After a years holiday Orange Cinema comes back to Basel from 5th to 29th August 2010. Sponsored by the Basler Kantonalbank in partnership with Orange and a whole team of organisers. We can once more experience great Open Air Cinema on the Munster Square, above the Rhein in Basel. Tickets are on sale from 21st July onwards and cost CHF19.- which includes a free ice-cream! Tickets can be purchased from Tickets online, Starticket, at the Orange Web, Orange Cinema office box and of course over the phone. There's the Orange Cine day which is every Tuesday (no clash with theenglishshow as the shows begin around 21:00 as it starts to get dark). It's an offer; when you buy a ticket you get one free for a friend or relative, that's two tickets for the price of one, check it out. All this info of course is updated on the web.

Highlights:

Away We Go *, Dir. Sam Mendes, starring John Krasinski
Brooklyn's Finest, Dir. Antoine Fuqua, starring Gere, Hawke, Snipes
Down By Law, Dir. Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin
An Education, Dir. Lone Scherfig, starring Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina
The Hangover, Dir. Todd Phillips
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Dir. Grant Heslov, starring George Clooney
Modern Times, Dir. Charles Chaplin starring Charles Chaplin (1936).
NINE, Dir. Rob Marshall starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman and Marion Cotillard
Nowhere Boy, Dir. Taylor Wood, starring Kristin Scott Thomas
A Single Man, Dir. Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore

* Away We Go is a comedy on mid-thirty-something’s. A loving couple are having a baby despite questioning parenting abilities. They want to share their new family experience with people that they love, so they take a trip to meet with old friends and relatives. Most are married with children of their own, Burt and Verona want to see where they would like to live and with whom they want to share the experience.

Brooklyn's Finest, Dir. Antoine Faqua, starring Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke Three cop plot and a drug dealer (Snipes). (Studio Central).

Brothers, Dir. Jim Sheridan, starring Jake Gylenhall and Toby McGuire (Pathe Kuchlin). Sam a Marine Captain and brother Tommy an ex-bank robber in post-traumatic stress disorder.

Green Zone, Dir. Paul Greengrass, starring Matt Damon (Pathe Kuchlin). Bourne policy failure on WMD.

Special Feature - Nothing Personal, Dir. Urszula Antoniak, starring Lotta Vorbeck and Stephen Rea (Kult. Kino Atelier 2. Life’s search and the wish sometimes to be alone. Silver Leopards at the Locarno film festival. A young girl sets out on a hike around the wild Irish countryside with rucksack, tent and sleeping bag in search of inner peace. Her life changes when she meets a man called Mulligan who asks her to work on the farm with him.

Look out for; the block buster sequel - Iron Man 2, Dir. Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke. (Capitol).The Road with Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. Robin Hood, Directed by Ridley Scott, with Russel Crowe, Cate Blanchett, and Ben Kingsley.

Stadtkino, Tribute to Jean-Luc Godard - Das Stadkinobasel, this month presents a slice through the work of Jean-Luc Godard who turns 80 this year. The Swiss born, Paris based, film maker Jean-Luc Godard founded the so called ‘Nouvelle Vague’ in 1950’s Cinema, with famous film critics from the publication of ‘Cahiers du Cinema’.Godard was the first to say “You need a beginning, a middle and an end, - but not necessarily in that order”.

Godard is one of the most influential film directors of modern cinema. Film titles such as A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) 1959, is full of jump cuts. Le Mepris (Contempt) 1963,  represents the uneasy marriage of the sensual and cerebral – the essence of Godard’s films. Pierrot le Fou (Crazy Pete) 1965, a spontaneous road trip about politics, society, women poetry. And Weekend, 1967, are milestones in film history. Weekend is Godard’s vicious attack on bourgeois consumerism propelled by revolutionary rage. An unhappy couple set off to persuade her mother to part with her money; it ends in massacre, cannibalism and the premonition of ‘Fin du Cinema’. The centrepiece is a virtuoso eight minute tracking shot of a traffic jam. “Tracking shots are a question of morality”, he said. Godard went on to create silver screen stars with actors such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Brigitte Bardot, and Anna Karina, his Muse and former wife – who are all simply unforgettable.

Vivre sa Vie,  is about love and life, whilst Une Femme est Une Femme  is a notional modern musical. Band a Part, 1964, (Band of Outsiders) is a three-cornered, gangster parody, crime thriller based on the throwaway lines from Godard, who said, ‘all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun’. Incidentally the name of this film provided the name for Tarantino’s production company. One of his great remarks was, “to participate in the established forms of communication is to lose what is particular to your experience”.  Despite some early films that did not capture audience attention, the publicity shy, eccentric film maker began to get noticed as his film technique and experimental style improved, with critics identifying with his esprit de contradiction, lust for life and for political provocation.

Benicio del Toro is The Wolfman in the story set shock horror.

Maybe this'll finish us off with the 'Book of Eli' directed by Albert and Allen Hughes, starring Denziel Washington and my favourite actor Michael Gambon (The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her lover. Set in the year 2044, it's a furious, apocalyptic science fantasy western with Gary Oldman cast as the unscrupulous despotic mad man he is ...