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Thu 17 October, 8.15pm: L’argent

Thu 17 October, 8.15pm: L’argent

In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.
Sat 19 October, 5.30pm: The Hourglass Sanatorium

Sat 19 October, 5.30pm: The Hourglass Sanatorium

An anxious man visits his ailing – perhaps deceased – father in a mysterious sanatorium that becomes a kind of dream-machine, where time and space possess a strange plasticity, and ghosts of the past and future join in a hypnotic dance. One of the great masterpieces of 70s art cinema and the crowning expression of Has' visionary cinema.
Sat 19 October, 8pm: Japón

Sat 19 October, 8pm: Japón

Recruiting a cast of non-actors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican country­side with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable.
Sun 20 October, 4.30pm: The Saragossa Manuscript

Sun 20 October, 4.30pm: The Saragossa Manuscript

Has' oneiric trance film famously uses a Russian doll structure to leap across time and space, following its unlikely hero across a series of bleak, frightening yet strangely exuberant, landscapes, largely set in a dream Andalusia. The Saragossa Manuscript fully deserves its legendary status as one of most unclassifiable and extraordinary cult/art films of the postwar European cinema.
Sun 20 October, 8pm: Meeting the Man: James Baldwi

Sun 20 October, 8pm: Meeting the Man: James Baldwi

Towering literary lion, fierce social critic, and inimitable cultural icon James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society. He also left behind a dynamic cinematic legacy, as seen in these portraits that capture his electrifying presence and passionate eloquence.

Calendar

Thu 17 Oct 8:15pm
L'argent
Sat 19 Oct 5:30pm
The Hourglass Sanatorium
Sat 19 Oct 8:00pm
Japón
Sun 20 Oct 4:30pm
The Saragossa Manuscript
Sun 20 Oct 8:00pm
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin
Thu 24 Oct 8:15pm
L'argent
Sat 26 Oct 5:30pm
The Chess Players