Lopuis Malle's "Calcutta" Plus "Bombay Movies" Screening

Fri, Nov 11
8:00PM
$10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Requested

Event: Rare film screening of Louis Malle's documentary "Calcutta"
plus the short Bollywood essay "Bombay Movies".
Venue: Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Date: Friday, November 11th at 8:00PM
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Requested
Contact: 415.558.8117 or
Note: This program with be screened in 16mm film.

Louis Malle's "Calcutta"
Plus "Bombay Movies"

On Friday, November 11th at 8:00PM Oddball Film+Video presents a rare
screening of famed French filmmaker Louis Malle's documentary
"Calcutta"(Color, 1969, 105 min). Also screening will be the short
"Bombay Movies" featuring Bollywood film superstar Vinod Khann.
In "Calcutta", the great Oscar-winning French filmmaker Louis Malle
("Au Revoir, Les Enfants", "My Dinner With Andre", "Elevator to the
Gallows") directs and narrates this documentary film about daily life
and living in the city of Calcutta, India. "Calcutta" was shot at the
same time Malle produced "Phantom India" his magnificent 7 hour film
of India. Malle's film is a visual study of the squalor and beauty of
the city, of its social and economic hierarchy, and of the vast intra-
social and cultural differences of a city and society that, at the
time the film was made, already bulged with nearly 8,000,000 souls.
For long stretches of the film Malle lets the images and sounds of
this incredible place speak for themselves. Uncritically, a truly
awesome tapestry emerges as Malle's cameras record scenes of the
political turmoil and conflict in India during the late '60s and
reviews social customs and traditions revealing the beauty,
complexity and seeming madness of that is India.
Also screening will be the short "Bollywood Movies", produced in 1977
by Film Australia starring Bollywood superstar Vinod Khanna. This
behind-the-scenes film looks at the dichotomy between his super fame
and spiritual and family life. An amazing short with highlights from
his films.

About Calcutta
This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East.
Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli
River, Calcutta grew into India's capital and the second city of the
British Empire during the Raj. Named the City of Palaces for its
neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings,
Macaulay, and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such
as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit
Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema.

Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of
extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse
commercialism and political violence.

Venue:

Oddball Film+Video
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415.558.8117
www.oddballfilm.com

Off Mission between 17th and 18th, parallel to Mission and South Van
Ness, closer to 18th Street

Additional Info:

415.558.8117
www.oddballfilm.com