THE LAST SCREENING OF WALTER RUTTMANN’S BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT THIS SUNDAY AT KUNDURA CINEMA
The last screening of Walter Ruttmann’s masterpiece Berlin: Symphony of a Great City will be held on the 16th of December at 4pm with live musical accompaniment by Gonca Feride Varol and Armağan Koçak at Kundura Cinema.
Walter Ruttmann's masterpiece Berlin: Symphony of a Great City from 1927, documents an ordinary day in Berlin. The film portrays the daily life of the city in five sections, starting with the sunrise and ending with the nightlife. Focusing on the modern city, the documentary displays the relationship between people and spaces and the rhythm of the city that operates as a machine with an impressive film editing. Accompanied by live music, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City presents a unique experience for the audience.
Launched in November 2018, Kundura Cinema’s first annual film selection focuses on films traveling around cities, taking audiences on a journey to all corners of the world, from the first modern cities to the present, from huge metropolises to dystopian cities of the future, from New York to Paris, from Berlin to Mexico, from Tokyo to Istanbul…
The programme includes masterpieces never previously screened in Turkey, with titles selected from diverse cinematic genres ranging from narrative to experimental, drama to comedy and film noir to science fiction, investigating the soul, rhythm and the light of cities, and the people that inhabit them.
Other films in the programme
Kundura Cinema has opened its doors with the first ever restorated screening of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City. Produced in 1948, Jules Dassin’s The Naked City was restored for its 70th year anniversary at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. The Naked City centers on a murder investigation and it is a masterpiece beyond time, most of which is shot outdoors and filled with everyday life details with unique New York images.
Focusing on the films traveling around cities the programme includes another film of Jules Dassin, 1950 produced Night and The City. This time viewers will wonder the streets of London. Dassin turns the city into a character by his breathtaking directing while he deepens the portrait of the “loser man” and his melancholic story with the use of light and space. The last screening of this film will be held on this Saturday, 8 December.
Another restorated film from the programme is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film The Apartment produced and directed by Billy Wilder. The Apartment will be screened in Turkey for the first time at Kundura Cinema right after the screening at the 71st Festival de Cannes in the Cannes Classics. Set in the New York city around New Year’s time, American morality and lifestyle is satirized with severe critiques of capitalism in this well-written romantic comedy.
The programme includes Playtime by Jacque Tati which was realised in nearly ten years in 1967. Playtime observes the people lost in the ultra-modern version of Paris through its narrative based on different places and coincidental events.
Another Jacques Tati film included in the programme is 1971 dated Trafic. Mr. Hulot hits the road with a team in order to take his cool-looking but nonfunctional automobile designed by himself to an auto show in Amsterdam.
Kundura Cinema welcomes all audiences to explore the historical and cultural heritage of Turkey. Transportation is available and organized in accordance with the screenings.
December Programme
Saturday, 8 December
16:00 Night and the City
20:00 Trafic
Sunday, 9 December
16:00 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City *
20:00 The Apartment
Saturday, 15 December
16:00 The Apartment
20:00 Playtime
Sunday, 16 December
16:00 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City *
20:00 The Naked City
Saturday, 22 December
16:00 The Naked City
20:00 Trafic
Sunday, 23 December
16:00 The Apartment
20:00 Playtime
Saturday, 29 December
16:00 The Apartment
20:00 The Naked City
Sunday, 30 December
16:00 Trafic
20:00 The Apartment
*With live musical accompaniment by Gonca Feride Varol and Armağan Koçak
