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Tuesday Club Film Night January 24, 2012 at 7 pm at the Loring Greenough House 12 South St, Jamaica Plain
presents
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65
Rarely screened in the U.S., this charming documentary follows a group of seniors as they learn to perform modern dance. Uplifting and candid, we watch non-professionals as they struggle with the rigors of training, reflect on the realities of aging, and courageously take on new challenges.
They could all have been sitting at home enjoying their pensions, but instead they answered a small ad: “Wanted: Ladies and Gentlemen over 65”. The renowned Wuppertal choreographer, Pina Bausch, was putting on a new production of her dance piece “Kontakthof”. This time with elderly amateurs. The film accompanies these people with a full professional life behind them. They must use their energy and life experience to cross boundaries and break conventions.
German Film Critics award for “Best Documentary” in 2004
Directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff Germany 2002, 70 min, English subtitles Cinetrix GmbH/NDR/ARTE production
A review by RONNIE SCHEIB (Variety 3/1/2004):
In 1998, an ad appeared in the Wuppertal, Germany, newspaper inviting seniors with no previous acting or dancing experience to audition for parts in Pina Bausch’s revival of her 1978 performance-piece “Contact Zone.” What happened to the 26 people who responded to the ad and were ultimately chosen to participate is the subject of “Ladies and Gentlemen Over 65,” Lilo Mangelsdorff’s expertly crafted docu. (…)
Although Mangelsdorff and her crew arrived on the scene some two years after the play had been mounted, she deftly retraces the process of putting the production together. Bausch’s avant-garde choreography, involving sequences of oddball calisthenics, creates a jolt of surprise when the parts finally come together, the tramp of feet and adjustment of camera-angle transforming the simple gestures into an arcane and somehow provocative language.
Bausch has directed several of her pieces on video, and her Wuppertal Dance Theater (which nearly obliterates the line between “dance” and “theater”) is the subject of numerous documentaries, including one by Chantal Akerman (“One Day, Pina Asked for…”). Her most famous appearance is undoubtedly . . . → Read More: Film Night: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65 (Tuesday, January 24)
Every fourth Tuesday from October to May is the J.P. Tuesday Night Club’s Film Night at the Loring-Greenough House!
Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, October 25 for Fresh, co-sponsored by our neighbors at City Feed & Supply and by Allandale Farm. Admission is $5. Running time: 72 minutes, to be followed by Q&A with Farmer Jim from Allandale, Boston’s last working farm.
The film Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
Next Tuesday we’ll be screening a film made by the Israeli-Palestinian activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was murdered in the West Bank a few days ago. The film is about a children’s theater started by his mother in the Jenin refugee camp.
In 2006, years after the destruction of the theater and the death of his mother, Mer-Khamis established his own community center for children and adults called the Freedom Theater. Although the theater has been successful and has received international praise, it has also been the target of threats and vandalism from some Jenin residents who disagree with the idea of uninhibited self-expression.
We wanted to show the film to find out more about the lives of Palestinian children and about the work of Arna Mer, as well as to pay tribute to Juliano Mer-Khamis.
The screen of Rock has been postponed due to weather conditions, the new date will be announced soon.
From a recent trip to Saint Petersburg, Russia, comes one of the most acclaimed Russian documentaries that is virtually unavailable in the States: Rock by Alexei Uchitel’, a cinéma vérité document of underground music in the final years of the Soviet Union.
This is a free event (though donations to the Loring-Greenough House are appreciated). We will begin the screening at 7:30pm, but come by around 7pm for treats.
Please join us on Tuesday, September 28th at 7:30 pm to enjoy our film series at the House!
This will be the last of the local film screenings at the LGH (new this season will be “People’s Cinema for 3rd Tuesday, Tuesday Night Club), so we decided to film the place itself. Join us on the lawn (if the weather is good) or in the cozy living room for some abstract short films by:
Stefan Grabowski Matt McWilliams Gordon Nelson Mariya Nikiforova Nicole Prowell Rob Todd.
The screening will be accompanied by delicious refreshments, flashlight walks through the house and maybe even a musical performance!
(And stay tuned for the new screening series starting in October.)
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