take21: 30.1.2013

NUCLEAR WORLDS

Doors open: 20h15

starts 20h30, Soviet Union 1986, 83min. with english subtitles

 

Widely regarded as one of the best 10 postapacalyptic movies ever.

Deeply disturbing and depressive ... The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit still sees somewhere the dim light of a new and better future. The next generation starts the walk towards a new life...

         "This is quite an obscure picture, even by Russian standards... It is dark (literally), morbid, disturbing at times... It requires quite an effort to watch. But it is one of those quite numerous Russian films that leave a deepest impression on the viewers by making them THINK. It is one of those brilliant "what if.." ponderings, never really giving you a final answer, or even if suggesting anything, leaving it open for the viewers to make their own conclusions. Perfectly cast (faces DO match the setting!), perfectly performed, and even the "special effects". imdb

 

 

 

 starts 22h, Japan 1982, 106 min. with english subtitles

Burst City is set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, where a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest the construction of a nuclear power plant. Riot police and the factory owner's yakuza friends soon move in to break it up. However, the arrival of a pair of mysterious, metal-clad bikers and a revolt among the disgruntled construction crew makes for a situation that spirals dangerously out of control...

Directed by Sogo Ishii (Electric Dragon 80,000V, Gojoe, Angel Dust), Burst City boasts an impressive lineup of early 80's Japanese punk bands, including The Stalin, Battle Rockers, The Roosters, and Inu. An eclectic mix of Mad Max-style imagery with yakuza elements, filtered through a punk sensibility, Burst City reveals the seeds of many of the developments in contemporary Japanese cinema and beyond. Brimming with incredible energy and first-rate rock 'n' roll, Burst City is a lost masterpiece of extreme cinema that has influenced everyone from Takashi Miike to Shinya Tsukamoto.

take20: 23.1.2013

SPANISH FLY CULT

Doors open: 20h

20h15, Spain 1980, 110min. english subtitles

     

"Completed in 1979, ARREBATO is probably the most famous Spanish cult film of all time.  It’s been largely inaccessible in the years since its extremely limited original release and so has developed quite a mystique..."
 

Synopsis:
Jose is a filmmaker putting the finishing touches on his latest production, a schlocky vampire picture.  Feeling supremely dissatisfied with his vocation and heroin addicted girlfriend Ana, he arrives back at his apartment to discover a package from his friend Pedro.  It contains a reel of super 8mm film, an audiotape and a key to Pedro’s apartment.

Flashbacks show how these two men, both of whom share an extraordinary passion for filmmaking, met at Pedro’s family home where Jose was location scouting.  Pedro, who’s never without his super 8mm camera, believes life is only worth anything if it’s caught on film.  Furthermore, he’s tapped a hidden power inherent in film images that causes him to experience a mystical state of “Arrebato,” or rapture.  Before long Pedro becomes addicted to this sensation, eventually cutting himself off from the outside world and devoting his life to filming himself in bed.  His camera in turn grows increasingly powerful as it saps more and more of Pedro’s life force, eventually developing the capacity to turn itself on and off and, more alarmingly, literally erase objects—and, inevitably, people—from existence

 The Story:
A Spanish architect interested in movies decided to help Zulueta financially. The planning was a 15-day filming. However, it was shot in real interiors owned by Zulueta and other friends, like Jaime Chavarri; and most of collaborators used drugs like heroin, that drove the planning and the budget to be highly increased. Pedro Almodóvar dubbed one of the female characters, but he was not credited. The relationship between the director and the producer was poorly damaged. Moreover, the film had a lot of problems to be commercially released due to its experimental and underground style; even though the dictatorship had fallen through. It was finally released in 1980. Ivan Zulueta was labeled as a problematic auteur and Arrebato became a cult movie.

22h, Spain 1983, 90 min.  spanish with english subtitles

 

In a barren land, a women-only tribe known as the Selenians rule. They are in war with the Tazaris, evil men. Ancient law has it that Tazaris are cursed and the Selenians cannot enter their land, but they can. Likewise, there's another tribe, the Senkas, who are barred by the Selenians from exiting their village and have no clue what's going on outside their land. There's a chosen Senka who aids the Selenians, but this chosen one is murdered... and his brother sneaks out of Senka territory for revenge.

