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No Hollywood please!
My favourite movies in the 1970's were made by the
new European directors, François
Truffaut✶, Lina Wertmüller✶, P.P.
Pasolini✶, Federico
Fellini✶, Claude
Lelouch✶, or
their predecessors, like Luis
Buñuel✶. I
also liked it when Studio Skoop, the alternative
cinema in Ghent, programmed Japanese films, be it Akira
Kurosawa✶,
samourai films (but preferably not post-synchronised
in French - quelle horreur!) or film versions of old
Japanese stories and myths like Kwaidan✶ .
While I worked at Raamtheater, my attention went
much more to theatre than to movies. That changed
again when Touché came into my life. In the first
year or two, assisting theatre in Dutch wasn't an
option for her. Moreover, going to the movies has
always been some kind of therapy for her, that we
now share.
In Antwerp there are basically four venues for
movies. The biggest is the place where Hollywood
movies are shown. We go there very seldom. The
second is the French cinema chain UGC, with European
and American films. The third is Cartoon's, the
alternative place with European films and films from
other continents. Finally, there's Muhka_media✶, the cinema
linked to the Contemporary Art Museum, where they
show older as well as new films. The latter place is
interesting for its retrospective series of famous
directors, like Ingmar Bergman in January 2008.
We like well-made movies, whether psychological
drama or something romantic (not too sweet por
favor), there may be some 'action', but no cheap
violence, horror or sci-fi... Some names: Wong
Kar-wai✶
(2046, My Blueberry Nights), Denys
Arcand✶ (Les
invasions barbares, L'âge des ténèbres), Pedro
Almodóvar✶
(Volver, La mala educación, Hable con ella,...), Lars
von Trier✶
(Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, The Boss of it All),
Kim
Ki-duk✶
(Spring, Summer, Winter... and Spring).
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