J'accuse

Cabaret Cinema

Friday November 13, 2009 @ 9:30 PM

Abel Gance, France, 1919 (166 min)

Gance constructs a fretted love triangle as a backdrop for a forlorn war story. The battlefield is where friendships are forged and truths are uttered under the fear of death. The depiction of the return of the dead in this film was part of the milieu of the day that inspired Jung to delve more deeply into spiritualism in an effort to understand what the collective system of values had pushed beneath consciousness.

Introduced by Kim Deitch

Free with a $7 bar minumum

Kim Deitch is an American comics artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1944, he was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, regularly contributing comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child "Sunshine Girl" and "The India Rubber Man") to New York City's underground newspaper, The East Village Other, beginning in 1967. He became editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off Gothic Blimp Works in 1969. Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008 the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art featured a retrospective exhibition of his work. His books include The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Shadowland, Alias the Cat, and Deitch's Pictorama. His The Search For Smilin' Ed is due out early next year. "I have been drawing and writing comics for publication since the 1960's and have been a huge movie fan all my life, probably drawing more influence from them than from other comics. So it is a thrill indeed to be presenting J' Accuse, a movie I only recently caught up with but truly love."

Inspired by the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung the Red Book series presents classic films that explore Jungian themes, including the various archetypes and the exploration of the self through fantasy.