Metacine, at the Filmoteca
The Cinema dins el cinema cycle proposes a journey through seventies art as a way of seeing and explaining stories.
Since ancient times, all the arts - theatre, painting, literature, music... - have created or reworked works in order to rethink their ontology. In the contemporary era, cinema has been added: one of the most self-seducing disciplines, nourished by its own prolific career. The world of celluloid is full of references to its development as an expressive language, as a cultural industry and as a social fact.
Overtly or covertly, self-citation, copying, remaking and vampirisation of titles, plots, themes, sequences and scenes are consubstantial to cinematographic creation. For this reason, the Filmoteca de Catalunya bids farewell to the tenth anniversary of its arrival in the Raval with the cycle Cinema dins el cinema, an introspective reflection on the very nature of the seventh art.
Until 31 January, the Filmoteca will be showing a selection of films in their original version with subtitles, from a wide range of related origins, to show the inner workings of this great dream factory. Each film will be screened on two dates, with an afternoon screening (at 5 o 6 pm) and an evening screening (at 8 o 9 pm).
Nine titles will be on show in December: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), by Vincente Minnelli, on the 21st and 23rd; Living in Oblivion (1995), by Tom DiCillo, on the 22nd and 23rd; Movie, movie (1978), by Stanley Donen, on the 24th and 28th; Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights... (1985), by Philippe Garrel, on the 27th and 29th; Cinema Paradiso (1989), by Giuseppe Tornatore, on the 28th and 30th; Las cinéphilas (2017), by María Alvárez, on the 28th and 30th; La niña de tus ojos (1998), by Fernando Trueba, on the 29th and 30th; La vida útil (2011), by Federico Veiroj, on the 30th, and High Anxiety (1997), by Mel Brooks, on tte 29th and 31th.
The cycle will continue in January with Hail, Caesar! (2016) by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) by Woody Allen, Laissez-passer (2002) by Bertrand Tavernier, The Player (1992) by Robert Altman, the testamentary Lightning Over Water (1980) by Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders, The Cameraman (1928) by Buster Keaton or Intervista (1987) by Federico Fellini, among others.
The ticket to see each film costs 4 euros -3 if it is reduced- and can be purchased in advance by selecting each of the screenings at this link, or you can buy it directly at the ticket office.