Based on William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing was adapted for the screen by Kenneth Branagh, who directs and stars in the film. Known as one of the most successful Shakepeare films, the story line encompasses the tough task that Hero, (Kate Beckinsale) and her fiancé Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), embark upon to create a matchmaking scheme between two people who disbelieve in love and each other. As the scheme takes place, meddling Don John has a plot of his own; which is to ruin Hero and Claudio’s wedding.
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!
What do we get when we put Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonte and Bourvil in a film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville ?
We get them silently gliding down streets of a wet Paris winter…
Some are cops and some are robbers…
they wear trench coats and fedoras…
to smoke for them is as natural as breathing…
they use guns, lies, clout, greed and nerve with the skill of a magician who no longer even thinks about the cards…
they share a code of honor which is not about what side of the law they are on, but about how a man must behave to win the respect of those few others who understand the code…
The film’s title means “The Red Circle” and refers to the film’s epigraph which translates as ->>>>>>Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: “When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle.”
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.
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…
Come to howl at the full moon and help us celebrate the Cinematiki’s 8th Anniversary and J.J.’s birth day…
We are presenting “Day for Night” by Francois Truffaut . A film about films and the people that populates the world of cinema … It is one of two Truffaut films featured on Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best Films of the Century, along with The 400 Blows.. It has also been called “the most beloved film ever made about filmmaking.”
it was the first film that we showed at the Cinematiki eight years ago… since then we’ve seen and discussed over 350 films…
Paris, 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman, lover of the music and the opera. She loves to sing for her friends, although she’s not a good singer. Both her friends and her husband have kept her fantasy. The problem begins when she decides to perform in front of a real audience.
The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. Michael Ondaatje will be speaking on Saturday, June 25th at the MACC presented by The Merwin Conservancy as part of The Green Room Series.
A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man.
A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who’s engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. Anna and Mike, who play the characters of Sarah and Charles, go, during the shooting of the film, through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters.
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