black and white cinema The Filmoteca, which is programming this Thursday, is returning to Alicante. Valencia Institute of Culture (IVC) at Teatre Arniches. Predictions continues with a new chapter of the cycle dedicated to Charles Chaplin. This Thursday at 7:30pm.with a session three shorts best known: A party day, Arms on the shoulders! Y Celebration.
the program continues January 19 with city lights (1931), where the vagrant Charlot helps a flower seller; the February 2 with Modern Times (1936), a critique of capitalist dehumanization through a worker engulfed by industrialization; and February 9 when it comes Great Dictator (1940), anti-Nazi satire and anti-fascist rhetoric that went down in history. first sound movie From the British comedian.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947), a black comedy inspired by a serial female killer, February 23following March 2 spotlights (1952), a reflection on the comedian profession On-screen encounter with Buster Keaton. Loop closes in March a king in New York (1957), a acidic and angry comedy after Senator McCarthy’s witch hunt. day 9while March 30 projected Countess from Hong Kong (1967) is a romantic comedy in between, in which Chaplin chose color to shoot the film that closed his filmography. Marlon Brando and Sofia Loren.
Premieres
The Film Library also premieres three unreleased movies in Alicante: phone of the wind (Japan, 2020), Nobuhiro Suwa reflects on the 2011 tsunami and the Fukushima disaster (January 26); becamea, (Colombia, 2021) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a sensory experience (February 16); Y return to Reims (France, 2021), Jean-Gabriel Périot, containing archival footage of the workers’ struggle in France in the 50s.