The 8th edition of “Nits de Cinema” organised by the Cinema Club of Universitat de València will alternate this year films of escape attempts and detailed scams with contemporary westerns. From 10 to 23 July, Claustrum of the Cultural Centre La Nau will host night projections from 22:00h. In total 13 films will be projected (trailer of the presentation here: https://youtu.be/0RxjT5Rtr_k) offered in two series: “Master Plans” and “New Horizons of Western”. The entry to the sessions –all of them in original version and subtitled– is free.
Cinema Club of Universitat de València, which offers monthly film series throughout the year in the afternoons moves its schedule to its summer headquarter: La Nau and at night-time. In this 8th edition, the programming of “Nits de Cinema” is organised in two series. “New Horizons of Western”, a varied sample that summarises in five films the recent genre evolution, from its “revival” in the nineties until today. And “Master Plans”, a ludic proposal composed by eight films that tells detailed escape attempts, ingenious scams or methodical murders that seemed perfect when carried out.
“Nits de Cinema” has the collaboration of Filmoteca CulturArts IVAC, for this reason the series “Master Plans” will continue at Filmoteca d’Estiu, from 31 July, in the gardens of Palau de la Música.
The 8th edition of these series was presented this morning at La Nau on a press conference where Antonio Ariño, vice-principal for Culture and Equality of Universitat de València; José Luis Moreno, general director of CulturArts; and Pablo Hernández, coordinator of Cinema Club of UV, presented the programming and took stock of this project.
The vice-principal reminded that over 30.000 viewers attended the eight editions of “Nits de Cinema” celebrated at La Nau. Just the last summer, over 4.000 people attended the sessions of this summer series that takes place in the headquarter of the historic building of UV. The singularity of “Nits de Cinema”, he said, «is the socio-cultural experience that it creates since it allows the viewing of a film in original version and presented and analysed by specialists and in a singular place, such as La Nau.»
“Master Plans”
Recently adapted as a television show, Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996) will be the movie in charge of opening the projections of “Nits de Cinema” on Friday 10 July. Key film of neo-noir, this acid black comedy gloats over by telling the hundreds of complications of a “master plan” that soon goes wrong and gives a hilarious and unforgettable portrait of characters thanks to the excentric look of the Cohen brothers.
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The series continues on Sunday 12 with one of the most successful films of the seventies Italian “political cinema”, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, Elio Petri, 1970). A film that examines the power mechanisms from a self-incrimination process of a murder, who turns out to be the chief of the Homicide Department.
With the projection of Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972), on Monday 13 the audience could attend to the duel of wittiness between a mystery novels writer and the actual lover of his wife and, at the same time, enjoy the interpretative duel between two of the biggest acting figures that British cinema has given, Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
Wednesday 15 is programmed one of the great masterpieces of French cinematography of all times: The Hole (Le trou, Jacques Becker, 1960) a prison drama that describes with outstanding detail the execution of a complex escape plan. And on Thursday 16, by the hand of Luis García Berlanga, it is the turn for rural comedy, Miracles of Thursday (Los jueves, milagro; 1957), satire about the organisation of a false miracle to revive the economy of a town, which reveals the mediocracy and the scarcities of the Francoist Spain.
The series faces its home stretch on Monday 20 with the projection of Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Vera Chytilová, 1966). With this session, the Cinema Club offers the audience the opportunity of discovering this experimental film, a visual and aural collage directed by a key film-maker of the Czechoslovak New Wave and protagonised by two young people who plan to provoke the chaos in their environment in very disparate ways.
And of course, the series would not be complete without the “magician of the mystery”, the film-maker par excellence of perfect crimes, whose film will be projected on Tuesday 21, an indisputable classic as Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951).
Finally, the robbery made a media spectacle of Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) will close on Wednesday 22 the series dedicated to “Master Plans” at the claustrum of La Nau. A series shared with Filmoteca d’Estiu, which one more year organises CulturArts IVAC at the gardens of Turia, where this show will extend from 31 July with the projection of films as Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) or The Ladykillers (Mackendrick, 1955).
“New Horizons of Western”
The programming of “Nits de Cinema” is completed with the five sessions that form “New Horizons of Western”. A series that starts on Saturday 11 with the projection of Unvorgiven (1922), the masterpiece of Clint Eastwook that made think in a revitalisation of the Western cinema, or at least, in the possibility of punctual “resurrections” of a genre thought to be already buried. Cinema has offered many good shows of the genre since then, and the purpose of this series is to offer a brief review that accounts for the originality and heterogeneity of the proposals.
On Tuesday 14 it will be projected Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996), a “mystery” western that goes deep into two basic thematic elements of the genre, racism and borders, digging in the darkest secrets of a town in Texas. A Korean treasure located in the thirties Manchuria, The good, the bad and the weird (Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom, Kim Jee-woon, 2008) will be protagonist on Friday 17, in a session that will offer the most explosive action cinema and a tribute to the spaghetti western of Sergio Leone. The animation cinema, for its part, will also have a place of the actual edition of “Nits de Cinema” with the projection of Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011) on Sunday 19. A film for people from all ages and with quotes and references to some of the essential westerns.
On Thursday 23, the independent cinema of Jim Jarmusch and its original review of myths, topics and ways of western will close, with Dead Man (1995), this 8th edition of “Nits de Cinema” at the claustrum of La Nau.
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Last update: 6 de july de 2015 12:52.
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