15 January 2005
Sine-silip

Who doesn't want to watch a movie? Unless it sucks, the experience can be anything positive or superlative. However, what about a film about making a film?

On January 15, pelikula@titusbrandsma goes "sine-silip", with a lineup eclectic enough to pique your curiosity. The free screenings (with free merienda as well) will start at 1 p.m. Here are the films to look forward to:

Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges, USA, 1941.
90 minutes.

Preston Sturges has been known for anarchic comedies. In this old Hollywood classic, Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a well-known filmmaker who wants to make a feature about the poor so he disguises himself as a hobo. What he learns instead isn't what he expects.

The Five Obstructions
Jørgen Leth, Denmark, 2003.
90 minutes.

"The Perfect Human" is one of Jørgen Leth's early works. Nearly four decades after its release, he revisits it and attempts to recreate it in five different ways, no small thanks to fellow Dane Lars von Trier who dared him to.

Lost in La Mancha
Keith Fulton/Louis Pepe, USA/UK, 2002.
93 minutes.

It's from Miguel Cervantes' classic novel that the word "quixotic" is born and it's during the production of "Don Quixote" that famed British director Terry Gilliam encounters different kinds of the impossible in adapting Cervantes' masterpiece, with veteran French actor Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp in the lead.

It's natural that our bonus short is the original version of THE PERFECT HUMAN (1967) by Jørgen Leth, which