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INEMA INTERNATIONAL Students, Faculty, Staff and the Community Are Invited • ADMISSION IS FREE • Donations Welcome 7:30 P.M MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Fall 2017 INEMA INTERNATIONAL Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited • ADMISSION IS FREE • Donations Welcome 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings • Curris Center Theater AUG. 24-25- 26 • AUSTRALIA/UK, 2016 OCTOBER 5-6-7 LION FALL BREAK - NO FILM Dir. By Garth Davis With Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman. English/Hindi/Bengali. PG-13, 118 mins. OCT. 12-13- 14 • CHINA/FRANCE, 2002 Lion is an incredible story based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS by Saroo Bierley, screen play by Luke Davis. Saroo is a 5 year old who ekes Dir. Dai Sijie With Zhou Xun (周迅), Liu Ye (劉燁), a living on the streets with his brother. One day they are separated, little Saroo gets lost and survives many challenges before being adopted by Chen Kun (陳坤). an Australian couple. 25 years later, the adult Saroo - played by Dev Patel Mandarin w/English subtitles. N.R, 111 mins. (Slumdog Millionaire) - tries to find his birth mother from Google Earth Based on the director’s semi-autobiographical novel Balzac and the Little pictures and faint memories. (theguardian.com). Chinese Seamstress (2000), this acclaimed “coming of age” film is set during China’s cultural revolution. Two young university students are sent to a mountain village for a Maoist re-education to purge them of their decadent Western education. Thanks to their skills in music and the AUG. 1 SEPT. 1 - 2 • USA, 2009 discovery of a cache of forbidden French books, they awaken the imagi- AMREEKA nation of a young seamstress to a world beyond her beautiful, yet remote Dir. Cherien Dabis surroundings. There is very little bitterness in this retelling, but rather With Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, “a sense of resilience and fondness for youth, beauty and (the liberating Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler and Miriam Smith. power of) literature.” English/Arabic, N.R, 96 mins. OCT. 19-20- 21 • BHUTAN, 2003 Written and directed by Palestinian-American Cherien Dabis, Amreeka is a heart-warming and funny first feature. Muna and Fadi have the misfor- TRAVELLERS AND MAGICIANS tune to arrive from Palestine soon after the start of the war in Iraq, when Dir. Khyentse Norbu. With Neten Choking, Tshewang Dendup, anti-Arab sentiment runs high. She arrives in a distant Chicago suburb with Lhakpa Dorij, Sonam Kinga. no money but high hopes. “Amreeka is a heartwarming film, not a political dirge. Much of this warmth comes from the actress Nisreen Faour’s perfor- In Dzongkha with English subtitles, N.R, 108 mins. mance. Described as transporting and magical by critic Steven Rea (Philadelphia Inquirer), this wonderful film with beautiful scenes by cinematographer Alan Kozlowski, takes the viewer on a journey across this small country of SEPT. 7-8- 9 • SOUTH AFRICA, 2009 2 million inhabitants, located south of Tibet, where there are more monks DISTRICT 9 than soldiers, and where a royal decree declared the Gross National “SCI-FI MOVIE FRIDAY” SPONSORED BY WKMS Happiness (and not GDP) as a measure of success. Writer/filmmaker and Dir. Neill Blomkamp Tibetan lama Khyentse Norbu makes the complex appear simple. Travel- lers and Magicians is a philosophical story within a story, as a monk tells With Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope. a mystical fable of lust, jealousy and murder. It’s a cautionary tale about English. Rated R, 112 mins. happiness, reminding us to live in the present moment and not in our dreamlands. “For Norbu, filmmaking has In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled “prawn-like” alien popu- become his form of Thangka painting.” (John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews). lation appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. 28 years later, the Aliens are living in a refugee camp which deteriorated into a militarized ghetto OCT.26-27- 28 • GERMANY, 1922. • HALLOWEEN SCARY MOVIE called District 9. Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 is a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction movie that dives into a meaningful NOSFERATU social commentary as it makes a clear parallel with the Apartheid regime in Dir. