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RIVERSIDESTUDIOSCINEMA BLACK NARCISSUS DARATT SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER Double Bill CENTRAL STATION 15 7.00PM (Walter Salles, Brazil, 1998) 113m subtitles PLUS SHERRYBABY 15 9.15PM (Laurie Collyer, USA, 2006) 96m Please see Friday 14 September for synopses. SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER Afternoon – Powell and Pressburger Double Bill THE RED SHOES U 2.00PM (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948) 136m. With Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring The ballet world of the late 40s. An impresario discovers a dancer and makes her a slave to her art, until a young composer turns up to offer her a lifeline back to reality. PLUS BLACK NARCISSUS PG 4.35PM (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1947) 101m The story of the tensions amongst a group of Anglo-Catholic nuns in the Himalayas. An intensely stylised production and one of the most powerful melodramas in English cinema. 8 SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER Evening – Single Bill APOCALYPSE NOW – REDUX 15 7.00PM (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 2001) 202m. With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall Coppola’s extended reworking of his 1979 Vietnam film adds new scenes and a reworked sound mix. An American captain is sent up river on a mission to assassinate a renegade American colonel. This is filmmaking at the level of grand folly and extremely operatic in tone. MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER Double Bill THE US VS JOHN LENNON 12A 7.00PM (David Leaf/John Scheinfeld, USA, 2006) 90m documentary. With Yoko Ono, Walter Cronkite, Gore Vidal “The story of the real campaign to silence John Lennon by the FBI and Nixon’s government. The film justly celebrates Lennon’s bravery at this time and the wonderful music that came out of it.” – LONDON FILM FESTIVAL PLUS TAKING LIBERTIES 12A 8.50PM (Chris Atkins, UK, 2007) 105m documentary. Voices: David Morrissey, Ashley Jensen “British filmmaker Chris Atkins has tracked down a host of victims of the increased security measures introduced by New Labour, both preand post-9/11. Disturbing footage combines with amusing testimonies and commentary.” – ANNA SMITH, BBC TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER Double Bill GOODBYE LENIN! 15 6.00PM (Wolfgang Becker, Germany, 2003) 121m subtitles. With Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Maria Simon 1989. A staunch communist mother collapses with a heart attack and goes into a coma days before the Berlin Wall comes down. When she awakens eight months later the world has changed beyond recognition. PLUS THE LIVES OF OTHERS 15 8.20PM (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany, 2005) 137m subtitles. With Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch This year’s Oscar winning Best Foreign Film focuses on the system of observation in 1980’s German Democratic Republic. A secret service agent is instructed to observe a successful dramatist and his longtime companion. Over time he becomes increasingly fascinated WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER Mahamet Saleh Haroun Double Bill ABOUNA 15 7.00PM (Our Father) (Mahamet Saleh Haroun, Chad/France, 2002) 81m subtitles “What you need to know is that this is one of the year’s best films, from anywhere. Beginning with the unannounced departure of an errant father, Haroun’s second feature follows the boys’ efforts at making sense of their lives in his absence.” – TIME OUT PLUS DARATT PG 8.40PM (Dry Season) (Mahamet Saleh Haroun, Chad/France/Belgium/Austria, 2006) 95m subtitlesWith Abderamane Abakar, Ali Barkai, Khayar Oumar Defallah Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson, Atim, who is sixteen, to trace the man who murdered his father and kill him, but things don’t go according to plan. Highly recommended. THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 3RD UK BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL The 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival has the intention of exposing the value and importance of promoting Brazilian cinema and also to propitiate the cultural exchange between different nations. It brings a unique opportunity to watch unreleased films to recognise the huge potential in Brazilian cinema. The program will be composed of nine Brazilian films and will also pay tribute to the Portuguese community with a dedicated selection of Portuguese films.
BOX OFFICE 020 8237 1111 DRAINED MY VOICE 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill DRAINED 15 7.00PM (O Cheiro do Ralo) (Heitor Dhalia, Brazil, 2006) 112m subtitles A young pawnshop owner becomes obsessed with his office’s backedup drain and the derrière of a young waitress in this daring look at the perversity and madness found within us all. “Drained” gives a refreshing Brazilian spin on the traditional literary anti-hero as he browbeats customers, alienates friends and tests the limits of the acceptable. The film will be followed by a Q & A with actor Selton Melo. FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill ESTAMIRA 15 6.30PM (Marcos Prado, Brazil, 2004) 127m subtitles documentary This is a documentary about Estamira, a 63-year-old woman who's been working for over twenty years at a landfill in Rio de Janeiro. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she's the leader of a small community of old people living off garbage and has a very lyrical and philosophical attitude towards life. FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival- Single Bill THE CONCEPTION 15 9.00PM (A Concepcao) (Jose Belmonte, Brazil, 2005) 96m subtitles Three sons of diplomats live together in Brasilia inside an empty apartment with no parents, seemingly unaware of the world outside. However, X, a person with no name or past, arrives and suggests taking the idea of living every day as it was the last one. For that to happen he creates a new movement. SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill MY VOICE 15 3.00PM (Nha Fala) (Flora Gomes, Portugal, 2003) 110m subtitles A musical about Vita, a talented singer from Guinea Bissau, who leaves her family and unfaithful boyfriend behind to travel to Paris. A curse on Vita's family proclaims that its women shall not sing on pain of death. Vita falls for a French boy, Pierre, and eventually he convinces her to sing professionally. Instead of her demise, Vita finds enormous success and sets about devising a plan to rid her mother of her age-old fears. SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill STRAIGHT TO THE POINT 15 5.15PM (Onde a Coruja Dorme) (Marcia Derraike/Simplico Neto, Brazil, 2001) 70m subtitles documentary Bezerra is one of the greatest recording artists in Brazil, yet very few know the secret behind his success. Known as sambandido (gangsta samba) to his fans, the music of Bezerra da Silva exploded onto the Brazilian pagode scene during the 80s. SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill THE MACHINE 15 6.45PM (A Maquina) (Joao Falcao, Brazil, 2006) 90m subtitles Karina has two dreams – to become an actress and to see the world. However, Antonio, her lover, promises to bring the world to her and leaves for Rio de Janeiro. Whilst there, he participates in a sensationalist tv show and promises to travel fifty years into the future. SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill ALMOST BROTHERS 15 8.35PM (Quase dois Irmaos) (Lucia Murat, Brazil, 2004) 102m subtitles Recent Brazilian history provides the backdrop to this engaging feature spanning a 50-year period in the lives of two boys from different corners of Rio. Shot across three timelines, the 50s, the early 70s and the present, this is as much a portrait of a city marked by social schisms. SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill TEEN MOTHERS 15 3.00PM (As meninas) (Sandra Werneck, Brazil, 2006) 71m subtitles documentary On her 13th birthday, Evelin finds out that she is pregnant by her boyfriend, a 22-year-old who has just stopped working for the local drug dealers in Rocinha, a slum in Rio de Janeiro. SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 3rd UK Brazilian Film Festival - Single Bill FOR A BETTER DAY 15 4.30PM (Pro Dia Nascer Feliz) (Joao Jardim, Brazil, 2005) 88m subtitles documentary This documentary portrays the education system in Brazil and the clash between rich and poor. 9
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