Anniversary Screenings: Kinodvor 100! City Cinema 15!

Lucas is a beloved kindergarten teacher until one day an “innocent” lie by a little girl about his inappropriate sexual conduct turns his life upside down.

Dudley Moore is a man in male menopause, while Bo Derek is a pure 10 in this wonderfully nostalgic and iconic comedy by the master Blake Edwards (Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), which transformed the actress into the ultimate sex symbol and made her the dream woman of the 1980s.

This cross between a romantic comedy and softcore porno in the form of a mockumentary tackles the distinctly Japanese take on perversion with warm humour and directness. The legendary studio Nikkatsu marked its 50th anniversary by reviving its cult series of soft-erotic “porn novels” with a film that positively vibrates with arousal and joie de vivre.

 [T1]Vredno razmisleka, če bi se dalo bolj taktno izraziti. Mogoče “distinctly Japanese take on perversion” ali kaj podobnega.

The Top Dog of the Golden Age of Porn, Gerard Damiano, follows up the cult hits Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones with what is likely the most bizarre and singular porno ever made. The Memories within Miss Aggie is a shocking, morbid, but also steamily erotic and at times heart-rending film, a compact masterpiece of hardcore erotica directed by a daring auteur.

The renowned Austrian documentary film-maker Ruth Beckermann and 100 bold men stage a captivating documentary performance based on the infamous pornographic novel about the Viennese prostitute Josefina Mutzenbacher. “Because it’s about time women took a closer look at men too.” MUTZENBACHER is more than a film, it’s an experience!

The anonymously published pornographic novel Josefine Mutzenbacher (likely written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, in 1906) inspired a series of films produced by the champions of Bavarian erotic film. The film is not only a great classic from the repertoire of the former Sloga cinema but also a nationwide 1980s blockbuster that was playing in cinemas from Krško to Kranjska gora.

The documentary tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse – in her own words.

The latest film from documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe (Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist) is a radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939).

The great masters of fusing slapstick and satire, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers, skewer Hollywood snobbery in this on-target, behind-the-scenes lampoon of Tinseltown and the pinnacle of the Pink Panther team’s combined comedic genius.

Inexorable, the latest creation of the Belgian master of arthouse genre fare Fabrice du Welz is a slow-burning thriller filled to the brim with tension, lies and desires.

From the Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone), this is a story of an outsider in search of her place under the (full) moon amidst the chaos of the modern world. Imbued with neon and B-movie aesthetics, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon is tall tale for adults meets sweet sci-fi comedy meets a bizarre fantasy thriller.

Noah really loves his girlfriend, his daughter and his car, but after accepting a seemingly simple driving job, he finds himself in a race that could result in him losing either his beloved car, his family or his life. Shot almost entirely from the inside of the car, this fast pace film banging with 90s trance and euro house is an over-the-top celebration of the lawlessness only genre cinema can afford. Be it wild chases, animal attacks, grenades, or straight on tripping, the viewer becomes the passenger in the backseat on this crazy ride through Antwerp.

Ricky Lau’s seminal kung fu horror comedy Mr. Vampire is the godfather of the incomparable geongsi (jiangshi in Mandarin) subgenre of Chinese hopping vampires, a bona fide Hong Kong cult classic, and most importantly, it’s a riot!

The brainchild of director Dean Fleischer Camp and comedian, writer and actor Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On became an unexpected internet sensation when it made its YouTube debut in 2010. Now, Marcel comes to the big screen in a live-action/stop-motion feature that’s just the cutest and most soul-warming film you’ve ever seen.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing offshore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down.

English Subtitles. A snow-covered village in the Shinshu Mountains. Orin is sixty-nine years old, but she is still healthy and strong – even her teeth are still intact. But winter is approaching, when she will have to leave her family and go to Mount Narayama. When she turns seventy, her eldest son will, according to tradition, carry her to the top of the mountain and leave her there to die… 

“Your wife. My father. Criss-cross.” The psychopathic dandy Bruno has an interesting proposition for the tennis star Guy: they will swap murders. Just kidding, of course… Patricia Highsmith once said that of all the adaptations of her novels, it was Hitchcock’s film that she enjoyed the most.

On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for this dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery.

The pristine tropical island is still dominated by ancient tribal customs and pagan worship rituals. One day, Kariya, an engineer from Tokyo, arrives to drill a well for a sugar factory. While working, he meets the Futoris, an eccentric family who are shunned by most of the locals. He is seduced by the younger daughter Uma, a local shaman who is in an incestuous relationship with her brother Nekichi. The latter, chained to a rock, is digging a sacred cave to appease the gods…

Philomena tells the true story of a wily BBC journalist and an elderly lady who set out to find her long-lost son. Judi Dench and Steve Coogan excel in this warm, charming, witty and captivating variation on The Magdalene Sisters.

If you are looking forward to the summer holidays, consider yourself lucky you don’t have to spend it in the company of an embarrassing, eccentric grandmother, like 12 year old Sofia in How I Learned to Fly, winner of the ECFA Award in the BUFF festival.