Great Restorations : Chess of the Wind & The House is Black
Schedule
Thu Jun 08 2023 at 07:00 pm to 09:20 pm
Location
Cinémathèque Luxembourg | Luxembourg, LU
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Projections de prestigieuses restaurations, découvertes ou redécouvertes de films emblématiques : face à la prolifération multi-canaux des images mouvantes, Great Restorations fait renaître l’expérience unique du 7e Art présenté dans toute sa splendeur d’origine dans une salle obscure.
☞ Introduction to the film and its restoration | in English | about 15’
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Shatranj-e bad | Iran 1976 | Mohammad Reza Aslani | vostEN | 100’ | digital | Cast : Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Shohreh Aghdashloo
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In this period drama with Gothic touches, the first lady of a noble house dies, leaving a paralyzed girl as her heir. This creates conflict between those left behind over her inheritance.
« Seldom do we see a cinematic resurrection as astonishing as that of Chess of the Wind. Met with critical hostility when it premiered in Tehran in 1976, the ravishing period drama was banned and then considered lost. Now restored under the aegis of Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, it enters theaters this week as that unlikeliest of revelations: a nearly 50-year-old masterpiece virtually unknown till now. » (RogerEbert.com)
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Khaneh siah ast | Iran 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | documentaire | vostEN | 22’ | digital
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The black-and-white short captures daily life in a leper colony while a voice-over provides poetic commentary.
« Presages in 22 minutes the entirety of the Iranian New Wave and the international quasi-genre of “poetic nonfiction.” It’s a blackjack of a movie, soberly documenting the village of lost ones with an astringently ethical eye, while on the soundtrack Farrokhzad reads her own poetry in a plaintive murmur – this in the same year as Vivre sa Vie and La Jetée. Chris Marker has been a passionate fan, as has Kiarostami, whose The Wind Will Carry Us owes its title and climactic verse to Farrokhzad. » (The Village Voice)
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✧ Tickets ✧
Full price : 3,70€ / reduced price* : 2,40€
Booklet of 10 tickets: 25€ & 17€ (reduced*)
Online at www.luxembourg-ticket.lu and at the box-office (opens 30 minutes before the screenings)
*Reduced tickets are only available at the box-office of our cinema
More infos about the programme and practicalities at www.cinematheque.lu!
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Where is it happening?
Cinémathèque Luxembourg, 17, place du Théâtre,Luxembourg, LuxembourgEvent Location & Nearby Stays: