Events: February 21, 2013, Film
Selected by J. Hoberman
February 20, 2013 – February 21, 2013
‘Call Girl’
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Having its US premiere courtesy of Film Comment magazine, Mikael Marcimain’s leisurely political thriller is based on the scandal known in Sweden as Bordellhärvan that nearly brought down the socialist government in the 1970s.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘No’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Chilean director Pablo Larrain caps a trilogy of movies concerning the Pinochet dictatorship—it’s a parable with an edge.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 19, 2013 – April 7, 2013
Werner Schroeter: Magnificent Obsessions
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Schroeter's most visionary movies—the willfully crude, aggressively campy low-budget opera-travesties he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s—were a significant influence on both Fassbinder and Syberberg.
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