Films in cycle

Destiny

(Der müde Todd, Germany, 1921)

Directed by: Fritz Lang
PHOTOGRAPHY: Bruno Mondi, Erich Nitzschmann, Herrmann Saalfrank, Bruno Timm, Fritz Arno Wagner
Synopsis:

A young couple spends a night in a village inn. During the night, the young man is abducted by Death, which hides behind the glass wall without doors. Through three similar stories we learn that the man has never been saved. The girl realizes the meaning of the stories and does the only thing that will enable her to reunite with her boyfriend.

b/w, 114'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 01.02.2011 AT 21:00
Monday 31.01.2011 AT 19:00

Nosferatu

(Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, Germany, 1922)

Directed by: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fritz Arno Wagner
Synopsis:

This is the first film version of Dracula, brilliantly creepy and full of imaginative expressions never achieved by any director of similar themes. The role of Nosferatu was played by Max Schreck and he became the most ominous (and the ugliest) vampire in film history. It is an interesting fact that this film is not an official adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but rather its direct plagiarism. Stoker’s widow unsuccessfully demanded from the court to ban and destroy this film. But...

b/w, silent, 94'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 01.02.2011 AT 19:00
Monday 31.01.2011 AT 21:00

Vampyr

(Germany, France, 1932)

Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
PHOTOGRAPHY: Rudolph Maté, Louis Née (nepotpisan)
Synopsis:

Allan Grey is a young researcher of the occult mysteries. One evening a stranger leaves a package for him with the message: “Open after my death”. Allan follows the stranger, catching up to him in front of a castle right before the man gets murdered. Then he finds out that the stranger’s daughters live in the castle, the younger Gisèle and her older sibling Léone who is severely ill. The servants allow Allan to spend the night in the castle and when he opens the mysterious package, he finds a bo...

b/w, 75'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 03.02.2011 AT 21:00
Wednesday 02.02.2011 AT 19:00

The Black Cat

(1934.)

Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
PHOTOGRAPHY: John J. Mescall
Synopsis:

A young couple on a honeymoon meet Doctor Vitus Werdegast on a train in Hungary. After having spent the last fifteen years as a war prisoner, he is visiting his friend. The doctor and the couple share a taxi ride but a traffic accident happens near the home of Vitus’ friend, architect Hjalmar Poelzig. This is the first film in which Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi appeared together.

35 mm, b/w, 65 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 03.02.2011 AT 19:00
Wednesday 02.02.2011 AT 21:00

The Hound of the Baskervilles

(1939.)

Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
PHOTOGRAPHY: J. Peverell Marley
Synopsis:

This is the first of four film versions of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Sir Henry Baskerville returns from a trip abroad to claim the inheritance after his uncle’s death. He inherited a castle in Devonshire and lots of land mostly consisting of swamps. He invites Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery of the family curse that threatens the young heir.

35 mm, b/w, 80 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 05.02.2011 AT 21:00
Friday 04.02.2011 AT 19:00

Eyes Without a Face

(Les Yeux sans visage, 1959)

Directed by: Georges Franju
PHOTOGRAPHY: Eugen Schüfftan
Synopsis:

Doktor Génessier is a famous Parisian plastic surgeon who is tortured by a sense of guilt because his daughter Christiane’s face got disfigured in a car accident. His wish to repair the damage grows into an obsession. The doctor and his assistant Louise kidnap young women who bear a physical resemblance to Christiane and try to transplant their faces onto hers and give her back her beauty.

b/w, 90'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 05.02.2011 AT 19:00
Friday 04.02.2011 AT 21:00

Kaidan

(2007.)

Directed by: Hideo Nakata
PHOTOGRAPHY: Junichirô Hayashi
Synopsis:

Ovaj izvrsni japanski horor priča je o čovjeku koji slučajno smrtno ranjava suprugu, jadnu i ni po čemu posebnu učiteljicu. Ne prođe puno vremena, a novopečeni udovac pobjegne s jednom od njenih bivših učenica, što uzrokuje pojavu njena zlog duha uz prijetnje vječnom torturom - ukoliko se nevjerni suprug ponovno oženi!

digital, color, 115 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 09.02.2011 AT 21:00
Monday 07.02.2011 AT 19:00

The Ring 2

(Ringu 2, 1999.)

