Saturday 14th
10:00 am - 11:35
TRON
Directed by: Steven Lisberger
U.S, 1982
Computer animation milestone with ‘that bike racer scene’. Involves a ‘User’ who is sucked into a Computer where he must fight to the death with ‘programs’ in Arcade game environments and go up against that bad mutherfucker the M.C.P (Master Control Program) who is taking over the system. With special effects that were considered dazzling at the time, and still look good, I mean REALLY good, a storyline that makes perfect sense by today’s standards, this should become required viewing for anyone who didn’t know what the world was like before the video game revolution of the late 80’s.
12:00 pm – 2:15pm
8 ½
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963
Held by some to be Both Fellini’s best and possibly the best film of all time. Concerns a Harrowed Film Director who escapes into a world of Fantasy. A movie like this is like a splash of cold water in the face, a reminder that the movies really can shake us up, if they want to. Ironic, that Fellini's film is about artistic bankruptcy seems richer in invention than almost anything else around.
2:15 pm Late Lunch Break
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
THE WIZARD OF OZ + DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Directed by: Victor Fleming, Richard Thorpe (I), King Vidor
U.S, 1939
This Classic Starring Judy Garland will have the eternal stoners conspiracy theory put to the test and be played with Pink Floyd’s the Dark Side of The Moon as the Alternative Soundtrack – Promises to be Eerie and Surreal.
Check this link
http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Floyd/Floyd.php
(Does any-one have a copy of re-mastered version of this album on CD?)
5:15 pm– 8:00 pm
RAN
Director: Akira Kurasawa
Japan, 1985
Visually Overpowering, Akira’s Kurasawa’s version of King Lear set in feudal Japan pulls no punches - warring armies, scenes drenched in blood, madness, betrayal, impossibly beautiful scenes of Japanese nature, lust among feudal nobility etc... Both sumptuous and harrowing.
8:00 pm Dinner Break
9:00 pm – 11:15pm
BRAZIL
Directed by: Terry Gillian
UK, 1985
Terry Gillian’s dark yet humorous look at a dis-topian future of bureaucracy gone mad in that special English way that blends the harmlessly neurotic with the ruthlessly authoritarian. Beautiful, surreal, frightening and In some cases hysterically funny, this Visionary movie is the arguably his best - bringing together the whimsical farcical elements of his Monty Python work with a much darker social criticism. De Niro as the Renegade Heating Engineer is simply wonderful as is Bob Hoskins and Katherine Helmond is a total babe.
11:45 – 1:10 am
PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
Directed by: Woody Allen
U.S, 1985
For those that loathe Woody Allen, relax, he doesn’t appear himself in this film about an actor who steps out of a movie and into real life. Widely considered one of Allan’s best, Cairo is both Whimsical and Touching. Set in a drab little New Jersey Town, Mia Farrow gets the great line ''I just met a wonderful man. He's fictional, but you can't have everything.''
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