Become a member to attend Film i Malmö film screenings!
Hypnos Theater, Norra Grängesbergsgatan 15. Please arrive early. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. It is not possible to gain entrance after doors are closed.
If you want to volunteer, just message us on facebook (or email owen at owen@filmimalmo.se), and let us know which screening you are interested in coming to – then we’ll ask you to show up 30 minutes before the doors open, and we’ll train you smoothly into your first – guided, supervised, and sweet – volunteering experience with the actual audience.
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Monday | July 29 | 19:00
CROOKLYN
Comedy – Drama
US, 1994, 115′, English with Swedish subtitles
Co-written with siblings Joie and Cinqué Lee, Spike Lee’s CROOKLYN is a semi-autobiographical portrait illuminating the life of the lively Carmichael family and their vibrant Bedford-Stuyvesant community. Schoolteacher and loving Carmichael matriarch Carolyn (Alfre Woodard) runs a no-nonsense household, working hard to keep the lights on and raise her nine-year-old daughter Troy (Zelda Harris) alongside her 4 rowdy brothers with little help from her sensitive, struggling jazz-musician husband Woody (Delroy Lindo).
Complemented by an energizing, vintage R&B soundtrack, this tender and colorful film is a bold, flavorful and affectionate picture of family life.
Tuesday | July 30 | 19:30
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Crime – Drama – Film Noir
US, 1950, 112′, English
A criminal mastermind is released from prison, and immediately starts planning a million dollar jewel robbery. He recruits a safecracker, a driver and a hooligan. With the perfect plan and his team of experts everything should run smooth, but of course it won’t, as bad luck and human greed gets in the way.
The endearing phenomenon of the “heist/caper film” starts here. There might have been movies about heists made before, but none as influential as this, paving the way for later movies like Rififi, The Killing, Jönssonligan, Reservoir Dogs, Ocean’s 11 etc.
All done in glorious film noir style of the time by master director John Huston, who somehow got almost full creative influence in directing this one, even though MGM chief Louis B. Mayer hated the idea of this movie. Starring Marilyn Monroe in a small but star-making performance.
“The Asphalt Jungle is a study in crime, hard-hitting in its expose of the underworld. Ironic realism is striven for and achieved in the writing, production and direction. An audience will quite easily pull for the crooks in their execution of the million-dollar jewelry theft around which the plot is built. “
Variety
“This tale of a jewel theft gone wrong is notable for its gritty procedural detail and an emphasis on the inner lives of the small time crooks, expertly played by Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe.”
Paul Arendt, BBC
“That ‘Asphalt Pavement’ thing is full of nasty, ugly people doing nasty things. I wouldn’t walk across the room to see a thing like that.”
Louis B. Mayer
Thursday | August 1 | 19:30
*****QUEER THURSDAYS*****
BOUND
Crime – Thriller
Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
US, 1996, 108′, English with English subtitles
Starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly, Bound is a story of Violet and Corky, a mobster’s girlfriend and an ex-con who fall in love. But, because Violet’s boyfriend is trigger-happy mobster Caesar, their love affair must be secret. When Violet comes up with a plan to steal $2 million from Caesar and frame the theft on one of Caesar’s mob partners, she needs Corky to help her pull it off. Things don’t go quite as planned, and Corky and Violet are forced to improvise in order to stay alive and stay together.
Beyond being an exceedingly entertaining, edge-of-your-seat thriller with all the violence any true lover of crime dramas could crave, what sets Bound truly apart from all the other films in its genre is the way The Wachowskis build the characters of Corky and Violet, the way they make them three-dimensional, much more than props or tropes to further the narrative. Looking back, one could see that Lana and Lilly Wachowski saw themselves in Corky and Violet; as two women trapped in a world in which they didn’t fit, busting to get out, to express themselves, to break barriers and defy the expectations put upon them. In exploring, building and bringing Corky and Violet to life, the Wachowskis were able to find a voice for their societal frustrations, using their artistic vision to bring characters to the screen that were contrary to what Hollywood generally permits there. The result is a film that features characters that are not only groundbreaking, but stand the test of time.
(Catherine Springer, Awardswatch)