next Monday we will be screening one of the strangest documentaries from 2007. I think its a great film to wrap up the year with....so hope to see you there!

By the way, this is the last screening of the year at the ANITA. We will be closed for one week, but will be re-opening with a special evening on Monday January 5th!

MONDAY DECEMBER 22nd

CRAZY LOVE (2007)
Directed by Dan Klores
92 minutes
In English

This film was one of the very best documentaries made last year. Dan Klores\' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing true story of the obsessive relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. When Burt Pugach, a 32 year-old married attorney, met Linda, a beautiful young girl living in the Bronx, the fell head over heals and they had a whirlwind romance which culminated in a set of outrageous actions.

Basically when Burt discovered that Linda was engaged to marry another man, he hired thugs to throw lye (basically acid) in her face, which left her blind. Burt is convicted of the crime and is sentenced to 30 years in prison. But during all his time in prison Burt never forgot about his beloved Linda, and once he was free he continued to pursue her for marriage....and she agreed! This is the stuff that this insane documentary is made of. It's crazy enough that it could have come out of a John Waters film!

This flabbergasting true story is slowly revealed, but the key to the film, though, is not the plot so much as the characters: Not only are Burt and Linda a fascinating psychological study, all of their friends are wacky personalities as well, each with their own story on what happened. The big events are bizarre enough, but it\'s the strange small twists and turns--for example just how Pugach and Riss were brought back together again after so many years --that push the story into the realm of bizarre surrealism.

Winner of the Grande Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival.

THE NEW ANITA
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Hugo de Grootplein)
Doors open at 19:30
The film starts at 20:30 sharp

Location
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 Amsterdam



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