2010 - 2011 Featured Films
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Goodbye Solo | ||
| Ramin Bahrani, USA, 2008, 91 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Souleymane Sy Savane plays Solo, a Senegalese taxi driver in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who dreams of becoming a flight attendant. When an older man named William (Red West) gets into his cab, the customer's request to be driven to his own suicide prompts Solo to befriend the beaten, angry man in a bid to save him. Winner of the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival. | |||
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The Class | ||
| France, Laurent Cantet, 2009, 129 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. | |||
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Paris Je T'aime | ||
| Emmanuel Benbihy & Tristan Carne, France, 2006, 120 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| An omnibus film consisting of 18 romantic vignettes dedicated to a different borough in the City of Lights. Twenty-one world-class directors collaborated on this whirlwind love letter to the birthplace of cinema, and each of the disparate shorts in Paris Je T'Aime is bound to the next by the loose theme of love. The international cast features Juliet Binoche, Fanny Ardant, Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nick Nolte, Gerard Depardieu, Elijah Wood, and Steve Buscemi. Directors include Olivier Assayas, Frederic Auburtin and Gerard Depardieu, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuaron, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydes, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Tom Tykwer, and Gus Van Sant. Conceived by . In French and English. | |||
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Hamlet | ||
| Franco Zeffirelli, USA, 1991, 135 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Mel Gibson stars as the melancholy Dane in this film adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The distinguished supporting cast includes Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Helena Bonham. | |||
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Shattered Glass | ||
| Billy Ray, USA, 2003, 94 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Journalistic integrity, or lack thereof, is catapulted into the spotlight in the compelling true story of Stephen Glass, one-time staff writer for the The New Republic, who rode to fame after concocting a series of extraordinary, fabricated news stories for the conservative magazine. Features excellent performances by Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny and Hayden Christensen as Glass. "More than being a smart and accurate look at magazine journalism...Shattered Glass is also a compelling portrait of a psychosis at work" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). | |||
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Still Walking | ||
| Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2009, 114 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother's homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed. | |||
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The Secret In Their Eyes | ||
| Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina, 2009, 127 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| In 1999, retired Argentinian federal justice agent Benjamín Espósito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. That case is the brutal rape and murder of Liliana Coloto. In addition to seeing the extreme grief of the victim's husband Ricardo Morales, Benjamín, his assistant Pablo Sandoval, and newly hired department chief Irene Menéndez-Hastings were personally affected by the case as Benjamín and Pablo tracked the killer, hence the reason why the unsatisfactory ending to the case has always bothered him. Despite the department already having two other suspects, Benjamín and Pablo ultimately were certain that a man named Isidoro Gómez is the real killer. Although he is aware that historical accuracy is not paramount for the novel, the process of revisiting the case is more an issue of closure for him. He tries to speak to the key players in the case, most specifically Irene, who still works in the justice department and who he has always been attracted to but never pursued due to the differences in their ages and social classes. The other issue is that Gómez is still at large, no one aware if he is alive or dead. But as Pablo at the time mentioned that passion is one thing that cannot be changed in behavior, Benjamín learns now that that premise still holds true. Written by Huggo | |||
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Tulpan | ||
| Sergey Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan, 2008, 100 mins. |
2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa's later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa's dreams? What about the other lambs? Written by jhailey. | |||
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My Darling Clementine | ||
| John Ford, USA, 1946, 103 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge. | |||
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Everlasting Moments | ||
| Jan Troell, Sweden, 2008, 130 mins. | 2 pm - Appleton Museum | ||
| Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | 7 pm - CF Bldg. #8-110 | ||
| Sweden, early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. A young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world, and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic, womanizing and sometimes violent, although ultimately loving, husband. Written by IFC Films. | |||
