SMART Project Space | 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam

SMART CINEMA | Program August 2002

WAKING LIFE, Aug, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 at 19.45 hrs | Aug 15, 16, 17, 18, 2=
0, 21 at 22.15 hrs
LOVELY RITA, Aug 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 at 20:00
ALMOST FAMOUS, Aug 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 at 20:00 hrs
GIMME SHELTER, Aug 22, 23, 24, 25, 25, 27, 28 at 20:00
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, Aug 29, 30, 31 at 20:00
MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Aug 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 at 21.45
DER KRIEGER + DIE KAISERIN Aug 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28 at 21:45
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (O.V.B.), Aug 29, 30, 31 at 22:00
SEUL CONTRE TOUS, Aug 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31 at 00:15
LIVING WITH AN IDIOT, Aug 2, 3, 9, 10 at 00.30

WAKING LIFE, Richard Linklater, 2001, USA, 100 min.
Waking Life, the latest film from director Richard Linklater (The Newton Bo=
ys, Suburbia) is less a film and more series of conversations. It takes pla=
ce within the confines of a dream, where ideas reverberate between people a=
nd things make sense while making no sense. This is a film that requires pe=
ople to pay acute attention to what the actors say on screen. The experienc=
e is like listening to people debating philosophy on a college campus. Howe=
ver, the first attention grabber is the animation.

LOVELY RITA, Jessica Hausner, 2001, Oostenrijk, 80 min.
Rita is an unruly outsider, she is indifferent to her classmates, her teach=
ers find her rude, and her parents lock her in as punishment. Her clumsy se=
xual awakening leads her to intimacy with a schoolboy, too young, and a bus=
driver, too old. These encounters isolate her even more, until one day Rit=
a steps out of bounds.

ALMOST FAMOUS, Cameron Crowe, 2000, USA, 123 min.
Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his=
semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with =
a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living ev=
ery teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock b=
and featuring lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee) and charismatic lead guitar=
ist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and writing about it for Rolling Stone m=
agazine, whose editors are unaware of his young age.

GIMME SHELTER, Albert & David Maysles, 1970, USA, 91 min.
The landmark documentary about the tragically ill-fated Rolling Stones free=
concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969. Only four months earlier=
, Woodstock defined the Love Generation; now it lay in ruins on a desolate =
racetrack six miles outside of San Francisco.
Before an estimated crowd of 300,000 people, the Stones headlined a free co=
ncert featuring Tina Turner, The Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Bro=
thers and others. Concerned about security, the Stones asked members of out=
law biker gang The Hell's Angels to help maintain order. Instead, an atmosp=
here of fear and dread arose, leading ultimately to the stabbing death of a=
fan. What began as a flower-power love-in had degenerated into a near riot=
; frightened, confused faces wondering how the Love Generation could, in on=
e swift, cold-blooded slash, became a generation of disillusionment and dis=
appointment.
December 6, 1969: the day the Sixties died. Verenigde Staten - 1970

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, Darren Aronofsky, 2000, USA, 101 min.
For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronof=
sky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 nov=
el REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the abyss of barren fantasies do=
omed to extinction. However, in Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique, an=
d disturbing style lies the perfect setting for this story of four people w=
hose intertwined lives are filled with eternally hopeful despair. This is a=
different sort of horror film. Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silv=
er (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a s=
mall business and spending the rest of their lives in love–their version o=
f the American dream. The two are also desperate heroin addicts, a compulsi=
on that darkens their lives and leads Harry to repeatedly pawn his mother's=
television. His mother, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), is addicted to tele=
vision, which is why she keeps replacing the stolen set. One day she receiv=
es a call from her favorite show, the surreal TAPPY TIBBONS SHOW, and learn=
s that she has been selected to appear on an upcoming broadcast. When she c=
an't fit into her best red dress, her doctor prescribes diet pills (uppers)=
, to which she swiftly and painfully becomes addicted.

MULHOLLAND DRIVE, David Lynch, 2001, USA, 145 min.
Originally a pilot for an ABC TV series that never got picked up, the story=
focuses on a woman who is abandoned on Mulholland Drive after a car accide=
nt and has amnesia. She stumbles into the apartment of a wanna-be actress w=
ho helps her piece her life together.

DER KRIEGER + DIE KAISERIN, Tom Tykwer, 2000, Germany, 135 min.
Somewhere out there love is waiting…
They meet for the first time, after a horrible accident, underneath a truck=
. The sad and angry Bodo (Benno Furmann), a small time criminal who is al=
ways running, from himself as well as the law, and Sissi (Franka Potente), =
a shy, quiet nurse who works in in a psychiatric clinic. Bodo saves Sissi's=
life, which is literally hanging by a thread, then disappears without trac=
e. Obsessed by the Incident, Sissi sets out on a mission to find the myster=
ious stranger, and to discover whether their paths crossed through simple b=
lind chance or the intricate mechanisms of destiny itself.

THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE, Joel Coen, 2001, USA, 115 min.
The Coen brothers' THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE is a brilliantly photographed b=
lack-and-white absurdist noir set in Santa Rosa, California, in 1949. Ed Cr=
ane (the outstanding Billy Bob Thornton) is a slow-moving, barely talking b=
arber who doesn't seem to want much out of life. He has virtually no relati=
onship with his wife, Doris (Frances McDormand), who has more fun with her =
boss, Big Dave (James Gandolfini). But when a strange character (Jon Polito=
) lets it be known that he's looking for a silent partner to finance his dr=
eam business (something he calls dry cleaning), Ed sees a possible way out =
of his doldrums. Just like any good James M. Cain novel (which the Coens ci=
ted as a major influence on the story), blackmail, deceit, violence, murder=
, and double crossing ensue, all with the magic Coen twists and turns.



SEUL CONTRE TOUS, Gaspar Noe, 1998, France, 93 min.
Horse meat butcher returns to Paris with his life in tatters. He roams the =
cold, impersonal streets looking for work with no hope of ever finding any.=
Bitter and angry with himself, his family and the world, his only chance o=
f revenge is with the gun and three bullets he carries with him. French dia=
logue

LIVING WITH AN IDIOT, Aleksandr Rogozjkin, 1993, 65 min.
Black comedy. An intellectual sees it as his duty to take an idiot in house=
, but soon he can