Cinema Dérive @ MixTree: Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime & Blood for Dracula

18:30 JE T'AIME, J'TAIME 1968 Directed by Alain Resnais 94 minutes In French with English subtitles This flick by Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) was his stab at the science fiction genre. Resnais was always interested in the themes of memory and time, and how time is an illusion. He explore this idea in films like Hiroshima mon amour and Muriel, and in this one we see how something like a shattered love affair can also shatter our sense of time. The central character of this film is a man who is recovering from a suicide attempt, and is approached by a group of scientists to experiment with a time-machine. But as he enters this free-wheeling travel through time, something goes wrong and certain episodes of his previous tragic love affair keep repeating and flashing, almost like a glitch that he can't escape. It should be no surprise that Michael Gondry said that this film was the inspiration for his Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... although this film is closer in style to Chris Marker's La Jetée. it is considered to be one of the neglected gems of Alain Resnais, with eerie choral music by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. This will be a high-definition screening. + 21:00 Andy Warhol's BLOOD FOR DRACULA 1974 Directed by Paul Morrissey and Antonio Margheriti 103 minutes In English A very free and deranged adaption of the Dracula myth directed by Warhol protege Paul Morrissey. In this erotic version Dracula can only drink the blood of virgins, which are in short supply in Transylvania. Slowly agonizing the lack of pure blood, the sickly count is forced to head south - to Italy, the land of Catholicism. There he searches for the "wer-gins" he needs to regain his strength. This film is at once a piece of artistic trash, and at the same time a social commentary on aristocracy (the top 1%) and its need to live off the blood of others. This is Morrissey's defiantly artistic approach to violent, campy horror and it conceals a wicked black humor. The Hungarian actor Udo Kier, one of my favorites, gives some brilliantly wild overacting and "Little Joe" Dallesandro plays the Marxist peasant in this twisted no-budget cult film made in Italy by the Warhol gang at the peak of their powers. Also with a cameo role by Roman Polanski. This will be the UNCUT VERSION, in high-definition! Cinema Dérive @ Mixtree Overtoom 301 (doors open at 18:00) 3 euros for one film, 4 euros for both