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Only several months after Rome’s liberation in 1945,  some of the world’s most influential Italian filmmakers came together to write a script for a docudrama that would go on to be awarded Grand Prize at the 1946 Cannes Festival.  Regarded as a critical landmark for Italian neorealism,  Rome Open City exposes and illustrates the harrowing struggle that women and children faced as they tried to protect themselves from the Nazis, while maintaining compassion and self-respect during Rome’s occupation.

“Much is devastating — but Rossellini found room, too, for the humour and warmth of everyday life.” – Dave Calhoun, Time Out

Directed by Roberto Rossellini                                                                                                           Written by: Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, and Sergio Amadei

Where are us humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.

Stars: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson

When Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) seeks approval from the English aristocracy to divorce his wife and marry commoner Anne Boleyn (Vanessa Redgrave), Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) finds himself caught between a murderous king and the powerful Roman Catholic Church.

Richly crafted with a fine supporting cast, director Fred Zinnemann’s period drama swept the 1966 Oscars, winning six golden statuettes, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

From its inception, CINEMATIKI’s mission has been to celebrate the art
of cinema. Each one of us attends these weekly gatherings with distinct
expectations. CINEMATIKI MAUI provides a forum—20 to 50 viewers
every week, in which each one of the viewers catches different meanings,
images, and impressions from the same film. Afterwards, during our
commentaries and discussion time, each viewer has the possibility of sharing those impressions with the rest of the audience. This experience of shared perception is transformative. It helps us widen even more our
understanding of art, ourselves and others.

SO…HERE WE ARE …seven years and three hundred and one films later…we have just  viewed Paolo Sorrentino’s “YOUTH” and are still processing the images in the empty halls  of our minds, figuring out the story and  understanding it’s meanings with relation to our own “youthing” and wondering, wondering, wondering…

What do you think ??

J.J.

In this elegant and chilling story about world politics, the great Toni Servillo defies expectations playing two roles, imbuing each character with brilliant nuance and astonishing attention to detail. In the first, he personifies political failure in the role of the disgraced ideologue and party leader, Enrico Oliveri. In the second, he embodies the shrewd genius of a madman as Oliveri’s unhinged twin brother who seizes control of the nation amidst the void of his brother’s disappearance.

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Movie night 2010-02-22

“This is a staggering, panoramic, epic masterpiece. If I could only have one film on a desert island, this would be it. It is mysterious, poetic, musical, thrilling, ultimately enigmatic, and deeply spiritual. …For me, the Michelangelo who towers above [many extraordinary directors], one of the great, great artists of the twentieth century, is that unique poet of the art of pure cinema, Tarkovsky.” –André Gregory, for The Criterion Collection.

This 1960’s Soviet film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, an iconic 15th Century Russian painter, who faced challenges that many artists during this repressive regime encountered.  Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, the film features Anatoly Solonitsyn and Irma Raush.

Queridos Cinematikeros …

Remember November 18, 2008 ???  It was a Tuesday and we were launching a film project whose idea we had kept massaging and lubricating  for years…Some of you were there and Tom and I exposed you to the possibility of viewing a film and afterwards discussing the good, the great, the ugly and the bad and voicing  our opinions for the rest of the audience  …

who would have told us that the cinematiki would have endured for seVen (7) itching years and almost 300 films  ?…

Would you say that that is ” A very long engagement ”  ???…

Where you there for our first film ?? 

Do you remember which film it was ???

RSVP

See you at the Cinematiki and please save me the corner seat !!

J.J.