Summer Movies under the Stars

The FIFA soccer World Cup has not ended yet – but the open air season of summer cinema is already beginning. A few selected highlights of the next three weeks:

Filmfestival Rathausplatz

Mozart “Don Giovanni”

8th July 2010 (Thursday), 21:40, 180 min
Martin Kusejs (also aesthetically) radical staging from Salzburg Festival 2006. Thomas Hampson in the title role is not the enjoying seducer, but a man driven by his hunting pleasure. Melanie Diener impresses as Donna Elvira.

Ballet

12th July 2010 (Monday), 21:30, 90 min
Nacho Duato choreographed to Spanish and Italian Baroque music (65 min), followed by “The Neighbour”, the dance interpretation of Leos Janacek’s piano piece “In the Mist”).

Nureyev – Dancing through Darkness

19th July 2010 (Monday), 21:20, 80 min
Documentation about the last years in the life of the great dancer.

The NOMI-Song

20th July 2010 (Tuesday), 21:20, 95 min
In the mid-1970s it seemed as if an alien had appeared in the New York avant-garde scene. Klaus Sperber created a fictional character, which – supported by David Bowie – rose to meteoric star 1979/80. But in 1983 the comet fell from the sky – Nomi died of AIDS. The superb documentary reconstructs his life – and shows almost incidentally how AIDS caused both the physical and social death of the patients.

Kino unter Sternen at Karlsplatz/Resselpark (Infos)

Das Rätsel der roten Quaste

9th July 2010 (Friday), 21.30, 85 min
Love Drama / Thriller with the dream couple of the early 60s: Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach. A valuable discovery of the Austrian Film Museum. Before (20:30) Christoph Fuchs reads the book “Come and shoot in Austria – Austrian criminal history of the film.”

Wienfilm 1896 – 1976

13th July 2010 (Tuesday), 21.30, 120 min
Cinematic anthology of the city from the early days of cinema up to the (then) present.

Dishonored

14th July 2010 (Wednesday), 21.30, 95 min
Spy thriller from 1931 (Joseph von Sternberg) with the incomparable Marlene Dietrich as a secret agent.

Kick Off

18th July 2010 (Sunday), 21.30, 95 min
Hüseyin Tabak’s documentary film about the Austrian National Team at the “Homeless World Cup”, the World Cup for homeless people. Sport as a means to get their lives back together.

The Third Man

21th July 2010 (Wednesday), 21:30, 105 min
A true must-see: Carol Reed’s brilliant cast shadow images of the bombed-out Vienna, an exemplary cynical Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli (and Paul Hoerbiger) to the epic music by Anton Karas – cult, cult, cult (and also just a really great movie).

Both events will take place with free admission!

From our pension you take underground line U3 direction Simmering to station Volkstheater. From there, a station with the U2 direction Stadium to Rathaus or in the direction Karlsplatz to the end of the line.