October 2006

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MOVIENIGHT VI 02/10/2006 screening of:

Songs From The Second Floor (2000)
Directed by Roy Andersson



A film poem inspired by the poet Caesar Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.


MOVIENIGHT VII 09/10/2006 screening of:

Salvador Allende (2004)
A Documentary by Patricio Guzmán



Using rare archival footage, family photos, interviews with Allende's friends, professional colleagues, his daughters and other relatives as well as UP militants, workers, journalists, his personal secretary and Edward Korry, former U.S. Ambassador to Chile, SALVADOR ALLENDE portrays the life, times and political formation of the Valparaiso-born doctor who was active in Socialist Party politics as a senator and who ran unsuccessfully for President three times before finally being elected in 1970.

MOVIENIGHT VIII 16/10/2006 screening of:

MEAN CREEK (2004)
Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes



It all begins in a small Oregon town, when shy Sam confesses to his protective older brother Rocky that he is getting pummeled daily by the towering school bully, George. Together, they plan the perfect payback, inviting George on a birthday river trip tailor-made to end in the bully's humiliation. Rocky's pals Clyde and Marty and Sam's budding girlfriend Millie also join the journey, which starts almost immediately with misgivings. Seeing George in a new light, as a lonely kid desperate for friendship and attention, Sam wants to call the whole thing off. But the boat and the plot are already in motion, and no one can foresee the surprises and accidents that are to come.


MOVIENIGHT IX 23/10/2006 screening of:

TUVALU (1999)
a film by Veit Helmer



Eine Reise in die Welt der Träume

The film evolves into a girl-meets-boy odyssey with a plot and acting style which often invites comparisons
with Jacques Tati, Edward Scissorhands and Eraserhead. The acting is not grounded in realism, but is extremely
theatrical in nature. Every activity is expressed in a heightened and accentuated form.

MOVIENIGHT X 30/10/2006 screening of:

The Root of all Evil? (2006)
a documentary by Richard Dawkins



Part 1: The God Delusion &
Part 2: The Virus of Faith

is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45 minute episodes, on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy. His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.

Richard Dawkins is the author of a number of internationally best-selling books about evolutionary biology including The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition, 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998).