PROGRAM SPRING 2025
Film Week January 21st-25th
Martin Scorsese - Wisdom beyond the wise guy
TUESDAY JANUARY 21ST
19.15 BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
USA 1999, 2h 1 min, starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman
Frank is a paramedic in New York City trying to cope with his life while being haunted by the ghosts of his past. Will he finally find peace?
FRIDAY JANUARY 24TH
19.15 TAXI DRIVER
USA 1976,1h 52m starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shephard
-"You´re talking to me?" He repeats several times. But nobody is there, only the mirror. Strange, they call him. Looking around for someone, something in a New York where he doesn´t fit. And he does find, Travis unlucky man. A few days in NY, the nights, the streets, events rolling on
SATURDAY JANUARY 25TH
18.00 FILM WEEK DINNER
Please bring something to share for a pleasant time together
19.15 MARTIN SCORSESE - WISDOM BEYOND THE WISE
Lecture by Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Professor of Cinema Studies, Stockholm
followed by
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
USA 1993, 2h 19 min, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
New York’s high society and Newland Archer's heart are both struck with the force of lightning when it turns out that the scandalous Madame Olenska has returned to the US.
Martin Scorsese - Wisdom beyond the wise guy
When Martin Scorsese studied at NYU, Hollywood's golden age was over and American filmmaking was seen to be in decline. Inspired by new European cinema, Scorsese took part in reinventing Hollywood, receiving big budgets, major actors, and wide audiences without compromising his artistic integrity.
Scorsese grew up in New York’s “Little Italy,” a segregated and crime-dominated neighborhood. With his asthma and interest in altar service rather than street brawls, he however never ended up with the gangster trajectory of Goodfellas’ Henry Hill or other wise guy protagonists. His film making drills into community acceptance and rejection, finding equal fascination with high society and the criminal underworld. The conventions of Gilded Age aristocrats in The Age of Innocence can be as brutal as those in mafia films like Casino.
While imminently watchable with snappy dialogue, engaging intrigue, and sometimes brutal violence, Scorsese’s films are rarely superficial. Initially fascinated by the spectacle of the Catholic mass and aspiring to become a priest, he still expresses his reach towards the transcendent, wrestling with questions of faith, alienation, and the historical roots of American society."
FILMS, FILMS, FRIDAYS...
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7TH
19.15 MAMA ROMA
by Pier Paolo Pasolino, Italy 1962, 1h 46min
In a corrupt society, a woman formerly prostituting herself tries to build a new life with her son in a new suburb of Rome.
FRIDAY FEB 28TH
19.15 SUMMER WITH MONIKA
by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1953, 1 h 36 min, starring Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg
Prepare for a summer unlike any other, where innocence and reality collide on the sunlit shores of the Swedish archipelago.
FRIDAY MARCH 21ST
19.15 BEAU TRAVAIL
by Claire Denis, France,1999, 1h 32 min, starring Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin
The French Foreign Legion delves into desire, dance and death in the East-African desert
FRIDAY APRIL 11TH
- The Russian director Andrey Tarkovsky is a lighthouse for Filmklubben since start. We screen one of
his films each semester.
19.15 THE SACRIFICE
by Andrey TarkovskySweden 1986, 2h29min, starring Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Sven Wollter
Alexander tries to bargain with God to avert an apocalypse. Does he understand the sacrifice he takes on?
FRIDAY MAY 2nd
19.30 TEOREMA
by Pier Paolo Pasolino, Italy 1968, 1h 38min, starring Silvana Mangano, Terrence Stamp, Massimo Girotti
Who´s that stranger? Suddenly turning up and whirling away again. Hearts flip and drama is on.
FRIDAY MAY 23rd
MEMBERS´ CHOICE
Film choosen during January Film Week