| Olivier Assayas In-Person Tribute &
Exclusive Engagement of Carlos!
This
is an Egyptian Theatre Exclusive - CARLOS is only on our screen in LA!
A representative of the next generation of Cahiers du Cinéma critics-turned-filmmakers,
Olivier Assayas has amassed a body of work encompassing some of the most ambitious and
accomplished movies in contemporary French cinema. Following the character-driven,
behavioral tradition of post-New Wave directors, Assayas also proves connected to his Cahiers
forefathers by making films that speak to a wide variety of cinematic texts (seen most
famously in IRMA VEP, which looks backwards to the mysterious silent serials of the
great Louis Feuillade while throwing a sidelong glance at contemporary Hong Kong cinema).
Assayas’s career has been marked by a thrilling creative restlessness, as he has
explored a variety of genres and modes, trying his hand at contemporary drama (CLEAN),
documentary portrait (HHH, his 1997 film on Hou Hsiao-hsien), period-piece (LES
DESTINÉES) and cyber-thriller (the notorious DEMONLOVER).
Assayas’ most recent cinematic contribution, CARLOS, certainly falls in
line with the creative ingenuity seen in his previous works. At 330 minutes, CARLOS
has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "THE BOURNE IDENTITY with
more substance, or MUNICH with more of a pulse…a globetrotting and epic look at one
man's rise to the station of international guerrilla leader and terrorist celebrity."
The film was an official selection of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Trailer
Join us for an in-person tribute to Olivier Assayas with
IRMA VEP and DEMONLOVER, as well as a limited-engagement run of CARLOS!
Interview with actor Edgar Ramirez.
Thursday, October 21 – 7:30 PM
Olivier Assayas In Person! Double Feature:
IRMA VEP, 1996, Zeitgeist Films, 96 min. Dir. Olivier
Assayas. "[A] dark, brittle…comedy about a film company remaking
Feuillade’s silent serial LES VAMPIRES…A once prestigious French director
(Jean-Pierre Léaud) casts Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung (playing herself) as villainess
Irma Vep, and his sexual infatuation with her is matched by that of the costume designer
who escorts her around Paris. The feverish pace of the shooting seems to unleash bad vibes
as well as desire, and Assayas follows the delirium as if he were at the center of a
hurricane." – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. In French with English
subtitles. Trailer
New Print! DEMONLOVER,
2002, Palm Pictures, 117 min. Updating David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME for the
dotcom age, this dark thriller throws together gray-suited executives, high-tech websites
and corporate espionage. As it draws links between the worlds of anime, videogames and
pay-per-view pornography, Assayas’ film unnervingly suggests that even the most
innocuous entertainments are part of a far less wholesome culture of the image. Music by
Sonic Youth. In French with English subtitles. Discussion
between films with Olivier Assayas. Trailer | Buy Tickets
Friday, October 22 – 7:00 PM
Limited Engagement! CARLOS, 2010, IFC Films, 330 min. Director Olivier Assayas' epic,
searing and relentlessly thrilling portrayal of the Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as "THE BOURNE IDENTITY with
more substance, or MUNICH with more of a pulse," and received much well-deserved buzz
at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Sanchez (played by Edgar Ramirez) is a fascinating
real-life figure with an explosive rise and fall - he managed to found a worldwide
terrorist organization and raid the OPEC headquarters before being caught by the French
police in 1975.
Olivier Assayas electrified the Cannes Film Festival
with CARLOS, his epic and definitive portrait of the notorious international terrorist
known as Carlos the Jackal, who masterminded a wave of terror attacks in Europe and the
Middle East in the ’70s and ’80s. Venezuelan actor Édgar Ramírez stars in the
title role. Co-written by Assayas and Dan Franck, CARLOS illustrates the evolution of
contemporary terrorism as it examines the life of its title character, a Venezuelan whose
real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. Tracing the arc of Carlos’ criminal activities
across two decades and several nations, the film features a dynamic cast of international
talent and was shot in numerous countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Hungary,
Lebanon, and Morocco.
Don't miss this stunning telling of an unbelievable moment in history, in an exclusive
limited engagement at the Cinematheque! In French with
English subtitles. Buy
Tickets | Trailer
"(An) epic achievement...Nothing I've encountered on
any size screen matches the lucidity of this fact-based fiction—it amounts to a
textbook on state-sponsored terrorism—and nothing I've seen in recent years has held
my attention so relentlessly. 'Carlos' also stood as a textbook case of the total
immersion that one can enjoy only in a theatrical setting." - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
"An event...An outrageous political gangster film Possibly the most universally
admired movie among the Cannes Film Festival's official selections." - J.
Hoberman, Film Comment
"An astonishing film. Olivier Assayas adopts a fleet, ever-propulsive style
that creates an extraordinary you-are-there sense of verisimilitude, while Edgar Ramirez
inhabits the title role with the arrogant charisma of Brando in his prime." -
Todd McCarthy, indieWIRE
"HOW GOOD IS OLIVIER ASSAYAS' 'CARLOS'? Think
of 'The Bourne Identity' with more substance, or 'Munich' with more of a pulse, and you
begin to have a sense of what the French filmmaker accomplished with this globe-trotting
and epic look at one man's rise to the station of international guerrilla leader and
terrorist celebrity. This is an impressive work, the kind that one may be moved to see for
reasons of novelty (it is a five-hour odyssey, after all) but that one is glad to have
seen for all sorts of nobler reasons."
- Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times
Director Olivier Assayas and
Edgar Ramirez will introduce the screening. Special prices: General $18, Student/Senior
$15, Members $12. There will be an intermission after Part 2.
Saturday, October 23 – 11:00 AM
Saturday, October 23 – *6:00 PM
CARLOS, 2010, IFC Films, 330 min. Dir. Olivier Assayas. Intro
and discussion following with director Olivier Assayas – [*For the 6 PM Olivier
Assayas will only introduce the screening.] Special
prices: General $18, Student/Senior $15, Members $12. There will be an
intermission after Part 2. Buy Tickets
Long Version additional screening in the Spielberg Theatre:
Sunday, October 24 – 3:00 PM [ST] Special prices: General $18, Student/Senior $15, Members $12. There
will be an intermission after Part 2. Buy
Tickets
Short Version (166 min) additional screening in the
Spielberg Theatre: (regular ticket prices apply)
Monday, October 25 – 7:30 PM [ST] Buy
Tickets
Tuesday, October 26 – 7:30 PM [ST] Buy
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Wednesday, October 27 – 7:30 PM [ST] Buy
Tickets Discussion with Cinematographer Denis
Lenoir.
Thursday, October 28 – 7:30 PM [ST] Buy
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