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Spring 2010 Schedule
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Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) THURSDAY (1/28) - 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM Cops (1922)
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Bad Lieutenant (2009) THURSDAY (2/4) - 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle.
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Thirst (Bakjwi) (2009) THURSDAY (2/11) - 7:15 PM, 10:00 PM A beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with the wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and tired of her mundane life. The one-time priest falls deeper in despair and depravity. As things turn for the worse, he struggles to maintain what’s left of his humanity. WATCH THE TRAILER
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Bicycle Thieves (Ladri Di Biciclette) (1948) THURSDAY (2/18) - 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM Considered one of the best films of all time, The Bicycle Thief is a story of an unemployed man and his small son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle. The bicycle is stolen. Panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle -and losing his means of employment- the father is compelled to steal another bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
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Alice (1988) THURSDAY (2/25) - 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to Alice's trial before the King and Queen of Hearts. Czech animator Jan Svankmajer has created a masterpiece of cinema, a strikingly original interpretation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale. Svankmajer's Alice remains true to the absurdity of Carroll's original, but bears the stamp of his own distinctive style and obsessions. Combining techniques of animation and live action, he gives a new and fascinating dimension to the classic tale of childhood fantasies.
Food (Jidlo) (1992) If you've got the stomach for a heavy dose of gastronomic surrealism, here is Czech animator Jan Svankmajer three part stop motion movie called Food (Jidlo). Svankmajer uses food itself as a social commentary for poverty and oppression. BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: After failing to catch the waiter's eye, two would-be diners end up eating everything within reach. DINNER: Portraits of various meals made up of human organs.
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A Town Called Panic (2009) THURSDAY (3/4) - 6:30 PM, 8:00 PM Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromit’s Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events, as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed creatures.
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The Apartment (1960) THURSDAY (3/25) - 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM An incisive comedy, The Apartment is the story of a young office worker (Jack Lemmon) who moves up in status by lending his apartment to his bosses for illicit rendezvous. Shirley MacLaine plays the girl he finds near suicide after her heart is broken by one of those amorous executives (Fred Macmurray).
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35 Shots of Rum (35 Rhums) (2008) THURSDAY (4/1) - 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM One of the top ten films of the year, 35 Shots of Rum is set among a small circle of friends and neighbors in a Parisian suburb. Lionel's daughter Josephine has been spending time with a handsome young neighbor, a while Lionel finds himself in his own romance with a close friend. As their lives are pulled in different directions, Lionel and Josephine must confront their past before looking to their future. WATCH THE TRAILER
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Ghost Town (Fei Cheng) (2008) THURSDAY (4/8) - 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM Zhiziluo is a town barely clinging to life. Tucked away in a rugged corner of Southwest China, the village is haunted by traces of China’s cultural past while its residents piece together a day-by-day existence in China’s southwest Yunnan province. The lost souls of Zhiziluo struggle to find both spiritual and material solace in a world that has left them behind. This highly acclaimed documentary has been named one of the Top Ten Undistributed Films of 2009. WATCH THE TRAILER
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Experiments in Cinema Check back soon for more details!
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Sustainability Weekend THURSDAY (4/22) - 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM Thursday Opening Gala
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Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig) (2008) THURSDAY (4/29) - 6:00 PM Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. TERRIBLY HAPPY displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging.
The Wicker Man (1973) THURSDAY (4/29) - 8:00 PM When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward of THE EQUALIZER) travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle (a brilliant performance by the legendary Christopher Lee of THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy), is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult’s ultimate sacrifice before he himself comes face-to- face with the horror of THE WICKER MAN?
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