MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Spring 2016 INEMA INTERNATIONAL Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited • ADMISSION IS FREE 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings • Curris Center Theater

JAN. 21-22-23 • JAPAN and USA, 2013 FEB. 25-26-27 • ARGENTINA, 2008 THE WIND RISES LIVERPOOL Dir. Hayao Miyazaki Dir. Lisandro Alonso With Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijimia, Miori Takimoto With Juan Fernández, Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal Japanese with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 126 Min. In Spanish with English Subtitles, Not Rated, 84 Min. Japanese animation (or "anime") films are alternately haunting and This film by Lisandro Alonso, one of the most intriguing directors on whimsical, mimicking a child’s colorful imagination while also situating the global scene, examines both “the riddle of everyday activities this imaginative world in serious historical contexts. Films by Hayao and the impossibility of relationships” in our troubled times. Miyazaki, perhaps the greatest purveyor of the genre, have a fervent Developed through long takes and intense periods of silence, and international following, as they demonstrate the vital and deceptively plotted around the seemingly simple premise of a merchant sailor complex cinematic work that animation can do. This film about young on shore leave, Liverpool offers a “visual experience” that lodges “in Jiro, who longs to be a pilot, not only deals with a child’s dreams, but your consciousness like a stone.” Alanso’s “brand of minimalism is also with the political and social struggles Japan faced between funky, uninflected and given to moments of unexpected beauty.” J. the two world wars. “A visually sumptuous celebration of an unspoiled Hoberman, LA Weekly prewar Japan.” Mark Schilling, The Japan Times.

MAR. 3-4-5 • ITALY, 2012

JAN. 28-29-30 • BELGIUM, 2014 CAESAR MUST DIE TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani With Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne In Italian with English subtitles, Not Rated, 76 min. With Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée French, Arabic, and English with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 95 min. In concert with the Murray State Shakespeare Festival, we are excited to screen this contemporary adaptation of Julius Caesar, performed The Dardenne brothers’ latest masterpiece departs from their earlier by inmates in the high-security wing of Rome’s Rebibbia prison. work by integrating a major star into the plot: the inimitable Marion Directed by the innovative Taviani brothers, whose past work has been Cotillard. And while the introduction of Cotillard may draw new influenced by elements of Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, attention to the Dardenne brothers, their focus remains the same: and the theatrical concepts of Bertolt Brecht, Caesar Must Die rethinks working-class life in troubled, little noticed pockets of French-speaking Shakespeare’s play in vital and astonishing ways. Winner of the Golden Europe. Over the course of the film, when Sandra (Cotillard) finds out Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, it “leaves us wondering whether that her fellow workers have chosen to accept a pay raise in exchange we’ve watched a complete, newly conceived work of art, a work-in-progress, a documentary or a for her dismissal, the plot ripens with pregnant force. “It’s a reflection of the particular genius of the combination of all things.” Philip French, The Guardian Dardennes and the mesmerizing personal power of leading lady Marion Cotillard that Two Days, One Night winds up possessing such inexorable power.” Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post MAR. 10-11-12 • GERMANY and USA, 2011

FEB. 4-5-6 • INDIA, 2015 GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING Dir. Corinna Belz COURT With Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker Dir. Chaitanya Tamhane In German with English subtitles, Not Rated, 97 min. With Usha Bane, Vivek Gomber, Pradeep Joshi What happens when a film maker enters the studio of one of the In Marathi, Gujarati, and English, with English subtitles, Not Rated, world’s greatest painters? Find out in this fascinating documentary 116 min. about Gerhard Richter, our Women Make Movies feature for the spring. Examining the dysfunctional elements of India’s judicial system, while Corinna Belz’s behind-the-scenes portrait of the artist as an old man also providing a larger commentary on class struggle, education, and provides fresh insight into Richter’s artistic development over many access to power in the world’s largest democracy, Court is “an engrossing decades, while also keeping us up-to-date on his most recent abstract piece of cinema,” managing to be, at once, “extremely rational and work. Watching Richter painting makes us understand the hard choices extremely humane” (Jay Weissberg, Variety). As Laya Maheshwari that go into abstract art, as well as how the marketing of such work functions in our current economic observes in a four-star review for RogerEbert.com, the film “treats the climate. Gerhard Richter Painting presents “a mesmerizing look behind the curtain at a magician at audience as both witness and jury and lays out a sprawling argument for work, a man who creates his enchantments not with a deck of cards or puffs of smoke but rather paint, them to ponder over. It’s hard to shake this one off long after the credits brushes, canvas and a giant squeegee.” Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times have rolled.” Please join us for this riveting examination of contemporary Indian society.

MARCH 17-18-19 • NO FILM FEB. 11-12-13 • USA, 2013 NEBRASKA MARCH 24-25-26 • NO FILM SPRING BREAK Dir. Alexander Payne With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb In English, Rated R, 115 Min. HOLLYWOOD PICK MAR 31, APRIL 1-2 • USA and ARGENTINA, 1955 The black and white cinemascape of Nebraska seems to mirror the inner lives of its characters: depressed, bored, and often dark. Yet Nebraska NIGHT OF THE HUNTER comes alive with a rare mix of comic fancy and seriousness and sympathy toward its characters. Played to gruff perfection by 70’s counter-culture Dir. Charles Laughton icon Bruce Dern, Woody Grant goes on a fool’s mission to collect the one With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish million dollar sweepstakes prize he’s certain he’s won. His skeptical family accompanies him in various stages, offering him the rare excitement that The Night of the Hunter is a masterpiece whose reputation only grows his unspectacular rural life could not. “This is a movie to bring home and with time. This gothic look at the south takes on the simplicity of a live with, to kick around in your head after it hits you in the heart.” Peter fairy tale, even as it contains-- visually and narratively--the nightmares Travers, Rolling Stone. that those children’s tales provoke. Directed by the great actor Charles Laughton (his only directorial effort!), it features unforgettable performances by silent screen legend Lillian Gish and Robert Mitchum, never better than as a traveling preacher with “love” and “hate” tattooed FEB. 18-19-20 • NIGERIA and ITALY and USA, 2014 on his knuckles. “It is one of the most frightening of movies, with one of the most unforgettable of villains, and on both of those scores it holds FINDING FELA! up ... well after four decades.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Dir. Alex Gibney With Fela Kuti, Yeni Kuti, Femi Kuti In English and Yoruban, Not Rated, 119 min. APR 7-8-9 Together with the Black History Month Celebration Committee, we are thrilled to be screening this irresistible rockumentary on Fela Kuti, the BEST OF THE 2015 legendary founder of the Afro-Beat sound. Spanning the seas, from Nigeria to Broadway and back, Alex Gibney’s transatlantic film shows RIVER’S EDGE how Fela’s politically-charged sound, influenced by American funk, FILM FESTIVAL emerged in the most populous country in Africa, and how a Broadway production in the United States came to terms with the musician’s Narrative, Documentary, Animation and complicated legacy. Finding Fela! “shows with deftness and muted Experimental film from Paducah’s International reverence [that] Kuti’s political activism was as integral to his music as any instrument,” while never Film Festival. Highlights include Best of the Fest winner. glossing “over the less harmonious parts of Kuti’s conflicted, tumultuous life.” Jason Heller, A. V. Club

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