"Joachim's Dictionary" / THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE

ABOUT THE FILMS: “Joachim’s Dictionary,” 1965, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 9 Mins, France Based on a sparse, singular design by Laurence Demaria (Ligia Borowczyk), Joachim defines twenty six words each beginning with a different letter from the alphabet. As with “Grandma’s Encyclopedia,” Borowczyk offers a succession of visual definitions which suggest a doomed attempt at mastering the absurdities of the world. Frequently hilarious, Joachim’s Dictionary is Borowczyk at his most anarchic. FORMAT: DCP THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE, 1981, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 92 Mins, AGFA, France In French with English subtitles. It’s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier, SUSPIRIA) and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro). The party is attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including Patrick Magee (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) in one of his final roles. When people are found assaulted and murdered on the manor grounds, it becomes clear that a maniac is disrupting the festivities. But who is he? And why does Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? This visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous story by surrealist icon Walerian Borowcyzk (THE BEAST) is crammed with imaginative and perverse touches. FORMAT: DCP