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Performance Screenings Live from the Met: Giulio Cesare Manet: Portraying Life Thu 11 April, 19:00 This acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts is the first ever major exhibition in the UK devoted to the portraiture of Edouard Manet. Spanning the entire career of this enigmatic, sometimes controversial artist, Manet: Portraying Life brings together great works from across Europe, Asia and the USA. The exhibition consists of more than 50 works; including masterpices like Music in the Tuileries, Olympia, Luncheon on the Grass and The Railway. Also featured are portraits of Manet’s most frequent sitter, his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, luminaries of the period and scenes from everyday life revealing Manet’s forwardthinking, modern approach to portraiture. Host Tim Marlow, along with expert guests, will explore the exhibition and reveal exclusive behind-the-scenes moments from the run-up to the show. This footage will be interweaved with a detailed, superbly crafted biography of Manet and 19th century Paris. Approximate running time: 2h 16 www.dca.org.uk Sat 27 April, 17:00 Manet: Portraying Life £12 (£10 under 15s) Met Opera £20 (£10 under 21s) David McVicar’s second new production of the season is this dynamic staging of Giulio Cesare, a hit at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2005, which incorporates elements of Baroque theatre and 19th century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s themes of love, war and empire building. “Giulio Cesare is a kaleidoscope of an opera – a semicomic, semi-tragic adventure story. You get romance, you get drama, you get moments of political wheeling-anddealing, complex family relationships – as well as real emotion and tragedy,” McVicar says. “It’s a miracle, and it has enabled me to express everything I feel is important about opera.” David Daniels stars as the title character, opposite Natalie Dessay in her Met role debut as the bewitching Cleopatra, Alice Coote as Sesto, Patricia Bardon as Cornelia, Christophe Dumaux as Tolomeo, and Guido Loconsolo in his Met debut as Achilla. Approximate running time: 4h45m New Live from the Met Season Announced From timeless classics of the romantic repertoire to fairytale adventures and a satirical story about literally cutting off your nose to spite your face, the 2013–14 season of Live from the Met promises to be another glittering showcase of world-class opera. Starting in October with a new production of Russian classic Eugene Onegin by acclaimed director Deborah Warner, the ten performances include a chance to see an innovative production of Shostakovich’s The Nose; Renée Fleming in Rusalka, one of her greatest roles; a new production of Werther by British director Richard Eyre starring Jonas Kauffman; and Franco Zefirelli’s much-loved production of La Boheme. Tickets for the season will go on sale in April; keep an eye on our website for news and updates.
Vintage film The Gospel According to St. Matthew Il vangelo secondo Matteo Sun 31 March, 15:00 Pasolini remains one of the most controversial figures in post-war Italian culture, and an artist of fascinating contradictions. He was a Marxist atheist who was thrown out of the Communist party and attacked more than once by the Catholic Church. Yet he is also responsible for The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which even the Vatican has named the greatest of all films about Christ. Shooting on location in Southern Italy, using nonprofessional actors and eschewing special effects, Pasolini strips the story down to its essentials, avoids the false piety of Hollywood biblical epics, and presents Christ as an angry, revolutionary figure. But this is also a film about 2,000 years of artistic representations of Christ, and it is saturated in references to religious paintings, from Giotto to Georges Rouault, and features a stunning score of spiritual music, from Bach to African-American spirituals. One of the great achievements of Italian film. Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy / France 1964 / 2h17m / Digital / PG Italian with English subtitles Point Blank Sun 14 April, 16:00 It is hard to imagine that Point Blank was dismissed by many upon its initial release as a straightforward crime film. The story – which was later filmed as Payback and the upcoming Jason Statham vehicle, Parker – is admittedly the stuff of hardboiled pulp: a thief is double crossed and left to die but returns to regain his lost money. However, the telling of the tale is anything but conventional. Director John Boorman presents us with a kind of surreal dream (with hints that the protagonist may in fact be dead), complete with experimental use of flashbacks, extraordinary sets and otherworldly LA locations. And then there is Lee Marvin’s monumental central performance, which neither Mel Gibson or the Stath can come within a million miles of replicating. There’s no doubt about it: Point Blank is a masterpiece. Dir: John Boorman USA 1967 / 1h34m / 35mm / 15 Theorum Sat 20 April, 15:30 The dark flip-side to The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Theorum sees Terrence Stamp on tremendous form as a messianic (or demonic) figure who mysteriously ingratiates himself with a wealthy Italian family, seduces everyone under the roof and then leaves as quickly as he came. Pasolini was a uniquely divisive filmmaker and this sees him at his most provocative. The film was derided in some circles as blasphemous, while others have viewed it as a highly moral commentary on the decadence of the 1960s. Similarly, some have seen the film as being wilfully obscure and even incomprehensible; yet the film, with its often surreal imagery, was also embraced by the hippy generation as a prime example of expanded consciousness cinema. However you read it, Pasolini’s allegorical fable remains a uniquely strange and enigmatic experience, but it is never less than compelling, and it will leave you thinking about it for days. Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy 1968 / 1h45m / Digital / 15 English and Italian with English subtitles Tickets 01382 909 900 17
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