As mentioned in IndieWire this week, BAM’s comprehensive retrospectivepresents all new restorations and includes FULL WEEK RUNS of
MAGDALENA VIRAGA (1986, March 4-10)—about an alienated sex worker,
and the 2021 New York Film Festival selection THE BLOODY CHILD (1996, March 4-10), an exploration of the desolation of violence as seen
from the back side of the mind.
Both films star the incredible actress, my sister and long-time filmic collaborator,
TINKA MENKES.
For full details NY-BAM: https://www.bam.org/film/2022/cinema-is-sorcery
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For full details L.A. https://www.americancinematheque.com/series/nina-menkes-retrospective/
THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE is presenting
single screenings of the films,
at both Los Feliz Theater and on the westside at The Aero!
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| U.S. Premiere Engagement—New 2K restoration!
BAM: Week-long Engagement March 4-10
LA: American Cinematheque: March 19 |
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| Dir: Nina Menkes | 90 min. | United States | 1986 |
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| Synopsis: With Tinka Menkes. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this early feature from Menkes explores the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp. The director’s sister and frequent collaborator Tinka Menkes brilliantly portrays the emotionally frozen protagonist on a circular inner journey, as she battles the walls which surround her—both material and psychic.
New restoration by Arbelos Films and The Academy Film Archive
Co-presented with Eos World Fund |
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| Winner Best Independent Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
“I have not been so moved by a film since watching Tarkovsky.”
— Radio France Culture
“Boldly imaginative—Menkes can hold a shot as long as Antonioni and get away with it—MAGDALENA VIRAGA is a stunner!”
— The Los Angeles Times
“A dreamlike blend of brothel, prison cell, and baroque cathedral—the bias is metaphysical, menstrual blood transubstantiated into the blood of the lamb.”
— The Village Voice
“Aspires to a new form of cinema”
— Le Monde
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| New 4K restoration!
BAM: Week-long Engagement, March 4-10
LA: American CInematheque, March 12
Chicago: Chicago Filmmakers, April 1 |
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| Dir: Nina Menkes | 85 min. | United States | 1996 |
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Synopsis: With Tinka Menkes and Robert Muller. A young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave. Inspired by this real event, Menkes turns the man’s arrest—a single moment in time—into a harrowing hallucinatory journey. Shot in North Africa and 29 Palms, California, THE BLOODY CHILD brings together Marines from Operation Desert Storm, playing themselves, with text from Shakespeare’s MACBETH to create a brutal and profound look
at the desolation of violence.
Restoration by The Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation |
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Official Selection: The New York Film Festival, 2021
“One of the year’s great films from one of my favorite filmmakers.”
—Gus Van Sant
“Brilliant!… An awe-inspiring, rigorous work of art on the highest level.”
—The Los Angeles Times
“Genuinely visionary… An unabashed work of individual expression, a voyage into the self and the mysterious world outside.”
—The Chicago Tribune
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ALL THE SCREENINGS
OF ALL THE MOVIES:
NEW YORK: https://www.bam.org/film/2022/cinema-is-sorcery
LOS ANGELES: https://www.americancinematheque.com/series/nina-menkes-retrospective/
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