'Odds Against Tomorrow' - Blue notes and crime movies

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Robert Wise - USA – 1959 – fictie / fiction – zwart-wit / n&b – 95’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR (New print)

« A pavane for the death of two losers » is how Jacques Lourcelles described this dusky Robert Wise thriller about the preparations for a bank heist that go horribly wrong. Produced by Harry Belafonte, who plays the lead alongside Robert Ryan, and written under a false name by the blacklisted Abraham Polonsky, Odds Against Tomorrow is a breathless thriller as well as an antiracist tract splendidly served by the scintillating score written by the Modern Jazz Quartet’s pianist John Lewis.

With: Harry Bellafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters

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'Eccentricities of a blond hair girl'

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Manoel de Oliveira - PT / E / F – 2009 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 64’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

(Singularidades de uma rapariga loura)
Portuguese film-maker Manuel de Oliveira, who is still going strong although he is over 100 years old, produced this laidback farce about the unpredictability of love. A young accountant in Lisbon (the director’s grandson Ricardo Trêpa) falls passionately in love with a woman he glimpses in the office courtyard. The story ends with an delightful last-minute twist.

With: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Luis Miguel Cintra

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'Encounters at the End of the World' - Unreleased Documentary

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Werner Herzog - USA – 2007 – documentaire – kleur / couleur – 99’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

Discovery Channel produced this documentary by Werner Herzog who travelled to Antarctica with cameraman Peter Zeitlinger to meet the scientists carrying out research on the glacial tip of the world. Among the scientists and hangers-on are some highly eccentric characters, working away on their ideas and experiments and having fun doing things like climbing into a volcano. A fascinating movie and yet another chapter in Herzog’s explorations of the ends of the earth.

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Coprod. Flagey, Cinematek

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