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MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Fall 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

AUG. 25-26-27 • MAURITANIA, 2015 SEPT. 29-30/ OCT. 1 • JAPAN/USA, 2013

TIMBUKTU THE WIND RISES Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako Dir. Hayao Miyazaki With Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri. With Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijimia, Miori Takimoto. Rated PG-13, 1h 37 mins. Japanese with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 126 Min. Passionate, humanistic and enormously powerful, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Language Japanese animation films are alternately haunting and whimsical, mimicking Film at the 87th Academy Awards and screened in competition for the "Palme a child’s colorful imagination while also situating this imaginative world d Or" at Cannes Film Festival 2014. Based on the forceful takeover of Mail in serious historical contexts. Films by Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps the in 2012, Timbuktu is a searing and extraordinary fable about the dangers of greatest purveyor of the genre, have a fervent international following, as religious extremism that positions Sissako at the forefront of African cinema. they demonstrate the vital and deceptively complex cinematic work that Timbuktu tells the story of Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed), a cattle herder who animation can do. This film about young Jiro, who longs to be a pilot, is not lives in the mountains outside the titular city with his wife and children. They keep a distance from the religious only about a child’s dreams, but also about the political and social struggles fundamentalists who control the town, until the family is forced to confront the growing terror. “Timbuktu is Japan faced between the two world wars. Jiro sees flight as a thing of also a work of almost breathtaking visual beauty. It’s a work of art that seems realized in an entirely organic way.”– beauty, not as a weapon for warfare. Supposedly his last film, Miyazaki leaves us with a vivid reminder of why he Glenn Kenny, rogerebert.com. is a master of the form. “A visually sumptuous celebration of an unspoiled prewar Japan.” ---Mark Schilling, The Japan Times. SEPT. 1-2-3 • CHINA, 2015 OCT. 6-7-8 NO FILM, FALL BREAK THE NIGHTINGALE OCT. 13-14-15 • SPAIN, 2014 Dir. Philippe Muyl, Ning Ning With Li Bao Tian, Yang Xin Yi. WILD TALES Chinese with English subtitles, N-R, 1h40 mins. Dir. Damián Szifron Belgian film-maker Philippe Muyl (The Butterfly) returns with a magnificent With Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, co- new take on a family road movie, entirely set in China. In order to keep a produced by Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar. promise he made to his wife, Zhu Zhi Gen prepares to return with his wife’s Spanish with English subtitles, Rated R, 122min. caged bird, the sole companion of her final years, to her native village where he’ll set the bird free. He’d decided to make this trip alone, but Ren Xing, his Six dark stories involving six situations full of revenge, dangerous and granddaughter, a spoiled little city girl, is forced to go with him. During this unexpected arguments or misunderstandings which change the lives of journey to the outer reaches of traditional China and through magnificent people who are involved in them. “Szifron orchestrates each sequence Zhigen landscapes, these two people who share nothing in common open up to each other, sharing memories expertly, demonstrating a flair for delivering absurd complications with and adventures. Ren Xing will discover new values, particularly those related to the heart. Well acted and marvellous comic timing and rich cinematic style”----Norman Wilner, NOW beautifully photographed, the movie offers a window into both modern urban and traditional Chinese life ---The Toronto. Daily Telegraph.

SEPT. 8-9-10 • COLOMBIA, 2015 OCT. 20-21-22 • USA, 2015 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM

Dir. Ciro Guerra Dir. Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott. Spanish with English subtitles, N-R, 123 min. English, 73 mins. At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow Requiem For The American Dream is the definitive discourse with Noam over the South American landscape in Embrace of the Serpent, the third Chomsky—widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive—on the feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black and white, Serpent centers defining characteristic of our time: the deliberate concentration of wealth on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and and power in the hands of a select few. “The short, sharp, smart essay-film the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. makes excellent use of Chomsky's insights while serving as one of the best The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch- entry points to the discussion of inequality.”– John DeFore, The Hollywood Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Reporter Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. Playing like a cinematic rendering of Carlos Castaneda’s psychotropic writings coupled with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness (and recalling Apocalypse Now, of course, and also Aguirre: Wrath Of God), this artfully rendered black OCT. 27-28-29 • USA/UK CLASSIC 1979 and white Oscar nominee dissolves back and forth between two different tales. Guerra’s haunting and beautifully shot film transports us into the realm of the mystical and surreal (Will Lawrence, empireonline.com) HALLOWEEN SCARY MOVIE ALIEN SEPT. 15-16-17 • FRANCE, 2015 MARGUERITE Dir. Ridley Scott With Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt and Ian Holm. Dir. Xavier Giannoli English, Rated R, 1h57 mins. With Catherine Frit, Michel Fau, Andre Marcon. French with English subtitles, Rated R, 129 mins. A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic cult movie. On A rich eccentric baroness was totally convinced that her voice sounded good, the way home from a mission, the Nostromo's crew answers a distress signal all the while massacring the greatest of songs with the collusion of a carefully from a nearby planet. Things get even stranger when an alien starts stalking selected and hypocritical audience. "Unbridled passion built on lies (based on the crew. A very scary movie … "In space, no one can hear you scream." --- the story of American singer Florence Foster Jenkins) and skillfully transposed Lucia Bozzola, Rovi. by Xavier Giannoli in 1920s Paris, France, to paint a poignant and funny portrait of a woman whose flaws tear open a restrictive social environment"---Fabien Lemercier, Cineropa. Despite its running time, this bitter–sweet comedy’s NOV. 3-4-5 • INDIA, 2013 suspense lasts until the final frames. The musical score is splendid. THE LUNCH BOX

SEPT. 22-23-24 • GERMANY/MEXICO, 2013 Dir. Ritesh Batra With Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. GUTEN TAG RAMON/BUEN DIA RAMON English and Hindi with English subtitles, Rated PG, 1h 44 mins.

Dir. Jorge Ramírez Suárez In Cannes, this film won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known With Ingeborg Schöner, Arcela Ramirez, Kristyan Ferrer, Adriana as Grand Rail d'Or. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient Barraza. lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an old man in German and Spanish with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 1h59 mins. the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality. The film tells the heartwarming story of a young man from a small Mexican (Cinemosaic.net) “The slow-burning relationship is handled with wit, charm town who travels to Germany to find work to support his family and becomes and poignancy, but Batra and cinematographer Michael Simmonds also excel at conveying loneliness in a stranded without shelter or money. He struggles to survive on the streets until teeming metropolis. Charming and whimsical, it's a feast for the eyes.”---David Parkinson, empireonline.com. he meets Ruth, a lonely senior citizen with whom he develops an astonishing and touching friendship that transcends borders and prejudices. “Good Day, Ramón tackles many profound issues ranging from friendship to compassion and joie de vivre while never becoming preachy, corny or dull. It's a genuinely heartfelt and delightful crowd-pleaser that will make your spirit soar.” --- nycmovieguru.com.

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