Renoir Cinema
Brunswick Square
WC1
020.7837.8402
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Dreams That Money Can Buy
- When
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20 Jan 2008 – 10 Feb 2008
Daily (schedule)
- Where
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Tube: Russell Square
- Price
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£6.50
- Links
Note: The final screening will be held at the Curzon Soho (99 Shaftesburry Avenue, W1, 020.7292.1686 / Tube: Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road).
In tandem with the British Library's exhibition, Curzon tracks the rise of Europe's avant-garde film movements. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922), a staple of German expressionist cinema, opens the series with unnerving cinematic technique and grinning vampires. Later on the bill, Dadaist Hans Richter's bizarre subconscious garage sale Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) blends real and imaginary spaces in an exploration of perception. Continuing with the established themes of the imagination and the subconscious, Cocteau's Blood of a Poet (1930) screens alongside Macpherson's Borderline (1930), creating a striking juxtaposition between the differing strands of the modernist movement in the 20th century.
