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The Bangalore Film Society and Deep Focus Film Quarterly will present a series of films and lectures on films.
The event commences on March 23, 6.30 p.m., with the screening of a Polish film "Danton", directed by Andrzej Wajda.
The film is about a national hero and leading light of the French revolution Georges Danton, who returns to Paris after a self imposed exile.
The films was made in France after Wajda's studio in Poland was closed down by the Polish Authorities in response to the director's sympathies for the new trade union movement, Solidarity.
On March 24 there will be a lecture on cinema by S.V. Srinivas at 4.30 p.m. The topic for the lecture is Movements of Irrationality And The Willing Spectator: An Argument About Popular Cinema as a Political Form. This will be followed by the screening of the Tamil film "Baba", directed by Suresh Krishna, starring Rajnikanth and Manisha Koirala.
On March 25 at 6.30 p.m., the English film "Brazil (1985)" will be screened. Directed by Terry Gilliam, the film is a dark comedy inspired by Orwell's "1984".
The film is set in a warped world where bureaucracy rules everything and the drudgery of filling forms and doing your own boring desk jib has taken over the society. The venue is Ashirvad, 30, St. Mark's Road, Opposite State Bank of India. For details contact Bangalore Film Society on 25492774/25492779.
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