Bangalore Film Society is proud to drop its pants and take it square, all for the sake of a laugh! Four Comedy Classics from across the Globe or actually, it’s just Europe.

Saturday 19th August, 2006 3.30 pm

Film:Smiles of a Summer Night
Dir: Ingmar Bergman
‘Sommarmallens leende’ for the Scandinavians and purists.

The movie that garnered Bergman the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and put his name on the map of World Cinema. Before he was obsessed with doomed existences, Bergman can be seem being whimsical and lusty in this full-fledges comedy about lovers and friends over
a bourgeois party on a the titular summer night.

Saturday 19th August, 2006 6.00 pm

Film:The Riflemen
Dir: Jean-Luc godard
‘Les Carabiniers’ for the everyone who did thier basic levels at Alliance Fr.
Godard subjects the tried and tested war movie mechanics to his irreverent hyper visions and creates a magnificent contraption that is all his own- an anti-war-film war film. The auteur drains every ounce of charm, heroism and even common sense as his protagonist bumble across a bleak warzone in ‘the service of the King’.

Sunday 20th August, 2006 3.30 pm

Film:Kolya (1996)
Dir: Jan Sverak

Winner of the 1996 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, `Kolya’ is a sweet, humorous chronicle of a tender bond that forms between a self-confessed bachelor who speaks only Czech and a child thrust upon him by a marriage-of-convenience who speaks but Russian.
Featuring the cutest ‘kid’ moment in cinema!

Sunday 20th August, 2006 6.00 pm

Film:Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Dir: Terry Jones

If you haven’t heard of the Roman Centurion ‘Biggus Dickus’, you’re missing something. After all, He ‘wanks’ as high as any in Rome. Regarded by many as the funniest movie ever made, the mad geniuses of Monty Python resurrect Brian Cohen, from the moment he was born,
right next to one of the most famous personalities ever, Jesus Christ, to his very end which is somewhat of a simulacrum to that of his neighbors only of course it’s set to the tune of the classic
Python anthem “The Bright Side of Life”. Poltically incorrect, blashphemous, brilliant, scathing, women with beards, men called Loretta.. comedy has never seen such glory!

Admission Free.

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Bangalore- 560033.

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Films for Freedom, Bangalore will screen
LOOSE CHANGE (2005)
Director: Dylan Avery
Duration: 81 minutes
Time:On Saturday, August 19

and

SEVEN ISLANDS AND A METRO (2006)
Director: Madhusree Dutta
Duration: 100 minutes
Time:On Sunday, August 20
At 6.30pm
At Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), Sona Towers, Millers Road (Ph- 22356563)

Synopsis of ‘Loose Change’
‘Loose Change’ is the most provocative documentary on 9/11 on the market today. The film shows the direct connection between the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the United States government. Evidence is derived from news footage, scientific fact, and testimony from survivors, including emergency first responders like New York City firefighters. This hard-hitting and
compelling film argues that the US government not only had prior knowledge of the attacks but was complicit in carrying them out. Ruth Frankenberg, formerly Professor of American Studies at the University of California, and now an independent writer will introduce the film. She has written on race, racism and whiteness. She has also published in the area of colonial and postcolonial discourses.

Synopsis of ‘Seven Islands and a Metro’
The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The non-fiction feature film is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay which, generally, are
not part of the popular narratives. Madhusree Dutta, the director of the film will be present for the screening. Her works include I Live in Behrampada, on a Muslim ghetto in the context of
the Bombay riots which went on to receive the Filmfare Award for best documentary and Memories of Fear, on the relation between socialising of young girls and domestic violence which won the National Award for best documentary on social issues.

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