'Odds Against Tomorrow' - Blue notes and crime movies

Studio 5

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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'Bullit' - Blue notes and crime movies

Studio 5

Peter Yates - USA – 1968 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 114’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

Contemporary western with a car chase to beat all car chases. But Bullitt is also the portrait of a taciturn cop who knows he can trust no one but himself in the urban jungle that is a skilfully filmed San Francisco. Played with Steve McQueen at the top of his form with a soundtrack by Lalo Schifrin. Peter Yates directed and keeps the low-key tension as taut as a catapult. 

With: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset

Coprod. Flagey, Cinematek

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Belle toujours

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Manoel de Oliveira - IT / PT – 2006 – fiction – color – 69’ – VO – NL TIT

Forty years later, two characters from Belle de jour meet by chance. The ex-call girl attempts to avoid the man, but he finally manages to invite her for a candle-lit dinner where he plans to reveal the secret that has been tormenting her for many years: the words he pronounced into the ear of her husband paralysed by a bullet shot by a lover. In the enclosed space of a meal, de Oliveria adds a playful epilogue to the Bunuel work. With Bulle Ogier in the Catherine Deneuve role, and Michel Piccolo reprising his original roué.

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