Week 8/2026

On Monday, Cinema Zed is screening the 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn. The canonical tragedy that inspired countless songs, television series, movies and other artworks is based on the true story of the criminal duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, two young people with limited prospects. Their adventures take place during the bleak 1930s in Depression-ridden America, where the two lovers decide to go on a bank-robbing spree and murder several police officers along the way. Bonnie, originally a bored, low-paid waitress from Texas, and Clyde, a delinquent who had already been convicted multiple times, have gained a reputation as modern Robin Hoods, partly due to a scene in Penn’s film in which Clyde refuses to steal money from a poor bystander during one of their heists. As the Barrow gang leaves a trail of destruction in their wake, they begin to satirize the image that the media is moulding around them, sending in their own provocative pictures and poems to the press. As the real-life Bonnie Parker wrote: “Some day they'll go down together/ And they'll bury them side by side/ To a few it'll be grief/ To the law a relief/ But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.”

On Wednesday, Cinematek screens To Sleep with Anger (1990) by Charles Burnett. In this film, Gideon and Suzie’s family is paid a visit by an old friend, Harry, who shamelessly takes advantage of their hospitality. While he stays at their home, he engages in all sorts of dubious activities and misery seems to loom around every corner. Harry’s bad influence is perhaps felt most keenly by their son Samuel, nicknamed “Babe Brother” by his family, who was already an apathetic, self-absorbed troublemaker as a child. As the situation worsens and Gideon is rendered comatose by a sudden stroke, Suzie starts to question who she has in her home. To Sleep with Anger suggests rather than preaches. The presence of a larger evil is not explicitly indicated, but it is felt in every scene and lingers even after the credits have rolled.

Lastly, on Thursday, Cinema Nova is screening what might be Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece: The Seventh Seal (1957). Antonius Block is a medieval knight who has returned from the Crusades to find his homeland in the grip of the Black Plague. Amid this atmosphere of hopelessness, he challenges Death to a chess game, wagering his life. As he journeys onward, the knight tries to defy his formidable opponent, all the while deeply tormented by the loss of his religious faith and a growing doubt in life itself.