May-June 2006 Program June 1–30, 2006

NEW AND INDEPENDENT IN SPRING
ALLEGRO
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

HAYAO MİYAZAKİ
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE
SPIRITED AWAY

CHILLY BREEZES FROM SCANDINAVIA
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
EVIL
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
DARKHORSE

EDGY NIGHTS: JAPANESE CINEMA
BATTLE ROYALE
AUDITION
DARKWATER

CELEBRATING MOZART'S 250th YEAR!
IN SEARCH OF MOZART

15th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL THEATRE FESTiVAL
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET
SADE

ETKİNLİKLER/ EVENTS

NEW AND INDEPENDENT IN SPRING

ALLEGRO
Denmark | 2005, 35mm, Color, 88' | Danca; Danish; Turkish subtitles
Director: Christoffer Boe
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, Henning Moritzen

Christoffer Boe, the director of Reconstruction, one of the most favorites of the 23rd lnternational lstanbul Film Festival, in his second feature, tells the tale of a piano player whose past and talent was stolen from him. Sacrificing his sentiments in order ta reach his pinnacle in music, the pianist has difficulty in breaking away from this dilemma and as he also resists love. In this story of lost love, the pianist returns ta Copenhagen, searching for his lost memories which have been sealed by some supernatural force, in a night club. In order to save his past he will have ta face the reality of his past.

SİL BAŞTAN / ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
USA | 2004, 35mm, Color, 108' | English; Turkish subtitles
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo

Vibrant, warm and deliriously inventive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a romantic comedy that mixes with science-fiction. Playing smartly against type, Jim Carrey gives one of his best performances as the timid Joel, who discovers his sparkly ex-girlfriend Clementine (the luminescent Kate Winslet) has undergone a medical procedure to erase him from her memory. Miffed, he decides to do the same, but changes his mind while watching his memories erased, and must race though his own brain trying to stop the process. Young French director Michel Gondry's second feature-length film comes across as striking and promising in today's contemporary cinema.
*2005 Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

HAYAO MİYAZAKİ
Hayao Miyazaki is a 64-year-old, Japenese animation master. He is a real artist of cinema who works with hand-drawn images in the old style while everyone around him is fully immersed in computer techniques. Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke received the Japan Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest­grossing (about USO 150 million) domestic film in Japan's history until it was taken over by another Miyazaki work, Spirited Away. Many of Miyazaki's work are styled Bildungsroman as, i.e. they depict the path of personal growth and change of the main character. In the beginning, the protagonist (almost always a girl) is described as naive, dependent on others, or selfish. This change is usually achieved through exposure to life's major realities, love (life), and old age (death). Miyazaki carries to marvel with his new epic animation "Howl's Moving Castle".

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE / HAURU NO UGOKU SHIRO
Japan | 2004, 35mm, Color, 88' | Japanese; Turkish subtitles
Voice: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin

18 year-old Sophie is transformed into a 90 year-old woman by a cruel witch. Sophie is embarrassed by her looks, so leaves home to work for a magician called Howl who lives in his own moving castle. In this castle she meets a ginni Calcifer. She is promised that she can become young again, but in return Sophie must help Calcifer get away from the castle. The film premiered at the 2004 and won the Golden Osella award for animation technology.

SPIRITED AWAY / SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI
Japan | 2001, 35mm, Color, 125' | Japanese; Turkish subtitles
Seslendirenler / Voice: Rumi Hiiragi, Mlyu lrino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naito

Chihiro is a 10 year-old girl, sad and grumpy because her family has to move to another city due to her father's business. During this voyage of moving Chiciro and her family will come across very interesting encounters. On their break in a village while eating Chihiro's mother and father turn into pigs. Just as Chihiro tries to help them the village turns into a carnival of ghosts. Just to stay alive Chihiro finds a ghost resting hotel and has to persuade them to accept her to come in. In this hotel not only will she open up the mystery into the ghosts but also experience love with the mysterious Haku.

İSKANDİNAVYA'DAN SERİN ESİNTİLER / CHILLY BREEZES FROM SCANDINAVIA

WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
Denmark, United Kingdom | 2002, 35mm, Color, 111' | English; Turkish subtitles
Director: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen

Wilbur and Harbour are two brothers in their thirties working at the bookstore they inherited from their father. Harbour longs for a happy and peaceful life. However he has a very important problem: his brother. Wilbur has lost all interest in living. Very often he attempts to kill himself. One day their lives change when Alice and her small daughter Mary walk into the bookstore. Alice who works at the hospital begins to get close with Harbour; Mary and Wilbur embark on a special friendship. Although the four starts sharing the same house in peace, life is never what it seems, full of unexpected surprises await for them. In Italian for Beginners, Lone Scherfig's heart-warming film resembles her first English film Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself as the film tackles life, death and love in a sentimental and comedic approach.

EVIL / ONDSKAN
Sweden | 2002, 35mm, Color, 114' | Swedish, Finnish; Turkish subtitles
Director: Mikael Hafström
Cast: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgard, Jesper Salen

2004 Oscar: En İyi Yabancı Film Adayı

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN / SA SOM I HIMMELEN
Sweden | 2004, 35mm, Color, 132' | Swedish; Turkish subtitles
Director: Kay Pollak
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Frida Hallgren, Lennart Jahkel, Helen Sjoholm

Dareus, world famous orchestra conductor, while performing at a concert has a heart attack; thus he listens to his doctor by retreating. He returns to his childhood town, even though he wishes to stay away from human contact, in short time he finds himself quite close with the townspeople. He begins to rehearse the town choir, realizing that he has a lot to give to people. However, not everybody in the town would be happy about Dareus' arrival. Foremost, the church and other conservatives begin to doubt him. The town people will have to face with their prejudices, problems they have been ignoring for years, jealousies and their oppressed loves.

