Programme of Sala Montjuïc 2008
Elaborated by MODIband and Cinemes Verdi.
ALL FILMS ARE IN THEIR ORIGINAL VERSION WITH SPANISH SUBTITLES.
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Monday, 30/06/08 · 22:15 pm
The Lives of Others, Florian pmenckel-Donnersmarck, 2006, Germany (137 min.)
East Berlin just before the Wall came down, the metamorphosis undergone by an officer of the Stasi, the GDR secret service, and his relationship with a writer he himself has been set to spy on.
21:00 pm Pablo Selnik Quartet, jazz
Wednesday, 02/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Offside, Jafar Panahi, 2006, Iran (93 min)
A group of Iranian girls attempt to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match but some get caught and arrested. After the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, women were not allowed to enter the stadiums.
21:00 pm Shine, swing 22:00 pm Paseo · Arturo Ruiz Serrano, 2007
Friday, 04/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Once, John Carney, 2006, Ireland (85 min)
A Dublin-based busker and vacuum-cleaner repairman enters into a fruitful relationship with a piano playing florist in a toe-tapping "video album" directed by John Carney and featuring a cast comprised entirely of professional musicians.
21:00 pm Margen izquierda, jazz fusió 22:00 pm El talento de las moscas · Laura Sipán, 2007
Monday, 07/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Eastern promises, David Cronenberg, 2006, United States (100 min)
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
21:00 pm Romaní Chavé Bulgaria, gipsy music
Wednesday, 09/07/08 · 22:15 pm
The Front Page, Billy Wilder, 1974, United States (105 min)
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
21:00 pm Yara Beilinson, Brazilian music 22:00 pm Vestido nuevo · Sergi Pérez (2007)
Friday, 11/07/08 · 22:00 pm
The General, Buster Keaton, 1927, United States (75 min)
Johnnie loves his train ("The General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves. THE SCREENING WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A LIVE ORCHESTRA DIRECTED BY THE LICEU OPERA HOUSE DIRECTOR.
21:00 pm Paulinho Lemos, Brazilian music
Monday, 14/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino, 2007, United States (114 min)
For Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, dusk offers an opportunity to unwind with two of her closest friends, Shanna and Arlene. This three fox posse sets out into the night, turning heads from Guero's to the Texas Chili Parlor. Not all of the attention is innocent: Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred, weathered rebel who leers from behind the wheel of his muscle car. As the girls settle into their beers, Mike's weapon, a white-hot juggernaut, revs just feet away...
21:00 pm Laboratorio de Samba, Bossa Nova
Wednesday, 16/07/08 · 22:15 pm
La Soledad, Jaime Rosales, 2007, Spain (133 min)
Thirty-five-year-old single mother Adela leaves behind her small town setting and moves to Madrid. She takes an unfulfilling but adequate job to support her new life, in which everything is centred around her infant son. A terrorist attack on a bus will shatter her life and she will have to eventually accept returning to a new daily routine… Antonia owns a small supermarket. The handsome widow leads a quiet life centred around work, her boyfriend Manolo and her beloved daughters, Ines, Nieves and Helena. The already tense relationship between the three daughters is further complicated when Helena asks to borrow money from her mother to buy a new flat.
21:00 pm Sada, folk electronic fusion 22:00 pm La última vez · Jorge Amaya, 2007
Friday, 18/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Ratatouille, Brad Bird, 2007, United States (106 min)
Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris, only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual alliance with a restaurant's new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy's family's scepticism and the rat-hating world of humans.
21:00 pm Llibert Fortuny – Trifàsic, jazz 22:00 pm El bufón y la infanta · Juan Galiñanes, 2007
Monday, 21/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Tuya’s marriage, Wang Quan’ An, 2007 China (92 min)
Tuya is the persevering wife of Bater, a herdsman who lost his legs exploring water in the Neimenggu (Inner Mongolia) grassland that is fast vanishing as a result of desertification. She takes up the sole responsibility to make a living for the family, but develops a dislocated lumbar from her hard labor and risks paralysis herself. Faced with harsh reality, the couple decide to divorce so that Tuya can seek a better life.
21:00 pm Les Deux Guitares Trio, jazz
Wednesday, 23/07/08 · 22:15 pm
On an ordinary day, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event, only to find there is no delegation to meet them, nor any arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva. When they find their own ride, they arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put them up for the night.
21:00 pm Sanskriti, classical hindu music 22:00 pm Temporada 92-93 · Alejandro Marzoa, 2006
Friday, 25/07/08 · 22:15 pm
Pat Garrett y Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah, 1973, United States (122 min)
It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumner, but is unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West.
21:00 pm Eduard de Negri Trio, jazz 22:00 pm Reality · Kim Gázquez, 2007
Monday, 28/07/08 · 22:15 pm
The Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, 2006, Mexico, Spain, United States (120 min)
In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the centre of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.
21:00 pm Laia Porta & Publio Deglado Quartet, jazz
Wednesday, 30/07/08 · 22:15 pm
The return, Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003, Russia (105 min)
Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for twelve years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
21:00 pm La Llama, world music 22:00 pm Salvador (Historia de un milagro cotidiano) · Abdelatif Hwidar, 2007
Friday, 01/08/08 · 22:15 pm
Surprise movie
Después de la boda: 25 % votes El Ultimátum de Bourne: 20 % votes Sweeney Todd: 53 % votes
21:00 pm Tarannà, jazz
