 1978
Screenings:
Mondays: Lincoln College
Tuesdays: A1, University
Wednesdays: Museum Theatre.
Thursdays: The Gallery, Akaroa
Films
March 13, 14, 15, 16
LE PELICAN
Director Gerard Blain (France 1974) An ex-prisoner's attempt to wrest his son from the care of his now re-married wife. Written acted and directed by Gerard Blain it concerns ambition, averiousarrives, money and privilege.
March 20, 21, 22, 23
TOUCHED IN THE HEAD (Les Doights Dans La Tete)
Director Jacques Doillon (France 1974) Reminiscent of the work of the early French New Wave. Three working class boys come under the spell of Liv, a Swedish girl, who changes their lives. Short: Secrets.
March 27, 28, 29, 30
ELEKTREIA
Director Miklos Jancso (Hungary 1975) A A reworking of the Greek drama in which Electra expresses the spirit of revolution. A brilliant statement on autocracy and the individual. Short: Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann).
April 3, 4, 5, 6
WRONG MOVEMENT (Falsche Bewegung)
Director Wim Wender (West Germany 1975) R16 Based on Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister'. A young writer sets out on a voyage of discovery where he finds loneliness, secret needs and dreams in others. A reflection of Germany's past and present. Short: Shanghaied (Chaplin). Note: The AGM of the Society will be held on Wednesday 5 April immediately before the screening of the feature.
April 10,11,12,13 .
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Quatre Nuits d'un Reveur)
Director Robert Bresson (France/Italy 1971) A solitary, romantic dreaming man befriends a distraught girl and falls hopelessly in love with her. After four days she returns to her lover and leaves the dreamer with only the memory for another dream. Short: Circadian Rythms (David Blyth NZ).
April 17,18,19,20
THE MORALS OF RUTH HALBFASS
Director Volker Schlondorff (West Germany 1972) Based on a real life crime. The glamorous wife of a rich industrialist plans with her art teacher lover to get rid of the husband and live together on his money. ' Short: So Sorry (Peter Bannan NZ). . .
April 24, 25, 26, 27 ,
BATTLE OF THE RAILS (La Bataille du Rail)
Director Rene Clement (France 1944) RFS A brutally neo-realist film of an episode in the French Resistance using many amateurs as well as professional actors. The atmosphere of the times is captured without too much false heroics. . Short: The Years Back (NZ in the Twenties).
May 1, 2, 3, 4
XALA
Director Ousmane Sembene (Senegal 1974) A gentle, angry fable about the rise and fall of a black middle class business man in a newly independent African state. The acting is wonderful, especially the women who show magisterial personality, social shrewdness and sexual pride.
May8,9, 10, 11
THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOOD CARVER STEINER (Die Grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner)
Director Werner Herzog (West Germany 1975) A bizarre study of a champion ski-jumper, a kind of gladiator of the air, made by commentator /interviewer/hero-worshipper/myth maker Herzog, cinema's holy fool. Short: Man and Woman (extract from the Taylor/Burton film Taming of the Shrew),
May 15, 16, 17, 18
LUDWIG - REQUIEM FOR A VIRGIN KING (Ludwig-Requiem Fur Binen Jungfraulichen Konig)
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg (West Germany 1972) R16 The first of a trilogy dealing with the cultural antecedents of the Third Reich. Short: Poems of CP Carafey (the work of David Hockney).
May 22, 23, 24, 25
FURTIVOS (Poachers)
Director Jose Luis Borau (Spain 1975) RFS A tough little film about the nasty things lurking in Spain's political woods. Made in the last year of Franco's regime it immediately ran into censorship troubles. Short: Les Derniers Hivers.
May 29, 30, 31 June 1
I AM CURIOUS - YELLOW
Director Vilgot Sjoman (Sweden 1967) RFS Eleven years for the NZ censor's office to pass this film, Lena is a modern Swedish woman who goes about looking forlor new answers to the social, political and sexual restrictions which seem to be stifling life for her. Short: Breaking the Habit.
June 5, 6, 7, 8
ROUGH DAY FOR THE QUEEN (Rude Journee Pour La Reine)
Director Rene Allio (France 1973) .
June 12. 13. 14. 15
THE TRAITORS
Directors Grupo Cine De La Base (Argentina 1973) RFS Political cinema at its finest. It tells the story of the political manipulations of a crooked union leader who has a wife. a mistress. a taste for high life and absolutely no scruples. Short: Violence. Just for Fun.
June 19. 20. 21. 22
L'ATALANTE and ZERO DE CONDUITE
Directors Jean Vigo (France 1934 and 1933) G Two classics by Vigo. the first a graceful story of a rogue who marries a peasant girl and takes her to Paris. the second about a French boy's boarding school and the problems of liberty versus authority
June 26. 27. 28. 29
SALESMAN Directors Albert and David Maysles (USA 1969) RFS A look at the American Dream where hope is a door to door sale (of Bibles in this case) and a sale of confirmation of existence itself. Short: The Fat and the Lean (Polanski)
July 3. 4. 5. 6
ANKUR (The Seedling)
Director Shyam Benegal (India 1974) RFS A film of wonderful visual quality which deals shrewdly and ironically with the social implications of arranged marriagrs and caste.
July 10.11.12.13
THE SUDDEN WEALTH OF THE POOR PEOPLE OF KOMBACH
Director Volker Schlondorff (West Germany 1971) RFS Set in 1821 it tells the true story of seven poor peasants who decide to alleviate their poverty by rime tax. Short: The Old ?? Gibson NZ) .
