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Saturday, July 12 at 7pm the Janus collection
Friday, July 18 at 7pm Full Exposure
dir. Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1965, 35mm, color, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 161 min.
dir. Ramon ZĂźrcher, Germany, 2013, DCP, color, German w/ English subtitles, 72 min.
Kwaidan
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen production drew extensively on Kobayashi’s own training as a student of painting and fine arts. Janus is proud to present Kwaidan in a new, ravishing color transfer.
Strange Little Cat
Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. This sequence of family scenes in a Berlin flat creates a wondrous world of the everyday: Comings and goings, conversations, all manner of doings, each movement leading to the next, one word following another. It is a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and sentences, and in between, silent gazes and anecdotes about experiences. Putting the absurdities of daily life on display, the film assembles seemingly unspectacular details and snippets into an exciting choreography of everyday life.