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Buñuel and Rivette screenings in November, and Chantal exhibition continues
Luis Buñuel
Abismos de pasión
(Wuthering Heights, 1953)
A Nos Amours is delighted to present Buñuel's rarely presented tale of
violence, passion and necrophilia as part of the ICA season dedicated to
Bunuel's work: Aesthetics of the Irrational
Tuesday 17th November, 18.45hrs
ICA Cinema
booking via ICA website
Buñuel had adapted Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as early as 1931 – before he
won international fame for Los Olvidados and Él. He wrote the adaptation
with Pierre Unik – his collaborator on the screenplay for Las Hurdes.
Brontë’s intensely melodramatic tale of passion and desire, mingled with
themes of aristocratic bad blood and the opposing of instinct and culture,
violence and domesticity, must have greatly appealed to former
surrealists, avowed communists, and in Buñuel’s case, to a brilliant
satirist.
Moreover – this film was a perfect fit for a very Mexican love of high
drama and hysteria, murderous confrontation and amour fou.
What does the film deliver? Buñuel in Mexico was a disciplined and
adaptable director. He could make do and cut his cloth. He was known to
make of use only 125 shots, and maximum of two takes, in order to deliver
a feature film. His shoots tended to wrap ahead of schedule. Such brisk
‘B’ movie approaches define something of the style and manner of much of
his Mexican films: they are works of brio and velocity.
The film opens with gunfire, and ends with gunfire. The landscape dwarfs
the human, tragedy is unstoppable. In Mexico, where the dead are treated
as absent friends, the necrophilia hinted at by Brontë need not be
concealed.
In what other cinema than that of Buñuel and that of Mexico might love be
fulfilled with the tender unveiling and kissing of a corpse?
Starring: Irasema Dilián & Jorge Mistral
91 minutes
Spanish, with English subtitles
Screening from the best vaiable copy, likley to be video
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Jacques Rivette
Out1
We are delighted to present (in collaboration with The Badlands
Collective) a very rare and wonderful opportunity to see Jacques Rivette’s
longest work – Out1 – a magnum opus if ever there was one, running at 773
minutes - just under 13 hours.
Please note - the cinema has asked that a minimum number of tickets must
be sold for this to go ahead.
One ticket buys two solid days of film.
1st half – Saturday 28 November, 09:00 - 17:15hrs
2nd half – Sunday 29 November, 09:30 - 17:15hrs
Prince Charles Cinema
booking via Prince Charles Cinema
Out1 has been very rarely screened because there was no English subtitled
copy made and so any screening had to be done with live subtitling –
daunting and, of course, prohibitively expensive for most venues. Rivette
made a cut down version for film festivals, but the full version is what
cinephiles know about, have read about, and want to have seen.
With this new restoration and the fresh subtitling that longing can at
last be satisfied. But this will not be a daunting experience, because
Out1 is a delightful, playful, story-filled adventure – teaming with
richly drawn characters and ticklish eccentricity. Taking a Balzac
pot-boiler about a secret society (Histoires de treize - Stories of the
Thirteen) and Lewis Caroll’s The Hunting of the Snark as a large scale
maps, Rivette and his cast fill in the landscape with infinite variety.
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Chantal Akerman NOW
Amibika P3 Gallery
An exhibition of Akerman's installation works
including her last work, NOW (2015)
co-curated by Ambika P3 and A Nos Amours
For visting hours go to Ambika P3 website
Until December 6th
In 1995 Akerman began experimenting with video installations and
exhibiting her work in museums and galleries. This will be the first major
UK exhibition of this artist’s extensive and highly influential body of
art installation work, including the UK premiere of her last work “NOW’
(2015). Also presented are a colletion of works made by Akerman that have
never before been exhibited in the UK.
The exhibition is curated by Ambika P3 (curator Michael Mazière) and A Nos
Amours (Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts), and presented in association with
Marian Goodman Gallery. It is supported by Arts Council England, CREAM
(The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and
Media, University of Westminster) and Ambika P3
Photo David Freeman, courtesy of Paradise Films/Ambika P3/Marian Goodman
Gallery
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A Nos Amours is a collective founded by film-makers Joanna Hogg and Adam
Roberts dedicated to programming over-looked, under-exposed or especially
potent cinema. A Nos Amours is a moveable feast that goes wherever and
whenever opportunities arise. A Nos Amours invites film-makers and others
to advocate and present films that they admire or would like to see on a
big screen. A Nos Amours believes in the value of watching film as a
shared experience.
www.anosamours.co.uk
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