Habitat Film Club - India Habitat Centre

Films in June, 2006

THE CINEMATIC CITY
Curated and Introduced by
RANJANI MAZUMDAR
(Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU)

12th June

6:30 PM

Introduction to the series by Curator, Ranjani Mazumdar followed by screening of the THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS (1959/France/99mins)

Dir. Francois Truffaut

Considered to be one of the most influential films of adolescence, the film follows 13-year-old Antoine (Jean-Pierre Leaud), as he turns to a life of small time crime to escape the neglect he receives at home from his parents and the harsh criticism of his teacher.

19th June

6:30 PM

Stray Dog (1949/Japan/122 mins)

Dir. Akira Kurosawa

An early encounter between Kurusawa and two of his favourite actors, Mifune and Shimura, both playing detectives in Japan's uneasy post war period under U.S. imperialism. When Mifune's pistol is stolen, he is over whelmed by a feeling of dishonour and sets out on a descent into the lower depths of Tokyo's underworld.

24th June

6:30 PM

Rififi (1955/France/117 mins)

Dir. Jules Dassin

This is the story of a bunch of thieves who band together to commit a seemingly impossible robbery. Adapted from Auguste Le Breton's pulp novel 'Du Rififi Chez Less Hommes' the film is one of cinema's seminal heist movies. Its central robbery sequence has influenced many films.

27th June

6:30 PM

Roma (1972/Italy/199 mins)

Dir. Federico Fellini

'Roma' is a lavish autobiography that brings together a series of vignettes brimming with satire and spark. Through the narrative Fellini comes to grips with a 'sprawling, boisterous, bursting at the seams portrait of Rome', reinterpreting with his inimitable style an Italian history full of sensual imagery and adventurous perception.

29th June

6:30 PM

City of God (2002/Brazil/130 mins)

Dir. Fernando Meirelles

Winner of numerous awards, the streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God', is a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. In the midst of the oppressive crime and violence, a frail and scared young boy grows up to discover that he can view the harsh realities of his surroundings with a different eye: the eye of a photographer.

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