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Thu 28 August, 8.15pm: Brief Encounters
Shelved for 20 years by Soviet censors, Muratova’s first solo feature contains the building blocks of her experimental style including the use of flashbacks, a lack of clear or conventional narrative, montages of still photographs and audio discontinuities.
Fri 29 August, 8.15pm: Dreams
The eight episodes of this lyrical, painterly film depict a number of dreams that are vaguely intended to reflect the life and abiding obsessions of its director. In these stories of spirits, both ancient and modern, Kurosawa takes care to hint at his meanings rather than make them overtly manifest.
Sat 30 August, 6pm: Killer's Kiss
Written, edited, shot, produced and directed by Kubrick for a mere $75,000, his second feature is a moody thriller shot on location in the streets of New York, effectively capturing the dark underbelly of the city at night.
Sat 30 August, 8pm: Mandabi
Shot primarily in Wolof, this second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first ever made in an African language. One of Sembène’s most coruscatingly funny and indignant films, Mandabi is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed, and poverty.
Sun 31 August, 6pm: Brief Encounters
Shelved for 20 years by Soviet censors, Muratova’s first solo feature contains the building blocks of her experimental style including the use of flashbacks, a lack of clear or conventional narrative, montages of still photographs and audio discontinuities.
Sun 31 August, 8pm: Lillian Gish
A rarely seen directorial work by legendary French actor Jeanne Moreau, this film is a cinematic dialogue with another iconic performer from a different era and country: Lillian Gish, famously known as the “First Lady of the Silent Screen.”
Calendar
Thu 28 Aug 8:15pm
Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters
Fri 29 Aug 8:15pm
Dreams
Dreams
Sat 30 Aug 6:00pm
Killer's Kiss
Killer's Kiss
Sat 30 Aug 8:00pm
Mandabi
Mandabi
Sun 31 Aug 6:00pm
Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters
Sun 31 Aug 8:00pm
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Thu 04 Sep 8:15pm
Close-Up
Close-Up
