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SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER On the occasion of Sebastian Schipper attending the screenings of his multi-award winning film VICTORIA during the 59th BFI London Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut is showing his films A FRIEND OF MINE (Ein Freund von Mir) and SOMETIME IN AUGUST (Mitte Ende August) this week. Sebastian Schipper will join us for a Q & A following the screening of SOMETIME IN AUGUST this coming Thursday. See Details below. The Screenings of VICTORIA at the London Film Festival are sold out but there tend to be stand-by tickets for most screenings. See Details below. FASSBINDER AND EUROPEAN CINEMA As part of this season, which will continue until December, we will show Fassbinder’s BEWARE OF THE HOLY WHORE (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte) and IRMA VEP by the French director Olivier Assayas in October. https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/lon/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20594867 Please see Details below: ************* SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER: A FRIEND OF MINE WED 14 OCT 7PM When shy, depressed insurance employee Karl crosses paths with the energetic Hans, he finally realises what it means to enjoy life. Making excellent use of his two stars, Daniel Brühl and Jürgen Vogel, Schipper explores male friendship and what cars may or may not add to it. Germany 2006, colour, 84mins. With English subtitles. Director: Sebastian Schipper. With Sabine Timoteo, Jürgen Vogel, Daniel Brühl. https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/lon/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20593519 ************* SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER: SOMETIME IN AUGUST + Q&A WITH SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER THU 15 OCT 7PM Inspired by Goethe’s Elective Affinities, the film sees a couple’s plans to spend an intimate summer together upset by the arrival of Thomas’s brother Friedrich and Hanna’s goddaughter Augustine. With the new constellation, relational dynamics also change. Germany 2009, colour, 92 mins. With English subtitles. Director: Sebastian Schipper. With Marie Bäumer, Milan Peschel, Anna Brüggemann, André Hennicke. https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/lon/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20593521 ************* SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER: VICTORIA @ The 59th BFI London Film Festival FRI 16 OCT 6.10PM Curzon Mayfair Cinema (sold-out, only stand-by tickets) SAT 17 OCT 12.30PM Curzon Soho Cinema (sold-out, only stand-by tickets) UK cinema release scheduled for January 2016 There are few films quite like Victoria, an exhilarating one-shot sensation whose Birdman-beating logistical virtuosity is a mere fraction of its appeal. It’s akin to being dragged by your lapels through after-hours Berlin, getting high, watching two people tumble helplessly in love, and then being effectively kidnapped and forced to collaborate in a bank robbery. Germany 2015, colour, 140 mins. With English subtitles. Director: Sebastian Schipper. With Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=victoria&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= ************* R.W. FASSBINDER: WARNUNG VOR EINER HEILIGEN NUTTE / BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE TUE 20 OCT 7PM With this stylised and satirical study of a film cast and crew grounded in a Spanish seaside hotel awaiting the arrival of the director, the star, the funding, and the film stock, Fassbinder reflects on his experience of filmmaking so far, specifically of shooting Whity months earlier in Spain. The private and professional jealousies and constant infighting among the group as well as the volatile behaviour of the increasingly frustrated director after his arrival, suggest a negative result of Fassbinder’s stocktaking. Though often funny in its exaggerations, it is ultimately Fassbinder’s swan song of the anti-theatre and the possibility of a collective creative process. This sense of disillusion also pervades Olivier Assayas’s depiction of a film shoot gone wrong in IRMA VEP. West Germany/Italy, 1971, colour, 103 mins. With English subtitles. Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, R.W. Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Marquard Bohm. https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/lon/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20594286 ************* OLIVIER ASSAYAS: IRMA VEP THU 22 OCT 7PM Though fast paced with an almost documentary feel, Olivier Assayas’s film about the making of a remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic silent crime serial Les Vampires (1915/1916) directly evokes Fassbinder’s more stylised and theatrical BEWARE OF THE HOLY WHORE in its satirical depiction of personal and professional jealousies on and off-set and the struggle for artistic integrity. Maggie Cheung stars as herself, imported from Hong Kong to revive European cinema. The film’s reluctant, hyper-sensitive director, supposedly a washed-up Nouvelle Vague master, is played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, one of the key actors of the movement. When he gives up on the film, he is replaced by another burnt-out director, this one played by Lou Castell, who Fassbinder had cast as his demanding and manipulative alter-ego in BEWARE OF THE HOLY WHORE. France 1996, colour, 99 mins. With English subtitles. Director: Olivier Assayas. With Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Lou Castell. In collaboration with the Institut Francais Du Royaume Uni. https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/lon/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20594286 Maren Hobein Project Co-ordinator for Film Goethe-Institut London 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH T +44 20 7596 4047, [log in to unmask] For a PDF version of ourprinted programme please click here. To sign up to our cultural events newsletter please click here. 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