New print titles celebrating milestone anniversaries such as “Paris, Texas” and “The Wishing Tree” will be on display; gems of silent cinema such as “Pandora’s Box”, and four titles dedicated to rock, among many others.
On April 26, in a distant and terrible future, Lieutenant Ripley’s spaceship arrives on the planet Acheron, where the xenomorphs live, which, as is known, are very unsociable beings. By double coincidence, the planet responds to the designation LV-426, and in the United States. On April 26 it is formatted 4.26 (the month ahead, the opposite of us). That happens in “Alien, the Eighth Passenger”, and with these data since 2016, fans of the film have been celebrating Alien Day every April 26, believe it or not.
Bafici missed the date, otherwise he might have put a film from the franchise in the Rescue section. But he did not miss the Georgian’s centenary Tengiz Abuladzean artist who knew how to make his own even under the communist regime (from him you can see “The wishing tree”) nor the anniversaries of “Paris, Texas” (Wim Wenders1984) and “The Capture of Pelham 1-2-3” (Joseph Sargent, 1974), an absolutely commercial film, foreign to the declared spirit of the Bafici, but very good and entertaining, two merits that are difficult to find in a few other films at the Festival. interpreters, Walther Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondobig words.
Along with those, there are other commendable works to see in these last three days of the Festival. To highlight, the silent classic “Pandora’s Box” by GW Pabstwith the sensual Louise Brooks. In another order, and in varied order, “That Day may Face the Rising Sun” (Pat CollinsIrish eclogue), “Blaga’s Lessons” (Stephan Komandarek, Bulgarian intrigue about a grandmother who is the victim of her uncle’s story), drawings for children, suitable for adults, “Nina et le secret de l’hérisson” (Gagnol and Felicioli) and “Linda veut du poulet” (Malta and Laudenbach) with a hedgehog and a runaway chicken as respective co-stars, the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Johan Grimonprezjazz greats in the face of the Lumumba case) and the biographical “San Pugliese” (Acosta, Nacif and Winer), “Señor Jazz, the film by Carlos Inzillo” (Sotelo y Hornos) and “Uncropped” (DW Youngabout James Hamilton, famous “Village Voice” photographer).
For curious souls, the double program “Two sisters: Paula” and “Two sisters: Pilar”from the prolific García Pelayo, “A bad actor” (Jorge CuchiMexican drama about a victim of violent feminists), “Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant” (Ariane Louis-Seize, teenage vampire waits for someone to commit suicide) and “Le Vourdalak” (Adrien Beau, a traveler stops to rest where it least suits him). This Vourdalak is inspired by a short novel by Aleksei Tolstoy, a distant cousin of Leo Tolstoy (please do not confuse) and it has already been made into a film several times, including here (“Vourdalak Blood”, Fernández Calvetewith Germán Palacios and Naiara Awada). But the best version is still “The three faces of fear”, by Mario Bava1963, renamed “Black Sabbath” in the North American market. Legend has it that he was watching this movie Ozzy Osbourne and friends decided to name their heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
By the way, Bafici includes four titles for rockers and the like: “Under the sun of rock and roll” (Simoncini and Neri on Jorge Pistocchi), “Music survives” (Luis Bogado, history of Paraguayan rock and its songs in Guaraní), the rescued “Adios Sui Generis” (Bebe Kamin) and “Fuck you ! The last show” (José Luis García, Sumo record) that officially closes the Festival, but it does not close it, because it takes place on Saturday and this ends on Sunday.
Source: Ambito
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