[Event/Film] BFS Cinema,Coffee,Conversations #4

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

FYI

--arky 

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Cinema, Coffee, Conversations    Edition #4  


Bangalore Film Society (BFS) presents four movies from
across the 
globe, each one a masterwork, each one a piece of
cinema, the kind 
you've rarely seen before.

Saturday, April 8, 2006.                       Timing:
3.30 pm

Man on the Train (France) (91 mins)           Dir:
Patrice Leconte

Acclaimed director Leconte's refreshing, witty spin on
the western 
genre follows the unexpected friendship that strikes
up between two 
old timers- one, a mysterious, grizzled bank robber
and the other a 
gregarious retired French teacher. A simple fable of
loss, regret, 
fate, friendship and the passage of time, the movie
gathered Best 
Film and Best Actor trophies at the 2003 Venice Film
Festival.

Saturday, April 8, 2006                         
Timing: 6.00 pm
 
Coffee and Cigarettes (USA)  (89 mins)         Dir:
Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch, the master of the absurd, comes out with
his most 
absurd offering yet. A series of 11 short, comic
vignettes shot over 
a period of 11 years with an eclectic, all-star cast
is a beautiful, 
heartfelt and crazy eulogy to the world's favorite
addictions* 
coffee and cigarettes. 

Sunday, April 9, 2006                            
Timing: 3.30 pm
 
The Eel  (Japan)  (113 mins)                 Dir:
Shohei Imamura

A movie like none other- a constantly surprising,
genre shifting, 
darkly humorous, always unique and brilliant
meditation on guilt and 
jealousy. The film follows the protagonist's strange
quest for 
redemption after murdering his cheating wife in a fit
of jealous 
rage. It won the Palm d'Or at the 97' Cannes Film
Festival making 
Imamura only the third director to win the prestigious
award twice.

Sunday, April 9, 2006                          
Timing: 6.00 pm
 
Close Up   (Iran)(98 mins)                 Dir: Abbas
Kiarostami

Hailed as the definitive film-on-film experience, the
movie is a one-
of *a-kind documentary, which blends fact and fiction
as it 
chronicles a cinephile's attempt at impersonation, to
literally turn 
into the filmmaker he admires- Mohsen Makhmalbaf. 

Admission Free.

Date and Time: 8th April, 2006: Man on the Train- 3.30
pm Coffee and 
Cigarettes- 6.00 pm

9th April, 2006: The Eel- 3.30 pm. Close Up- 6.00 pm 

Venue: No. 33/1-9, Thyagaraj Layout,

            Jaibharath Nagar, MS Nagar PO,

            Bangalore- 560033.

Tel: 25492774/ 25492779 

Mob: 9886213516  

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