SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
| Sun 12.04. | 19:30 | SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) The Ones We Love | JAPdf |  | Seehof 1 |
By Akira Kurosawa, with Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba.
Japan in the 16th century. Once a year, a band of robbers descends on a remote provincial village and steals all the supplies and valuables from the local farmers. To put a stop to this, the farmers turn to wandering samurai for help. Seven wandering warriors decide to help the farmers for a variety of reasons. Together, they set about turning the village into a fortress and the agronomists into auxiliary soldiers, and eventually their original mercenary mentality gives way to a sincere feeling of solidarity.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
| Sun 10.05. | 20:15 | DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) The Ones We Love | Ed | Seehof 1 |
By Peter Weir, with Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard.
From THE ONES WE LOVE CLASSIC film series, we are showing DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Peter Weir from 1989. At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979)
| Thu 14.05. | 20:30 | MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) The Ones We Love | Ed | | Seehof 2 |
By Terry Jones, with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
LIFE OF BRIAN tells the story of a young contemporary of Jesus who through happenstance suddenly finds himself to be an adored holy figure. The film marked maturation for the group, for while "Brian" lacks the breezy innocence that "Holy Grail" exuded (and is much less self-conscious that it is a movie), it is a complex, thoughtful and ultimately moving portrait of a character and his period. It is also very funny.
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)
| Sun 17.05. | 11:45 | MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) The Ones We Love | Ed | | Seehof 1 |
By Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, with Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen.
MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983)
| Tue 19.05. | 20:30 | MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983) The Ones We Love | Ed | | Seehof 2 |
By Terry Jones, with Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
The group's last feature film with Graham Chapman, THE MEANING OF LIFE, is a sketch film tied together as a study of the perilousness and absurdity of human existence – a description that doesn’t do justice to how funny it is. There is blood, sex and violence, and some of the most surreal passages of any Python work, on the topics of birth, death, and all the bothersome business of living in-between. It comes across visually as a mix of Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and Busby Berkeley – with projectile vomiting! But the film's innate message is simple and sweet: We are all miracles of birth, so why not be nice to all the other miracles of birth out there.