»Years ago, I compared Del Toro to Orson Welles, a filmmaker who instinctively understood the hypnotic power of cinema to dazzle, delight and deceive. On the basis of Nightmare Alley, which is blessed with more than a touch of evil, that’s a comparison by which I still stand.«
- The Guardian
Nightmare Alley Nightmare Alley
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to the clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a travelling circus, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York Society…
cast Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, David Strathairn, Richard Jenkins
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Friday, 07. 11. 2025 / 19:30 / Small Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.