This week at Anthology Film Archives
the latest from Anthology...favorite quote, "in a dizzying Baudrillardian irony"...courtesy of D. Lim/Village Voice.
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Tribute to Alexander Kluge
rare screenings of Kluge’s major feature films, plus newly subtitled shorts…When Anthology opened its doors at 32 Second Avenue in 1988, the first series we presented was a retrospective of Alexander Kluge. The central figure in the formation of the New German Cinema, a student of Theodor Adorno and author across several media, Kluge is one of the most vital post-war European artists. We are especially excited to present this partial retrospective of Kluge’s films from the collection of The Goethe-Institut New York, to whom we give thanks. Hopefully, this series will prove a useful introduction to serious film-goers, for whom Kluge is more spoken of than seen. All films in 16mm, English-subtitled, directed by Alexander Kluge. Our rare presentation of Kluge’s short films, however, will be on 16mm and Beta SP, and have been newly subtitled through the auspices of Brown University. “Kluge's theories of the cinema are founded on the conception that mainstream narrative cinema works by a process of closing off the ability for the spectator to engage their imaginative faculties while watching a film. Kluge does not simply take for granted the notion of spectator as passive observer. For him, under the right circumstances—that is, those circumstances created by the right kind of film—the spectator can assume a much more active role during the screening of a film.Kluge aspires consciously in his various roles as filmmaker, theorist, and activist to develop new modes of constructing films that will in turn provide the spectator with new and more active ways of engaging with such films; ways of activating the spectator's own capacity to make connections between vastly disparate images.” – Michelle Langford, Senses of Cinema
FILM SCHEDULE:
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
We are happy to present this program of rare Kluge shorts, newly subtitled for this presentation. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. –
Wednesday, March 15 at 7:00 and Saturday, March 18 at 4:30.
YESTERDAY GIRL/ABSCHIED VON GESTERN1966, 88 minutes, 16mm, b&w. –
Wednesday, March 15 at 9:15 and Saturday, March 18 at 7:00.T
HE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IS A VERY DEAD END/IN GEFAHR UND GRÖSTER NOT BRINGT DER MITTELWEG DEN TOD1974, 90 minutes, 16mm, color. –
Thursday, March 16 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 7:00.
ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED/DIE ARTISTEN IN DER ZIRKUSKUPPEL: RATLOS1968, 103 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Thursday, March 16 at 9:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 4:30.
THE PATRIOT/DIE PATRIOTIN1979, 121 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Friday, March 17 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 9:00.
THE POWER OF EMOTION/DIE MACHT DER GEFÜHLE1983, 115 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Friday, March 17 at 9:30 and Monday, March 20 at 7:30.
THE BLIND DIRECTOR/DER ANGRIFF DER GEGENWART AUF DIE ÜBRIGE ZEIT1985, 113 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Saturday, March 18 at 9:00 and Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30.
For complete info on films, please see:http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/?festival_id=16-
THE WORLD OF JIA ZHANGKE
These four films by Jia Zhangke demonstrate a major new talent in humanist filmmaking. Viewed as a series, Jia’s meditations on displacement and lost intimacy overwhelmingly diagnose the troubling core of a shifting world. If you haven’t seen them, you’re in for a real treat.
XIAO WU/THE PICKPOCKET1997, 107 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Jia Zhangke’s debut feature is set in his backwater northern hometown of Fengyang. Xiao Wu is a petty thief who finds himself a stranger in his own town. Rejected by his family and ostracized by his former cronies – all now entrepreneurs in the new economy – Xiao Wu pins his emotional hopes on Mei Mei, a hostess at a local karaoke bar. A spare, Bressonian portrait of a lost soul, XIAO WU is also a fascinating depiction of contemporary Chinese society at the end of the century.“One of the most impressive Chinese films of the 90s.” –
SIGHT & SOUND–Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 and Saturday, March 18 at 3:45.
UNKNOWN PLEASURES 2002, 113 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Distributed by New Yorker Films.Restless and unemployed teenaged best friends Xiao Ji and Bin Bin spend their time wandering around on motorbikes and hanging out at the pool hall. Sparks fly however, when Xiao Ji meets the beautiful dancer Qiao Qiao, and Bin Bin pursues a romance with a young student but without hope, love doesn’t prevail and desperation sets in. Taking a cue from American crime movies, the temptation of easy money becomes too difficult to resist and in a final attempt to break free from their day-to-day suburban life Xiao Ji and Bin Bin embark on half-baked plan to rob a bank. A harrowing account of disillusioned young people living in China, director Jia Zhangke still finds plenty to laugh about. Beautifully photographed by famed cinematographer Yu Lik-wai, UNKNOWN PLEASURES cements Zhangke’s reputation as one of China’s most important filmmakers.–
Thursday, March 16 at 9:45 and Saturday, March 18 at 6:00.
