Kinoclub Film Schedule

January through April 2010
688 Sherbrooke West, room 0486
January

Thu 14: 1700
Contemporary German Cinema:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Dir. Uli Edel; wr. Stefan Aust (chief editor of “Der Spiegel” from 1994-2008); perf. Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run; Das Experiment) as the ringleader, Andreas Baader.
The story of the German terrorist group, RAF (Red Army Faction), and of the involvement of a leading leftist intellectual, Ulrike Meinhof.

Thu 29 : 1700  (REVISED DATE)
Alpha Dogs, Sick Puppies, & Sexy B’s: (Instant) Classics that Inspired Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds:
Der Untergang (“The Downfall,” 2004)
Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel; wr. Joachim Fest (Historian and author of the authoritative Hitler Biography); perf. Bruno Ganz (as Hitler).
The last days of the Third Reich in the Führerbunker: A daunting portrayal of mass megalomania in the face of certain demise and of the horrors of a scorched earth policy that would have all of Berlin go up in flames – grotesquely caricatured in Basterds through the motif of the Nazi elites holed up in a burning cinema.

February

Thu 11: 1700
Contemporary German Cinema:
Die Klavierspielerin (“The Piano Teacher,” 2001)
Dir. Michael Haneke; wr. Elfriede Jelinek (Literature Nobel Price Winner); perf. Isabelle Huppert.
The sexual relationship between a masochistic piano teacher and her student.

Thu 25: 1700
Alpha Dogs, Sick Puppies, & Sexy B’s:
The White Hell of Pitz Palü (1929)
Dir. Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst; perf. Leni Riefenstahl.
The classic Bergfilm with infamous Nazi propagandist Riefenstahl (Triumph of the Will) as the lead; explicitly (and implicitly) referenced in Basterds.

March

Thu 11: 1700
Contemporary German Cinema:
Gegen die Wand (“Head-On”) (2004)
Dir. & wr. Fatih Akin.
A romantic drama about the struggle for identity of German Turks in Hamburg.

Thu 25: 1700
Alpha Dogs, Sick Puppies, & Sexy B’s:
Morocco (1930)
Dir. Josef von Sternberg; perf. Marlene Dietrich & Gary Cooper.
The first Hollywood production by ‘war traitor’ (according to the Nazis) Marlene Dietrich, which got her her only Oscar nomination; it also includes the original veil scene as referenced in Basterds, a scene which von Sternberg himself would replicate in more and more aestheticized form throughout Dietrich’s career, most memorably in The Scarlet Empress of 1934.

April

Thu 8: 1700
Contemporary German Cinema:
Wolke Neun (2008) (“Cloud 9”)
Dir. & wr. Andreas Dresen.
“A Story of New Love in Old Age” (tag line); two seniors rediscover their romantic sides.

Thu 22 : 1700
Alpha Dogs, Sick Puppies, & Sexy B’s:
Le Corbeau (1943) (“The Raven”)
Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot.
The classic mystery story of denunciation and suspicion, set and shot in Nazi-occupied France; explicitly referenced in Basterds.