Film featuring Tilda Swinton

Stadtkino, Basel, Klostergasse 5, Kunsthallengarten.

Film featuring Tilda Swinton,  the British actress that excels at captivating absolute clarity. Mainstream cinema is thrown aside in favour of uncomfortable experimental productions. Shows include Caravaggio directed by Jim Jarmusch, 1986. Sally Potter’s Orlando, 1992. Ewan McGregor in Young Adam, directed by David Mackenzie, 2003. For the love of painter’s, there’s ‘Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed by John Maybury, 1988. Adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze, 2002. This is a Nicholas Cage movie where he plays the writer Kaufman struggling with the arduous task of adapting the book ‘The Orchid Thief’ by Susan Orlean. At the same time he’s facing a mid-life crisis worsened by his twin brother Donald, a less than talented but more cheerful person than Charlie, who dreams of making a lot of money with screenplays. Then there’s the War Zone, 1999, directed by the British actor Tim Roth.