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cinema guild // @theater_matters

Joined July 2016
Tomorrow at 7pm at @AnthologyFilm: The US premiere of Jean-Claude Rousseau's new feature. "A metaphysical experience about life, death, and beauty." - JCR P.S. a letter about Leo McCarey's AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER:
The Theater of the Matters & Taufic present… ‘The Pastoral Concert’ + LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET A book launch for the first English edition of Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Le Concert champêtre. Plus the US premiere of his new feature film. Friday, Nov. 6 at @AnthologyFilm.
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This Friday, Nov 6 at Anthology.
The Theater of the Matters & Taufic present… ‘The Pastoral Concert’ + LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET A book launch for the first English edition of Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Le Concert champêtre. Plus the US premiere of his new feature film. Friday, Nov. 6 at @AnthologyFilm.
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B-side poster featuring a watercolor of Ozu’s grave by Matías Piñeiro. After Somai’s film, a 35mm screening of Ozu’s furious and oblique film of the Depression era, WOMAN OF TOKYO. A film that spills out onto the sidewalks, we’ll present it in silence w/ no accompaniment.
The Theater of the Matters presents… Shinji Somai’s GASSAN + Ozu’s WOMAN OF TOKYO The first North American screening of Somai’s rare and deeply personal final film, made for TV and completed shortly before his death from cancer in 2001. Dec. 10, 2026 at @BAMfilmBrooklyn.
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The Theater of the Matters presents… Shinji Somai’s GASSAN + Ozu’s WOMAN OF TOKYO The first North American screening of Somai’s rare and deeply personal final film, made for TV and completed shortly before his death from cancer in 2001. Dec. 10, 2026 at @BAMfilmBrooklyn.
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Ed McCarry retweeted
女優モーリン・オハラ(1920-2015)は今日10月24日で没後11年。 「私はいつだって、タフなアイルランド娘だった」 ジョン・ウェインと共演した名作 『静かなる男』('52ジョン・フォード)から⇩ なおオハラは、故国アイルランドを舞台とした本作のサウンドトラックを聴きながら、息を引き取ったという
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Planning a couple of screenings before year's end, plus a little lecture, plus maybe some other stuff, quien sabe?
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Set on Christmas Eve in Medellín’s lower depths, Víctor Gaviria’s THE ROSE SELLER adapts Hans Christian Andersen in the vernacular of the city’s street children. A luminous culmination of Gaviria’s decades-long work with non-professionals. Tomorrow at Light Industry.
Five translations of poems by Colombian poet and filmmaker Víctor Gaviria. Read on our website.
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“With LOS HABITANTES DE LA NOCHE, a new Medellín was revealed to us amidst the safety of our homes: the characters in this story spoke like street people, their actions were as swift and tragic as the sidewalks of our adolescence.”
The Theater of the Matters & Archipelago Books present… LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH An evening dedicated to Luis Alberto Alvarez, the late Catholic priest and film critic of Medellín, Colombia. With films by his student, poet-filmmaker Víctor Gaviria. Oct. 18 at Light Industry.
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The Theater of the Matters & Taufic present… ‘The Pastoral Concert’ + LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET A book launch for the first English edition of Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Le Concert champêtre. Plus the US premiere of his new feature film. Friday, Nov. 6 at @AnthologyFilm.
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Very happy to share one more translation that I've done for @theater_matters, ahead of their October 18 program at Light Industry: theaterofthematters.com/blog…
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A very special new translation from @andrewfromvibes: the 1982 text co-authored by Luis Alberto Álvarez & Víctor Gaviria that served as a manifesto for their generation of Colombian cinema.
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This is just over a week away! See you there. Sun, October 18 at Light industry.
The Theater of the Matters & Archipelago Books present… LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH An evening dedicated to Luis Alberto Alvarez, the late Catholic priest and film critic of Medellín, Colombia. With films by his student, poet-filmmaker Víctor Gaviria. Oct. 18 at Light Industry.
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After BUSCANDO TRÉBOLE’s premiere at Medellín’s El Subterráneo cinematheque in 1979, Luis Alberto Álvarez wrote: “Those eight minutes, so easy to overlook, are the most real eight minutes in Colombian cinema in a long time, perhaps ever.”
“When I walk across my room with unsteady steps, my spirit moves forward majestically.” From Víctor Gaviria’s BUSCANDO TRÉBOLES, a visual poem made in collaboration with children from the Medellín School for the Blind. Screens Oct 18 at Light Industry.
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“When I walk across my room with unsteady steps, my spirit moves forward majestically.” From Víctor Gaviria’s BUSCANDO TRÉBOLES, a visual poem made in collaboration with children from the Medellín School for the Blind. Screens Oct 18 at Light Industry.
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A primer on the aesthetic ideas of Luis Alberto Álvarez, priest and film critic. Translated by Andrew Castillo (@andrewfromvibes).
The Theater of the Matters & Archipelago Books present… LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH An evening dedicated to Luis Alberto Alvarez, the late Catholic priest and film critic of Medellín, Colombia. With films by his student, poet-filmmaker Víctor Gaviria. Oct. 18 at Light Industry.
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Petit proof of life: a new translation done by me for @theater_matters. It's a lovely short text by Andrés Upegui Jiménez on Colombian priest and film critic Luis Alberto Álvarez, the subject of TotM's next seance... theaterofthematters.com/text…
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LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH… Full schedule and program notes now live. theaterofthematters.com/prog…
The Theater of the Matters & Archipelago Books present… LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH An evening dedicated to Luis Alberto Alvarez, the late Catholic priest and film critic of Medellín, Colombia. With films by his student, poet-filmmaker Víctor Gaviria. Oct. 18 at Light Industry.
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Charles Burnett is back in New York this weekend presenting MY BROTHER'S WEDDING. filmforum.org/film/my-brothe…
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Ed McCarry retweeted
アントニオ・レイスがジョアン・セーザル・モンテイロ『この武器でぼくは何をするのか?』を語る 前半かなり批判してるが、結論は「セーザルは才能あるから彼の好きなように撮らせろ」 youtu.be/_Fsrk2fFzxI?si=1rHo…
ポルトガルの映画作家アントニオ・レイス(1925-91)は今日9月10日で没後35年。 ペドロ・コスタやモンテイロら同郷の後続の映画作家達に大きな影響を与えた。 妻のマルガリーダ・コルデイロと共同監督した傑作『トラス・オス・モンテス』('76)から⇩
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