RIVERSIDESTUDIOSCINEMA WAITRESS COPYING BEETHOVEN CLAUDIA CARDINALE OPENING NIGHT 10
SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill LISBOETAS 15 6.30PM (Sergio Trefaut, Portugal, 2004) 105m subtitles documentary “Lisboetas” focuses on a new wave of immigrants from Brazil, Eastern Europe and Africa currently changing the face of a capital that used to be a point of departure and is now seen by many foreigners as a land of opportunity. SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill WOOD & STOCK – SEX, OREGANO AND ROCK AND ROLL 15 8.30PM (Otto Guerra, Brazil, 2005) 81m subtitles animation Wood and Stock are two old, fat hippies who lived in the flower power days and have never overcome them. But now they have families, rents to pay and a fast society to fit in. What are they going to do to face up this contemporary lifestyle – revive their band after thirty years! MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER Adrienne Shelly Double Bill FACTOTUM 15 6.45PM (Bent Hamer, Norway/USA/Germany, 2005) 94m. With Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Adrienne Shelly Bent Hamer’s film, inspired by Charles Bukowski’s work, captures the early life of the iconoclastic street poet with a strong performance by Matt Dillon. PLUS WAITRESS 12A 8.40PM (Adrienne Shelly, USA, 2007) 107m With Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines “Keri Russell stars as a diner waitress stuck in a lousy marriage whose only solace is baking out-ofthis-world pies. When an awkwardly charming new doctor (Fillion) comes to town she is inspired to mix-master her life into something far more satisfying.” FOX-SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER Paris Double Bill DELICATESSEN 15 6.45PM (Jean Pierre Jeunet/Marc Caro, France, 1990) 99m subtitles An absurd glimpse of a horrifying future replete with the delights of a music hall past. PLUS PARIS, JE T’AIME 15 8.45PM (Amongst others Alexander Payne/Alfonso Cuarón/Walter Salles, Paris, 2006) 120m subtitles With Steve Buscemi, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara Twenty filmmakers explore possibly the most cinematic of all cities – Paris, the city of love - underlining the atmospheres and lifestyles in the various neighbourhoods in their own style. WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER Double Bill THE PIANIST 18 6.00PM (Roman Polanski, Poland/France, 2002) 148m subtitles Based on a true story, the film recounts the experiences of Wladislaw Szpilman, a brilliant Jewish concert pianist in Poland during World War II. This extraordinary story of persecution, family tragedy and ultimately survival earned Polanski two Oscars. PLUS COPYING BEETHOVEN 12A 8.50PM (Agnieszka Holland, USA/Germany/Hungary, 2006) 104m. With Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach An imaginative exploration of Beethoven’s life in his final days working on the Ninth Symphony, drawing inspiration from the music itself. Directed by acclaimed Polish filmmaker Holland, the film is both thrilling and romantic. www.riversidestudios.co.uk THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER SIGNORE & SIGNORE: LEADING LADIES OF ITALIAN CINEMA An Italian Film Festival UK season dedicated to the best actresses of classic Italian cinema. From international superstars and sultry temptresses to fast-talking firebrands, Italian cinema has given us some of the greatest actresses ever to grace the silver screen. This retrospective covers a range of styles, encompassing the verbal fireworks of Anna Magnani, the innocence of Giulietta Masina and the beauty of Claudia Cardinale and Sophia Loren. In collaboration with Cinecitta’Holding, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Department, the Italian Cultural Institutes in Edinburgh and London and curated by Piera De Tassis from the book “Signore e Signore”. All films are in Italian with English subtitles and are screened as single bills. The season will continue throughout October. Single Bill – Claudia Cardinale THE GIRL WITH A SUITCASE 15 8.30PM (La ragazza con la valigia) (Valerio Zurlini, Italy, 1960) 103m subtitles. With Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Riccardo Garrone 16-year-old Lorenzo (Perrin) tries to make things right towards a showgirl Aida (Cardinale), whom his older brother has mistreated. He comes of age but is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects? Claudia Cardinale has been invited and it is hoped that she will be present at the screening. FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER John Cassavetes Weekend – Single Bill SHADOWS 12A 6.30PM (John Cassavetes, USA, 1959) 87m With Leila Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Hugh Hurd “Cassavetes hugely influential ‘improvisation’ centres on two brothers and a sister – black, but passing for white – leading a Bohemian life in New York. The electric atmosphere and edgily naturalistic performances combine with free-focus black and white camerawork and Charles Mingus’ bluesy score to evoke the jazzy soul of a city.’ – GEOFF ANDREW. Revived in a new print. FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER John Cassavetes Weekend – Single Bill OPENING NIGHT 15 8.20PM (John Cassavetes, USA, 1977) 144m With Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazarra, John Cassavates Gena Rowlands plays Myrtle Gordon, a Broadway star cast in a new play as a middle-aged woman of declining sexual power. Reluctant to accept her age and fearful that she will be typecast as an older woman, she is also haunted by visions of a dead girl – an adoring young fan killed in a car accident – whom she sees as a figment of her younger self. She begins to unravel. An overlooked masterpiece of the 1970s. Revived in a new print. SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER John Cassavetes Weekend – Single Bill A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE 15 2.30PM (John Cassavetes, USA, 1974) 155m “Construction worker Peter Falk finds his support for wife Gena Rowlands wearing thin as her behaviour becomes increasingly wayward. But who’s crazy here, and why? At once funny, emotionally draining and admirably ambivalent in its response to questions of health, happiness and normality, this was one of Cassavetes’ greatest successes.” – GEOFF ANDREW. Revived in a new print. 11
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