MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Spring 2015 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. 15-16-17 • USA 2011 FEB. 19-20-21 • SOUTH AFRICA, UK 2013

BOYHOOD MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Dir. Richard Linklater Dir. Justin Chadwick With Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke With Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto English, Rated R, 165 Min. In Xhosa, Afrikaans, and English with English subtitles, PG-13, 141 Min. Filmed with both professional and non-professional actors over the course of twelve years across landscapes of suburban Texas rarely In concert with the Black History Celebration Month Committee, we examined by directors, Richard Linklater’s masterpiece about domestic are excited to screen this long awaited biopic on Nelson Mandela, strife and the transformation of a boy to a man in contemporary America one of the most heroic historical figures of the twentieth century. is not to be missed. “Audiences might think they’ve seen this kind of Based on Mandela’s autobiography, and starring the charismatic Idris coming-of-age story before. But they’ve never seen a film like ‘Boyhood,’ Elba (from the landmark HBO series The Wire), the film charts the which [turns] classic cinematic portraiture into something epic, long walk from the poisonous racial atmosphere of apartheid to the transcendent and monumental.” Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post mountainous moral triumph of the 1994 election, when “Madiba” (as he is affectionately known) became the first democratically elected leader of South Africa. “Elba catches the spirit of Mandela in the way no other actor quite has, especially as the twenty-something JAN. 22-23-24 • HONG KONG, CHINA 2013 version of the character, already brimming with activist brio, but also a ladies man and all-around lover of life. If, in stylistic terms, ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ always seems to be consecrating a saint, Elba never THE GRANDMASTER loses sight of ‘Madiba’ the man.” Naomie Harris, Variety Dir. Wong Kar-wai With Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang FEB. 26-27-28 • USA 2013 Mandarin, Cantonese & Japanese with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 130 Min. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING The great Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai returns to the genre that Dir. Joss Whedon made his native city a movie capital: the kung fu film. Eschewing the With Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz “machismo” and tiresome clichés of the genre, The Grandmaster fashions In English with English subtitles, PG-13, 109 Min. “an elegy for a lost world” in an “utterly personal” style, which, as usual, brims with an “undercurrent of eroticism.” “In an era of industrially Together with Murray State’s Shakespeare Festival, we are thrilled to be made, CGI-driven action movies, Wong’s martial epic has a handcrafted screening this contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy. The feel … [Y]ou won’t ever see any other kung fu movie quite like it.” Geoffrey Macnab,The Independent director, Joss Whedon, previously known for his Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, takes up the challenge with aplomb, firmly placing Much Ado About Nothing in the screwball tradition it belongs. He uses one main JAN. 29-30-31 • GERMANY, NORWAY 2012 location (his own house), and much of [the play] takes place in echoing high-end interiors, perfect for a story where everyone is constantly TWO LIVES eavesdropping on everyone else.” Sheilla O’Malley, RogerEbert.com Dir. Georg Maas and Judith Kaufmann With Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin MARCH 5-6-7 • CHILE, SPAIN 2013 In Norwegian, German, Danish, Russian, and English with English subtitles, Not Rated, 97 Min. GLORIA The notorious Lebensborn program, which promoted the idea of Dir. Sebastián Lelio raising the “Aryan” birth rate by allowing “biologically pure” German With Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Gonzalo Maza men to couple with unmarried women of the “master race,” eventually In Spanish with English subtitles, Rated R, 110 Min. expanded to Nazi-occupied countries in Europe, including Norway, the setting of this fascinating thriller. Unpacking the discomfiting Gloria, the film’s heroine, a divorced Chilean woman in her fifties, legacy of the program through various decades of the twentieth sometimes smokes and drinks too much, and dates less-than-savory century, the film provides a striking example of how the present can men. But this portrayal of a single, aging woman trying to survive not never shake the specter of the past. “Performances all around…are terrific, locations are aptly chosen only the pitfalls of romance, but the neo-liberal constraints of South and the period settings convince. Two Lives adds up to the kind of immersive, intelligent entertainment American society, is an absolute wonder. “In a North American movie many audiences crave and too rarely get.” Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International — a fizzy Hollywood comedy of empowerment or a glum indie kitchen- sink melodrama — a woman like Gloria would most likely invite either pity or condescending encouragement. But Gloria, played with dignity FEB. 5-6-7 • FRANCE 1960 and gusto by Paulina García, is too complicated for such treatment.” A. O. Scott, New York Times

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER MARCH 12-13-14 NO FILM Dir. Francois Truffaut With Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger MARCH 19-20-21 NO FILM SPRING BREAK French with English subtitles, Not Rated, 92 Min. MARCH 26-27-28 • CAMBODIA, FRANCE 2013 Starring Charles Aznavour, named entertainer of the twentieth century in a 1998 CNN poll, Truffaut’s wild — and now classic — film attempts THE MISSING PICTURE to mine the worlds of Hollywood B-movie noir and the gritty criminal districts of outer Paris at once. Please join us for this magnificent, and Dir. Rithy Panh once criminally undervalued, masterpiece from the French “New Wave.” With Randal Douc, Jean-Baptiste Phou “Forty-eight years later, Shoot the Piano Player retains an abundance of French with English subtitles, exciting (and excited) filmmaking ... [T]he most purely enjoyable movie Not Rated, 92 Min. Truffaut ever made.” J. Hoberman, The Village Voice Prepare yourself for a truly one-of-a-kind film. Rithy Panh is one of the most innovative directors in the world. And his subject is the FEB. 12-13-14 • CANADA 2012 Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, an event he represents through incredibly expressive clay figures, archival footage, voice-overs, and Marc Marder’s breathtaking soundtrack. “The figurines in dioramas STORIES WE TELL play on a number of associations: childhood (in the work camps, Dir. Sarah Polley children grew up seeing family members perish), the official notion With Michael Polley, John Buchan, Joanna Polley that these were model sites of ideological purification, and the hand-worked clay’s associations with In English, PG-13, 108 Min. the land, earth and burial. Panh’s sense of loving duty helps fill in the aching void of this history’s many missing pictures.” Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment Wondering what to do for your Valentine’s date? Choose Stories We Tell, our “Women Make Movies” selection for the spring, a gripping documentary about the director’s relationship with her deceased APRIL 2-3-4 mother. In truth, the film turns out to be as much about stories in general as the director’s stories in particular: how family stories BEST OF THE 2011 gradually unravel and transform, and how stories repeated often enough turn myths into realities. “The document Polley has pieced RIVER’S EDGE together from [a] reconstruction of her mother’s past is a formally FILM FESTIVAL fascinating work of art, a compassionate portrait of a complex, flawed and ultimately unknowable woman, and without a doubt one of the Narrative, Documentary, Animation and Experimental film best movies I’ve seen this year.” Dana Stevens, Slate from Paducah’s International Film Festival. Highlights include Best of the Fest winner.

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