B-to-Z double bill at Cinematek | Offscreen
Every last Friday of the month, we collaborate with the Cinematek's B-to-Z rendez-vous in Brussels, a moment in the history of alternative cinema that shouldn't be missed. Unearthed from the dark recesses of the archive: hilarious B-movies, blood-chilling thrillers, Gialli, slashers and other exploitation cinema gems… Take advantage of the 2-for-1: two films with a common theme for the price of a single ticket.
26 January 2024
Spiritism, fortune-telling, clairvoyance... this by definition non-scientific form of extrasensory perception is often the subject of fraud and deception, especially when it occurs in the context of public (and paid) performances. A film noir like Nightmare Alley...
29 December 2023
Parody cinema, aimed at grotesquely mocking a genre and its rules, is usually not the most subtle art form! Comedy duos, trios, and groups around the world have lampooned various film genres, often with varying degrees of success. Americans Abbott and Costello made fun...
24 November 2023
During the 1960s, pop aesthetics experienced a heyday in Italian cinema. Fumetti neri (adult comic strips in the style of Diabolik) flooded the newsstands, and the influence of op art (optical art) was evident in auteur films (such as Marco Ferreri's Break-Up) and B-...
27 October 2023
Charles Bronson undoubtedly remains one of the most iconic tough guys of the big screen. His muscular physique, chiseled face, and minimal facial expressions (beware when he squints his eyes!) made him more of a physical than a verbal actor; a man of few words who let...
29 September 2023
Crystal Lake is one of the most legendary locations in horror cinema. The cursed summer camp by a lake is haunted by one of the greatest boogeymen in the history of American slasher films: Jason Voorhees. With no less than 12 films, the Friday the...
25 August 2023
Sometimes, in the search for B to Z film material, we accidentally come across titles in the vast film archive of CINEMATEK that, after some investigation, turn out to be unique copies of long-lost films. We shouldn't expect major classics here, but rather exploitation...
28 July 2023
In December of last year, director Mike Hodges passed away at the age of 90. With his debut film Get Carter from 1971, one of the grittiest and most significant British gangster films with an immortal lead role by Michael Caine, he delivered...
30 June 2023
This summer, B to Z ignores the beach and invites you to take a dive into still waters populated by strange creatures!Swamp Thing proves that superhero films and other Marvel and DC Comics adaptations have not always been blockbusters with worldwide success....
26 May 2023
On the eve of the third millennium, cinema seemed liberated from all censorship, with seemingly no limits regarding the representation of bodies and sexuality. Films by Catherine Breillat or Lars Von Trier emerged, among others, where pornography and auteur cinema...
28 April 2023
Dead of Night from 1945 serves as the precursor to the anthology film (feature films consisting of several short films, often interconnected by a common thread that gives the entire film coherence) in the genre of fantasy film. In the 1960s-1970s, the genre...
31 March 2023
You can't keep a good robot down! This year's film festival may be over drawing to a close, but our robot theme carries on at Cinematek with a robo-centric B to Z double-bill.
25 March 2022
The American actor Jeffrey Combs (born 1954) is inextricably linked to cosmic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. This is mainly thanks to director Stuart Gordon, who cast him in the leading role in 1985's Re-Animator; Combs plays Herbert West, a deranged...
29 October 2021
British actress Joan Collins launched her film career in the 1950s, achieved cult status with genre films in the 1970s (Tales From The Crypt, Empire of The Ants) and became a global celebrity in her role of the ice-cold vamp...
24 September 2021
In the real world, most of us feel quite secure about humanity's place at the top of the food chain. Yet there is no shortage of films reminding us what tasty snacks we might be for other predators. Violent pushback from the animal kingdom was one of the most common...
27 August 2021
After making his mark with the horror-comedy Fright Night, Tom Holland once again impressed 1980s fans of the genre with Child's Play. Chucky, the killer doll possessed by a serial killer, became a popular horror icon who would pop back for countless...
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