“Probably the archetypal white, decadent, existential-crisis-ridden, drug-crazed, politically confused misanthropic South African film”
Ivor Powell, Weekly Mail
“A truly anarchic, collaborative effort credited in the writing to `Rick Shaw’ this is without a doubt South Africa’s most subversive movie. Made with tax shelter money in 1986; and with an attitude of `fuck every system’, there was no way the South African censor board could tolerate this `mad animal’ of a film. With the result, it barely got seen. Now; almost ten years later it is out …
White Material: Out of Africa, by Amy Taubin
A nightmare from which no one awakes, Claire Denis’ White Material (2009) takes place in a nameless African country teetering on the brink of all-out civil war. It is the veteran French director’s toughest work, unsparing with its characters and its audience, a horror film ripped, as they say, from the headlines. Yet like everything Denis has created, it is shot through with tenderness, beauty, and an aching sense of loss. READ MORE
See what film critics have said about Francis Ford Coppola’s 2009 film Tetro, screening at The Bioscope in the coming month.
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With our new increase in screenings, comes the addition of this exciting new series. Cinema Meets Culture comprises of three different kinds of screenings; Cinema Meets Dance, Cinema Meets Opera, and lastly Cinema Meets Opera Legends in Concert. The series will encapsulate
everything from classic operas like Carmen, to one of the worlds greatest ballet companies
performing Cinderella to live concerts that include Pavarotti and The Three Tenors.
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The Bioscope FILM + SCHOOL Series is a film awareness and appreciation initiative by the Bioscope Independent Cinema in partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa. The central aims of the initiative are to introduce young learners to the art of filmmaking, to spark interest in a wide range of topics and to encourage discussion.
PROGRAMMING
Film is a powerful educational tool and the programming of the series has been designed to be as broad as possible to allow children an opportunity to engage in wide range of filmic genres and structures including …
