Il più famoso “film di strada” della storia del cinema. Il tema classico del viaggio si mescola con quelli della cultura alternativa degli anni ’60: marijuana, musica pop, protesta hippy, pacifismo, crisi del mito americano.
Davvero epica la colonna sonora con brani di The Band, Byrds, Jimi Hendrix e Steppenwolf.
A presentare il film, nella versione appena restaurata a cura della Cineteca di Bologna, sarà lo sceneggiatore e scrittore Marco Videtta.
EL PEPE. Una vida suprema. Emir Kusturica incontra Pepe Mujica
El Pepe is the guerrilla-style cognomen of former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who led the South American country from 2010 to 2015. Double Palme d’Or-winner Emir Kusturica started work on a film when Mujica was in the last months of his presidency. A series of conversations between the two titans is the backbone to El Pepe, a Supreme Life.
Kusturica opt for an impressionistic and intimate portrait rather than photographic detail or regurgitating facts. He mixes in footage from Costa Gavras’s 1972 political drama State of Siege as representing the era. But for the most part, Kusturica is happy to sit back, smoke a cigar and let Mujica have his moment.
The film was played out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival.
ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana | Sundance Film Festival | Berlinale
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
PSYCHOMAGIC, AN ART TO HEAL by Alejandro Jodorowsy. Spanish version ita sub
A healing path using the power of dreams, theatre, poetry, and shamanism. Psicomagia – An Art to Heal, Shows how psychological realisations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts. The film Includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help.
While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colourful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realised that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems.
Psychomagic presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art, and theatre to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had traveled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest.
BÎR – WELL by Veysi Altay
In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them out of helicopters, or burying them in acid-filled wells. Thousands were murdered/disappeared by paramilitary forces—such as Jitem and Hizbul-Kontra—that were financed and supported by the state, though they have always stuck to the line: “We didn’t do it.” The documentary ‘BÎR’ looks at the case of seven people, including four children, who were disappeared from the town of Kerboran [Dargeçit] in 1995, and tells the story of their families’ tireless search for their bones.
PSYCHOMAGIC, AN ART TO HEAL by Alejandro Jodorowsy. Spanish version ita sub
A healing path using the power of dreams, theatre, poetry, and shamanism. Psicomagia – An Art to Heal, Shows how psychological realisations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts. The film Includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help.
While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colourful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realised that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems.
Psychomagic presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art, and theatre to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had traveled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest.
MAY I BE HAPPY. Mindfulness in the Classroom and Beyond
May I Be Happy reveals the significance of “mindfulness” practice in transforming the lives of young people.
Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading sensitive or boisterous practices to kids from different backgrounds, the film brings awareness to the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations.
Covering varying approaches to mindfulness by a range of San Francisco Bay Area programs, May I Be Happy reminds us of children’s natural capacity for wellbeing, resilience and happiness.
BORDER. Best Film Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard. Swedish version ita sub
In this dark fairytal Swedish actress Eva Melander buries herself in the role of Tina, an ostracized woman who feels out of place in society because of her otherworldly appearance. The peculiar creature she plays in director Ali Abbasi’s foreign-language Oscar submission suggests the unholy offspring of Quasimodo and a Tolkien Orc. But that’s just the starting point for an entrancing and unexpected love story when Tina — who works a lonely job in border security, using her rat-like sense of smell — wakes up to her superpowers when she meets a fawning man (Eero Milonoff) who looks just like her.
EASY RIDER (Restored Version) by Denis Hopper. Starring Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth. On their journey, they experience bigotry and hatred from the inhabitants of small-town America and also meet with other travellers seeking alternative lifestyles. After a terrifying drug experience in New Orleans, the two travellers wonder if they will ever find a way to live peacefully in America.
A landmark counterculture film, and a “touchstone for a generation” that “captured the national imagination,” Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances.
The movie’s “groundbreaking” soundtrack featured The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf.
Detour presents the recently digitally restored version of the movie, curated by Cineteca di Bologna.
CHARLIE SAYS by Mary Harron. English version ita sub
Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him – Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins – remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader. Confined to an isolated cellblock, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan, until an empathetic graduate student attempts to rehabilitate them.”A delicate and tremulous thing, at once confident and gentle, lyrically composed yet as stoic as the American masculine ideal it so carefully deconstructs.” – The Front Row.