SEPTEMBER 24 - SPECIAL SEASON: CINEMA '68: THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING
September 24 - 7:00pm
Experiments in Time & Place
Valentin de las Sierras Bruce Baillie (1968) 10 mins.San Franciscan Baillie’s lyrical mediation on time & place explores Chapala, Mexico through the colour, songs & weathered countenances of its indigenous inhabitants. T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G. Paul Sharits (1968) 12 mins. Continues Sharits’ visionary exploration of the single frame & the cinema’s underlying violence, sexuality & materiality. Chinese Firedrill Will Hindle (1968) 24 mins. Hindle’s claustrophobic & intense award-winner is “an overwhelming, disturbing unique emotional experience” (Richard Corliss).
September 24 - 8:00pm
High School
Frederick Wiseman(1968) 75 mins USA
One of the first films from the Direct Cinema movement documents a "typical day" in the life of a group of high school students.
September 24 - 9.40pm
Targets
Peter Bogdanovich (1968) 90 mins MA
Bogdanovich's directorial debut is an unconventional horror film, starring Boris Karloff as an ageing actor tired of playing ghoulish roles. The film is loosely based on the 1966 Charles Whitman murder spree & cleverly explores questions of violence by counterpoising Karloff’s screen monster against the young sociopath. Bogdanovich also makes an appearance as a young director working for a hack producer (paralleling his relationship with Roger Corman), who at one point watches Hawks’ The Criminal Code - featuring a psychopathic Karloff - on TV. This moody critique of American society is brilliantly shot by László Kovács.
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