Category Archives: Cult Film

*** MONDAY November 12th, 2018 *** Babette’s Feast *** DIRECTED BY Gabriel Axel, STARRING Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel

Posted on November 9, 2018 | 2 comments

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From the 420 films that we have seen over the last 10 years @ the CINEMATIKI we have chosen “Babette’s Feast” to celebrate our 10th. anniversary…

Among the many films that center on food at the end of the twentieth century, Babette’s Feast (Babettes Gaestebud) stands out for its reach and for the subtlety of its sensuality. For this film depicts far more than food and foodways; it shows more than the sensuality of food in our lives. Paradoxically, this Danish film tells an exemplary tale of French cuisine. Its portrayal of a French cook far from France evokes the French culinary landscape even more than the Danish countryside where it is set.

The fable of French cuisine turns out to be a culinary tale for all times and places, for all those cooks who transform eating into dining, and for all those diners who come away from the table transformed.

The immediacy achieved by the moving narrative raises Babette’s Feast to iconic status well above the short story by Isak Dinesen from which it is drawn.

Pope Francis’ favorite movie is “Babette’s Feast.” He’s mentioned it numerous times throughout the years of his papacy, and even referred to it in the 2016 papal document Amoris Laetitia: “We can think of the lovely scene in the film Babette’s Feast, when the generous cook receives a grateful hug and praise: ‘Ah, how you will delight the angels!’ “

Help us celebrate our 10th anniversary with a sumptuous, sensual pot luck feast!

Tom & JJ

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Posted in Cult Film, Gabriel Axel, INTERNATIONAL CAST, PERIOD FILM, Stephanie Audran, World Cinema

BILLY WILDER AT THE CINEMATIKI ONCE AGAIN !!!!!!!

Posted on May 18, 2018 | Leave a comment

HOW NOIR WERE THE FILM NOIRS OF THE 1940’S AS THEY WERE BEING INVENTED BY MASTERS LIKE BILLY WILDER ??

HOW VIOLENT WAS THE VIOLENCE IN THOSE FILMS??…

DID IT MAKE YOU RECOIL ?? …COVER YOUR EYES ??

HOW DID THOSE DIRECTORS CONVEY THE STORY THROUGH IMAGES AND DIALOGUE ??????

YOU MAY PONDER AND WONDER, ASK, COMMENT, INFORM AND LEARN ABOUT ALL THIS EVERY MONDAY @ 6:45 pm @ THE CINEMATIKI MAUI…

J.J. & TS

 

 

 

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Monday November 27, 2017 ***** “THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL” Directed by LUIS BUNUEL ***** interpreted by Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook…

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This is one of Luis Bunuel seminal films from his Mexican period …

“The Exterminating Angel” (1962) is a macabre comedy, a mordant view of human nature that suggests we harbor savage instincts and unspeakable secrets. Take a group of prosperous dinner guests and pen them up long enough, he suggests, and they’ll turn on one another like rats in an overpopulation study.

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Posted on November 24, 2017 in BLACK AND WHITE, CONTROVERSIAL FILM, Cult Film, Drama, Ensemble Film, INTERNATIONAL CAST, Luis Buñuel, SURREAL COMEDY/THRILLER, World Cinema

MONDAY NOVEMBER 13TH, 2017 IN CELEBRATION OF CINEMATIKI’S 9TH ANNIVERSARY, WE PRESENT: WINGS OF DESIRE, DIRECTED BY Wim Wenders, Interpreted by Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin & Otto Sander

Posted on November 9, 2017 | Leave a comment

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This Monday will mark our 379th Film. One of our Favorites, this will be our second viewing of Wings Of Desire.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE VISIONARY DIRECTORS WHOSE 378 FILMS WE HAVE SO FAR SEEN, DISCUSSED, ANALYZED AND STUDIED: francois truffaut, david lean, orson welles, federico fellini, vittorio de sica, lina wertmuller, luis bunuel, marcel carne, robert altman, luis puenzo,roman polanski, jacques tati, bernardo bertolucci, akiro kurosawa, the coen brothers, charles chaplin, pedro almodovar, john huston, mike nichols, alain resnais, louis malle, agnes varda, jacques demy, igmar bergman, stanley kubrick, martin scorsese, billy wilder, elia kazan, george cukor, michelangelo antonioni, sidney lumet, alfred hitchcock, wim wenders, jean renoir, paolo sorrentino, peter greenaway, carlos saura, bela tarr, richard lester, roy andersson, roberto rosellini, warren beatty, jean-pierre jeunet, alexander sokurov, phillipe de broca, john schlesinger, eric rohmer, mihalis kakogiannis, karel reisz, william wyler, alejandro gonzalez inarritu, vincent minelli, wes anderson, anthony minghella, ridley scott, dino risi, elaine may, franco zefirelli, roger vadim, joao cesar monteiro, nani moretti, paul thomas anderson, claude lelouch, phillipe de broca, john cassavettes, BOB FOSSE, KEN RUSSELL, SAM MENDES, ZHANG YIMOU, CAROL REED, ERROL MORRIS, PATRICE lE cONTE, etcetera, etcetera,etcetera…

