Ivar is my host in Copenhagen. He is going to share his living with all you guys this week.
Ivar say:
I'm Ivar, I live in what one particular friend from Hong Kong
describes as "a spontaneous apartment" in Copenhagen and work as a
projectionist. I didn't use to, I used to just go to the cinema a lot,
watching all sorts of movies from all over the world - in particular
I've come to like some of the East Asian productions.
Of course in Denmark we have the usual big multiplexes with lots of
screens all showing movies as predictable as the popcorn are salty,
but thanks to a state which even today is fairly generous with support
for smaller cinemas and not-so-mainstream movies, there are several
places showing much more interesting stuff - surprisingly many for
such a small city.
One of the two I work in, Gloria Biograf, just has one screen, but
it's a good screen! Long before I began working here, I saw Chungking
Express. It's still one of my main associations to Hong Kong and I
love it - particularly the second part with Wong Faye - every time I
watch it. Later I've seen Japanese horror movies, and much more.
There are a couple of other very small cinemas, Husets Biograf, now
only really showing strange old "cult" movies - I try to go there
every time Jack shows Dolls of the Shogun's Harem. Though the previous
owner used to import some very nice movies, from Kaurismäki over Jim
Jarmusch to old stuff by Kurosawa Akira - his Akahige or Red Beard is
pretty much as good as a movie can get - much of it unfortunately only
attracted some two to four customers for each screening. There's also
Posthusteatret, with approximately one premiere every half year - here
I saw the masterful Maboroshi no Hikari by Koreeda Hirokazu - and
Vester Vov Vov, with two screens, though each of them not quite as big
as Gloria's - among others I've seen Kieslowski's The Double Life of
Véronique and Julio Medem's The Red Squirrel here, two of my favourite
examples of European cinema of the early nineties. Some way from the
center there's also Park Bio, where a very long time ago I started to
get interested in movies, when they took up French postmodernism of
the 80'ies - Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix - and similar dark and
beautiful things, like Blade Runner and Brazil.
The other place I work is Grand Teatret. With six screens it's bigger
and has some more mainstream content. They've shown several Korean
movies, mostly by Kim Ki-Duk - I particularly liked Bin-Jip, or 3-Iron
as it is called in English, it's almost a silent movie in it's
expression and very beautiful - and most of Miyazaki Hayao's movies -
in Denmark they're not quite considered mainstream, it's just too
weird! Back at it's Danish premiere, this is also where I saw The
Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway - a European coproduction by a British
director, referencing a thousand year old diary by a Japanese court
lady (quoted in a translation into modern old-fashioned Japanese),
starring Vivian Wu and Ewan McGregor, and taking place to a large
extent in Hong Kong, this is a delightful mishmash of different
cultures - all in a cinematic style well beyond what most directors
would even contemplate.
There's one or two other larger cinemas also showing some interesting
stuff, but the place where I've probably spent most time is
Cinemateket, the cinemas of the Danish "movie museum" run by the
Danish Film Institute. They show both old movies from Denmark and
around the world, and new movies that are unlikely to be shown in
Denmark otherwise. Here I've seen old Ozu and Mizoguchi movies and
also most of what I know by such directors as Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang
Yimou. As unfair as the competition may be, without this place I
wouldn't know nearly as much about what happened outside Hollywood, as
I do. But if I started writing in detail about what I've seen here,
I'd never stop.
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Joephy Wong say:
I call Ivar as gogo.He lives in an amazing space in CPH.He's addicted to Japanese culture,foods and movie.You can't imagine how many stuffs he got in his room.( gogo forgive me I really want to share what I saw in your space, just like an adventure!!!)
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