The Doll
Sweden, 1962, dir. Arne Mattsson, 16mm, 96min. Swedish with English Subtitles
A rare screening of this overlooked film about a lonely nightwatchman who takes home a mannequin from work and starts to pretend it's a real girl. Soon the doll becomes more and more demanding, which causes the man to examine his own outlook on the world. Creepy and depressing, this film is like a cross between an old Twilight Zone episode and a Bergman film.

The Doll will be preceded by Gwynne Fulton's short film "Lustmord", about a young woman whose repressive homicidal fantasies are lived out by a series of flashes and hallucinations that are obsessed with bodily fluids and filth.

Tuesday July 10th, 7:00pm at Pacific Cinematheque   

The Face of Another
Japan, 1966, Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara, 35mm, 121 min. Japanese with English Subtitles
Teshigahara's third collaboration with writer Kobo Abe (they teamed up for the classic Woman in the Dunes) centers on a young man whose face has been destroyed in an industrial accident. Despite a lifelike mask created for him by a surgeon, "he feels further apart by virtue of the recognition that he wears a mask, a public face, a face apart, the face of another." A masterpiece of existential horror.

PLEASE Note the film has been upgraded to a 35mm print instead of the 16mm indicated in the programme!

Tuesday July 10th, 9:00pm at Pacific Cinematheque