THIS COMING MONDAY WE’LL SHOW ONCE AGAIN ONE OF OUR FAVORITE; WIM WENDER’S “WINGS OF DESIRE”…

 AS USUAL THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL POT-LUCK FROM 5:45 pm AND AS IT HAPPENS TO ALSO BE *****j.j.’S BIRTHDAY*****, HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE CAKE AND BUBBLY…

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MONDAY OCTOBER 2ND, 2017 ***** PADRE PADRONE ***** directed by PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI TAVIANI BROTHERS *****

Few films, even the greatest ones, are life-changing. It’s just something critics say. But Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan, showing Italy in tatters in the second world war, really did alter the paths taken by two Italian brothers: 17-year-old Paolo Taviani and his 15-year-old brother Vittorio, who saw it in 1946. They made a pledge after leaving the cinema: if they were not shooting films within a decade, they would buy a gun and shoot themselves. Thirty years later, and fully established as directors, they made their masterpiece, Padre Padrone. It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1977, as well as the international critics’ prize – the first picture to scoop both awards at the festival. The jury president that year was the man who had inspired them: Roberto Rossellini.

Padre Padrone, which was made for Italian television, is based on the autobiography by the linguist Gavino Ledda. It details his upbringing in Sardinia at the hands of his father, a brutal peasant farmer, and opens with the real Gavino whittling away at a branch with his knife. The camera pans right to a man approaching a door. It is Omero Antonutti, the actor who will play Gavino’s father. He is about to enter a classroom, from which he will drag his illiterate six-year-old son (Fabrizio Forte) before forcing him to work in the wind-beaten mountains. Gavino hands his screen parent the stick he has been fashioning: “My father was carrying this,” he says. It’s a masterful, Brechtian moment; the baton is passed from reality to cinema.

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Posted on September 29, 2017 in ASTOUNDING CINEMATOGRAPHY, BASED ON A REAL STORY, Cult Film, Drama, FROM A HIGHLY ACCLAIMED NOVEL, World Cinema

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2017*****”SCENT OF A WOMAN”*****directed by MARTIN BREST*****interpreted by AL PACINO, CHRIS O’DONELL, PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

Posted on September 23, 2017 | Leave a comment

last week we saw the original italian film from 1974, directed by Dino Risi and interpreted by Vittorio Gassman…let’s see what Hollywood, Martin Brest and Pacino did in the 90’s with this…?? politically incorrect character ???…

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SEPT 18 MONDAY “PROFUMO DI DONNA” {Scent of a Woman 1974 Italy} – directed by Dino Risi and starring Vittorio Gassman, Agostina Belli and Alessandro Momo

Posted on September 16, 2017 | Leave a comment

 

Profumo di donna …This is the original Italian film directed by Dino Risi and interpreted by Vittorio Gassman that begat the remake by Hollywood some 20 years later… Cinematiki is proud to  give all of us the opportunity to see it and compare it the following week with the one interpreted by Al Pacino … When young army cadet Ciccio (Alessandro Momo) is assigned to spend seven days in the service of a wounded army captain, he little suspects what’s in store. Blinded by an explosion, Fausto Consolo (Vittorio Gassman) is nevertheless a pompous, prideful and lecherous aristocrat who needs Ciccio to keep him out of trouble. As they travel across Italy by train, Fausto variously ruffles feathers and chases women until they reach Naples, where he plans to …

 

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MONDAY MARCH 28, 2016 ***** VIVA ZAPATA ***** directed by ELIA KAZAN ***** interpreted by MARLON BRANDO, JEAN PETERS, ANTHONY QUINN

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Posted on March 27, 2016 in BASED ON A REAL STORY, BLACK AND WHITE, Cult Film, Drama, Elia Kazan, HISTORICAL DRAMA, History, PERIOD FILM, Political Drama

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 7TH, 2016: “Zorba The Greek”, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates

Posted on March 2, 2016 | 2 comments
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When an English writer finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island, his joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers the all the pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing.

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2016 : “BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET” (1958) directed by MARIO MONICELLI with VITTORIO GASSMAN, MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, CLAUDIA CARDINALE

Posted on February 13, 2016 | Leave a comment

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A break-through Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli featuring some of the hottest actors at the time : Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale and Toto…Celebrated as one of the great comedies of those times…

The film is also notable for its breezy jazz score by the composer Piero Umiliani, who helped develop the style of the jazz soundtracks now considered characteristic of European films in the 1960s and 1970s.

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