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Event
Centro Histórico
Sunday August 3, 2014, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Centro Histórico, a film by Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa,Victor Erice and Manoel de Oliveira
At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028
Introduced by Thom Andersen. Los Angeles premiere!
For more event information: www.lafilmforum.org, or 323-377-7238
Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets or at the door.
Screening:
CENTRO HISTORICO
A film by Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, and Manoel de Oliveira
(2012, 97 minutes, digital)
With contributions from four master filmmakers Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa,Victor Erice and Manoel de Oliveira Centro Historico is a remarkable omnibus film using the historic city of Guimarгes in Northern Portugal, the European CulturalCapital of 2012, as inspiration.
Aki Kaurismäki, the Finnish filmmaker behind the drolly melancholic The Match Factory Girl, directs the silent film Tavern Man, which portrays a day-in-the-life of a man who works at a bar in a historic district of the city. Inside, time seems to have stopped; outside, the city is a rush of the new and the modern.
Pedro Costa, whose film Ne Change Rien made many of our Top Ten lists two years ago, delivers a surrealist film called Sweet Exorcist, which probes the revolutionary events of 1974. Exorcist's protagonist is the memorable Ventura, a character who appeared in Costa's masterpiece Colossal Youth. As a participant in a coup d'etat by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way the woods, and is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator.
In Victor Erice's Broken Windows, former workers visit the site of a vacant factory, Rio Vizela, that closed after more than a century of production (it was one time an important part of the European textile industry) and share memories, including one focused on a photograph of the factory's dining hall that stops everyone in their tracks.
Manoel de Oliveira's Conquered Conqueror, finally, is a humorous short shot at the town of Guimarгes' fortress, with a group of tourists marching toward an imposing bronze statue of Afonso the 1st.
Four related films: "Sweet Exorcism," written and directed by Pedro Costa; director of photography, Mr. Costa and Leonardo Simões; "O Conquistador Conquistado," written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira; edited by Valérie Loiseleux; "Vidros Partidos," written and directed by Victor Erice; director of photography, Valentín Álvarez; "Tavern Man," written, directed and edited by Aki Kaurismaki; director of photography, Timo Salminen. Music by Pedro Santos; produced by Rodrigo Areias. In English and Portuguese, with English subtitles. At the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, at Second Street, East Village. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. This film is not rated.
Hollywood Reporter review:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/historic-centre-centro-hist-rico-388535
NY Times review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/movies/centro-historico-highlights-a-portuguese-city.html?_r=0
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This program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.
Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation. 2014 is our 39th year.
Coming Soon to Los Angeles Filmforum:
July 27 Free, Twee, Mean, and Evergreen: EFFPortland's Pacific Northwest Showcase, with curator Hannah Piper Burns
Aug 3 Centro Histórico
Aug 10 Rea Tajiri - Lordville
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LocationSpielberg Theater at the Egyptian (View)
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
United States
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