Sisters

Tuesday, 16 August

Sisters

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SISTERS * 1973 * Directed by Brian De Palma * 93 minutes * In English

This "terrifyingly twisted cult classic" was actually the first film...
to give director Brian De Palma (Scarface, Carrie) international acclaim. It made a huge impact on the independent film circuit when it came out, but these days it's overshadowed by Brian De Palma's later big budget productions. Despite this, it remains one of the director's best films.... and what it lacked in budget it made up for with enthusiasm and creativity (and I will take creativity over big budget any day!).

I don't want to say very much about the plot, but its an eerie film that centers on two siamese twin sisters who were separated at birth..... and a woman who, while looking out her apartment window, witnesses a grizzly murder that has taken place. Brian De Palma has often been under the influence of Hitchcock, and here this aesthetic is perhaps executed better than any other film he made. This film initiates a facet he will continue to use in his next few movies—a split screen device where you see a single action from two radically different points of view. For me, this is an aspect of cinema that has barely been explored, and should be because it can be so mind-expanding.

This flick is sharp, thrilling, weird.... and it even blasts with a great musical score composed by the legendary Bernard Hermann (Psycho). It's yet another cult masterpiece that hasn't been shown in a theatre for ages.... when I look around at what is available in the cinemas today, all I can say is: "We're being robbed!"

This will be a high-definition projection.

Date & Time: 

Tuesday, 16 August, 2022 - 21:00

Category: 

  • film

Price: 

  • 3-5 €
- 3 €
Filmhuis Cavia
Van Hallstraat 52-1
1051 HH Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Go through the gate. Cavia is on the right hand side, above Xena Sports. Take the stairs.

Squat: 

Former squat, now legalised

Filmhuis Cavia is a counterculture cinema, (legally) founded by a squatters movement in 1983, which programs films you aren't likely to see anywhere else.

categories: 

  • film

opening times: 

We're open a couple of days in the week. Look us up to find our monthly program.
Doors always open half an hour before the film starts.

Weekly programme of film screenings in a circuit of underground / self-organised venues. Forgotten movies that should have been classics, neglected flics, lesser-known gems, always with a personal introduction by the programmer. All films in English, or with English subtitles.

categories: 

  • film

opening times: 

mostly Sunday to Thursday at about 7 different underground locations.