Fedor Sendak

MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2005) Directed by Andrew Bujalski

Greetings all, In theory, from this point on, I will be screening films every Tuesday at the Cavia. So I hope you can make it this coming Tuesday for this special film by Andrew Bujalski....once again this is a great film which has never been given a proper screening in Holland! - Jeffrey TUESDAY DECEMBER 1st MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2005) Directed by Andrew Bujalski 110 minutes In English Another great example of the American independent cinema that's happening right now. This film is a favorite of many, but because of its lack of spectacle it was deemed uncommercial and has therefore rarely been shown....which is a pity because its a great film that needs to be seen. The story? Alan is a musician in a band called The Bumblebees and when the band breaks up he moves from Boston to NY. The film follows him as he drifts through New York City bars and a string of unbearably small apartments where he is trying to connect to something but he doesn't know what. The director Andrew Bujalski (Funny ha ha) has noted that his films are largely about "well-educated people who cant even express themselves." There are scenes where you will just cringe from recognition. A nuanced shyness, awkward situations, broken discussions and painful silences. Lines that never quite converge, trajectories that are never quite fulfilled, people who can never quite say what they mean. People who are trying to have fun, but never quite making it there. But what is also amazing, given this palette to work from, the film is never negative or heavy. Many people who have seen this film feel that its been influenced by cinema of the 60s and 70s, specifically the result of the blending of methods and interests of Eric Rohmer and John Cassavetes. Bujalski's film is a wonderful grainy black and white, shot on 16mm...and the look is rough, the scenes are improvisational and almost documentary in style. Another obvious reference to Bujalski's filmmaking is the early films of Jim Jarmusch...but to tell you the truth I find Bujalski's way so natural that it makes Jarmusch's film feel terribly stylized now. Behind all this it seems the key is that Bujalski has a totally unique way of working with actors, a way where they aren't acting anymore, and which makes almost every other film feel stage-like, and, in a way, pretentious. It's something totally different than anything you will see in any other cinema today. And like I said, as far as I can tell this will be the Amsterdam premiere of this wonderful film! Wanna see the trailer? Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_Fn2eaois&feature=related Cin INTERZONE Filmhuis Cavia- Van Hallstraat 52-B Time: 20:30 Nightly membership- 3 Euros Filmhuis CAVIA is a non-profit volunteer organization committed to the importance of cinema

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30nov: NAKED (1993) Directed by Mike Leigh

A well known film, but a favorite which definitely deserves to be seen again. So next Monday at the Anita let's take a look back at this classic drama directed by Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, All or Nothing, Happy-Go-Lucky). - Jeffrey MONDAY NOVEMBER 30 NAKED (1993) Directed by Mike Leigh 131 minutes In English with English subtitles! This film is still Mike Leigh's masterpiece and one of the best films to come out of England in the last century. It concerns the tale of Johnny, a mid twenties Mancunian drifter who heads down to London (having stolen a car) and tracks down an old girlfriend. He meets a new girl called Sophie and seduces her, then unleashes a display of venom on his old lover (Louise), and staggers off into the night when both women become too much for him to bear. His odyssey takes him to a world of the homeless, including an illiterate Scot and a lonely nightwatchman guarding empty office building. This film is macabre, raw, searing and with dialogue as sharp as anything ever documented on celluloid. A cinematic gem, and really unlike any other film that you are ever going to see. The acting in this film is simply dynamite. "One of the essential films of the 1990s, Mike Leigh's brilliant and controversial "Naked" stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances by Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharp, Leigh's panorama of England's crumbling underbelly is a showcase of black comedy and doomsday prophecy." Winner of the best director and actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WdAPqhnzwQ DE NIEUWE ANITA Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Hugo de Grootplein) Doors open at 19:30 Film starts at 20:30 sharp

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