220 mins |
Rated
M (Violence)
Doppelgängers, smoking guns, adultery and mental breakdowns abound in these two masterpieces of psychological thriller cinema from legendary directors Robert Altman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This is 70s cinema at its experimental, boundary-pushing best with gorgeous, fluid photography, psychadelic editing and unhinged, bravura turns from actors Susannah York and Dirk Bogarde.
20min intermission in between films.
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IMAGES (1972)
dir. Robert Altman
101mins
Originally conceived in the mid-sixties, IMAGES concerns a pregnant children's author (Susannah York, who won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival) whose husband (Rene Auberjonois) may or may not be having an affair. While on vacation in Ireland, her mental state becomes increasingly unstable resulting in paranoia, hallucinations and visions of a doppelgänger. Scored by an Oscar-nominated John Williams, with "sounds" by Stomu Yamash'ta (THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH), IMAGES also boasts the remarkable cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond (CLOES ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND).
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DESPAIR (1978)
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
119mins
Chocolate, cuckoldry and doppelganger delusion abound in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's stunning English language adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov interwar novel.
The chocolate business has been good to Russian exile Hermann. He enjoys the good life with his beautiful wife Lydia. But Hermann is addicted to out-of-body experiences and when he meets a tramp on a business trip, he develops an insane plan of escape.
Featuring international stars Dirk Bogarde (DEATH IN VENICE) and Andréa Ferréol (LA GRANDE BOUFFE) and adapted by British dramatist Tom Stoppard (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE), Fassbinder's DESPAIR is a vivid off-kilter masterwork set against the background of the Nazis in ascendance.
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Doppelgängers, smoking guns, adultery and mental breakdowns abound in these two masterpieces of psychological thriller cinema from legendary directors Robert Altman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This is 70s cinema at its experimental, boundary-pushing best with gorgeous, fluid photography, psychadelic editing and unhinged, bravura turns from actors Susannah York and Dirk Bogarde.
20min intermission in between films.
______________________
IMAGES (1972)
dir. Robert Altman
101mins
Originally conceived in the mid-sixties, IMAGES concerns a pregnant children's author (Susannah York, who won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival) whose husband (Rene Auberjonois) may or may not be having an affair. While on vacation in Ireland, her mental state becomes increasingly unstable resulting in paranoia, hallucinations and visions of a doppelgänger. Scored by an Oscar-nominated John Williams, with "sounds" by Stomu Yamash'ta (THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH), IMAGES also boasts the remarkable cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond (CLOES ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND).
__________________________
DESPAIR (1978)
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
119mins
Chocolate, cuckoldry and doppelganger delusion abound in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's stunning English language adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov interwar novel.
The chocolate business has been good to Russian exile Hermann. He enjoys the good life with his beautiful wife Lydia. But Hermann is addicted to out-of-body experiences and when he meets a tramp on a business trip, he develops an insane plan of escape.
Featuring international stars Dirk Bogarde (DEATH IN VENICE) and Andréa Ferréol (LA GRANDE BOUFFE) and adapted by British dramatist Tom Stoppard (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE), Fassbinder's DESPAIR is a vivid off-kilter masterwork set against the background of the Nazis in ascendance.