Diversity at Filmstudion this Autumn

Indie cult films, revenges, musicals — with the darkness of autumn lurking just around the corner, Filmstudion is offering a wide range of films.

Lundagård has taken a closer look at what is on offer and pinpointed the highlights of this autumn.

Watching a film is usually a pleasure, and watching a great film is even better. This autumn, the programme of Filmstudion showing at the Kino theatre in Lund covers a wide range of films from Singing in the Rain (1952) starring smooth singer Gene Kelly, to the documentary film Grizzly Man (2005) with the slightly unstable Timothy Treadwell.

Bets on sure horses

Filmstudion presents a broad programme, but seemingly they have decided to place their bets on sure horses. The Murnau series is a lovely piece of film history worth mentioning, but it doesn’t bring any surprises.

The same goes for the series by the Korean director Chan-Wook Park, who attracted great attention in Sweden and all over the world for his film Oldboy. In the remaining parts of Park’s trilogy of revenge we find Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Lady Vengeance, and out of the three films, Lady Vengeance must be considered as the most dynamic one.

Murray plays his usual character

Likewise, in a series of nine films by Jarmuch you can watch Jim Jarmuch’s Coffee and Cigarettes at Filmstudion this autumn. The scene with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop is already considered a cult one in some circles. In the series we are also re-acquainted with his latest film, Broken Flowers, in which the darling of American indie film, Bill Murray, yet again portraits a middle-aged man whose life seems to have gone wrong. Even though you may run the risk of becoming bored with the drawling, ironic interpretation of Murray’s, there is still a host of actresses like Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton and Frances Conroy to make the film well worth watching.

Not only men

Something a bit more light-hearted in the programme is the venture of Filmstudion to screen musicals. If you still haven’t seen Dorothy click her heels to go home to Kansas, the chance is still here, now. The Wizard of Oz is a film that any human being who has just the slightest bit of imagination left should experience.

Another nice thing is that Susanne Bier’s Danish realism is back on the programme, as is Margarethe von Trotta who has written herself into German film history with her depiction of the Holocaust. It comes as a relief that although the autumn of 2006 seemingly consists of nothing but men, the world of film still isn’t completely homogeneous.

Well chosen

In no doubt the films of this autumn are safe choices, but they are well chosen, and furthermore, altogether they deserve a pretty good rating.