25th HOUR

AUTUMN 2000

29.8. THE EYE ABOVE THE WELL (90 min)

Director: Johan van der Keuken, Lucid Eye Films, Netherland, 1988

5.9.UNMADE BEDS (95 min)

Director , Nicholas Barker, A Chelsea Pictures Productions, UK, 1997
Unmade Beds is a black comedy about vanity and desire in modern America. Set in the sexual jungle of the New York singles scene, two men and two women frantically pursue their impossible dreams. Equipped with ample provisions of self-delusion, misogyny, anti-semitism and homophobia, Brenda, Michael. Aimee and Mikey are on the road to heterosexual fiasco.

12.9. SEARCHING FOR JIMI (54 min)

Directors: D.A Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus , Pennepaker Hegedus Films Inc, USA, 1998
Searching for Jimi is a different kind of Road Movie. It is a journey into the heart and minds of the great musicians world-wide, to experience why Jimmy Hendrix and his music remains an ever constant part of their lives.

19.9. STRAIGHT FROM THE STREETS (110 min)

Directort Keith O'Derek and Robert Corsini Upfront Productions, USA, 1997
Captured amid the indigenous music scene of South Central Los Angeles, the documentary delivers a message that is both uplifting and shocking.

26.9. YEAR OF THE HORSE (107min)

Director: Jim Jarmusch, October Films, USA, 1997
Year of the Horse ws filmed in 1996, following Young's contribution of the score for Jarmusch's ethereal western, Dead Man. The documentary is a real rock & roll movie shot in Super-8.

3.10 HANG THE DJ (85 min)

Directors Marco and Mauro La Villa , Henrique Vera-Villanueva, Canada, 1998
Documentary film by Canadian-Italian twin brothers presents a view of the modern dj culture based on the notion of the disc jockey as an artist. The birth of house music in the mid-80's and its consequent spreading throughout the world has elevated dj's to the position of musicians among the traditional instrumentalists.

10.10. THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA (108 min)

Director: Heddy Honigmann , van Huystee Film&TV , Netherland, 1997
Exploring the tunnels of Paris Metro, the documentary opens up the world behind the Algerian, Malian or Romanian busker in his grabby jumper. In this film we encounter a large part of the history of the world in the last twenty years, a history of exile, resistance, loneliness and hope.

17.10. PRIVATE CHRONICLES, MONOLOGUE (92 min)

Director: Vitali Manski, TOO Kinevideostudia MV Studia, Russia, 1999
From more than five thousand hours of home movies, Vitalij Manskij composed a fictional life story of a Russian young man, who was born in 1961 and died in 1986.

24.10. A CRY FROM THE GRAVE (90 min)

Director Leslie Woodhead A feature-length documentary looking at the massacre of over 7,000 Muslim men in Bosnian town Srebrenica in July 1995. This story of the days of the massacre is a unique document of how ethnic wars are conducted at the end on the 20th century.

31.10. HITCHCOCK, SELZNICK & THE END OF HOLLYWOOD (85 min)

Director: Michael Epstein , PBS, USA, 1999
This epic documentary covers the lives of two Hollywood masters. Told through reminiscence of friends, family, and the actors who worked together with them, as well as home movies, stock footage, and the pictures they made together the documentary will offer a window into the characters of David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock.

7.11. ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREI ARSENEVICH (55 min)

Director: Chris Marker, AMIP and La Sept ARTE, France, 2000
Chris Marker's portrait about Andrei Tarkovski, the great Russian film director.

14.11. BILLY WILDER - THE HUMAN COMEDY (56 min)

Director Mel Stuart, PBS, USA, 1998
Billy Wilder was one of the great Hollywood directors. Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemity and The Apartment are just few titles of his great films. The narrator of this portrait is Walter Matthau.

21.11. CINEMA VERITE (102 min)

Director Peter Wintonick, PBS, USA, 1999
A feature documentary about the living history and contemporary legacy of the Cinéma Vérité revolution, the most important and defining moment in non-fiction filmmaking.

28.11. DIRECTED BY WILLIAM WYLER (60 min)

Director: Aviva Slesin, PBS, USA, 1999
William Wyler was one of the most commercially successful film directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. In addition to clips from his most famous films, and interviews with his most famous stars, this unique documentary is based on a long and very entertaining interview that Wyler gave in 1981. Three days after the interview William Wyler died.

5.12. MOTHER DAO, THE TURTLELIKE (90min)

Director Vincent Monnikendan, NPS, Netherlands, 1995
A documentary film, recorded between 1912 and 1933 in the Dutch East Indies was found in archives. Th new film which now has been created from those forgotten films aims to show how the Neatherlands administrated its colony at that time.

12.12. FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL (80 min)

Director Errol Morris, Fourth Floor Prod, USA, 1997
Errol Morris is one of the most original filmmakers working today. This film may be his most unusual work yet. Morris refers to it as the ultimate low-concept movie - a film that utterly resists the possibility of a one-line summary.The film interweaves the stories of four obsessive men, each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams, all involving animals.

19.12. FOUR LITTLE GIRLS (102 min)

Director Spike Lee, Spike Lee, USA, 1997
In 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb tore though the basement of a black Baptist church, killing four innocent girls. It was a horrific moment in the life of the community - and a defining moment in the history of America's civil-rights movement.

26.12. MY BEST FRIEND (90 min)

Director Werner Hetzog, Werner Herzog Filmproduction, Germany, 1999
Film about the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski - utterly puzzling to outsiders, about the deep trust between an actor and a director, and their independently and simultaneously hatchet plans to murder one another.