PLATFORM2000, 155 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Pictured right.Jia Zhangke’s second feature is his best work to date and one of the greatest of all Chinese films. Its subject is the great theme of Chinese cinema, the discovery of history, which links such otherwise disparate masterpieces as THE BLUE KITE, BLUSH, ACTRESS, THE PUPPET MASTER, and A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY. The story charts the course of the Cultural Revolution for about a decade, noting the shifts in values and lifestyles, culture and economy, as China moves inexorably from Maoism to capitalism, as witnessed by five actors in a provincial traveling theater troupe. Many episodes unfold in single long takes, with offscreen sound playing an important role, and the beautifully choreographed mise en scène recalls the fluid Hungarian pageants of Miklós Jancsó in the 60s and 70s. Originally 192 minutes long, the film was recut by Jia to its current 155 minutes and improved in the process. – Jonathan Rosenbaum–
Friday, March 17 at 8:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 8:00
THE WORLD2004, 143 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Distributed by Zeitgeist Films. After three underground productions, Jia Zhangke goes global. The latest dispatch from the world’s greatest filmmaker under 40 revisits the themes of UNKNOWN PLEASURES and PLATFORM: a hesitant romance, the growing pains of modernization, the urge for flight in a culture of inertia. Jia’s rootless young adults are finally in the big city – and in a dizzying Baudrillardian irony, employed at a Beijing theme park that, with its replicas of global tourist attractions, promises ‘a new world every day.’ From the sensational opening tracking shot to the flurry of animated punctuation, Jia’s first government-sanctioned film is his most flamboyant yet. – Dennis Lim, THE VILLAGE VOICE–
Saturday, March 18 at 8:30 and Sunday, March 19 at 5:00. --
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. at Second Street and can be reached by the Second Avenue F and V train or the #6, Bleecker Street stop. 32 Second Avenue / 2nd Street 212.505.5181http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/membership/donations/
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Tribute to Alexander Kluge
rare screenings of Kluge’s major feature films, plus newly subtitled shorts…When Anthology opened its doors at 32 Second Avenue in 1988, the first series we presented was a retrospective of Alexander Kluge. The central figure in the formation of the New German Cinema, a student of Theodor Adorno and author across several media, Kluge is one of the most vital post-war European artists. We are especially excited to present this partial retrospective of Kluge’s films from the collection of The Goethe-Institut New York, to whom we give thanks. Hopefully, this series will prove a useful introduction to serious film-goers, for whom Kluge is more spoken of than seen. All films in 16mm, English-subtitled, directed by Alexander Kluge. Our rare presentation of Kluge’s short films, however, will be on 16mm and Beta SP, and have been newly subtitled through the auspices of Brown University. “Kluge's theories of the cinema are founded on the conception that mainstream narrative cinema works by a process of closing off the ability for the spectator to engage their imaginative faculties while watching a film. Kluge does not simply take for granted the notion of spectator as passive observer. For him, under the right circumstances—that is, those circumstances created by the right kind of film—the spectator can assume a much more active role during the screening of a film.Kluge aspires consciously in his various roles as filmmaker, theorist, and activist to develop new modes of constructing films that will in turn provide the spectator with new and more active ways of engaging with such films; ways of activating the spectator's own capacity to make connections between vastly disparate images.” – Michelle Langford, Senses of Cinema
FILM SCHEDULE:
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
We are happy to present this program of rare Kluge shorts, newly subtitled for this presentation. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. –
Wednesday, March 15 at 7:00 and Saturday, March 18 at 4:30.
YESTERDAY GIRL/ABSCHIED VON GESTERN1966, 88 minutes, 16mm, b&w. –
Wednesday, March 15 at 9:15 and Saturday, March 18 at 7:00.T
HE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IS A VERY DEAD END/IN GEFAHR UND GRÖSTER NOT BRINGT DER MITTELWEG DEN TOD1974, 90 minutes, 16mm, color. –
Thursday, March 16 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 7:00.
ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED/DIE ARTISTEN IN DER ZIRKUSKUPPEL: RATLOS1968, 103 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Thursday, March 16 at 9:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 4:30.
