72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Stanley Kubrick
USA 
140 min.
This film ponders the destiny of mankind. It considers our relationship with technology from its earliest beginnings to a future where prolonged space travel is possible. Postulating that science will lead to either salvation or destruction, much of the film is set on a space ship hutling through space. One of the principal characterts is Hal 9000, a super-computer with human emotions, but alas an all too methodical mind. It goes awry on the crew that it supports when it encounters conflicting programs: it must keep the true nature of the mission hidden from them, but it must also always tell them the truth.
John Ford
USA 
154 min.
A community of Cheyenne Indians feels tricked and humiliated in their dealings with the American goverment. In 1887 they were forced to leace the banks of the Yellowstone river and to move onto a desolate reservation in Oklahoma, but were promised the means to make qa dignified living. hte village has waited years and years for the promise be honoured. Now it appears that it never will be. 
Lloyd Bacon
USA 
104 min.
André De Toth
USA 
88 min.
"Belle Epoque", in Paris. After a dispute with his crooked partner, Matthew Burk, professor Henry Jarrod is trapped in a fire that destroys his wax museum. He escapes the fire apparently uninjured, and immediately beggins to create new wax figures. When a series of strange murders take place in the city, however, detective Tom brenan begins to suspect that something sinister is afoot.
Nicholas Ray
USA 
98 min.
Thomas Farrell and Vicki Gaye live in the charged athmosphere of Chicago in the thirties. Both know violence as an everyday occurrence while the love that buds between them is something new. The tension between them matches that of the gang warfare they're involved in. 
John Fernhout
Netherlands 
22 min. Short film
Ernst Lubitsch
USA 
95 min.
Poland, 1939. Comedy of intrigue centered on the members of a theatrical company representing "Hamlet" and dress rehearsing for their next opening, a play about nazi Germany. A second string actor wants to demonstrate his likeness to Hitler, whom he must act, so goes for a awalk in costume and provokes considerable confusion. The story is fictional, but set during the invasion of Poland. 
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