City Streets
The wonders of city streets
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Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a City) 1927 All ages A documentary fashioned by Walter Ruttmann, Carl Mayer, and Karl Freund, three great filmmakers trained in the German avant garde and commercial cinema. Together they portray a vast cross section of life in Berlin edited around rigorous musical principles, popularising Dziga Vertov’s kino-eye technique. Wed 15 Oct 4.00pm / Cinema A |
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 All ages Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s American masterpiece was written while the director was still in Germany. It is set in a city a world away, just across the lake. America’s sweetheart couple, George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor, are caught in medias infidelity. Murderous Gothic-like depression gives way to a redemptive day in the city. Fri 7 Nov 8.00pm / Cinema A |
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Asphalt 1929 All ages Universum-Film’s last silent movie and a doozie. A Berlin cop gets mixed up with the female jewel thief he has come to arrest. But sleaze gets the Universum-Film colossal treatment: spectacular studio recreations of city streets, costumes by Rene Hubert, bravura camera techniques, and the intriguing Louise Brooks wannabe, Betty Aman. Wed 29 Oct 4.00pm / Cinema A |
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Moulin Rouge 1928 All ages Following the success of Variety, Ewald André Dupont left Germany for England and brought with him all the lush, intricate artistry of the German studios. Shot partly in Paris at the Casino de Paris, Moulin Rouge involves a youngster who grows infatuated with a Moulin Rouge star ― the mother of his fiancee. Sat 1 Nov 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) 1929 All ages The astonishing first film by several artists who were soon to become Berlin exiles, including Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Eugen Schüfftan, and Edgar Ulmer. A sardonic, witty view of how the working class spends its leisure time, swimming, snoozing, and flirting. Thu 23 Oct 3.00pm / Cinema A |
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Piccadilly 1929 All ages A fine old-fashioned murder mystery with clever twists enhanced by flamboyant camera style. In a studio-built Chinatown, Anna May Wong subtly seethes as a woman caught between East and West in a murder plot, matching wits with Charles Laughton and Cyril Ritchard. Sat 1 Nov 3.00pm / Cinema A |
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Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wings of Desire) 1988 PG Two sombre angels troll Berlin, unseen but not entirely unnoticed. They cradle and comfort the afflicted, while the soundtrack buzzes with the collective stream-of-consciousness of the city. Among the mortals the angels encounter is a lovely, lonely trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) for whom Bruno Ganz's angel finally falls. Sun 9 Nov 3.00pm / Cinema A |