THE PATRIOT/DIE PATRIOTIN1979, 121 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Friday, March 17 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 9:00.
THE POWER OF EMOTION/DIE MACHT DER GEFÜHLE1983, 115 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Friday, March 17 at 9:30 and Monday, March 20 at 7:30.
THE BLIND DIRECTOR/DER ANGRIFF DER GEGENWART AUF DIE ÜBRIGE ZEIT1985, 113 minutes, 16mm, color/b&w.–
Saturday, March 18 at 9:00 and Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30.
For complete info on films, please see:http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/?festival_id=16-
THE WORLD OF JIA ZHANGKE
These four films by Jia Zhangke demonstrate a major new talent in humanist filmmaking. Viewed as a series, Jia’s meditations on displacement and lost intimacy overwhelmingly diagnose the troubling core of a shifting world. If you haven’t seen them, you’re in for a real treat.
XIAO WU/THE PICKPOCKET1997, 107 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Jia Zhangke’s debut feature is set in his backwater northern hometown of Fengyang. Xiao Wu is a petty thief who finds himself a stranger in his own town. Rejected by his family and ostracized by his former cronies – all now entrepreneurs in the new economy – Xiao Wu pins his emotional hopes on Mei Mei, a hostess at a local karaoke bar. A spare, Bressonian portrait of a lost soul, XIAO WU is also a fascinating depiction of contemporary Chinese society at the end of the century.“One of the most impressive Chinese films of the 90s.” –
SIGHT & SOUND–Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 and Saturday, March 18 at 3:45.
UNKNOWN PLEASURES 2002, 113 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Distributed by New Yorker Films.Restless and unemployed teenaged best friends Xiao Ji and Bin Bin spend their time wandering around on motorbikes and hanging out at the pool hall. Sparks fly however, when Xiao Ji meets the beautiful dancer Qiao Qiao, and Bin Bin pursues a romance with a young student but without hope, love doesn’t prevail and desperation sets in. Taking a cue from American crime movies, the temptation of easy money becomes too difficult to resist and in a final attempt to break free from their day-to-day suburban life Xiao Ji and Bin Bin embark on half-baked plan to rob a bank. A harrowing account of disillusioned young people living in China, director Jia Zhangke still finds plenty to laugh about. Beautifully photographed by famed cinematographer Yu Lik-wai, UNKNOWN PLEASURES cements Zhangke’s reputation as one of China’s most important filmmakers.–
Thursday, March 16 at 9:45 and Saturday, March 18 at 6:00.
PLATFORM2000, 155 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Pictured right.Jia Zhangke’s second feature is his best work to date and one of the greatest of all Chinese films. Its subject is the great theme of Chinese cinema, the discovery of history, which links such otherwise disparate masterpieces as THE BLUE KITE, BLUSH, ACTRESS, THE PUPPET MASTER, and A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY. The story charts the course of the Cultural Revolution for about a decade, noting the shifts in values and lifestyles, culture and economy, as China moves inexorably from Maoism to capitalism, as witnessed by five actors in a provincial traveling theater troupe. Many episodes unfold in single long takes, with offscreen sound playing an important role, and the beautifully choreographed mise en scène recalls the fluid Hungarian pageants of Miklós Jancsó in the 60s and 70s. Originally 192 minutes long, the film was recut by Jia to its current 155 minutes and improved in the process. – Jonathan Rosenbaum–
Friday, March 17 at 8:00 and Sunday, March 19 at 8:00
THE WORLD2004, 143 minutes. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Distributed by Zeitgeist Films. After three underground productions, Jia Zhangke goes global. The latest dispatch from the world’s greatest filmmaker under 40 revisits the themes of UNKNOWN PLEASURES and PLATFORM: a hesitant romance, the growing pains of modernization, the urge for flight in a culture of inertia. Jia’s rootless young adults are finally in the big city – and in a dizzying Baudrillardian irony, employed at a Beijing theme park that, with its replicas of global tourist attractions, promises ‘a new world every day.’ From the sensational opening tracking shot to the flurry of animated punctuation, Jia’s first government-sanctioned film is his most flamboyant yet. – Dennis Lim, THE VILLAGE VOICE–
Saturday, March 18 at 8:30 and Sunday, March 19 at 5:00. --
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. at Second Street and can be reached by the Second Avenue F and V train or the #6, Bleecker Street stop. 32 Second Avenue / 2nd Street 212.505.5181http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/membership/donations/
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