THE JOURNEY CONTINUES WITH NEW FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS IN KUNDURA CINEMA
The cinematic legacy of the factory continues its journey with selected films, documentaries and special screenings traveling around cities in March in Kundura Cinema.
Wim Wenders Anthology in March
Director Wim Wenders’s selected cult films will be screened in Kundura Cinema’s March programme. Produced in 1974, Alice In The Cities focuses on German journalist Philip’s trip to US where he finds himself unfamiliar to everything in the country and decides to return to Germany. Paris, Texas produced in 1984 is the story of an isolated man who reconnects to life and his family in Texas. The last film in the anthology Wings of Desire produced in 1987 takes place in Berlin and tells the story of an angel who wants to become a mortal because he is in love with a human. Bruno Ganz’s enchanting performance portraying a love-sick angel is not be missed. The acclaimed Swiss actor passed away last month.
Kundura Express sets on a journey
Kundura Cinema curates its screenings parallel to the festivals all around the world and invites viewers to a special journey with Kundura Express. Screened in Berlinale 2017 programme, the first film of Thai director Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s Railway Sleepers produced in 2017 explores the close connection between Thai people and Thai railway. The film is a celebration and record of what it is like to live in Thailand today. Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train, produced in 2018 reflects the stories of three different character that have never met in Memphis. Director skillfully connects these stories and manages to take them to different places like three railway cars towed by the same locomotive. The last film in the Kundura Express is Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. Produced in 2007, the film centers around the story of three brothers who have never met until they unite on a train ride to India to attend their father’s funeral.
International Women’s Day, 8th March Special Screening
Kundura Cinema cites International Women’s Day with a special programme. Produced in 1991, Ridley Scott’s unforgettable road and buddy film Thelma & Louise invites viewers to the adventure of two best friends, which turns around to an escaping from being hunted by the police.
Produced in 2012, Director Yang Mingming’s Female Directors is a short mockumentary about two film school graduates navigating their ways around sex, friendship, and employment. Female Director is also reviewed as one of the best examples of Chinese Independent Film Industry.
New Films in March Programme
Kundura Cinema’s most anticipated screenings with live music takes its place in the March programme. Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s silent film Pandora’s Box produced in 1929 centers around a free-loving, status-climbing dancer who murders her rich paramour in Berlin, then takes up with a succession of other lovers. Pandora's Box will meet with audience in Turkey for the first time in Kundura Cinema. After many years of neglect, Deutsche Kinematek has restored the film with the supervision of Martin Koerber. The restoration is considered to be a great advertisement for what can be achieved in film industry through new digital techniques.
Louise Brooks’s breathtaking performance will be accompanied by live music of Yiğit Özatalay and Mustafa Kemal Emirel’s Yürüyen Merdiven.
One of the first directors of the French New Wave Cinema Jacques Rivette’s first feature-length film Paris Belongs to Us, produced in 1958 but screened in 1961, follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance.
Ongoing films
March programme offers the viewers a second chance to rediscover masterpieces from the last month. Juho-Pekka Tanskanen’s debut documentary film Waiting for Barcelona, Jim Jarmusch’s masterpiece Night on Earth, Martin Scorsese’s classic Taxi Driver and Michael Mann’s Collateral will be on the March programme. Beloved Special Screenings continue in March with complimentary drinks and nibbles. In this category, Billy Wilder’s cult film Some Like It Hot will be screened for the last time at Kundura Cinema.
Film Programme, March 2019:
March 8th, Friday- International Women’s Day Special Screening Double Feature
19.30 | Female Directors - 2012, Yang Mingming
21.00 | Thelma & Louise - 1991, Ridley Scott
March 9th, Saturday
16.00 |Mystery Train - 1989, Jim Jarmusch
19.30 | Alice in the Cities - 1974, Wim Wenders
March 10th, Sunday
16.00 | Pandora’s Box - 1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst**
19.30 |Wings of Desire - 1987, Wim Wenders
March 16th, Saturday
16.00 |Wings of Desire - 1987, Wim Wenders
19.30 |Alice in the Cities - 1974, Wim Wenders
March 17th, Sunday
16.00 | Paris Belongs to Us - 1961, Jacques Rivette
19.30 | Paris, Texas - 1984, Wim Wenders
March 23rd, Saturday
13.30 |Railway Sleepers - 2016, Sompot Chidgasornpongse
16.00 | Mystery Train - 1989, Jim Jarmusch
19.30 | The Darjeeling Limited - 2007, Wes Anderson
March 24th, Sunday
16.00 | Pandora’s Box - 1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst**
19.30 | Paris Belongs to Us - 1961, Jacques Rivette
March 29th, Friday - Special Screening
21.00 | Some Like It Hot - 1959, Billy Wilder
March 30th, Saturday- International Women’s Day Special Screening Double Feature
16.00 | Female Directors - 2012, Yang Mingming
19.30 | Thelma & Louise - 1991, Ridley Scott
**Pandora’s Boxwill be screened with live musical accompaniment by Yiğit Özatalay and Mustafa Kemal Emirel’s Yürüyen Merdiven.
