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When? Every Wednesday in July and August at 9:30 p.m.
How much does a ticket cost? A single admission is CZK 270
What about DOX Club members? 20% discount, categories Supporter and Patron have free entry
How to buy a ticket? Tickets can be purchased online, during opening hours at the DOX box office (Poupětova 1) and on the day of the screening from 8 pm to 9.30 pm at the DOX+ box office (Poupětova 3).
What if it rains? In case of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. We will refund your money if the screening has not started yet.
In what language? Films are shown in the original language with Czech subtitles.
The DOX+ terrace and bar will be open before the screening from 8pm.
Full summer cinema programme here.
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DOX and the Ponrepo Cinema invite you to a series of summer movie nights under the stars and in the universe of David Lynch with Lolita.
The screening will be introduced by film critic and historian Tomáš Hubáček and David Havas, the curator of DOX Summer Cinema – David Lynch Season.
“There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction [...]. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody
comes along with a hammer.” – Vladimir Nabokov
This congenial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel is another of David Lynch’s great inspirations. Where else are we to search for the obsessive roots of Lynch’s fatherly and at the same time childishly incestuous parental figures who are confronted with absurdly comic and terrifyingly demonic messengers of pure evil? James Mason’s fascinating performance was the template for the tragic character of Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, but one also can’t forget Peter Sellers, cast against type as a guileless sexual predator.
Lynch was a fan of Nelson Riddle’s melodramatic central piano motif as well the more rock-and-roll motif of the twelve-year-old Lolita. He said, “It’s a film that has a lot of cynicism in it, but there’s a kind of sad mystery behind it. And thanks to the fantastic performances of all the actors, it very authentically depicts the nature of hidden longing and the suffering that goes with it. James Mason’s performance is indescribable – I would have been honoured to work with him.”
director: Stanley Kubrick
starring: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers
USA, Great Britain, 1962 / 152 min.
Film is shown in the original English language with Czech subtitles.
Each ticket comes with a small bottle of ice-cold Pilsner Urquell (valid for visitors over 18 years of age).
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DOX Summer Cinema – David Lynch Season
DOX and the Ponrepo Cinema invite you to a series of summer movie nights under the stars and in the unfathomable, mysterious, and deeply captivating universe of David Lynch. High-quality headphone sound, views of the Gulliver Airship, and refreshing summer drinks and nine screenings.
Sunset Boulevard
A fraught tale of artistic ego is set in the now forgotten but mythical world of Hollywood studios, which never ceased to fascinate David Lynch. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Lost Highway – SOLD OUT
David Lynch's dreamlike work mixes an abstract plane with references to the most idiosyncratic noir films. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
8½
An award-winning existential comedy drama by the much admired Italian director Federico Fellini. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
A feature-length theatrical film dedicated to the seemingly familiar story of the fallen angel from Twin Peaks. In this revolutionary prequel for its time, Lynch follows the ill-fated diva on a cocaine-fuelled ride through hell. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Lolita
A cinematic treatment of Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel, in which the obsessive roots of David Lynch's paternal yet infantile incestuous parental figures are confronted with absurdly comic and terrifyingly demonic messengers of absolute evil. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Blue Velvet
The dark film, which smacks of sex, drugs, and ’60s suburbia, is at times a coming-of-age flick, at times a noir whodunit, and for the most part an undeniably and unexpectedly violent thriller. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Persona
From Ibsen, Pirandello and Vertov to Bergman's contemporaries and everything we affectionately refer to as ‘Lynchian’, films full of doubles, repressed sexual tension and the schizophrenic nature of the acting profession. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
