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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
Email: bfs@bgl.vsnl.net.in
Website: http://bfs.wikia.com
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