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. With Max Schreck, Gustav von South Africa which ended in 1994. Images “prod our conscience.” Wangenheim, Greta Schroder. (RubinSafaya, Cinemalogue.com). German intertitles with English subtitles, PG-13, 94 mins. Nosferatu is a black and white film adapted from the vampire novel SEPT. 14-15- 16 • GUATEMALA, 2015 • NATIONAL HISPANIC Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1887). It is a masterpiece of German Expressionist HERITAGE MONTH cinema, released in the United States in 1929. One of the silent era’s most influential masterpieces, Nosferatu’s eerie, chilling gothic feel set the IXCANUL template for the Horror genre. “The film is in awe of its material. It seems Dir. Jayro Bustamante to really believe in vampires”. (Rogerebert.com). With María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Marvin Coroy Mayan(Kaqchikel)/Spanish, with English subtitles. N.R, 100 mins. First film produced in the Kaqchikel language, Ixcanul which means Volcano, is a drama/thriller based on the true story of a young woman who lives in an indigenous community of coffee-farmers on the slope of a volcano in Gua- temala. “Transporting, hypnotically beautiful” and “downright Herzogian”, NOV. 2-3-4 • AUSTRIA, 2011 Ixcanul combines its fable-like plot with striking realism.” (Scott Foundas, Variety) It deals with the vulnerability of poor, indigenous farmers and BREATHING women in particular, unable to determine their own destinies because they Dir. Karl Markovics With Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Ger- live in isolation with little or no Spanish. hard Liebman, Georg Friedrich German with English subtitles, N.R, 90 mins. Roman is a teenage boy who grew up from birth in institutions and is now SEPT. 21-22- 23 • ARGENTINA, 2011 in a detention facility for the accidental killing of another youth. One day, CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD a chance discovery challenges him to reconsider his identity. Starkly lit, composed in the Austrian style of Haneke, Hausner et al, Markovics’s film Dir. Benjamín Ávila With Natalia Oreiro, Teo Gutierrez-Roméro, displays a sense of redemptive purpose that is more like the British social Ernesto Alterio realists and may also have been inspired by The Son, by Belgian neo-real- Spanish with English subtitles. N.R, 110 mins. ists Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (Rotten Tomatoes). This story is about love, militancy, undercover life told from the point of view of a young boy, Juan aged 12. His family returns to Argentina under new identities to fight against the Military Junta (1976-1983) that rules the country. This exceptional film makes effective use of graphic animation to NOV. 9-10- 11 • JAPAN, 2013 capture the spirit and passion of the freedom fighters and gives voice to their children, caught in a battle that they did not choose. THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA Dir. Isao Takahata. With Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii. Japanese with English subtitles. PG, 137 mins. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語) is the adaptation of a 10th-century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant SEPT. 28-29-30 • BELGIUM, 2015. Japanese prose narrative. This animated fantasy drama about a celestial being come from the Moon to experience life on Earth looks like a water THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT color painting come to life. It is slow moving but absolutely breathtaking Dir. Jacob Van Dormael With Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine De- visually. It was deemed “best animated movie of the year.” (David Ehrlich, neuve, Yolande Moreau. The A.V. Club). French with English subtitles. N.R, 114 mins. Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels? He lives in a high-rise apartment and takes sadistic delight in dreaming up new “laws” to torment humanity. Like her brother J.C. before her, Ea tries to fix the mess her Father has made of humanity. “The Brand New Testament is a modern, magical and rollicking fairy tale for adults.” (Twitchfilm). Coming out of the land of Surrealism, “The Brand New Testament takes a subversive, surreal and funny look at biblical themes through a modern and refreshingly origi- nal lens.” (Rotten Tomatoes). Sponsored by generous donations from the Murray community at large, Murray State University, WKMS, Alpha Mu Gamma and the Japanese Club. Thanks to all who contribute to the success of Cinema International and especially Diego Caleno (projection), Drs. Mike Waag and Reika Ebert, the Curris Center staff - Debbie Futrell, Dwayne Getton and Michael Eaves. Printing Services, The Murray Ledger and Times and The Murray State News. Equal education and employment opportunities M/F/D, AA employer. Murray State University supports a clean and healthy campus. Please refrain from personal tobacco use..
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