CINENEWS
THANK YOU KIRSTEN CARTHEW FOR SCREENING HER WORK-IN-PROGRESS FILM AT CINEMUSE.
Everybody contributed and felt part of the development of the film. Looking forward to the next one!
THU April 7th - FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE - Boers at the End of the World. Directed by Richard Finn Gregory.
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THURSDAY - MARCH 17TH
7:30PM for 8PM
- hosted by BRYCE ANDERSON
BABETTE'S FEAST (1987)
DEN | 1987 | English | 102 minutes | NA
DIRECTED BY MIROSLAV JANEK, PAVEL KOUTECKY
The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel), the elderly daughters of the town's long-dead minister, take Babette in. As revealed in flashback, Philippa and Martina were once beautiful young women (played by Hanne Stensgaard and Vibeke Hastrup), who'd forsaken their chances at romance and fame, taking hollow refuge in religion. Babette holds a secret that may very well allow the older ladies to have a second chance at life. This is one of the great movies about food, but there are way too many surprises in Babette's Feast to allow us to reveal anything else at this point (except that Ingmar Bergman "regulars" Bibi Andersson and Jarl Kulle have significant cameo roles). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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MONDAY - APRIL 4TH
7:30PM for 8PM
- hosted by JOS KOETSIER
EDIPO RE (1967)
Italy | 1967 | English | 100 minutes | NA
DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Edipo Re is a highly personal screenplay adaption by Pasolini of the Greek drama by Sophocles. As his first colour feature, Edipo Re makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes, to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.
The film is divided into three sections set in different eras. The opening takes place in 1920s Italy, and recounts a birth that echoes that of the director himself, the product of beautiful bourgeoisie’s affair with a military officer. The mid section depicts a time ‘outside of history”. It is here that the myth of Oedipus plays outplays out as revealed in a prophecy foretelling that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother Jocasta. When the citizens of Thebe discover what Oedipus and Jocasta have done, Oedipus blinds himself and Jocasta commits suicide. An epilogue shot on the streets of present-day Bologna finds Oedipus playing his flute for a bustling citizenry
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