take 46: 4.9.2013

PAIN(TING)

A Night with Dario Argento and ?

20h30, Italy 1996, 120 min. english subs

Poster Art by malleus

Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. The problem is that she suffers from "Stendhal's syndrome", a psychosomatic disease that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when she is exposed to the sight of paintings and artistic masterpieces. When the maniac lures her into a trap inside Florence's famous Uffizi museum, her troubles are just beginning...

 

The plot of this movie is hard to describe and equal parts intriguing and unpleasant. As with all Argento's thrillers, the plot is exciting and fun to guess, but it's more of a psychological drama than a crime story. Anna is almost always changing as the film progresses, both externally and internally; she starts off not knowing who she is, then she discovers who she was, remodels herself into someone else and ends up as confused as we are. Asia Argento (Dario's daughter with actress Daria Nicolodi) is iconic in the role, which is almost impossible to play – extremely physical, enigmatic and chameleon-like. She looks astonishingly like her father and she shares his artistic courage to dive into the darkest and most personal recesses of the psyche. My favourite aspect of this picture is her relationship with the many paintings – to her, they are living canvases, with characters who cry, scream and bleed (realised through excellent visual effects work by Sergio Stivaletti). The wordless opening seven minutes as she wanders through the Uffizi and her vision is assailed by the images, culminating with her literally falling into one of the paintings, is as bewitching an opening as I've ever seen, made all the more unsettling by Ennio Morricone's stunning score, featuring a hair-curling simple melody of eight minor notes. Argento's films are an acquired taste; this one features a lengthy rape and torture sequence in the middle which is hard to sit through (though not as hard as say, Frenzy or Straw Dogs), but as with all his work the film is somehow stunningly beautiful. Violence equals art. In a world of banal formulaic television designed for peons with four-second attention-spans, this is stunning cinema, regardless of moral judgements. The Stendhal Syndrome is a real psychosomatic illness, diagnosed by an Italian psychiatrist, Graziella Magherini, whose book on the subject was the primer for the intriguing script by Argento and Franco Ferrini. Shot in Rome, Florence and Viterbo. 

     

take 45: 21.8.2013

                                                                                   

Outside of Europe

Door open 20h

20h30, 1988, 60min. english

 Popol Vuh, the creation myth of the Maya, animated in 1988 from paintings on pottery. Produced by Patricia Amlin.

 

        

21h30, Cameroon 2005, 92min, english subs

Two streetwise women are sent on a strange odyssey through a decaying society in this offbeat sci-fi comedy, set in a fictional African nation in the year 2025. Majolie (Adèle Ado) is an ambitious prostitute whose clients include a handful of prominent politicians, and one evening's assignment with the secretary general of the Civil Cabinet (Balthazar Amadagoleda) becomes problematic when he dies in flagrante delicto. Needing to get rid of the body, and fast, Majolie calls on her best friend, Chouchou (Dorylia Calmel), for help. Disposing of the secretary general's remains sends Majolie and Chouchou on a strange ride through the sordid underbelly of the city as they discover a variety of people looking for a way to turn the streetwalker's poor fortune to their advantage, including a crooked politician, a Machiavellian taxi driver, a handful of street people, and an underground society of covertly powerful women.

14.8.2013 NO SHOW.

take 44: 7.8.2013

NONSENSE!!!

Door opens 20h

20h30 USA, english no subs

 

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL

VOLUME 6

the strangest vhs from usa 

 

 

22h: Usa 1971, english no subs

Steve Martin's favorite 70'ies Comedy!

The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.

 

take 43: 25.7.2013

Journey to another place

A Hot Summer Night in Science fiction 

Doors open 20h

Programm start 20h30

Programm

 

take 42: 17.7.2013

YUGO FLASH!!!

Doors open 20h

Shorts from 20h10-21h and after the mainfeature

 

A Night with very rare Zagreb Animations and the AMAZING

 21h, Macedonoia 1998, 80min. english subs

This was planned to be the first movie of Kino Anders (watch take 01, but i didn't found it). So what to say about it? A

MUST SEE 4of4 Stars MASTERPIECE

and for sure the most violent film ever received a peace award.

 "Goodbye 20th Century" is a unique, surreal and visionary film that's divided into three parts. The film's three stories take place in the future, past and the end of the twentieth century. Some parts reminded me of El Topo. Imagine, if you will, Road Warrior and Christmas Evil filmed by Kusterica and Jodorowsky. 

 

  Be ready for tomorrow!

  Kino Anders will be the BLAST!!!