'RESISTANCE' by definition in 'SOPHIE SCHOLL. THE FINAL DAYS'

The true story of a young woman who did what few in Nazi Germany dared even think!

SOPHIE SCHOLL, by Marc Rothemund (2005)

February 24, 5pm

Bushuis (Room F 0.22)

Kloveniersburgwal 48

Don't miss out Miss Julia Jentsch's (whose face we already acquainted with from The Edukators) master performance as the courageous anti-Nazi legendary heroine & get ready for the upcoming drama we have in store for next week. It will leave you breathless.

'SOPHIE SCHOLL. DIE LETZTEN TAGE' (2005). Synopsis

The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama Sophie Scholl. The Final Days. Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of 2005, Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl, is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.

Sophie Scholl. The Final Days received three Lolas (German Oscars) including the Audience Award and Best Actress Award to Jentsch for her brilliant characterization of the title role. The film also won two Silver Bears for Best Director and Best Actress at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.

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POST-'ANTICHRIST'

Still in shock after the screening of Antichrist, we offer you a link that might help with interpretation.

This is pretty much why I felt it was not a misogynist film and not the contrary either, that it had no more meaning than what you actually know intuitively. But, of course, the floor is open...

NATURE IS SATAN'S CHURCH

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ANTICHRIST, by Lars Von Trier (2009)

February 17, 5pm

Bushuis (Room F 0.22)

Kloveniersburgwal 48

'Chaos reigns' in the first featured film of the semester in BLACK&WHITE: Antichrist (2009), by Lars Von Trier, director renowned for his boost to Danish national cinema and one of the fathers of Dogme 95 movement.

Get ready for a spiral fall into madness, sex and blood in a desperate attempt to resist the attacks of fate, nature and guilt.

See the full PROLOGUE to believe that you actually WANT to sink into this genious filmmaking mind...

'ANTICHRIST' (2009). SYNOPSIS, by Nasrin Billie

Antichrist (2009) is a creepy movie oozing with sex, nudity, violence and craziness but, at the end of the day, it is Lars von Trier at his best!

Bear in mind that Lars Von Trier made this film while battling a depression, and watching this movie is like taking a private tour into the dark sides and corners of the mind of this brilliant Danish director.

Remind you that Lars Von Trier introduced the grainy images and hand-held photography in cinema, which became known as the Dogme concept. Von Trier's used this technique in films such as Breaking the Waves, from 1996, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes. And again in Dancer in the Dark featuring the Icelandic singer Björk, who won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in the film.

Antichrist is about a couple, played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsburg, who lose their young son as he falls out the window while they are caught up in a sex act. The mother's grief is so strong that she ends up at a hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home with the intention of treating her depression himself.

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To confront her fears, they go to stay at a remote small cabin in the woods, 'Eden', where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film unfolds the darker sides of human nature that deal with lust and cruelty, which 'Eden' seems to bring out in the couple.

BLACK&WHITE is back!!!

Dear followers,

It's been a long wait, but we are glad to inform you that BLACK&WHITE has found a new location in Amsterdam at the Bushuis and is ready to restart!

Whether you were eager on the subject for the next cycle, 'Resistance', or waiting in the queue for showing one of your national films, now it's the time to tell us about your proposals in order to fix a calendar as soon as possible.

We even have the ideas for the subsequent couple of cycles: 'Reporter', with films about journalism, and 'Reality', with documentaries or metafictional films. If you think that your movie suits one of these themes better, just let us know. But, please, be quick, we have to set this up much before next Wednesday, when the first film will be screened!

Relying on your participation and always yours,

BLACK&WHITE