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.
28 August 2020
As you may know, the Offscreen Film Festival was hit by the Covid-19 bomb on March 13. Now that society and the film sector are slowly coming out of lockdown, we can resume some Offscreen activities, including the B to Z screenings at Cinematek. Because the number of...
31 July 2020
As you may know, the Offscreen Film Festival was hit by the Covid-19 bomb on March 13. Now that society and the film sector are slowly coming out of lockdown, we can resume some Offscreen activities, including the B to Z screenings at Cinematek. Because the number of...
26 June 2020
Where there’s ‘time travel’, there are also ‘time travellers’! This month’s B-Z double-bill - continuing Offscreen Film Festival’s thematic module - presents two alpha male specimens for the price of one: a floppy-haired blond prehistoric warrior from the future...
28 February 2020
Michael Winner's "Death Wish" and John Milius' "Red Dawn" are two ambiguous movies that were considered fascist upon release. They reflected the American paranoia and security, linked to the second amendment.The screenplay of "Death Wis"h excited Winner because "it had...
31 January 2020
Strange creatures are lurking in the shadows...The monsters that the legendary Peplum hero Maciste confronts in "Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules" were already extravagant in the 1960s, but nowadays, they bring about the biggest of sneers. They belong to...
27 December 2019
For the last B to Z of 2019, we set the silver screen ablaze with two movies about heat, flames, and fire, guaranteed to leave a burning impression on the viewers' retinas.Already in 1961, the science fiction film “The Day The Earth Caught Fire” presented us with a...
29 November 2019
As part of Cinematek’s Restored! programme, we present to you two giallo masterpieces made by two maestri: Dario Argento’s Opera and Lucio Fulci’s "Non si sevizia un paperino"."Opera" is a late giallo from the end of the 1980s and the first Dario Argento movie to be...
25 October 2019
The buddy cop film – you know, that subgenre in which two cops with clashing characters have to work together – was at its most popular in the 1980s with films such as "Lethal Weapon" and "48 Hrs". In this month’s B to Z, we present to you two examples of the...
27 September 2019
Wanting to cash in on the success of "Emanuelle" (1974) – featuring Sylvia Kristel on a sexual adventure in Bangkok – producers of softcore films couldn’t get enough of exotic locations. Even in Germany, where the bavarian sex movie was starting to lose momentum, it...
30 August 2019
Last year, we had to say goodbye to one of the best action movie directors from Hong Kong: Ringo Lam. He acquired international fame thanks to “City on Fire”, the movie that inspired Tarantino's “Reservoir Dogs”. Like with many other Hong Kong directors (such as John...
26 July 2019
Walter Hill is no stranger to lovers of cult cinema. At the beginning of his career, he wrote Peckinpah's “The Getaway” and produced the “Alien” franchise with his brand-new production company Brandywine Productions. Most of all though, Hill is the director of a series...
28 June 2019
Cemeteries are the bread and butter for horror fans. The creepier the better, with bonus points for nightly and misty settings. Things get even cozier when the inhabitants of these final resting places wake up to crawl their way up to the surface.“Pet Sematary” proves...
31 May 2019
Two heist films built around the legendary stunt man Rémy Julienne...In the late 1960s, "The Italian Job" launched Julienne's career, thanks to the famous chase scenes filmed in mini Coopers. It became a British cult hit in the following years, with not only a remake...
26 April 2019
Many historians have tried to unravel the mysterious origins of one of the most flamboyant Italian genres: the giallo film. Mario Bava and Dario Argento are the founding fathers of this genre in which gloved murderers turn killing into an art form. Some say its origins...
29 March 2019
Every last Friday of the month in Cinematek, Offscreen presents a double-bill of genre films, exploitation, B-movies and cult cinema on vintage 35mm, sourced from the Belgian film archives. This month's B-Z is inspired by the "Game On!" module.A few decades ago no-one...