In August, Ljubljana will once again gift its residents and visitors with three free screenings of the highlights of the seventh art in tribute to important anniversaries and events in the city and film.
This year's edition Annual cinema on Congress square, which in Cinema hall are already preparing fourth year, will be on Tuesday, August 22, opened with a film The sky over Berlin (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987) ob the 30th anniversary of the film and the best director award at Cannes. A hypnotic symphony of the metropolis and a melancholic elegy for Berlin on the eve of the fall of the wall, inspired by Rilke's poetry and dedicated to Ozu, Truffaut and "other fallen angels", it represented the return of the director Wim Wenders to his homeland, as it was his first German film after eight years in America.
On Wednesday, August 23rd, will be a timeless classic Rashomon (Rashômon, 1950) Akira Kurosawa, which thoroughly revolutionized the film language with its inventive, pioneering use of flashbacks. One of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of the year 1951 awarded with Venetian golden lions and foreign language Oscars, opened the eyes of the Western world to Japanese cinema and an imposing rising star, Toshiro Mifune. Projection of the restored version in 4K resolutions is part of the project Japan among us - JAPOM/Spirit of the Samurai and a tribute to the famous Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune (1920–1997).
On occasion Plečnik's year they will August 23rd also played a prequel On the sunny side of the road (1959). The story of an artist who, for a small fee, cuts silhouettes from cardboard in Ljubljana's Tromostovje is a short author's debut Matjaž Klopčič, recorded in the heart of Plečnik's Ljubljana.
On the last day of the Annual Cinema on Congress Square, Thursday, August 24, and you will be accompanied by the iconic soundtrack of the duet Simon & Garfunkel watched a wonderfully cheeky social satire and one of the wittiest and most sophisticated films about the generation gap. Graduate (The Graduate, 1967) launched the actor into the film world Dustin Hoffman, to the director To Mike Nichols and brought the Oscar for best director. Ob 50 years of film will play the new restored version v 4K resolutions.
Movies are on Congress square aired every day at 9 p.m in the original language with Slovenian subtitles. Films whose language is not English are also subtitled in English. Film classics will be available to watch on Congress Square even in case of rain.
