B-Z: Home Sweet Home
Friday, February 26, 2010
B-to-Z at the Cinematek, Brussels
“Home Sweet Home !”
In ten days the Offscreen Film Festival will open its doors. In the meantime, you can warm up by joining us for a B-to-Z double bill at the Cinematek this Friday!
Family is not always the cornerstone of society nor the nest of comfort we wish it were. Sometimes, the family institution breeds doom and terror, like in the two films selected for this month’s “B-to-Z”. Two films that you are free to interpret as you wish.
The Hills Have Eyes is a horror classic by Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street). The Carters are an all-American family on a road trip through the Nevada desert in their trailer. They fall into the clutches of another, less respectable family of inbred degenerates and cannibals.
Family dysfunction seems to be a recurring theme amongst Japanese filmmakers. Sogo Ishii (Angel Dust, Gojoe), the enfant terrible of punk-influenced cinema, was a notable influence on the Shiny Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike generation. His film The Crazy Family was a precursor for Visitor Q. His film is not only an attack on the hypocrisy of a certain Japanese middle class, but also and above all a black comedy of flamboyant, sadistic proportions.
19:00
The Hills Have Eyes
Wes Craven, USA, 1977, 89’, 35mm
21:00
The Crazy Family (Gyakufunsha kazoku)
Sogo Ishii, Japan, 1984, 106’, 35mm