Tunka is one of these soo bad that's good movies. A trash favorite of Kino Anders. Psychadelic view through the whole movie, ridiculous dialogues, worst actors and it's a about Barbarians. So for what are you waiting for?

take19: 16.1.12

The Electronica Edition

Thursday Nam Yun Paiks' "Internet Dream" will be exposed @ Haus der elektronischen Künste. Enough reason to show you this UNBELIEVABLE RARITY plus more of THE MOST IMPORTANT movies for electronic music. Yes it's SURPRISE NIGHT, so don't be a fool JOIN the COOL.  Stop Hit'n'Run Culture, Kino Anders.

Doors open: 20h

Film Start: 20h15

 

  

Mario Adorf, The Real Godfather!!!

Mario Adorf still regrets that he refused parts in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961). He also turned down the role of General Mapache in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), because he felt the character was too violent.

Kino Anders proudly presents the legend Mario Adorf in a comedy and in a gangster movie.

Doors open: 20h

20h15: Germany 1966, 90min, german no subs

 

  Ein aus dem Zuchthaus entlassener Geldschrankknacker wird durch seine Braut, eine Prostituierte, in einen Berliner "Sparverein" aufgenommen. Da er seine Aufgabe als Zuhälter nicht erfüllt und sich mit dem Vereinsvorstand zerstreitet, soll er umgebracht werden.

Das Urteil der Cineasten zu "Ganovenehre": aufregend, packend und spannend. In "Ganovenehre" gibt’s ein Wiedersehn mit Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf und Curt Bois. Die Darsteller werden von Wolfgang Staudte optimal geführt. "Ganovenehre" ist dank Script von Curth Flatow, Hans Wilhelm und Charles Rudolph eine gelungene Story. Die Filmredakteure sagen zu "Ganovenehre": "Eine Unter- und Halbweltkomödie, die ihren Humor vor allem aus der Umkehrung und Spiegelung bürgerlicher Anstandsregeln bezieht." (Lexikon des Internationalen Films).

Sehr kurzweilig ist der 94 minütige aufregende Kino-Film für Krimi -Fans. Zugang zum Streifen: ab 18 Jahren .

 

          

22h: Italy 1972, 100min. italian with english subs

  Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture...

 No less than Quentin Tarantino referred to "Milano Calibro .9" as the absolute greatest Italian film-noir ever made, and who the hell are we to question that statement? This truly is one of the most grippingly fascinating and shockingly straightforward crime portraits ever filmed and I wouldn't hesitate for one second to call it a genuine masterpiece of cult cinema.

 Even without all the political involvement, "Milano Calibro .9" is a phenomenal film, with non-stop suspense, rough action, realistic character drawings and head-spinning dialogs. The intro alone is fantastic, as more action and brutal violence occurs in ten minutes than most Hollywood movies have to offer throughout the entire playtime. I hate to give away too much about the convoluted plot, but I can assure it contains all the necessary ingredients: treason, vengeance among criminals, strip bars, executions, corrupt coppers and the ongoing search for a stolen loot of $ 300.000! The atmosphere in this film is continuously gritty and ominous, because literally no one can be trusted and any character risks to get shot in the back at any given moment. Di Leo brilliantly uses Milan as the location for all the mayhem, and the city inexplicably plays one of the most important roles in the story, because it forms the home of the economic crisis, high level of delinquency and police forces reluctant to alter their methods of crime-fighting. 

The Sountrack is just a bomb! Listen.

Artisten-Orje (Mario Adorf) kommt frisch aus dem Knast. Seine Geliebte, die Hure Nelly (Karin Baal), bringt ihn als Zuhälter im Sparverein Biene unter. Doch als der Hallodri mit Puffmutti Olga anbandelt und Vereinsvorstand Paul (Gert Fröbe) verärgert, ist sein Schicksal besiegelt… Wolfgang Staudte verlegt die "honorige" Geschäftswelt in die Unterwelt - leider mit mehr Klamauk als mit Satire.

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