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Andrei Tarkovsky Season on Film4 April/May 2017


Andrei Tarkovsky Season

On the 85th anniversary of his birth, Film4 begins a season of films by the legendary Russian director. All of Tarkovsky’s seven feature films will play (non-chronologically) throughout April and May. All films will be available to view on All4 after broadcast.

DATES

Tuesday 4th April, 12.10am – Andrei Rublev (1966)

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A new, restored print of Andrei Tarkovsky’s disturbing portrait of a great icon painter in early 15th-century Russia, a war-torn period that saw the country in upheaval.

Wednesday 12th, 1.25am – Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s feature debut blends impressionism and stark realism to tell the tale of a quest for vengeance during the Second World War.

Thursday 20th, 12.40am – Solaris (1972)

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s transcendent sci-fi classic, a moving and unsettling vision of memory and humanity.

Monday 24th, 12.40am – Stalker (1979)

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Following Solaris, Tarkovsky’s second foray into the sci-fi genre: a surreal and disturbing vision of the future, in which a scientist, a writer and a Stalker attempt to navigate the bleak and devastated terrain of the Zone.

Date & time tbc – Mirror (1975)

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people.

Date & time tbc – Nostalgia (1983)

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Tarkovsky’s first film to be made outside of Russia explores the melancholy of the expatriate, as a Russian poet in a Tuscan village is haunted by memories of his wife, children and homeland.

Date & time tbc – The Sacrifice (1986)

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Tarkovsky’s Cannes prize-winning final film: a mystical and enigmatic parable that unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust.

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R W Fassbinder film season – BFI April/May 2017


Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of post-war Germany’s greatest filmmakers.

“I’d like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theater, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.”

Rainer Werner Fassbinder 

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BFI Southbank dedicates a two-part season in April and May to the works of R W Fassbinder.

The season begins a the end of March with an introduction. Dr Martin Brady, will introduce the season with a lecture on Fassbinder’s gangster films and melodramas, and explore the environment of 1960’s and 70’s Germany from which they emerged. On 29th March, there will be a screening of The Marriage of Maria Braun followed by a Q&A with actor Hanna Schygulla and editor/Fassbinder’s second wife Juliane Lorenz, who is also the president of Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.

From there, the season will follow his film and television works retrospectively from Love is Colder than Death, and Katzelmacher, through Fear Eats The Soul, The Merchant of Four Seasons, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, World on a Wire, to Lilli Marlene and Querelle.

Fassbinder’s short films, several documentaries on his life and work,  and education events are also included in the season.

This is a rare opportunity to see most of R W Fassbinder’s works on 35 mm and on new restoration prints.

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For bookings and further information please visit BFI On Line:

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=fassbinder&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

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R W FASSBINDER SEASON – BFI

APRIL 2017

Season opening

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)  plus live Q&A with Hannna Schygulla and Juliane Lorenz

28/03/2017

TRAILER

 

Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)

FILM CLIP

 

The City Tramp (1966)

Short Film

 

The Little Chaos (1967)

Short Film

 

Katzelmacher (1969)

TRAILER

 

Gods of the Plague (1969)

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Why Does Herr R Run Amok (1969)

FILM CLIP

 

Rio Das Mortes (1970)

FILM CLIP

 

Whity (1970)

FILM CLIP

 

The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

FILM CLIP

 

Beware of a Holy Whore (1970)

TRAILER

 

The American Soldier (1970)

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Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1970)

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The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)

FILM CLIP

 

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)

TRAILER

 

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972)

TV Series

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World on a Wire (1973)

TV Series

TRAILER

 

Martha (1973)

FILM CLIP

 

Effi Briest (1974)

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Fox and His Friends (1974)

TRAILER

 

I Don’ Just Want You To Love Me – The Flimmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1992)

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Documentary Film

 

Fassbinder (2015)

Dir: Annekatrin Hendel

Documentary Film

 

Fassbinder Education Events

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Wunderkind, Iconoclast, Star

Introduction Lecture by Martin Brady

28/03/2017

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BFI Course: The Many Faces of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Martin Brady and Erica Carter

13/04 – 08/06/2017

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Study Day: Fassbinderian Politics

22/04/2017

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Aurora (12A)


Release Date: 09/11/2012

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Aurora (12A)

Aurora is a 2010 Romanian film written and directed by Cristi Puiu, who also plays the main character. Producer Anca Puiu has described the plot as a “crime story from a new perspective.”

It is the second installment in Puiu’s planned suite “Six Stories from the Outskirts of Bucharest”, the first being The Death of Mr. Lazarescu from 2005.It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Director: Cristi Puiu

Starring: Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda

Distributor: New Wave Films

Locations: Key Cities

Format: 2D Subtitled

Film Website: N/A

Film Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(2010_film)

Film IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403047/

Film Trailer

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Master, The (15)


Release Date: 02/11/2012

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The Master is a 2012 American psychological drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), a leader of a religious movement known as “The Cause”. Dodd sees something in Quell and accepts him into the movement. Freddie takes a liking to “The Cause” and begins traveling with Dodd along the East Coast to spread the teachings.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, David Warshofsky, Laura Dern

Distributor: Entertainment Film Distributors

Locations: Nationwide

Format: 2D/35 mm

Film Website: N/A

Film Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)

Film IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/

Film Trailer

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