25th HOUR
AUTUMN 1999 September October November December |
|
3.9. JOHN HUSTON - WAR STORIES (90 min)
A personal film memoir. The focus is on the outstanding documentary films directed by John Huston during World War II. He made four documentary films, and they were "lost" or "banned".
10.9. STRAIGHT FROM THE STREETS (110 min) Captured amid the indigenous music scene of South Central Los Angeles, the documentary delivers a message that is both uplifting and shocking. 17.9. A LAND IN BETWEEN (Terra di mezzo) (90 min) A "human comedy" midway between fantasy and despair, on the daily life of Nigerian prostitutes, young Albanians and Egyptian workers in the streets of Italy. 1.10. HANG THE DJ (85 min) 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. 8.10. LOSING IT (68 min) The critical, at times hilarious documentary follows the Finnish representative in the European Parliament Pertti Paasio during his daily pursuits. The occasion was a trivial one: the filmmaker wanted to find out how it is possible that people often lose a sock. 15.10 ROLLING Ivano is a rollerblade champion. His city is Lausanne, a skater's paradise which slopes down to the banks of Lake Leman. Rolling shows us the many facets of this emblematic figure of second-generation immigration children who do not fit in the social models which their parents accepted. 22.10. MODULATIONS (75 min) Modulation searches the roots techno music and explains the origin of various genres: house, acid, drum and bass. The camera visits night-time raves in the USA, Japan, Germany and the UK, documenting both the young audience and the DJs working at the sound system. 29.10. UNMADE BEDS (95 min) 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. 5.11. ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER (85 min) Gwen Wells was a young actress well known to film audience primarily for her exquisite performance in Robert Altman's classic film Nashville. In 1992, at the age of only 42, Gwen developed cancer. In the informal sessions together with the director the camera, Gwen talks with extraordinary clarity and candour about her agonising choices in the face of death. 12.11. MARCELLO MASTROIANNI - MI RICORDO, SI, IO MI RICORDO (92 min) Not long before his death Marcello Mastroianni decided to make a documentary self-portrait, in reaction to requests from many directors who had offered to shoot his biopic. Instead, Mastroianni handed the camera to his life partner Anna.Maria Tato. In the documentary the old Prince Charming oarades loosely through his recollections. 19.11. DER LACHENDE MANN/THE LAUGHING MAN - KONGO MÜLLER (62min) Famous documentary with very simple dramaturgy: an interview with commando leader, major and mercenary Siegfried Müller face to face. He speaks quite freely. A murderer on vacation, at the zenith of his life. In front of camera Congo Müller, a fascist, laughing with his adopted son: a bottle of Pernod. 3.12. SOUTH (70 min) (95 min) At he heart of this journey is the murder of James Byrd, Jr and his presence haunts the entire film. This is not an anatomy of his murder, nor the autopsy of the black man lynched by three young white males, but more an evocation of how this event fits in to a landscape and climate as much mental as physical. 10.12. A CRY FROM THE GRAVE (90 min)
17.12. WAITING FOR BECKETT (90 min) The documentary profiles the life and work of this extraordinary man who shunned publicily, and yet became a worldwide cultural influence.
|