CLUB FILMOSOPHY: Lars von Trier's Europa (1991)

Free, 7.30pm, Monday 10 September 2007
Roxy Bar and Screen
128-132 Borough High Street
London SE1 1LB
020 7407 4057
Tube: Borough or London Bridge


Before Lars von Trier went all cinematically prudish with his Dogme  
rules he was quite the masturbator of the silver screen,  using  
sumptuous photography,  unusual colourings,  and sweeping camera  
movements -- he would even play Wagner at high volume during shooting  
to get his actors in the right mood.

Europa was his grand masterpiece,  and stunned audiences around the  
world when it was released. In the film a young American of German  
parentage arrives in Germany at the end of the war to work on his  
uncle's railway,  and is confronted by still active Nazi partisans.  
With incredible 'Scope photography supervised by Henning Bendtsen,   
Europa takes the audience on a hypnotic journey both backwards and  
forwards in the history of cinema's styles. Von Trier cinematically  
thinks the innocence of our hero,  Leo Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr),   
colouring moments of psychological impression,  editing his movements  
like a dream,  and using up to seven layers of images to relight the  
thinking of cinema. "I have made a film that I would be afraid to  
see",  said von Trier at the time,  "no trick is too crass, no method  
too cheap, no effect too vulgar for this film".

Club Filmosophy is an evening dedicated to revealing the thinking  
behind great filmmaking. Led by Daniel Frampton,  the night begins  
with a short introduction to filmosophy,  followed by some comments  
about the film,  with our host offering some ways to understand its  
formal design/thinking. The film will then be screened,  and after a  
short break the audience are invited to take part in a free flowing  
discussion.


Also....
CLUB FILMOSOPHY: Apitchatpong's Syndromes and a Century (2006)

6.40pm, 11 October 2007
BFI Southbank
London SE1 8XT

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film is mesmerising, but also  
puzzling. How does this extraordinary movie create its power? This is  
the kind of film-making explored by Club Filmosophy, a regular  
evening at cinemas across London dedicated to movies that go deeper  
than the mainstream. Daniel Frampton introduces the film, offering  
some ways into its formal design, then leads a free flowing  
discussion, which can start in the Studio and continue in the bar.


Daniel Frampton is the founding editor of the salon-journal Film- 
Philosophy (est. 1996),  and the author of Filmosophy (Wallflower  
Press, 2006).

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