January Film Club

Municipal Library of Prague would like to invite you to Film Club

All films are in Great Auditorium in the Central Library (Mariánské nám. 1, Prague 1) at 7 pm.

Tuesday 20. 1. - Sketches of Frank Gehry (60 CZK)
USA, 2005, Sydney Pollack, 83 min.

Film director Sydney Pollack, a friend of Gehry's, made the documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry with appreciative comments by Philip Johnson, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Dennis Hopper, and critical ones by Hal Foster supplementing dialogue between Gehry and Pollack about their work in two collaborative art forms with considerable commercial constraints and photography of some buildings Gehry designed.

Frank Gehry is the author of the e. g. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert in downtown Los Angeles or Dancing House in Prague.

English version. Czech subtitles.

Wednesday 21.1. - René (60 CZK)
Czech Republic, 2008, Helena Třeštíková, 85 min.

Helena Třeštíková is the author of major documentaries collected over time, i.e. pictures observing lives of selected people, and later put together in a film.

Director watched the fate of repeat criminal Rene Plasil for twenty years. European Film Academy Documentary 2008 – Pix Arte winner.

Czech version

Thursday 22.1. - Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens (60 CZK)
USA, 2006, Barbara Leibovitz, 90 min.

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the influential career of iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her earliest artistic efforts to her storied tenure at Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair magazines and beyond.

English version, Czech subtitles

Tuesday 27. 1. Wolke 9 (Cloud Nine) (60 CZK)
Germany, 2008, Andreas Dresen, 98 min.

69-year old alteration tailoress Inge has been married more than 30 years. But in this old age, completely out of the blue love rears its head again: Inge falls head over heels in love with 76-year old Karl and starts a passionate love affair with him.

German version, Czech subtitles

Wednesday 28. 1. - Import / Export (60 CZK)
Austria, 2007, Ulrich Seidl, 135min.

A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.

German, Slovak, Russian version, Czech subtitles

Thursday 29.1. - Control (60 CZK)
GB, 2007, Anton Corbijn, 119 min.

Control is a black-and-white biopic film about the late Ian Curtis (1956–1980), lead singer of post-punk band Joy Division.

English version, Czech subtitles