ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
Friday, February 20 at 7:00
CHARLIE’S COUNTRY
Friday, January 23 at 7:00 and Sunday, January 25 at 4:00
for his role as Charlie, an aging Aboriginal who abandons his remote
members have claimed his native lands for themselves and imposed laws
cultural dislocation and the impact of colonialism as much as it is a journey
of personal discovery and resilience. Gulpilil gives an authentic, magnetic
performance in this melancholy yet uplifting story. (2013, 108 min., in
English and Yolngu, w/English subtitles)
DIPLOMACY
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur star in one of the greatest adventure stories
ever made. Impeccably well-crafted, Howard Hawks’ marvelous yarn about
mail pilots risking their lives above the Andes is one of the landmarks of
the latter-day Hawks heroine, [here played by] the tough, wisecracking Jean
Andrew Sarris (1939, 121 min.)
Friday, January 30 at 7:00 and Sunday, February 1 at 4:00
to destroy Paris’s iconic landmarks, from the Eiffel Tower to the Arc
Celebrating Women Directors
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
Friday, February 27 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 1 at 4:00
almost entirely in one room and playing in real time, as the diplomat
appeals to the General’s decency, the futility of war, and Paris’s cherished
Telluride Film Festival (2014, 85
min., in French and German w/English subtitles)
SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY
Friday, February 6 at 7:00 and Sunday, February 8 at 4:00
“This super-stylish and spellbinding Persian take on the vampire genre
doubles as a compact metaphor for the current state of Iran. Ana Lily
Amirpour’s debut feature guides us on a dreamlike walk on the wild side,
into the nocturnal and sparsely populated underworld of ‘Bad City,’ an Iran
of the mind that nevertheless rings true. In a cool and brooding scenario
that involves just a handful of characters, an alluring female vampire stalks
potential victims with a judgmental eye—but isn’t immune to romantic
desire when it presents itself in the form of a young hunk who’s looking for
a way out of his dead-end existence. With to-die-for high-contrast blackand-white cinematography and a sexy cast that oozes charisma, horror has
Film Society of Lincoln Center (2014, 99 min., in
Farsi w/English subtitles)
Roger Ebert
Celebrating Women Directors
QUE CARAMBA ES LA VIDA
celebratory introduction to the environment of music, religion and people
truly blessed and possessed. (1982, 100 min.)
Friday, March 6 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 8 at 4:00
VIVA LA LIBERTÀ (LONG LIVE FREEDOM)
Friday, February 13 at 7:00 and Sunday, February 15 at 4:00
heckled before a panel session, he disappears. His long-suffering assistant
twin brother, Giovanni, whose existence has been kept secret as he’s been
in an institution for some time. Andrea’s brainstorm to have Giovanni
to have some very sane ideas that are wildly embraced by the populace.
San Francisco International Film Festival. (2013, 92 min., in Italian and
French w/English subtitles)
Spring 2015
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Discount tickets: 5 films for $28/$24
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Mariachi is a cultural institution in Mexico. The music is an essential
expression that is woven into the city streets, bars, ceremonies, and
celebrations of the culture, but for the most part it is still considered the
mariachi musicians as they break custom and tradition to follow their
passion. It also documents the over 50-year legacy of all female mariachi
bands (Las Estrellas de Mexico, Las Coronelas, Las Pioneras). There are few
as watching María del Carmen ecstatically belt out, “I love this [expletive]
Co-Sponsored by:
Celebrating Women Directors
KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER
ZERO MOTIVATION
Friday, April 10 at 7:00 and Sunday, April 12 at 4:00
Friday, March 13 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 15 at 4:00
soldiers, all Israeli conscripts, serve out their time playing computer games,
singing pop songs, and conspiring to get transferred to Tel Aviv -- while
automatic weaponry. If there is a war going on, it’s one against boredom, bad
had rave reviews and huge audiences. Winner of the top prize for narrative
Film Forum (2014, 101 mins.,
in Hebrew w/English subtitles)
lives an extremely structured life. In her own time, she obsessively watches
an absurdist odyssey to Minnesota to alter her destiny. Inspired by an urban
oddly touching character study anchored by a remarkable performance from
Kikuchi. (2014, 104 min. in English and Japanese w/English subtitles.)
Orson Welles Centenary
F FOR FAKE
Friday, April 17 at 7:00 and Sunday, April 19 at 4:00
Closed for spring break
TIMBUKTU
Friday, March 27 at 7:00 and Sunday, March 29 at 4:00
to an account of the temporary occupation of northern Timbuktu by militant
with a gang of Islamic extremists arriving in a town on motorbikes, toting
everyday activities as singing and playing football are now prohibited. We
see the impact of the restrictions on a number of characters. A cattle farmer,
around the new rules by practicing with an imaginary ball. Most moving
magician Welles gleefully explores the tenuous line between truth and lies,
process. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de
brilliant cinematic essay that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and
fakers of all stripes—not the least of whom is Welles himself. Interweaving
anecdotes about Howard Hughes’s hidden sandwiches, an entire period of
lost Picasso works, his own War of the Worlds broadcast, and the anonymous
creators of the Chartres Cathedral, Welles turns the movie itself into an
London Film
Festival
Sonoma State University Hutchins School Professor Dr. Ajay Gehlawat
Co-Sponsored by:
THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT
Friday, April 3 at 7:00 and Sunday, April 5 at 4:00
Chakiris improbably appears here, along with Gene Kelly, Mr. American in
dance sidewise down the street are energized by the arrival of a traveling
MAGICIAN: The Astonishing Life and Work of
Orson Welles
Friday, April 24 at 7:00 and Sunday, April 26 at 4:00
“From documentarian Chuck Workman comes an exhaustive look at one of
interviews with rare archival footage of Welles himself, Workman takes us
through the life of the legendarily uncompromising actor and director behind
such classics as CITIZEN KANE, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
and TOUCH OF EVIL. Beginning with Welles’ early career as a dazzling
collision with the Hollywood studio system, and the toll it would eventually
Nonetheless, it is a portrait of an artist who never stopped developing new
Judy Bloch, PFA
English subtitles)
- Lane Kneedler, AFI (2014, 93 min.)
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