#bleakweek — Public Fediverse posts

"It’s a hit all right, earning its place on any film lover’s must-see list.": Ben Wheatley's definitive post-millennial domestic Lynching KILL LIST (2011) is a PTSD nightmare. 15th Anniversary screening 5.30pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema for #BleakWeek, with Q&A. https://projectedfigures.com/2013/05/16/kill-list-2011/

"leaves Cornish villagers and viewers lost at sea": Mark Jenkin's unsettlingly nostalgic, time-looping Cornish anti-Odyssey ROSE OF NEVADA (2025) screens 12.15pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema for #BleakWeek. Review for SciFiNow Magazine. https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/rose-of-nevada-review/

Elem Klimov’s war(-is-hell) film COME AND SEE (IDI I SMOTRI, 1985) screens 11.55am today at The Prince Charles Cinema for #BleakWeek. Here's the transcript of my introduction to a screening of it in Oxford last year.
https://projectedfigures.com/2025/06/04/come-and-see-idi-i-smotri-1985-introduction/

"confounds site and psyche, belying the notion that no (wo)man is an island": Mark Jenkin's 70s-styled experimental eco-folk horror ENYS MEN (2022) screens 12.25pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek.
https://projectedfigures.com/2024/05/12/enys-men-2022

"traces a disturbed puppeteer's circular efforts to escape the long spidery legacy of abuse": bleak psychodrama POSSUM (2018) screens 5.45pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema, with writer/director Matthew Holness in conversation #BleakWeek https://projectedfigures.com/2018/11/07/possum-2018/

"post-nuclear death proves to have a funny way of failing to discriminate between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie": Mike Jackson's harrowing telemovie THREADS (1984) screens 5.25pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema for #BleakWeek. https://projectedfigures.com/2018/08/21/threads-1984/

Exploitation, cruelty and deep deep guilt combine to torment a middle-aged widower looking for new love, in Takashi Miike's peerlessly nightmarish horror romance AUDITION (1999), 5.15pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek. An all-time great.
https://projectedfigures.com/2014/07/02/the-twenty-best-frightfest-films-ever-2013/#Audition

"a home invaded at night by a child’s impenetrable anxieties": Kyle Edward Ball’s experimental feature debut SKINAMARINK (2022) screens 5.40pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema, London, as part of #BleakWeek. https://projectedfigures.com/2023/12/25/skinamarink-2022/

Thanks to the Roxie Theater for inviting EFF to co-present surveillance classic The Ear (1970) for American Cinematheque #BleakWeek. EFF is all about fighting for a brighter future. What's your favorite movie depicting modern dystopia?

Today is the final film of the 5th annual #BleakWeek film festival @ the Trylon Cinema in #Minneapolis.

With Elem Klimov's 1985 anti-war film epic, Come and See.

This the first time I've attended all seven films,. I think after today, I'm going to crawl into bed and sleep for 100 years.

Films this year -

Zodiac
The Tribe
Testament
The Life of Oharu (35mm )
The Cremator
Sátántangó (freaking 8 hours!)
Come and See

Tonight EFF joins American Cinematheque at the Roxie Theater for a #BleakWeek screening of The Ear (1970). The formerly-banned classic explores a couple unravelled by authoritarian surveillance. Get the discount code for EFF supporters. https://www.eff.org/event/eff-co-presents-ear-roxie-theater

I started to feel a little too good about myself.

Fixing that right quick.

https://www.trylon.org/film-series/bleak-week-minneapolis/

#Minneapolis #BleakWeek #Films

Bleak Week Returns to the Paris Theater with Mary Bronstein, Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts, and More
#IndieWire #Festivals #News #AmericanCinematheque #BleakWeek #Film #ParisTheater #Repertory

https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/2026-bleak-week-new-york-lineup-paris-theater-1235193720/

American Cinematheque’s Festival of Despair Returns with Isabelle Huppert, Ari Aster, and More in Person
#IndieWire #Festivals #News #BleakWeek #Exclusive #Film #TheAmericanCinematheque

https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/bleak-week-2026-lineup-1235191995/

"Though named for a children’s story by Oscar Wilde," Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT (2013) "finds little scope in its social realism for a happy ending." Screens 8.35pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2013/10/25/the-selfish-giant-2013/

"a schizophrenic study of the creative process itself": Robert Altman's IMAGES (1972) shows a childless children's author (Susannah York) fragmenting and losing herself. Screens 3.15pm at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2018/07/15/images-1972/

"an autoptic account of Nazi occupation’s devastating effects on ordinary Belorussians": Elem Klimov’s traumatising war film COME AND SEE (1985) screens noon today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek https://projectedfigures.com/2025/06/01/come-and-see-idi-i-smotri-1985/

The tense, surreal, frustrating police procedural of Bong Joon-ho's MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) shows a parochial nation stumbling and bumbling its way into modernity. Screens 8.30pm tonight at The Prince Charles Cinema. Highly recommended. #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2018/02/04/memories-murder-2003/

"a mythic exploration of the ever shifting frontier between savagery and civilisation in an unforgiving landscape": John Hillcoat’s Aussie oater THE PROPOSITION (2005), scripted by Nick Cave, screens 5.45pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema, with Q&A from Hillcoat and star Emily Watson. #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2022/09/08/the-proposition-2005/

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE (1997) is "an increasingly hallucinatory piece where murderousness is a disease spreading rapidly through the susceptible Japanese psyche". Screens 3.10pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2018/11/14/cure-kyua-1997/

"a quest for hidden meaning amid all the artifice and emptiness of Swinging London": Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW UP (1966) screens 12.15pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/28/blowup-1966-the-shout-1978-cowboys-1991/#Blowup

Peter Bart: Cannes Festgoers Dote On Parties & Applause While ‘Bleak Week’ Fans Plunge Into Grateful Despair
#Commentary #Festivals #News #BleakWeek #PeterBart

https://deadline.com/2024/05/cannes-bleak-week-peter-bart-1235919194/