PROVIDENCE (1977) BFI Southbank

[theuofc]

PROVIDENCE (1977), two screenings at the BFI Southbank, as part of the Alain Resnais Tribute in July. It's not on DVD yet and infrequently screened:

NFT2-8th July, 20:40
NFT1-10th July, 15:30

I've uploaded more information and pics at the Bogarde thread:

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ac...ml#post2007071

Best,

Barbara

[moonfleet]

Buy two tickets Barbara, I'm coming !!

[theuofc]

Buy two tickets Barbara, I'm coming !!

Hi, Moon,

I just burst out laughing at the map with that straight line from France to the UK!

I so hope you can see it. It may be a long time before it is screened again!

All the best,

Barbara

[moonfleet]

Maybe copies would circulate to France ?? not only for Paris ?? ...viens, viens dans ma province [trans: come, come to Pau]

I'd like so much to watch it again in a theatre

[moonfleet]

Brandon's movie memory » Providence (1977, Alain Resnais)

[Elaine]

Maybe copies would circulate to France ?? not only for Paris ?? ...viens, viens dans ma province [trans: come, come to Pau]

I'd like so much to watch it again in a theatre

Have you not got this movie moonfleet? It is available on certain sites.

[moonfleet]

Yes, I got two good copies, the french and the english version, recorded fromTV. But I was speaking of copies for the theatres... Hope it'll be show in french Cinémas

And, if you're optimistic, that it would lead (in 10 years maybe) to an official dvd release, at last

[Elaine]

Yes, I got two good copies, the french and the english version, recorded fromTV. But I was speaking of copies for the theatres... Hope it'll be show in french Cinémas

And, if you're optimistic, that it would lead (in 10 years maybe) to an official dvd release, at last

I would love to see it on the big screen, but unfortunately that is impossible at the moment for me. Maybe one day.....

[moonfleet]

I would love to see it on the big screen, but unfortunately that is impossible at the moment for me. Maybe one day.....

I'll ask to our local Art & Essai cinéma Le Méliès (a beautiful theatre built in an ancient church ) if they intend to project it, because if this film has a national outting revival again, it would be there
But maybe I'm too optimistic (sometimes I am )

mOOn

[moonfleet]

PROVIDENCE (1977), two screenings at the BFI Southbank, as part of the Alain Resnais Tribute in July. It's not on DVD yet and infrequently screened:

NFT2-8th July, 20:40
NFT1-10th July, 15:30

Best,

Barbara

And what a coincidence, I'll be 50 between the two projections !!

[theuofc]

I'll ask to our local Art & Essai cinéma Le Méliès (a beautiful theatre built in an ancient church ) if they intend to project it, because if this film has a national outting revival again, it would be there
But maybe I'm too optimistic (sometimes I am )

mOOn

It's really worth asking, Moon. Sometimes even a local cinéma will screen it if it gets enough requests to defray costs.

Good luck!

Barbara

[moonfleet]

I'd like to say that this movie is also full of humurous moments, due to the unusual cinematographic gesture and an apparently incoherent story line (or is it ?)
I mean moments when you laugh or smile for no particuar reasons...
Something comes to my mind, the writer ( J.Gielgud ) drinks white wine all night, when imaginating ( in his alcoholic delirium ? ) some scenes ( that could fulfill his next book ? ), and so, almost everywhere he puts it in, the different characters are with a glass or a bottle of white wine ( that looks a fine wine BTW ) au frais... ha, ha love it

[moonfleet]

Dirk Bogarde and Elaine Stritch having some shrimps and a glass of wine...

[Elaine]

Dirk Bogarde and Elaine Stritch having some shrimps and a glass of wine...

How elegant and cool Dirk and Elaine look sitting there, and what undercurrents are stirring beneath them.

[moonfleet]

How elegant and cool Dirk and Elaine look sitting there, and what undercurrents are stirring beneath them.

This is how Clive Langham (J.Gielgud) imagine his son's Claude (D.Bogarde) mistress (E.Stritch, who also plays Clive's wife...), I think this screen cap is when she tells him she has cancer, and he just replies: Oh ...and then happens to be very sarcastic with her

[theuofc]

......I'd like so much to watch it again in a theatre

Hi, Moon,

Providence will also be screened in September during the Bogarde Season at the BFI Southbank:

Providence (1977)
18:30 Sun 11 Sept
20:40 Fri 16 Sept

[moonfleet]

Hi, Moon,

Providence will also be screened in September during the Bogarde Season at the BFI Southbank:

Providence (1977)
18:30 Sun 11 Sept
20:40 Fri 16 Sept

Aloa Barbara

Those Brits people don't know their unmissable chance ...

[theuofc]

Aloa Barbara

Those Brits people don't know their unmissable chance ...

Hi, Moon,

I agree. Here's hoping other cinemas follow suit and screen Providence as well. Were I a millionaire, I'd have thrown a tented birthday bash for you and shown Providence on an open-air screen. How much fun would that have been! We can dream, can't we?

[moonfleet]

There are open-air screenings here this Summer ( but not of Providence ===> just imagine watching it under the nighty sky, wow, that would be a mystical experience ), in nice places (castles, along the river...) but mostly they are "new" movies, the only one that might capture my attention is The Ghost Writer...