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A Separation

Ashgar Farhadi

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In Asghar Farhadi's film a middle-class Iranian family is being thrown into tumult. Nadar and Simin are evidently still in love, but they argue bitterly about the state of their country and are torn between their loyalty to their daughter, Termah, and Nadar's ageing father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's and must stay in Iran. Simin is prepared to divorce Nadar. Anything to get Termah away from her home country.

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Season 6 – Ritual

Rituals create meaning; they raise us from the drab monotony of routine – ritual’s less interesting sibling – and build community, intimacy, narrative. We find ritual everywhere in cinema, not only on screen where myths and legends are retold and refreshed, but also off it, in the muted dialogue between maker and viewer. This season, we present 10 films spanning six decades by directors who train their lens on this ancient human practice, who, in doing so, capture the often unsaid behaviours and gestures that make us us. Showing films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew Haigh, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Corneliu Porumboiu, Aki Kaurismäki and Atom Egoyan.

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The Sacrifice

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45 Years

by Andrew Haigh

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Leviathan

by Andrey Zvyagintsev

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Weekend

by Jean-Luc Godard

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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

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Le Bonheur

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The Seasons in Quincy

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Police, Adjective

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Leningrad Cowboys Go America

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genre, comedy and the comedy of genre in Leningrad Cowboys Go America

AFTERTHOUGHTS: the hyper-stylised satire of Leningrad Cowboys Go America

THE MEMO: saying it directly in Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective

AFTER THOUGHTS: the compelling anti-drama of Police, Adjective

AFTER THOUGHTS: John Berger as secular saint in The Seasons of Quincy

THE MEMO: storytelling and modernity in The Seasons in Quincy

AFTER THOUGHTS: on Godard’s Weekend with Mike Figgis and Tam Topolski

THE MEMO: the rotting core of Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur

THE MEMO: the surgical realism of 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

AFTER THOUGHTS: Guy and Martha on the numbing intensity of Michael Haneke

THE MEMO: the jilted comedy of Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend

AFTER THOUGHTS: Carmen and Matt discuss the epic scale of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan

THE MEMO: the home truths of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan

THE MEMO: the ambivalent realism of Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years

AFTER THOUGHTS: the ritualistic constancy of Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice

THE MEMO: the poetic parables of Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice

Season 5 – Metamorphosis

Cinema, more than any other other form, makes metamorphosis possible; its superpower, the ability to transform before your eyes. For TANKtv’s fifth season, we look at how directors have taken the theme of metamorphosis to new territories – through original storytelling and formal experimentation – turning individual moments into broader revelations about the human condition. Each express something of humanity's capacity for change, adaption and renewal, as much a picture of our past as it is a blueprint for our future. We are pleased to be showing you 10 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Béla Tarr, Paweł Pawlikowski, Gabriel Axel, Robert Bresson, Olivier Assayas and Atom Egoyan.

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The Great Beauty

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A Man Escaped

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The Clouds of Sils Maria

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Ida

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The Sweet Hereafter

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Turin Horse

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Pina

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Season 4 – On Verisimilitude

How to recreate the real? From the early pioneers of the Kino Pravda movement in 1920s Russia to the masters of Cinéma Vérité in 1960s Paris, this question has preoccupied directors for decades. For TANKtv’s fourth season, we look at the innovative and radical ways filmmakers have represented reality, suspending our rational faculties and successfully drawing us into their mimetic spells. This season, we are pleased to be showing 12 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Louis Malle, Roy Andersson, Andrea Arnold, Hal Hartley, Denis Villeneuve, Peter Strickland, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mia Hansen-Løve. Through rich storytelling and technical nuance, these directors bring to light cinema's raw power to move and to persuade, and perhaps, to flicker more truthfully than life itself.

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Season 3 – Sculpting in Time

Sculpting in Time describes the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s distinctive approach to film-making. Film can freeze, fragment and dissect time like no other medium, as free to mirror time’s inexorable linearity as it is to create new, thrilling forms of associative logic. TANKtv’s third season presents a collection of films that deal with this most important of magical powers: the control over time. We look at films spanning five decades that approach time in profound ways, featuring Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Yorgos Lanthimos, Roy Andersson and more. From the hyper-real to the arcane, each provides its own portal into what Tarkovsky described as the “inner, moral qualities essentially inherent in time itself”.

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Season 2 – Growing Pains

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With director Agnès Varda’s death in 2019, the film world lost a leading (and too-often overlooked) member of the Nouvelle Vague, a cinematic innovator and a pioneering voice. Her trademark blend of the deeply personal and highly political seen through a female lens brought new experimentation to filmic form and narrative possibilities, and saw the diminutive Varda cast a long shadow for several generations of filmmakers. This season of TANK TV marks that legacy with 10 films by female directors for whom Varda laid a cinematic foundation.