FALL 2005
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SERIES
Wednesdays, 6:30pm,
Crabbe Library 108
All screenings are free
and will be followed by discussion in the Library Café.
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August 31
BLOODY
SUNDAY (Ireland/UK, 2002, 107 min.)
On Sunday January 30,
1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, British paratroopers killed thirteen unarmed men
and boys and wounded fourteen others after a disturbance in the wake of a civil
rights march. Paul Greengrass’
award-winning documentary-style film is a recreation of the events of that
fateful day known as “Bloody Sunday.”
September 7
MY LEFT
FOOT (Ireland/UK, 1989, 103 min.)
An inspiring adaptation
of the autobiography of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy who,
despite being limited to the use of his left foot, eventually became an
internationally-acclaimed writer, poet, and painter.
September 14
THE
PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (France, 1928, 82 min.)
Carl Dreyer’s austere,
intense, and transcendental rendering of the original record of the trial and
execution of Joan of Arc not only remains one of the most admired movies ever
made, but also features one of the most revered performances ever recorded on
film.
September 21
THE NASTY
GIRL (Germany, 1990, 93 min.)
A schoolgirl researching
the wartime past of her small Bavarian hometown encounters increasingly hostile
resistance as she gradually uncovers the truth in this stylistically jolting
black comedy based on the true story of Anna Rosmus.
September 22,
7:30pm, Student Services Building Auditorium
Anna Rosmus:
“Seeking Equilibrium with Open Eyes: Unveiling Passau’s
Denial”
September 28
BY CHANCE
BALTHAZAR (France, 1966, 95 min.)
In his most personal
film, master film-maker Robert Bresson crafted a complex
and allegorically suggestive portrait of the human condition through an
elliptical and densely sensual chronicle of a donkey’s life under various
owners. “Everyone who sees this film
will be absolutely astonished,” famously claimed Jean-Luc Godard,
“because this film is really the world in an hour and a half.”
October 5
THE
SEVENTH SEAL (Sweden, 1957, 96 min.)
In renowned Swedish
director Ingmar Bergman’s visually stunning religious allegory, a disillusioned
medieval knight returns from the Crusades to his plague-ridden homeland and
challenges Death to a game of chess.
October 18–6pm
FULL
METAL JACKET (UK/USA, 1987, 116 min.)
Stanley
Kubrick's masterly and gripping portrait of American
soldiers in training and in combat during the Vietnam Conflict will be followed
by a discussion led by history professor Bob Topmiller.
October 19
SURE FIRE (USA, 1990, 86 min.)
The entrepreneurial
zealotry of a crafty small-town real-estate investor leads to tragedy of
classic proportion in this searing critique of American mythology shot on location
in the “Mormon Dixie” region of central Utah by fiercely independent and
resourceful American film-maker Jon Jost.
October 26
PRIEST (UK, 1994, 105 min.)
Antonia Bird’s
controversial seriocomic portrait of the Catholic Church concerns a young and
earnest priest who arrives in Liverpool only to find himself increasingly
conflicted by his sexual identity, a wary congregation, an unchaste and
unabashedly liberal fellow priest, and a harrowing ethical challenge to his
confessional vow of secrecy.
October 27
The
Holy Girl (Argentia, 2004, 106 min.)
October 29
THE FLOWERS
OF ST. FRANCIS (Italy, 1950, 75 min.)
Praised by Francois Truffaut as “the most beautiful film in the world,”
director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini
used naturalistic locations and non-professional actors to portray, through a
series of vignettes, the life and spirit of St. Francis of Assisi during the
beginnings of the Franciscan Order.
November 2
THE
TASTE OF CHERRY (Iran, 1997, 98 min.)
In this meditative
exploration of life and death by Iran’s most internationally-acclaimed
film-maker, a middle-aged man roams the outskirts of Tehran in his Range Rover
and encounters people of various occupations and ethnicities in his quest for
someone who will breach Islamic Law by helping him commit suicide.
November 9
THE BOOK OF
LIFE (USA,
1998, 63 min.)
In this adventurously
stylized digital-video comedy by independent film-maker Hal Hartley, it is
December 31, 1999 in New York City where Jesus Christ, Satan, and Christ’s
assistant Magdelina (played by P.J. Harvey) debate
and struggle over the Seven Seals, Armageddon and the meaning of life. Featuring music by P.J.
Harvey and Yo La Tango.
November 16
JAPÓN
(Mexico, 2002, 126 min.)
Abandoning a career in international law for
film-making, 31 year-old Carlos Reygadas made
his directorial debut with this boldly mysterious and visually
ravishing existential exploration in which a brooding middle-aged painter who
leaves the city for a village in a remote valley gradually recovers his will to
live through the saintly beneficence of an elderly Indian woman.
November 21 – Monday, 6pm
MONTY
PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (UK, 1974, 93 min.)
This British cult classic parody of the Legend of
King Arthur and the pursuit of the Holy Grail will be followed by
discussion led by History Department professors David Sefton
and Jennifer Spock.
November 30
THE LIZARD (Iran, 2004, 115 min.)
This satiric film about an escaped convict who,
while posing as a mullah, finds himself offering subversively humanist
spiritual guidance to his congregation enjoyed huge success in Iranian theaters
before being banned by censors in May of 2004.
December 7
WHY
HAS BODHI-DHARMA LEFT FOR THE EAST? (South Korea, 1989, 135 min.)
Several years were spent composing the captivating images of simple
monastic life in the lush mountains of South Korea that pervade this unhurried
observation of an aging master who guides the spiritual development of the
young monk and orphan boy he will leave behind.
The title refers to a Zen koan.
December 14
THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (France, 1928, 28 min.)
Adapted from a script by iconoclastic drama theorist
Antonin Artaud, this
controversial landmark surrealist film is directed by Germaine Dulac – the first feminist film-maker and a seminal figure
of 1920s French Avant-Garde cinema.
SIMON OF THE DESERT (Spain/Mexico, 1965, 43 min.)
Surrealist and satirist Luis Bunuel
based the last of his twenty films made in Mexico upon the legendary
fifth-century Syrian Saint Simon Stylites, revered
for having spent the last thirty-six years of his life in devotion to God atop
a pillar in the desert.