She stayed until the Greek came back, about an hour. We didn't do anything. We just lay on the bed. She kept rumpling my hair, and looking up at the ceiling, like she was thinking.

`You like blueberry pie?'

`I don't know. Yeah. I guess so.'

`I'll make you some.'

-          James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

Everyone on these streets knew if you turned around and saw the man, all seven feet, looking down at you, you had at best start saying your last and final prayers and make them good, remember everything, cash in your chips and for what its worth, ask for forgiveness from the Man up there cause down here, about a second ago, your last chance just passed you by. And if don't believe in the Almighty then, do what you have to do. You have a got a minute at most. No point running or making a fuss about it or asking to speak to your mother and kids. Go down easy. Rest in Peace. And that's one half of the reason they call him `Tombstone'. The other reason's got to with that beautiful face of his. A striking mug- whichever way you stare at him, like one of those ancient Greek statues they dug up from the grime of centuries ago but now they been beaten in by time and weather so much that they look like something that came from outer space. Of childhood and memories, there is no trace, neither does it look modern. It is a face marked by graves of what must once have been a gorgeous masculine profile. Eyes hardened and purpled during the time he spent as a POW in a Nazi camp in Litzmannstadt, Poland. One ear lost in a scuffle with some dealer punks during his time in Harlem, the other ear burnt from sleeping too close to the boiler from when he worked the railroads. The mouth was slit at Johnny Friendly's Bar and the nose punched in by the feds trying to get him to rat on his customers. But if there was indeed a scar on that dead face which he sported like a goddamn charm, it was the gash across his forehead. Before every hit, he licks his fingers and runs it along the flesh-and-wound barb-wire. No one knows where he's got that from. Legend has it, that he got it from a dame. He had turned up piss-late and dirt-broke for a meeting, having blown every dime in his pocket at the crap tables. It didn't go down too well with her. She went at him with a stiletto.

-          Elwood Reinhardt, Severe Burns

Noir is in the air. Blood-stained collars are back in fashion and ladies, it is very very chic to sport a gun. As a tribute to the glorious second half of `Kaminey' and on the eve of the new Tarantino, the much awaited and greatly debated `Inglorious Basterds', Bangalore Film Society is proud to present to you a weekend of the tough, the dead, the crazy, the wild and the reckless. We present to you the works of one of cinema's masters-by-default Seijun Suzuki, the man who knew very clearly where to point and what to shoot. We present Bastards out Off Hell.

Friday, 21^st August 2009                      Time: 6.30pm

Out of the Past (1947/93min)           Dir: Jacques Tourneur

`We called them B-pictures'

-          - Robert Mitchum

`So what's the big idea? I thought it was going to be Seijun Suzuki.' Well, BFS would advise you not be vocal if you get the aforementioned thought it your head. Why? Simply 'cause you don't want to mess with the kid. The original gangster-preacher, the charm, the suave, the street- Robert Mitchum in his most explosive performance in the great Jacques Tourneur's tour-de-force noir joined by no less than the seductive Jane Greer and a terrific Kirk Douglas. Regarded now as a classic Hollywood noir, `Out of the Past' is a sensationally told tale like only Tourneur could, of a dead-end detective whose past returns to catch him in a tale of deceit and intrigue. The dialogue itself is a doozy.

Saturday 22^nd August, 2009               Time: 6.30pm

Branded To Kill (1967/98min)         Dir: Seijun Suzuki

"People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in."

-          - Robert Mitchum

Now that the kid's outta the way, we can bring in The Man. And at his flamboyant best. A blue-collar director hired to churn out movies off the assembly line, Suzuki was a true visionary- ask Tarantino, ask Jarmusch, they'll tell you. He may not be able to hold sway on it like Godard, but for Suzuki, like the greatest- Fuller, Houston, Imamura, Kurosawa, Hawks et al, he had a gut feeling about it and went all over town with it. `Branded to Kill' is one the epitomes of the Suzuki aesthetic, a brash, perverse, fast and furious dynamic tale of `No.3 Killer' who must hang on to his life and fight his way to No.1. If you haven't seen Suzuki, you haven't seen anything like it ever before. Starring the one and only Joe Shishido- imagine Elvis playing a yakuza.

Sunday 23^rd August, 2009                   Time: 6.30pm

Youth of the Beast (1963/92min)   Dir: Seijun Suzuki

"Where are the real artists? Today it`s four-barreled carburettors and that`s it."

-        -   Robert Mitchum

Visually, the pictures have seldom done better. Suzuki outdoes himself in this exciting twist-laden tale of crooks, cops and revenge. Mirrors, smoke, yellow dust, strange landscapes, hallucinations- Seijun turns  it upto eleven and sweeps the senses turning yet another run-of-the mill script handed to him by his bosses into plush extravagance and searing beauty and cinema- oh yes, the cinema! The great Joe Shishido turns up yet again as the protagonist Jo Mizuno and the are times it just doesn't get any better than this.

