free movies this week at MIT
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rackmountOn Wednesday, July 17, at 8 PM:
Zoo: A Zed & Two Noughts
by Peter Greenaway with a brief introduction by Ian Caines
Location: 4-237, MIT
This event is FREE and refreshments will be provided.
Synopsis:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.
On Thursday, July 18, at 8 PM:
The Celebration a.k.a. Festen
by Thomas Vinterberg with introduction by Audun Botterud
Location: 4-237, MIT
This event is FREE and refreshments will be provided.
Synopsis:
This Danish comedy-drama won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It opens in rural Denmark as family members assemble for the 60th birthday celebration of patriarch Helge (Henning Moritzen). At the family estate are Helge's children -- France-based restaurateur Christian (Ulrich Thomsen), whose twin sister killed herself; surviving sister Helene (Paprika Steen); and younger brother Michael (Thomas Bo Larsen), married with three children. At the birthday dinner, the bitter Christian stands to deliver a toast -- but instead makes a startling speech accusing Helge of sexual abuse involving both twins. Following principles outlined in 1995 by Danish filmakers in their Dogma 95 proclamation, this film adheres to their manifesto guidelines of handheld cameras, direct sound, location filming, and the elimination of tech tricks.
Zoo: A Zed & Two Noughts
by Peter Greenaway with a brief introduction by Ian Caines
Location: 4-237, MIT
This event is FREE and refreshments will be provided.
Synopsis:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.
On Thursday, July 18, at 8 PM:
The Celebration a.k.a. Festen
by Thomas Vinterberg with introduction by Audun Botterud
Location: 4-237, MIT
This event is FREE and refreshments will be provided.
Synopsis:
This Danish comedy-drama won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It opens in rural Denmark as family members assemble for the 60th birthday celebration of patriarch Helge (Henning Moritzen). At the family estate are Helge's children -- France-based restaurateur Christian (Ulrich Thomsen), whose twin sister killed herself; surviving sister Helene (Paprika Steen); and younger brother Michael (Thomas Bo Larsen), married with three children. At the birthday dinner, the bitter Christian stands to deliver a toast -- but instead makes a startling speech accusing Helge of sexual abuse involving both twins. Following principles outlined in 1995 by Danish filmakers in their Dogma 95 proclamation, this film adheres to their manifesto guidelines of handheld cameras, direct sound, location filming, and the elimination of tech tricks.
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Date: 2002-07-16 04:49 pm (UTC)those are two damn fine films, right there.
Festen made me cry. It made me cry, even as I was mentally calculating the ways in which it broke the Dogme rules.
I haven't seen Zed and Two Noughts in SO LONG. It would be good to go see it again.
Curse you, you cruel master time!
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Date: 2002-07-18 10:38 am (UTC)