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2011 - 2012 International Featured Films

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Frida
  Mexico, Rated R, 2002, 123 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  Salma Hayek fought for the right to produce and star in this biopic on Mexico's premier female artist, Frida Kahlo. Directed by Julie Taymor (Titus), this visually striking picture captures Kahlo's passion and creativity by fusing the events in her life with the imagery of her art with electric results. Hayek's Oscar-nominated role is backed by solid performances by Alfred Molina as husband Diego Rivera, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton and Geoffrey Rush.  
     

     
 
The Reader
  USA, Rated R, 2008, 124 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  Kate Winslet plays Hanna Schmitz, a former concentration camp guard who has an affair with a teenage boy (David Kross) after the war. Their brief sunlit romance, filled with baths and erotic readings, goes beyond mere lust towards love, but the immorality of the deflowering runs deep. Decades after their romance and her subsequent war crimes trail, the not-so-young man (Ralph Fiennes) goes to visit his one-time fraulein. The Reader proved six times a charm for Winslet, who finally won her Oscar for Best Actress. Featuring Bruno Ganz and Lena Olin.  
     

     
 
Mao's Last Dancer
  China, Rated PG, 2009, 117 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.  
     

     
 
The Hurt Locker
  USA, Rated R, 2009, 131 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, November 1, 2011 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  Garnering universal critical acclaim, this nerve-shredding war movie from director Kathryn Bigelow follows an elite Army bomb squad through Baghdad during the height of the Iraq War. In an environment where every person and object is a potential threat, the remaining members of the beleaguered disposal team are conflicted about their new, gung-ho sergeant (Jeremy Renner) who arrives one month before the end of their deployment. Winner of Best Picture and Best Director Oscar.  
     

     
 
Journey from Zanskar (Documentary)
  Tibet/USA, Rated PG, 2010, 90 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  Featuring narration by Richard Gere and a guest appearance by the Dalai Lama. Journey from Zanskar is a powerful documentary following two monks and seventeen children on an arduous trek on foot and horseback in a race against time to reach a 17,500 ft Himalayan pass before winter snow—all in the name of preserving their culture. The film captures the inspiring commitments, overwhelming challenges, difficult decisions, and heartwarming lessons learned along the way on this epic pursuit of a brighter future.  
     

   
 
 
Le Grand Voyage
  France, No Rating, 2004, 102 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  Reda, who lives with his family in southern France, is about to take his college entrance exams. One day he is told to drive his father to Mecca to perform the Hajj. The journey is difficult because of the distance, and due to the emotional and generational distance between him and his father. Ultimately, the journey to Mecca is as impacting as the arrival to the holy city.
 
     

     
 
The King's Speech
  UK, Rated R, 2011, 118 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7 pm - Webber Center, CF Ocala Campus
     
  Based on the true story of the Queen of England's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. Colin Firth plays King George VI who unexpectedly becomes King when his brother Edward abdicates the throne. Logue is the man who helps the King find a voice with which to lead the nation into war.  
     
 
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the CF International Film Series. Come and celebrate our milestone
by attending our 50th Anniversary Reception at the Webber Center at 6:30 p.m. on January 17,
(before the 7:00 p.m. screening of "The King's Speech").
     

     
 
Last Train Home (Documentary)
  China, 2010, 85 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  A documentary on the driving force behind China's economic dynamism: masses of migrant workers. Many come from poor backgrounds and work for most of the year in plants and factories far away from their families. The film is set around the New Year, when over 200 million peasants make the train trek home. Though their wages would be unavailable at home, the sacrifices workers are forced to make are almost criminal. . Last Train Home is beautifully-shot nonfiction about gargantuan feats of capitalism and the toll taken on ordinary families. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. In Mandarin with English subtitles.  
     

     
 
Milk
  USA, Rated R, 2009, 126 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  New Yorker Harvey Milk moved to San Francisco and became the city's first openly gay public official. The following year both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by the former city supervisor. This film chronicles the heart-breaking true story. Sean Penn leads a phenomenal cast that includes Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, a mustached James Franco, Diego Luna, and Alison Pill. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.  
     

     
 
Lives of Others
  Germany, 2006, 137 mins. 2 pm - Appleton Museum
  Tuesday, March 6, 2012 7 pm - CF Ocala Campus, Bldg. #8-110
     
  An Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Das Leben der Anderen is a seductive and suspenseful recreation of an East Berlin under heavy government surveillance. The Stasi, a secret police and intelligence agency, is trying to create computer files on every citizen, most importantly opponents of the ruling party. It's customary for Wiesler (Ulrich Muehe), a stoic Stasi operative, to collect information on artists, intellectuals, and, in this case, a playwright and his actress-girlfriend . However, in documenting their passionate lives, Wiesler's objectivity is irrevocably compromised. In German with English subtitles. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.  
     

 
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