Dear Radical Visionaries,
We have five films lined up for November. Please check the links below for more information and to RSVP.
Radical Visions Cinema Club
What:
Valerie and Her Week of WondersWhen:
Thursday, November 1, 7:00 PMMembers saying "Yes" so far: 9
Details: A surrealistic, dream-like Czech coming-of-age fantasy, complete with vampires, doppelgangers, sinister characters, and shimmering maidens. The film's soundtrack will be performed live by The Valerie Project, a Philadelphia-based chamber-rock ensemble.
Where:
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What:
Dog Star ManWhen:
Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 PMMembers saying "Yes" so far: 2
Details: Stan Brakhage?s silent phantasmagorical underground classic, in which ?a woodsman climbs a mountain, struggles with a tree, has a sexual daydream, continues to struggle with the tree, falls back down the mountain...a colossal lyrical adventure dance of image in every variation of color.?
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What:
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 BruxellesWhen:
Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 PMMembers saying "Yes" so far: 2
Details: Chantal Akerman?s 1975 feminist/cinema-verite masterpiece about three days in the life of a forty-year-old bourgeois widow. Slow and very intense.
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The Roe?s Room (with Director Lech Majewski in person) When:
Friday, November 16, 6 PMMembers saying "Yes" so far: 2
Details: This unusual ?film opera? is set in a decaying Polish apartment. A mother, father, and son grow older by the day, but their 'reality' blossoms with the poetics of fantasy: milk spurts from the table, leaves sprout from a cracked shower wall, and in autumn deer invade their living room, to hide in the wheat that's grown through the carpet.
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What:
Pasolini?s DecameronWhen:
Saturday November 17, 7:15 PMMembers saying "Yes" so far: 2
Details: Pier Paolo Pasolini?s beautiful and bawdy film version of Boccaccio?s classic tales.
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