered by the painterly beauty of its compositions. Tarkovsky himself professed to be surprised at seeing how these images revealed "an exact reprint of my state of mind" during what was to be a permanent exile.
Sat 21 September, 4.30pm: Solaris

Sat 21 September, 4.30pm: Solaris

Mindful that a space odyssey might find better favor with the Soviet film authorities following Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky reshaped StanisÅ‚aw Lem’s metaphysical science-fiction novel to his own preoccupations with memory and sacrifice. A psychologist travels to a space station orbiting Solaris to explore rumors that the planet’s ocean may be a "thinking substance," materializing the astronauts’ memories.
Sat 21 September, 8pm: Stalker

Sat 21 September, 8pm: Stalker

Arguably Tarkovsky’s purest articulation of the film as spiritual quest, Stalker develops a radically different attitude to time than the jigsaw of his previous film, Mirror. "A perverse replay of Solaris’s cosmic voyage, a remake of Rublev in a secular world of postapocalyptic misery, a premonition of Chernobyl and Soviet disintegration." – J. Hoberman
Sun 22 September, 5.30pm: Black God, White Devil

Sun 22 September, 5.30pm: Black God, White Devil

Myth, mysticism, and revolution collide in a blistering existential western from Glauber Rocha, a pioneer of Brazil’s socially committed Cinema Novo movement. Suffused with antiauthoritarian fervour and the intensity of life in the desert, this landmark work of radical cinema is a scorched-earth allegory about mindless fanaticism and the allure of dead-end ideologies.
Sun 22 September, 8pm: The Sacrifice

Sun 22 September, 8pm: The Sacrifice

Tarkovsky’s final film is also one of his most overtly theatrical, a chamber drama drawn in characteristically virtuoso long takes. A philosopher celebrates his birthday by planting a tree with his young son on an otherwise barren landscape. Disgusted with modernity, he finds his calling after reports of an impending nuclear war, the reality of which remains occluded in dream.

Calendar

Sat 21 Sep 4:30pm
Solaris
Sat 21 Sep 8:00pm
Stalker
Sun 22 Sep 5:30pm
Black God, White Devil
Sun 22 Sep 8:00pm
The Sacrifice
Mon 23 Sep 8:15pm
Unrest
Thu 26 Sep 8:15pm
One Minute Volume Eleven
Fri 27 Sep 8:15pm
Nostalghia