Friday
March 16th, 2018
8pm
March 16th, 2018
8pm
KINO SLANG
CINE-CLUB
at
THE BIJOU THEATER
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA.
91355
presents
THE BOND
(Charlie Chaplin, 1918)
an excerpt of
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
(Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-98)
WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?
(Jerry Lewis, 1970)
CINE-CLUB
at
THE BIJOU THEATER
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA.
91355
presents
THE BOND
(Charlie Chaplin, 1918)
an excerpt of
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
(Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-98)
WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?
(Jerry Lewis, 1970)
Program total running time: 2 hours
There will be no introductions
Doors open at 7:30pm, Film starts at 8pm
Free parking on the Calarts Campus
Free parking on the Calarts Campus
Note: the change of venue to CalArts is only temporary. Kino Slang will return to its regular programming at the Echo Park Film Center in April.
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THE BOND
(Charlie Chaplin, 1918. 11 minutes)
The tramp wanders onto a blackboard where the bonds of life—friendship, love, marriage, liberty—are treated, ending in war bonds.
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
(Jean-Luc Godard, 1998. 20-minute excerpt of chapter 1A, "Toutes les histoires"/"All the Stories").
This 20-minute excerpt of Godard's (Hi)stories of Cinema -- more "a history through cinema" wrote Serge Daney -- begins with the intonation "...WHILE THE GERMANS WERE TAKING THE FRENCH FROM BEHIND...", referring to the Nazi invasion of France in May, 1940, and what follows like a deluge is Godard's reflection and projection of World War II and its creation and destruction by cinema ("the only history that projects"), using shards of films, popular songs, paintings, imprinted titles, newsreels, graphics, etc.. There are hundreds of relationships per minute here, of the simple, brutal sort (newsreel black-and-white SS soldiers consuming a turquoise glade by Monet) while macroscopic ideas are expounded in microscopic montage, for example: the conclusion that montage was murdered by the talking picture, and that this victory served "the two industrial brothers, America and Germany, RCA and Tobis", particularly Hitler, imperialism, and the soft fascism of the dominance of "commentary".
WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?
(Jerry Lewis, 1970. 96 minutes)
"Which Way to the Front? with fully anachronistic sets and clothing occurs during the time of World War II. Its hero is the wealthiest man in the world, an American business tycoon. When he receives his draft notice we expect him to evade it, as he so easily can. But Jerry Lewis’ satire has the biting truth of logic: he is proud to serve, henceforth the film has the wonder of logic unfolding happily along its own course, totally uninhibited by considerations of historical fact or normal criteria of sense." (Tag Gallagher)
"Which Way to the Front? with fully anachronistic sets and clothing occurs during the time of World War II. Its hero is the wealthiest man in the world, an American business tycoon. When he receives his draft notice we expect him to evade it, as he so easily can. But Jerry Lewis’ satire has the biting truth of logic: he is proud to serve, henceforth the film has the wonder of logic unfolding happily along its own course, totally uninhibited by considerations of historical fact or normal criteria of sense." (Tag Gallagher)
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The Kino Slang Cine-Club is a regular series of cinema screenings programmed by Andy Rector continuing the cinematographic and historical excavations, proceedings by montage and association, silent alarms and naked dawns of this eleven-year-old blog.
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