Battelle Film Club Fall 2005 Film Series Showtimes: 8 p.m. November 4 n examination of the effect December 16 his movie is the true story of a of Franco-era religious Bohemian St. Francis and his Free refreshments after the show. Bad Education A schooling and sexual abuse The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill T relationship with a flock of Spain, 2004, Color, 106 min. Location: Battelle Auditorium on the lives of two longtime friends. USA, 2003, Color, 83 min. wild red-and-green parrots. Mark Language: Spanish*, Latin* Bittner, a dharma bum and former San Directions: The auditorium is on the main Battelle campus in north In the early ’60s, two boys, Ignacio Language: English Richland. Take George Washington Way north to Battelle Boulevard; turn left. Rating: R Francisco street musician, falls in with and Enrique, discover love, movies Rating: G Pass Q St., and turn right into the Battelle complex. Park in the lot to your Director: Pedro Almodovar the flock as he searches for meaning and fear in a Christian school. Father in his life, unaware the wild parrots right. Walk between the two buildings in front of you – the Research Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Director: Judy Irving Manolo, the school principal and lit- will bring him everything he needs. Operations Building and the Math Building. The Battelle Auditorium will be Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lluis Homar, Cast: Mark Bittner ahead to the right, surrounded by ponds. Javier Camara, Petra Martinez, Nacho erature teacher, both witnesses and – Official website Peerez, Raul Garcia Forneiro Tickets: Adults $3. Series pass $13 ($10 for BSA members) takes part in these discoveries. The oolaade is a film that will three characters come against one another twice again, in the late ’70s and January 6 For more information: Leigh Williams at 375-6811 stay in my memory and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of Moolaade inform my ideas long Battelle Film Club website: http://bsa.pnl.gov/filmclub/ Senegal, 2004, Color, 124 min. M them. after other films have vaporized. It Language: Bambara*, French* takes place in a village in Senegal, October 7 he Japanese author Yukio November 18 rom a suburban garage comes Rating: Unrated Mishima ... was a brilliant a new take on time travel. where ancient customs exist side by Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Primer Director: Ousmane Sembene T self-promoter who not only F Shane Carruth’s Primer, his Cast: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna side with battery-powered radios, USA, 1985, B&W and Color, 121 min. USA, 2004, Color, 78 min. wrote important novels and plays, film debut shot on 16 mm on a budg- Helene Diarra, Slimata Traore, Dominique cars and trucks, and a young man Language: Japanese*, English Language: English Zeida, Mah Compaore, Aminata Dao but also cultivated the press, posed et of around $7,000, is a clever returning from Paris. – Roger Ebert. Rating: R Rating: PG-13 for beefcake photographs and movie about the perils of ingenuity. “This is the day when six four- to 9-year-old girls are to be ‘circumcised.’ Director: Paul Schrader Director: Shane Carruth Two of the girls have drowned themselves in a well to escape the mutila- founded his own private army. He Two would-be inventors, Abe and Cast: Ken Ogata, Mashayuki Shionoya, Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, tion. The four other girls seek “magical protection” (moolaade) by a Hiroshi Mikami, Naoko Otani. was an advocate of a return to Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Carrie Aaron, working after hours in their medieval Japanese values, consid- Crawford woman who seven years [before] refused to have her daughter subjected FREE to Spring 2005 Series Pass holders! suburban garage, stumble onto an ered himself a samurai, and died on to the nutilation.” – Max Scharnberg, Internet Movie Database invention whose application is not obvious at first but it comes with ethical schedule and according to his own plan: After occupying an army garri- and metaphysical implications that are enormous. Abe (David Sullivan) ine Queens is the story of son with some of his soldiers, he committed hara-kiri. – Roger Ebert January 20 describes it to Aaron as “the most important thing that any living organism two small-time swindlers, has ever witnessed,” which may be a slight exaggeration. Nine Queens N Juan (Gaston Pauls) and his version of Victor October 21 Argentina, 2000, Color, 114 min. Marcos (Ricardo Darin), who Hugo’s classic novel has Charing Cross Road is a December 2 Language: Spanish* become involved in a $500,000 Les Miserables Belmondo as Henri Fortin, movie made for people T who love London and Rating: R deal. ... A once-in-a-lifetime scheme France, 1995, color, 175 min. 84 Charing Cross Road 84 a poor, illiterate ex-boxer. Ziman is books. ... A New York woman (Anne Director: Fabian Bielinsky seemingly falls in their laps – an old Language: French* UK, 1987, color, 100 min. a rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. Bancroft), who loves books sees an Cast: Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darin, Leticia time con-man enlists Juan and Language: English Rating: R During World War II, Fortin agrees ad in the Saturday Review for a Bredice, Tomas Fonzi Marcos to sell a forged set of Rating: PG London bookstore. She sends them Director: Claude Lelouch to drive Ziman’s family to extremely valuable rare stamps, the Nine Queens. The cast of suspicious her want list and is soon delighted to Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Switzerland. During the trip, Fortin Director: David Hughes Jones receive a package of used books – characters includes Marcos’ beautiful sister Valeria (Leticia Bredice), Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Salome asks the Zimans to read Victor Cast: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, good readable editions, cheap. She their innocent younger brother Federico (Tomas Fonzi) and a slew of Lelouch, Annie Girardot Hugo’s novel Les Miserables to Judi Dench begins a correspondence with the thieves, con men and pickpockets. As the cons and duplicity mount, it is unclear who is conning whom. – Official website him. As the film develops, all the major characters find themselves in bookseller (Anthony Hopkins), and thus commences a relationship that lasts situations similar to those in Hugo’s novel. for years without the two people ever meeting each other. – Roger Ebert * Non-English films will be shown with English subtitles..