‘There is great disorder under heaven and the situation is excellent’

-          - Gen. Li, Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau

‘Each will have his personal Rocket.’

-          - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

"The whole world was watching us, and we had a chance to show the world how it could be if we ran things,” growled Wavy Gravy, the Woodstock 69’ MC . You can either take it or leave it at that. But for what it counts, Woodstock Music & Art Fair 1969: An Aquarian Exposition was more than its base statistics- 400,000 people, 3 days, 32 of the best rock, folk, blues, jazz, psychedelic acts, 600acres of dairy farm, one of the 50 Moments that changed Rock & Roll History and for all you know, 43miles away from the actual town of Woodstock. It was more than the ‘fitting end to a beautiful generation’ that it is often purported as. For a time that believed that the present and the now were the infinite and the glorious, nostalgia is an ill-spent dime and any and all speculation, just so much paper.

As the 40^th anniversary of those 3 glorious days knocks on the door, we will not commit the mistake of remembering Woodstock or commit something as ignoble as pay tribute. Woodstock was an event of our collective consciousness; a concert of our mind, pure color- the first plucked string still vibrates an aurora borealis somewhere along the atmosphere. It is not a place and time far, far away that we seek but a dimension, where if you turn back mad flowers bloom and sweep, rain falls on guitar strings, people frolic manic in the mud arms akimbo awaiting the promised beautiful embrace and the air is made of the sweetest music ever played. Woodstock 69 is the eternal and Bangalore Film Society is proud to celebrate the Love, Peace, Freedom, Beauty and Music, and play it like it once played and plays forever- ‘One Time and One Time Only’

Sunday 16^th August, 2009                                          Time: 4.30pm

Woodstock: The Director’s Cut (1970/225mins)    Dir: Michael Wadleigh

225minutes of not only the greatest concert ever played but 225minutes that changed cinema forever. Iconoclast film-maker and counterculture icon Michael Wadleigh along with 100 member rag tag which included a very young Mr. Scorsese not just executed one of the greatest films of all time but captured what no film had or has since captured- a unique time, a unique mood of a crumbling utopia having its greatest howl. Stylistically revolutionary at the time with its inventive use of editing and the split-screen, Wadleigh’s free-wheeling and gorgeously painted frames and expositions translate with not a missing vibe the grand human poetry that was and is ‘Woodstock Music & Art Fair 1969: An Aquarian Exposition’. Winner of the Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards 1971.

THE FOLLOWING WILL PERFORM:-

CROSBYSTILLSANDNASHCANNEDHEATRICHIEHAVENSJOANBAEZTHEWHOSHANANA

JOECROCKERANDTHEGREASEBANDCOUNTRYJOEANDTHEFISHARLOGUTHRIETENYEARSAFTER

JEFFERSONAIRPLANEJOHNSEBASTIANCARLOSSANTANASLYANDTHEFAMILYSTONEJANISJOPLIN  AND

JIMIHENDRIX

Admission Free. Permission to Arrive Deranged at the Premises granted.

Venue: 33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout, Jai Bharath Nagar, MS Nagar PO, Bangalore- 33.

Tel: 25493705/9886213516

Require a freelance, Bangalore-based Assistant Director, for documentary film in
Tamil Nadu. Knowledge of Tamil and English and experience in film production
essential. Project timeline - June to August 09.

Please respond by email with a short resume of work experience.

Sunanda Bhat
817, 2DC, HRBR I
Bangalore 43

>> LAND DREAMS, cataloguing our cultural aspirations and use-values related to
LAND

Living in a country and region with active land-struggles and a history of
land-rights movements^ and attempts of land-reform, if land is made available to
us for some time, what can we imagine?

>> CALL FOR PROPOSALS

LAND is available for temporary projects, workshops, conferences, performances,
make-shift offices in Bangalore for five days a month. This LAND is available
only until August 2009. As an artist, group, community, network or individual if
there is a need for flexible temporary space in the city, send your proposal to
LAND DREAMS. Your proposal should:

� �* Introduce yourself or your group.
� �* Send a note on how some existing space in Bangalore can be re-used,
re-purposed for social and cultural purposes.
� �* Explain (in max 300 words) the temporary land-use you have in mind. If
possible, sketch something on the photographs below.
� �* Please keep these constraints in mind.
� � � � �o No permanent changes or structures are possible.
� � � � �o The space has to be kept clean.
� � � � �o There is no power at the site, everything has to be battery-powered
if at all.
� � � � �o Collaboration with architects known to us to temporarily shape the
space is possible. So, say so if you want to explore this.
� � � � �o Night-time projects can't be noisy.
� � � � �o Non-commercial projects of any kind can be proposed.