Directed by: Hideo Nakata
PHOTOGRAPHY: Hideo Yamamoto
Synopsis:

In the sequel to the Ring, Reiko and her son Yôichi hide from the government while he starts to develop the same paranormal powers as the deceased Sadako. They are sought by the police and Mai Takano who tries to find out the truth about her boyfriend’s sudden death. At the same time, the deadly tape causes the death of one more person, Kanae Sawaguchi, who asked her friend to watch the tape instead of her but who failed to do so.

digital, color, 95 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 08.02.2011 AT 19:00
Monday 07.02.2011 AT 21:00

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(2003.)

Directed by: Marcus Nispel
PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Pearl
Synopsis:

This is a remake of the classic horror from 1974. Five friends return from a concert in Mexico. Driving through Texas they encounter a distressed hitchhiker who commits suicide before they manage to find out what caused her state. They try to find the sheriff to report the suicide but instead arrive at an abandoned farm inhabited by a family of psychopaths.

digital, color, 98 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 11.02.2011 AT 21:00
Wednesday 09.02.2011 AT 19:00

The Eye

(Gin gwai, 2002.)

Directed by: Danny Pang
PHOTOGRAPHY: Decha Srimantra
Synopsis:

Mun is a twenty year-old cellist who has been blind since she was two. She has a chance to see again when a retina donor emerges. The operation goes well and Mun can see again. At first, everything seems to be in order but soon Mun starts seeing unusual things. She thinks she is seeing ghosts and is determined to find out whose eyes she got.

digital, color, 99 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 12.02.2011 AT 21:00
Thursday 10.02.2011 AT 19:00

The Eye 2

(Gin gwai 2, 2004.)

Directed by: Danny Pang
PHOTOGRAPHY: Decha Srimantra
Synopsis:

Even though the title suggests that this is a sequel to the film Eye (2002), it is in fact a film with only a similar theme to the original. The hero is Joey, a psychologically unstable girl who tries to commit suicide after a failed relationship. The doctors save her and she finds out that she is pregnant. Trying to decide what to do next, she starts to suffer from visions of a strange man and woman.

digital, color, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 11.02.2011 AT 19:00
Thursday 10.02.2011 AT 21:00

Isolation

(2005.)

Directed by: Billy O´Brien
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robbie Ryan
Synopsis:

Dan is the owner of a run-down farm and he is trying to make a living. Trying to make ends meet, he agrees to have his livestock used for medical testing. It is a genetic experiment for increasing fertility carried out by a scientist, John. Dan’s ex-girlfriend, veterinarian Orla, often stops by the farm to oversee the testing. One day a cow gives birth and it becomes clear that the experiment went wrong…

digital, color, 95 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 16.02.2011 AT 21:00
Saturday 12.02.2011 AT 19:00

Saw

(2004.)

Directed by: James Wan
PHOTOGRAPHY: David A. Armstrong
Synopsis:

This is the first of so far seven films from the Saw serial. Adam and Lawrence wake up in an unfamiliar, shabby bathroom unaware of how they got there. They do not know each other and both and are chained to one end of the room. In the middle of the room there is the corpse of an unknown man, a gun and a tape player. Soon, they find instructions: Adam must die or Lawrence’s family will be murdered.

digital, color, 103 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 17.02.2011 AT 17:00
Monday 14.02.2011 AT 19:00

Saw II

(2005.)

Directed by: Darren Bousman
PHOTOGRAPHY: David A. Armstrong
Synopsis:

Following a clue, detective Eric Matthews and the rest of his team come to an abandoned steel factory. There they find John Kramer, weak from cancer. He is surrounded by monitors and the police realize that he is holding eight hostages in an unknown location where a poisonous gas is slowly leaking. The antidote is available but hidden behind many traps. Among the hostages is Eric’s son Daniel.

digital, color, 93 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 15.02.2011 AT 19:00
Monday 14.02.2011 AT 21:00

The Orphanage

(El orfanato, 2007.)

Directed by: Juan Antonio Bayona
PHOTOGRAPHY: Óscar Faura
Synopsis:

Laura opens a home for handicapped children in a former orphanage where she spent a happy childhood. She is a grown woman now and has her own family: husband Simón and their adopted son Carlos. Soon after moving into the old orphanage, Carlos says to his mother that he has five invisible friends. Thinking that he is just imagining things, Laura does not pay much attention to her son’s stories.

digital, color, 105 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 16.02.2011 AT 19:00
Tuesday 15.02.2011 AT 21:00
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