'Double Take' - Documentary

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Johan Grimonprez - B / D / NL – 2009 – documentaire – zwart-wit + kleur / n&b + couleur – 80‘ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

A portrait of Alfred Hitchcock through his appearances in his own films, and with the participation  of several look-alikes. Johan Grimonprez is an anthropologist, and his film is somewhere between documentary and fiction, looking at our relationship to images and the media and their influence on our self-awareness and our understanding of the world. Written by award-winning British novelist Tom McCarthy, the film uses the public images of Hitchcock as a starting-point for a socio-political meditation.

With: Ron Burrage

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8: Unscreened film about the VN Millenium Development Goals by 8 top directors

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Aberrahmane Sissako / Gaël Garcia Bernal / Gaspard Noé / Gus Van Sant / Jan Kounen / Jane Campion / Mira Nair / Wim Wenders - FR – 2008 – fiction / fictie – couleur + n&b / kleur + zwart & wit – 100’ – VO / OV

Eight short films by big-name cineastes on the development challenges as defined by the UN at the start of the new millennium in the face of poverty, disease, and educational deficit. A militant kind of cinema with an ethical backbone seen by eight different sets of eyes. On 20.04 the film will be followed by a debate on the failing fight against poverty.

Tickets: €7 – Cut price: €5,5

Flagey, Cinematek

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'Katalin Varga' - Unscreened

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Peter Strickland - ROM/GB/H – 2009 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 82’ – VO / OV – NL OND / STT FR

First film by Briton Peter Strickland who sets his unnerving story in idyllic and wild Romanian countryside. The titular heroine sets out with her son sets out in search of the men who raped her 10 years earlier. At once a road movie, a nature ramble, a tale for adults about guilt and a harsh story of revenge, Strickland’s film has many moods and tones, underlining that the relationship between victim and perpetrator is never simple… With: Hilda Petèr, Nobert Tankò

Tickets: € 7 – cut price: € 5,5

Coprod. Flagey, Cinematek

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'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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