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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
German filmfest in Manila ends
THE third German Silent Film Festival closes on Tuesday with a special screening of the 1929 Joe May classic "Asphalt". Cynthia Alexander, who scored the Fritz Lang film "Destiny" in last year's festival, returns to provide the live music score.
Director Joe May is mostly known as the man who helped start Fritz Lang's film career, but his 1929 film "Asphalt", a love story set in Berlin in the late 1920's, is considered one of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role as a thieving femme fatale, "Asphalt" is a luxuriously produced classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.
A well-dressed lady thief steals a precious stone from a jewelry shop. The aged jeweler prefers to let the young woman go but the policeman who catches her explains he is obliged to pursue the case further. She tries to seduce the policeman and he gradually succumbs to her charms but her criminal background dooms their relationship when an argument leads to murder.
"Asphalt" will be screened at 8 p.m. at Greenbelt 1 Cinema 2. Tickets are P50 and are on sale at the Greenbelt 1 ticket booth from 3 p.m. on the day of the screening.
The third German Silent Film Festival is brought to you by the Goethe-Institut Manila in cooperation with Ayala Cinemas, Greenbelt 1, and Globe. The transport of the films was made through Carepak Moving and Storage. (Press release)
(September 5, 2006 issue)
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