Watch a movie at Cinemateket

The Cinematheque is the place for film history and film art. During the Studentslippet, we are pleased to welcome the students to the screening of five specially selected movies.

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Cinemateket shows both the great classics and lesser-known works from the film history, as well as new films of special interest. These films are selected for Studentslippet:

Oslo, 31^st August (August 31, at 20:00)
It has become a tradition for Cinemateket to show Oslo, August 31 by Joachim Trier on this very day. The film actually premiered on this date in 2011, and August 31 is also International Overdose Awareness Day. With Oslo as a backdrop, Trier takes us on a simple and at the same time complex portrayal of a person who is about to give up, but who may find a reason to live on anyway. Or maybe not.

Scarface (September 1, at 20:30)
Directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone, the 1983 crime film Scarface follows violent, ruthless Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino) as he arrives in Miami and violently ascends the criminal underworld to become the most powerful cocaine kingpin in the state.

Ikiru (September 3, at 20:30)
Ikiru is considered by many to be one of Akira Kurosawa’s greatest films, alongside Seven Samurai. In contrast to the exotic and pyrotechnic jidai-geki (period films), his gendai-geki (contemporary films) are far more subdued and contemplative. But even though there is less going on on the surface in a film like Ikiru, one has no trouble recognizing Kurosawa as one of the definitive masters of epic cinema.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (September 4, at 18:00)

Schoolgirl Izumi unexpectedly inherits her father’s yakuza clan. Flattering of course, but when she is unable to make the right decisions, this leads to a real disaster. The scene with her and the machine gun where she happily exclaims “Kaikan” (feels amazing) quickly became part of Japanese pop culture and you can still hear excited Kaikan shouts in various contexts today. Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is based on the novel of the same name by Jiro Akagawa.

Bronson (September 4, at 20:15)

We’ve all seen our share of fictional films that portray real people. Some good, most perhaps a little too much of a desire to give a flattering picture of the person – especially in cases where the person is still alive. Nicolas Winding Refn’s approach is completely different when he tells the story of “England’s most dangerous prisoner”, Michael Gordon Peterson aka Charlie Bronson. Refn gives Bronson (played by Tom Hardy) the stage and the floor and lets him guide the audience through his life and psyche. A highly original move that gives a sense of intimacy with the prisoner, while at the same time we must assume that he is a very unreliable source.

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