Film fans' movie swap
THE scheduled film River Queen – part of the Inverness Film Fans current New Zealand season – will not be shown at Eden Court Cinema on Tuesday, October 2 as planned.InFiFa’s Mark Maclennan said: “I’ve just been informed that at the last moment we cannot show River Queen.“So now instead we will be showing the classic Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now to start our next season – Difficult Shoots – early.The four films in Difficult Shoots will screen through October and November.The fmovies were chosen as famously they had all proved a challenge to film in one way or another.They are:
Apocalypse Now
Tuesday, October 2 at 7.15pm
Director: Francis Ford CoppolaUS/1979/153 mins
Coppola’s film is based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with the setting updated from the Congo in Victorian times to the Vietnam War in 1969. Martin Sheen plays a US captain sent up-river from South Vietnam to Cambodia to assassinate a US army colonel gone rogue, played by Marlon Brando. The film was dogged by problems in its making – from Marlon Brando arriving on-set overweight and unprepared and weather destroying expensive sets to Martin Sheen suffering a heart attack – all documented in later film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Tuesday, October 23 at 7.15pm
Director: Werner Herzog West Germany / 1972 / 95 mins
There is extraordinary film-making from director Werner Herzog in challenging circumstances to tell the story of Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), a ruthless Spanish conquistador who vies for power while part of an expedition in Peru to find El Dorado, the mythical seven cities of gold. Accompanied by his daughter, Flores (Cecilia Rivera), Aguirre faces off against his superior, Don Pedro de Ursua (Ruy Guerra) and grows increasingly volatile after seizing control of the group. As Aguirre presses deeper into the Amazonian jungle, he descends further into madness.
The Exorcist
Tuesday, October 30 at 7.15pm
Director: William Friedkin USA / 1993 / 120 mins
One of the most profitable horror movies ever made, this tale of an exorcism is based loosely on actual events. When young Regan (Linda Blair) starts acting odd – levitating, speaking in tongues – her worried mother (Ellen Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest (Jason Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job. William Friedkin’s powerful film adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s bestselling, the film quickly became a cultural phenomenon.
The Wizard Of Oz
Tuesday, November 13 at 7.15pm
Director: Victor Fleming USA / 1939 / 102 mins
Although it had a troubled and difficult gestation and subsequent shoot (it went through a number of directors), The Wizard Of Oz remains one of the most beloved fantasy films of all time. Young Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas where a large tornado picks her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the Land of Oz where things are strange and beautiful, but Dorothy just wants to get back home. While searching her way home via the fabled Wizard of Oz – and trying to avoid the Wicked Witch of the West – Dorothy meets a scarecrow (who needs a brain), a tin man (who needs a heart) and a cowardly lion (who needs courage). Follow the yellow brick road!
Everyone is welcome at the InFiFa public screenings at Eden Court Cinema which are followed by an opportunity