>> WHAT?

� �* Imaginations often need physical space to play out and virtual spaces are
just not enough. Spaces used now to meet and talk are expensive coffee shops or
restaurants. OUTDOOR SPACES STILL EXIST.
� �* Using land which is not fully built-up yet is a treat. You will get as much
flexibility as you want. Think of what the buildings you sit in and use DON'T
allow you to use.
� �* This call comes as a part of the LAND DREAMS project. "Unemployed plots of
land dream of things that they can do, how they can look, forms they can �take.
When they are actively traded and utilized in the market and society, only a
narrow range of functions get performed on them. They, on the other hand remain
unfilled." Read more here: http://is.gd/A5sM .
� �* LAND DREAMS wants to demonstrate alternative and non-commercial uses for
surplus and fringe urban spaces in the city. These demonstrations will become
urban memories which will be drawn on for a long time to inspire a diverse set
of cultural, social and personal uses of the city.

The LAND belongs is the University Women's Association of Bangalore (UWAB)'s
property in New Thippasandra where they are building a hostel for working women.
the construction process is temporarily halted due to paucity of funds. The UWAB
has offered CitySpinning use of the property till such time that construction
commences. UWAB believes in encouraging young talent and hopes to see youth
putting there hostel space to good use.

>> DEADLINE

For using the LAND in July or August please send in your proposals by June 15th,
2009. Proposals can be e-mailed to land@....

>> PROCESS

� �* Proposals which meet the criteria will be accepted and . � By July 1st
2009.
� �* The teams/individuals behind the selected proposals will be invited to the
LAND for a visit, orientation and discussion. � July 4th and 5th, 2009.
� �* After this the project will be given confirmed dates on which they can use
the LAND for their project. � July 6th, 2009.

>> EXAMPLES:

� �* Your band doesn't have a space to practice? The LAND, in the afternoon
might be the right place.
� �* Likewise, this could the ideal space for theatre and film rehearsals,
practice and enactment.
� �* Want to set up some writers studios for the literati of Bangalore? Our
architect friends could help you make cheap temporary studio-spaces.
� �* Want to organize puppet-shows, screen movies, do a neighbourhood meeting
about dealing with trash and waste? It can all happen here.
� �* CitySpinning is using the space for a community-in-the-making, The YourTime
Club: http://is.gd/BXri.
� �* For interpretive land-use projects around the world see the list of links
here: http://is.gd/A4my.

>> WHERE?

The University Women's Association, Bangalore (UWAB) property in New
Thippasandra. The UWAB's land is a site for a working women's hostel. Link to
the google map: http://is.gd/rl5p. Some photographs are here: http://is.gd/A5sM.

- - -

A CitySpinning, OpenSpace Bangalore and University Women's Association (UWA)
project.

The proposals will be selected by CitySpinning and University Women's
Association (UWA) together.

- - -

^ see http://is.gd/A4dV and http://is.gd/A496.

Please spread the word, and my apologies if you receive multiple copies of
this e-mail.
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Hello all

Catch Ensemble Kolkata presenting their acclaimed play *Sonata* at Ranga
Shankara on Friday, May 29 at 0730 pm.

Details:

Language: English
Duration:  80 mins
Playwright: Mahesh Elkunchwar
Dir: Sohag Sen
Starring: Sohag Sen, Anasuya Majumdar, Yama Shroff.

SONATA is an Indian � English play based on a Sunday evening in the lives of
three women, formerly college friends, now in their middle age � a banker, a
college professor and a journalist,  all well- established in their
profession and all single by choice. It articulates their relationships,
ideals, aims, psychology and sexuality � the love and bonding the three
share despite all their differences. The play is both entertaining and
discerning about life.
This would be the inaugural play of *Moitree'09* organized by mukhOsh,
Bengaluru, at Ranga Shankara between May 29-31.

Tickets: Rs.120/-
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16 May 2009, Saturday

5.30 pm - THE LOST WORLD OF TIBET, Emma Hindley, 90 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitle

An exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama, focusing on his early life and childhood is intercut with colour archive film from the 1930s, '40s and '50s as well as revealing interviews with ordinary Tibetan people who remember life before China sent in troops.

��a rare treasure trove that reveals the story of the Dalai Lama & the secrets of ancient Tibet."

Ashwini, No. 24, 1st floor, 3rd Main St, Domlur Layout, Bangalore - 560071, tel. 080 4148 6497

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The Film Festival web-site -�www.furhhdl.org/ttib-film-fest09

If you need any further information, feel free to contact me.

Thanks,

Darima

Mob. +91 99869 44153

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