Cinessentials

BURG KINO CINESSENTIALS
Our new film series showcasing personal tributes, anniversary screenings and timeless gems. Upcoming highlights:

Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS (1963) | Henri-George Clouzot's LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR (1953) | Jane Campion's THE PIANO (1993) | Peter Weir's THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) | Jean-Luc Godard's LE MÉPRIS (1963) | Terrence Malick's BADLANDS (1973) | Vittorio De Sica's LADRI DI BICICLETTE (1948) | Yasujirō Ozu's TOKYO MONOGATARI (1953)

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Commemorating the great Jean-Luc Godard - Original French version with English subtitles
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard, Linda Veras
Plot Outline

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

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50th Anniversary Screening - Original English version
Director
Terrence Malick
Cast
Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld
Plot Outline

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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75th Anniversary Screening - Original Italian version with English subtitles
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Cast
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari, Vittorio Antonucci, Michele Sakara, Carlo Jachino
Plot Outline

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle - essential to his work - gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

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70th Anniversary Screening - Original Japanese version with English subtitles
Director
Yasujirō Ozu
Cast
Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Eijirō Tōno, Nobuo Nakamura
Plot Outline

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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60th Anniversary Screening - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright, Suzanne Pleshette, Lonny Chapman, Ethel Griffies, Doreen Lang, Ruth McDevitt
Plot Outline

Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

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70th Anniversary Screening - Original French version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, Antonio Centa, Luis De Lima, Jo Dest, Darío Moreno
Plot Outline

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

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30th Anniversary Screening - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Jane Campion
Cast
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Walker, Ian Mune, Geneviève Lemon, Pete Smith
Plot Outline

After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

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25th Anniversary Screening - Original English version

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Studio € 10.00 Tickets
Director
Peter Weir
Cast
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Ed Harris, Holland Taylor, Paul Giamatti, Brian Delate, Peter Krause
Plot Outline

Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.