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[Bad Kitty]

So this weekend the Prince Charles cinema (London's best cheapo picture house) is holding an European cinema all-nighter (ostensibly to celebrate "Europe Day", whatever the fuck that is.. any excuse to drag out the ol B&W Fellini prints, imo..)

Kicks off Friday afternoon at 2pm-ish with Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bête', followed at 4-ish by Fellini's '8 1/2'.. at 7pm-8pm there will be a Q&A session with Szabolcs Hajdu (director of the evenings Hungarian feature presentation 'Tamara') and fellow director Elijah Moshinsky to "discuss the influence of European cinema on modern filmmaking, as well as sharing with us their personal favourites".. then at 8pm the UK premiere of 'Tamara'.. followed at 10pm by 'Rhythm Is It!' (Germany 2004, 'Rhythm Is It!' follows an educational project which undertook the training of 250 Berlin youngsters, previously unfamiliar with classical music, to perform Stravinsky’s ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’. The award-winning documentary culminates with a stunning performance of music and dance with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle).. then at midnight there will be a selection of animated short films from annual short-film festival, Betting on Shorts.. followed by Nicolas Roeg's 1973 classic horror 'Don't Look Now'.. more animated shorts at 2:10am, followed by the influential 1966 Ingmar Bergman film 'Persona'.. and rounding out the night (4am til the first tube home) will be Roman Polanski's debut feature 'Nóz W Wodzie' (Knife in the Water).

more details at http://www.princecharlescinema.com

Ta da! Viola! A pretentious film students wet dream.

Not quite what I would've programmed had I been in charge of a "European Film" night though.. no 'Withnail & I' for one. No 'La Strada'. No olde German Expressionism ('The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', 'M'..).. no sign of the Dogme 95ers.. 

What would you nominate for a night of nothing but European film? (besides lots of black coffee..)

[fishbulb]

Definitly Knoflíkári http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128292/ and for some very dark humour Adams Apples: http://adamsapplesthemovie.net/

And I really think Bertolucci's Novecento should be in every European film festival, because for years I thought it was the best movie ever made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_(film)

Oh, and De Bloedbruiloft http://www.debloedbruiloft.be/ I think I like dark comedies.

PS and how can I forget Breaking The Waves? Grating and harsh, but very beautiful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Waves

[imaginary friend]

Some suggestions; any 4 or 5 would do.

A Very Long Engagement
Satyricon
Run, Lola, Run
The Widow of St. Pierre
Belle du Jour
The Little Thief
Red
Queen Margot
Spetters
...and some insane Italian horror film that was released here in the States under the title "Cemetery Man". Most tripped-out ending ever.

I could run up one massive list - I went through a 10-year period where almost every movie I went to the theater to see was "foreign". I'm happy with this list, though.

jdfu!

[fishbulb]

Spetters

I just have to comment since you mentioned Spetters and you are probably the only Shadowboxer that has heard (and seen?) that movie. Haven't seen that in years but yes, I liked it when it came out and it was at the time a typical example of Dutch cinema.

So I have to come up with more Dutch movies than you now.

Van God Los http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288861/

Minoes (made after everybodies favourite kids book about a lady that's actually a cat, she likes to hang around the herring stall in her cute chanel suit and climbs up trees when dogs approach) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279231/

And of course we have a shitload of movies about the war like Prins van Oranje or Het meisje met het rode haar but the most recent one that I really liked was Zwartboek http://www.zwartboekdefilm.nl/

And the BEST Dutch movie ever: De smaak van water (based on The Visitor by Georgy Konrad) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084697/ I think I need to go see that movie again. On second thoughts, everbody does. It's about a social worker who is caught up in his rules and his procedures, he finds a girl who was hidden in a closet all her life, she can't speak or anything, but there's fireworks between them in the movie, and he undergoes a big change in his life, as well as she does.

[imaginary friend]

I'll have to look into those films you mentioned. As for Spetters, I think it's the best coming-of-age movie ever made; at the very least, it's in the top 5.

jdfu!

[imaginary friend]

Fitzcarraldo
Georgy's Girl
Open Your Eyes
Italian for Beginners
The Seventh Seal
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

jdfu!