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Daisies

Věra Chytilová unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authoritarian oppression in any form.

Thu 4 JunClose-Up Cinema

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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional register. One of the first and best-loved films of this period in his career is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director’s roots in experimental theater.

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Wendy and Lucy

Lucy is the dog. Wendy is her owner, a 20-something urchin chasing dreams of economic stability in Alaska and trying to cross the country in a shaky car and a precariously small amount of cash in a money belt. A high point of Reichardt’s career, Wendy and Lucy stands as a defining work of the neo-realist filmmaking that transformed American independent cinema in the early 2000s.

Fri 5 JunClose-Up Cinema

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Talks & Lectures

Mare's Nest + Q&A

Responding to a world that seems evermore surreal, disastrous, and doomed by the day, the latest speculative feature by British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers immerses us into an unsettling natural terrain – equal parts bucolic and wasteland – entirely devoid of adults.

Fri 5 JunClose-Up Cinema

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Olivia

As if in a fairy tale, the ethereal heroine of the first feature by Sofía Petersen exists in a dream-like world in a permanent dream-like state, suspended in time. While the music by Utsav Lal envelops Olivia in an enchanted atmosphere, cinematographer Owain Wilshaw captures the light of Tierra del Fuego in Petersen’s mesmerizing debut with the attention and delicacy of an old master.

Sat 6 JunClose-Up Cinema

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Cinema

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.

Sat 6 JunClose-Up Cinema

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Pictures of the Old World

Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist's work in reflecting a myriad of human stories.

Sun 7 JunClose-Up Cinema

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Andrei Rublev

With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Appearing here in his preferred 183-minute cut, Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time.

Sun 7 JunClose-Up Cinema

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Casa de lava

Cape Verde’s colonial histories and displaced emigrants have been central to many of Costa’s films, but his rarely seen second feature is the only one thus far to have been shot on the archipelago. Inspired by Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, this is one of Costa’s most direct reckonings with Portugal’s colonial legacy.

Sun 7 JunClose-Up Cinema

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