July 17.18. 19.20
THE GENERAL
Director Buster Keaton (USA 1926) G The hero is a little down by the Confederate army. Dismissed as a coward he accidentally penetrates the Unionist lines with both resus. Note: The film 1$ Short: Carmen
1 July 24, 25. . 2
THE THIRTY NINE STEPS
Director Alfred chcok (UK 1935) Hitchcoks most hearty English period. Even now the little jolts of this minor more song and satisfying than most of the shocks Slur. . Short: Night Mall '1936 by Harry Watt and Basil Wright)
July 31. August 1. 2.
THE BRUTALlSATION OF FRANZ BLUM
Director Reinhard Hauff (West Germany 1974) R18 A strong drama of A young man from a respectable family is drawn into crime and ruin. Short: A Differer L
August 7.8.9. 10
PURGATORIO
Director Michael Meschke (Sweden 1974) The emerging 0f a aged wrrter from the world around him. Music by Pink Short: La Taranata August 14.15.16.17 DER GOLEM
Director Paul Wegener (Germany 1920) Black magic of the Ages in Prague. Sorcery. astrology. legend. superstition. Warning: This film 1$ and runs 2', hours. Short: Double Whoooee
August 21. 22. 23. 24
LES BONNES FEMMES
Director Claude Chabrol (F rance / Italy 1959) The life and pleasures of four Parisian salesgirls in work and play. One thinks she has found true love but her boylriend is not all she expects. Short: Bip at a Society Party (Marcel Marcean) Note: Screening on Tuesday 22 will be held in S4. not A1.
August 28. 29. 30. 31
LlNA BRAAKE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE BANK
Director Bernhard Sinkel (Germany 1975) An old lady is forced to leave her flat and enter an old people's home. She finds a way to swindle the bank and buy a home in Sardinia which the bank is unable to repossess. Short: of Cats and Men (Disney).
September 4. 5. 6. 7
CHINATOWN
Director Roman Polanski (USA 1974) Not only a district in Los Angeles but a state of mind. Jack Nicholson brings his personal interpretation to the part of a private eye. Polanski brings atmosphere darker than that created by most American
Directors of the genre. Short: Medieaval England.
September 11, 12, 13, 14
THE WOMEN
Director George Cukor (USA 1939) Fontain. Short: Martre.
September 17 Sunday afternoon only. 2.00. Special screening at the Arts Centre Academy Cinema.
JULES ET JIM (Cinemascope)
Director Francoise Truffaus (France 1961) Jules-Oscar Werner and Jim-Henri Serre meet Catherlne-Jeanne Moreau. The film has become a classic. Short: Matisse, a Sort of Paradise.
September 18, 19,20,21
TWO DAUGHTERS
Director Satyajit Ray (India 1961) Two stories. In the first a young man from the city goes to work in a small village and is 'adopted' by a 10-year-old orphan. In the second a man rejects a bride of his parent's choice and marries elsewhere with surprising results. Short: Chapel of Ronchamp (LeCorbusier).
September 25, 26, 27, 28
EARTH (Zemlya)
Director Alexander Dovzhenko (USSR 1930) A Ukranian village in 1924, a period of economic transformation and mental adjustments by the people. Short: Road to the Circus Arena.
October 2, 3, 4, 5
PAULINA 1880
Director Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (France 1971) R18 In 1880 Paullna Pandolfini killed her lover Count Michele Cantarlni. Bertuccelli provides us with the principle episodes of Paulina's life which led up to the murder. Short: A Maller of Conscience.
October9, 10, 11, 12
PROJECTION PRIVEE (Private Screening)
Director Francois Leterrier (France 1974) A film
Director plans to make a film about a true event In his own life. Marthe, his mistress. died soon after he had left her. Was II suicide or accident? Short: A Christmas Carol.
Censorship classifications: RFS. Restricted to Film Society members only. (R (age). Restricted to stated ages. A. Approved for general exhibItIon but suggested suitable for adults. Y. Approved for general exhibition but suggested sultable for 13 and over. G. Approved for general exhib,tlon
SPECIAL SCREENING
SUNDAY 16 JULY, ACADEMY CINEMA 2.30
The Canterbury Film Society presents a special screening of
A STATE OF SIEGE
1978 Colour 50 minutes
Based on the novel by Janet Frame
Adapted by Timothy White and Vincent Ward
Director Vincent Ward,
Producer Timothy White,
Photographer Alun Bollinger
Editor Chris King,
Music John Cousins.
"The story of Malfred Signal, played by Anne Flannery, whose life was dedicated to nursing her dying mother and instructing generations of young school girls in the art of drawing. With the death of her mother Manfred feels free to break away and begin life anew.
It is the story of her search for a personal identity."
THE FILM MAKERS
Timothy White was an Honours student last year and Vincent Ward this year in the film course at the University of Canterbury, "A State of Siege" was a joint examination submission. Both are members of Film Society. Tim White is Vice-President. The film was supported financially by the Film Commission, the Arts Council and by the Department of Education.
It is a beautiful film and the Film Society enthusiastically recommends it to you.
Timothy White's film "The Last Segregation". on problems of old age, and Vincent Ward's "Mrs Olsen may also be seen on TV1' s "Scene" Series on July 24 and July 31. |