DARKHORSE / VOKSNE MENNESKER
Denmark, Iceland | 2005, 35mm, Black-White, 106' | Danish; Turkish subtitles
Director: Dagur Kari
Cast: Mikael Bertelsen, Michelle Bjom-Andersen, Nicolas Bro

Dark Horse consists of Dagur Kari's well-known elements: entertaining dialogues, an unusual humor and placing his characters' sentimental worlds under a magnifying glass. The film's music is composed by Dagur Kari's own band Slowbow who also did Noi the Albino's film composition. Dark Horse screened at 2005 Cannes Film Festival's 'Un Certain Regard' told the story of an irresponsible graffiti artist Daniel, a girl called Franc who is as irresponsible as he is, an insomniac judge Roger and a small Fiat 500. The film explores those who are out of the ordinary along with a light love story in an unusual comedic manner.

EDGY NIGHTS: JAPANESE CINEMA

BATTLE ROYALE / BATORU ROWAIARU
Japan | 2000, 35mm, Color, 114' | Japanese; Turkish subtitles
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Talsuya Fujlwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamato, Masanobu Ando, Kou Shibasaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takeshi Kitano

Battle Royale, a film by the veteran Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku, tells the story of a dystopic future in which each year, a randomly-selected 9th grade class is kidnapped and sent to a deserted island where they are equipped with weapons and are forced to kill each other until one survivor is left. Renowned director Fukasaku whose career stretches five decades and whose films range from "yakuza" gangster films to wacky sci-fi flicks passed away 2003 from bone cancer, in the midst of filming the sequel to Battle Royale.

AUDITION / ODISHON
Japan | 2000, 35mm, Color, 115' | Japanese; Turkish subtitles
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Ryo lshibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura

Aoyama is an executive who lost his wife seven years ago. A friend of his decides to end his solitude by arranging auditions. Aoyama is not impressed at all with the candidates until the last one, she catches his eye. Yamazaki Asama is trained in ballet and is very attractive. Aoyama calls her and they go out to dinner. He constantly begins to think of her, so calls her again. When Yamazaki answers the phone she is in a very dim lit room alone except with her victim lying on the floor in a sack.

DARKWATER / HONOGURAI MIZU NO SOKO KARA
Japan | 2002, 35mm, Color, 101' | Japanese; Turkish subtitles
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohonita

Dark Water, is a cynical film, thematically it concentrates on solitude, separation and lack of communication in a tense manner. A divorced woman with her little daughter moves into a new apartment, initiating a new start in their lives. In the beginning the apartment does not seem to have any problems. But in time various strange events begin to happen. The little girl starts to get lost often in the empty-looking apartment building. The woman becomes quite influenced by the surrounding happenings.

CELEBRATING MOZART'S 250th YEAR!

IN SEARCH OF MOZART
United Kingdom | 2005, DVD, Color, 120' | English; Turkish subtitles
Director: Phil Grabsky

To mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006, In Search of Mozart is the first ever major feature-length documentary on Mozart's life. Produced in association with the world's leading orchestras, opera houses and musicians, told through a 25,000 mile journey along every route Mozart followed, In Search of Mozart is a detective story that travels to the heart of old Europe, and the heart of genius itself. The documentary's director Phil Grabsky comments: "Mozart has not a few, not dozens, but hundreds of works that are still loved, admired and performed. Where did he come from? What made him? What made his music? I want people to watch this and, perhaps for the first time, get a sense of how the pieces fit the jigsaw of his life and work. But what I also want to do with the film is stimulate people to follow their own creative paths - how many 'Mozart' are there who didn't follow through, didn't practice hard enough, didn't travel enough or didn't listen enough."

15th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL THEATRE FESTIVAL
Peter Brook and Theatre Du Nord are guests of 15th International Istanbul Theatre Festival and 4th International Theatre Olympics under the scope of French Spring. Peter Brook will be attending the festival with two plays: Sizwe Banzi is Dead, the play is opening at Vidy Laussane and will be coming straight to Istanbul afterwards. The second play is The Grand Inquisitor, performed with British actor Bruce Myers. Istanbul Modern Cinema will be showing two of Peter Brook's films and will host a talk with important French writer Jean-Claude Carriere.

THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET
United Kingdom, France | 2002, DVD, Color, 134' | French; English subtitles
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Adrian Lester, Scott Handy, Jeffery Kissoon, Bruce Myers, Yoshi Oida

"Hamlet", one of Shakespeare's best known plays, is being re-looked and interpreted with a different point of view by Peter Brook and his international cast.

SADE
France | 1967, DVD, Color, 116' | English
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams. Glenda Jackson

Marat / Sade is based on the story of Marquis de Sade who put on a play in 1808 at the Charenton Insane Asylum. Sade recounts the historical events of one of the bloodiest leaders of the French Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat's murder. Peter Weiss's play is reintepreted with Peter Brook's vision.

EVENTS

PETER BROOK'S THEATRE ON SCREEN
Following the screening of Peter Brook's The Cherry Orchard, there will be a conversation with Jean-Claude Carriere, renowned figure of the film world who contributed immensely to the making of this film.

Jean-Claude Carriere was born in 1931 . He is a screenwriter and actor. He was a frequent collaborator with Luis Bunuel. Some notable screenplays he has written or co-written include: Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Valmont, and Cyrano de Bergerac. His collaboration with Peter Brook include, film version of the ancient Sanskrit epic, The Mahabharata and The Cherry Orchard.