Cinessentials

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

Currently: CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994)
Upcoming highlights: t.b.a.

Special
Cinessentials
25th Anniversary Screening - Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Claire Denis
Cast
Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Adiatou Massudi, Mickael Ravovski, Dan Herzberg, Giuseppe Molino
Plot Outline

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

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Cinessentials
60th Anniversary Screening - Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast
Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Emanuela Pala Carboni
Plot Outline

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

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Cinessentials
Celebrating Jean Renoir's 130th birthday - Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Paulette Dubost, Gaston Modot, Mila Parély, Anne Mayen
Plot Outline

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Special
Cinessentials
30th Anniversary Re-Release - Original version with English subtitles

Showtimes

Date Time Room Price
Studio € 10.50 Tickets
Director
Wong Kar-wai
Cast
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Valerie Chow, Piggy Chan Kam-chuen, Kwan Lee-na, Wong Chi-ming, Leung San
Plot Outline

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Special
Cinessentials
75th Anniversary Screening in 35mm - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Carol Reed
Cast
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Ernst Deutsch
Plot Outline
An American pulp writer arrives in Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend. Carol Reed's classic thriller set in postwar Vienna, once voted "Best British film ever made" by the British Film Institute.
Special
Cinessentials
70th Anniversary Screening - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Tony Galento
Plot Outline

Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and the streetwise priest Father Barry (Karl Malden) to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley (Rod Steiger).

Special
Cinessentials
70th Anniversary Screening - Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Cast
Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō, Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Plot Outline

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Special
Cinessentials
Celebrating Marlon Brando's 100th birthday - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick
Plot Outline

Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister, Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), and her husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando), in New Orleans. Blanche's flirtatious Southern-belle presence causes problems for Stella and Stanley, who already have a volatile relationship, leading to even greater conflict in the Kowalski household.

Special
Cinessentials
Celebrating John Ford's 130th birthday - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
John Ford
Cast
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, John Qualen, Olive Carey, Henry Brandon, Ken Curtis
Plot Outline

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Special
Cinessentials
70th Anniversary Screening - Original Japanese version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
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.

Special
Cinessentials
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.

Special
Cinessentials
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.

Special
Cinessentials
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.

Special
Cinessentials
25th Anniversary Screening - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
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.

Special
Cinessentials
Commemorating the great Jean-Luc Godard - Original French version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
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.

Special
Cinessentials
50th Anniversary Screening - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
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.

Special
Cinessentials
75th Anniversary Screening - Original Italian version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
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.