"Rewritings: practices of narrative appropriation" is the new cycle on Mondays at the UAB Cinema Hall
From Monday 4th of March until Monday 13th of May, the UAB Cinema Hall will host the cycle “Rewritings: practices of narrative appropriation”, which portrays how, throughout the history of cinema, several pieces that were once close to plagiarism have ended up becoming reappropriation and tributes to the original work.
The activity, organized by the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, with the support of the Cultura en Viu Unit, will have a previous presentation during each cinephile day, by the professor of the Faculty of Communication Studies of the UAB and promoter of this cycle, Ludovico Longhi.
The public will be able to enjoy the following works free of charge, but limited to the capacity of the Cinema Room of the UAB: Xtrems (Abel Folks and Joan Riedweg, 2010), La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960), La Grande Belleza (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013). All screenings will take place at 12 noon, except for La Dolce Vita, which will take place at 11:30 a.m.
The cycle will open on Monday 4th of March with Xtrems, by the Catalans Abel Folk and Joan Riedweg, who is also a professor at the UAB and will give a presentation before the screening. The film, based on real testimonies, shows the experiences of people with addictions to different substances and with various ‘extreme’ experiences, who teach how after falling you can go out again and survive.
It will be followed on Monday 18th of March by Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, which in 1960 made one of the best horror films in history. Marion Crane, a young secretary who has committed a robbery of her company, flees the city in the direction of California, when a storm forces her to stay in a road motel run by a shy and strange young man, Norman Bates.
The remake of Psycho by Gus Van Sant (1998) will open April on Monday 15th. Under the same premise, but this time with Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates and Anne Heche as Marion Crane, the film features the participation of Viggo Mortensen, who puts himself in the shoes of Sam Loomis, Crane's lover.
The April sessions will end on Monday 29th, with La Dolce Vita, the classic of Italian Federico Fellini, considered one of the best films in history. The film narrates the life of the Roman journalist Marcello Rubini, who is tired of having to go after Italian celebrities. It is at this time that Sylvia, a diva from the world of cinema that has just arrived in Rome, appears in her life and Rubini will pursue her on Roman night with the aim of achieving a good story.
It will close the cycle La Grande Bellezza, by the also Italian Paolo Sorrentino, which updates the argument of La Dolce Vita, to situate it in the time of Berlusconi. The film develops how journalist Jep Gambardella, who only wrote a book in his youth and from which he has been making a lifetime, and who is dedicated to writing articles for the press and attending parties, realizes on his 65th birthday that he is not living the life he wants and that he is lost. That is when he realizes that what he really wants is to write again.
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