A Separation, 2011
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Origin: Iran
Language: Persian
Running time: 123 min.
An Iranian husband and wife split up over his decision to stay and care for his aging father instead of leaving the country with his family. But his fateful choice to hire a stranger to do most of the caretaking breeds unexpected consequences. (from Netflix.com)
MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material
U.S. box office: $7,098,492
Watch the trailer on IMDB.com
Friday, August 24, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Announcing the Fall 2012 season
The Fall 2012 Season is August 29 – December, 2012.
All screenings but one for this season begin at 7:00 p.m. in Forney Hall, Room B124, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, on the Purdue University campus (Oct. 10 will be in Beering 1245).
Parking is available in the Northwestern Avenue parking garage.
All screenings but one for this season begin at 7:00 p.m. in Forney Hall, Room B124, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, on the Purdue University campus (Oct. 10 will be in Beering 1245).
Parking is available in the Northwestern Avenue parking garage.
- Wednesday, August 29, 2012, A Separation, 2011; Director: Asghar Farhadi; Origin: Iran; Language: Persian; 123 min; Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material
- Wednesday, September 5, 2012, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 2006; Director: Cristi Puiu; Origin: Romania; Language: Romanian; 150 min.; Rated R for language and brief nudity
- Wednesday, September 12, 2012, Certified Copy, 2010; Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Origin: France | Italy | Belgium; Language: French | English | Italian; 106 min
- Wednesday, September 19, 2012, Kinyarwanda, 2011; Director: Alrick Brown; Origin: USA | France; Language: English | Kinyarwanda; 100 min
- Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Farewell, 2009; Director: Christian Carion; Origin: France; Language: French | English | Russian; 113 min
- Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Pariah, 2011; Director: Dee Rees; Origin: USA; Language: English; 86 min; Rated R for sexual content and language
- Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Cria Cuervos, 1976; Director: Carlos Saura; Origin: Spain; Language: Spanish; 110 min (Reminder: this week only will be in Beering 1245)
- Wednesday, October 17, 2012, Tales from a Golden Age, 2009; Director: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru; Origin: Romania | France; Language: Romanian; 155 min
- Wednesday, October 24, 2012, Tyrannosaur, 2011; Director: Paddy Considine; Origin: UK; Language: English; 92 min
- Wednesday, October 31, 2012, The Seventh Seal, 1957; Director: Ingmar Bergman; Origin: Sweden; Language: Swedish | Latin; 96 min
- Wednesday, November 7, 2012, Footnote, 2011; Director: Joseph Cedar; Origin: Israel; Language: Hebrew; 103 min; Rated PG for thematic elements, brief nudity, language and smoking
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012, Tuesday, After Christmas, 2010; Director: Radu Muntean; Origin: Romania ; Language: Romanian; 99 min
- Wednesday, November 28, 2012, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, 2011; Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Origin: Turkey | Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Language: Turkish; 150 min.
- Wednesday, December 5, 2012, La Promesse, 1996; Directors: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne; Origin: Belgium | France | Luxembourg; Language: French | Romanian; 92 min
- Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Le Havre, 2011; Director: Aki Kaurismaki; Origin: Finland | France | Germany; Language: French; 93 min
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
August 8, 2012 - "The Time That Remains" (2011)
The Time That Remains, 2011
Director: Elia Suleiman
Origin: UK
Languages: Arabic | Hebrew | English
Running time: 109 min
From the creation of Israel in 1948 through the early 21st century, a Palestinian family experiences myriad triumphs and tragedies over the course of several generations in this sweeping drama from writer-director Elia Suleiman. (from Netflix.com)
U.S. box office: $18,719
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Review of last week's movie (3.5 stars)
Steven says: The tree as symbol of everything that is wrong and right about a family. It creeps. It searches for sustenance. It often steals one's heart (metaphorically) and it destroys things in its path in order to maintain its own strength. Not terribly subtle, the film still makes us think about the importance of things that we arbitrarily assign value to. In this film's instance, the assigned value is pretty high. The variety of coping mechanisms is what makes this film so real.
Director: Elia Suleiman
Origin: UK
Languages: Arabic | Hebrew | English
Running time: 109 min
From the creation of Israel in 1948 through the early 21st century, a Palestinian family experiences myriad triumphs and tragedies over the course of several generations in this sweeping drama from writer-director Elia Suleiman. (from Netflix.com)
U.S. box office: $18,719
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Review of last week's movie (3.5 stars)
Steven says: The tree as symbol of everything that is wrong and right about a family. It creeps. It searches for sustenance. It often steals one's heart (metaphorically) and it destroys things in its path in order to maintain its own strength. Not terribly subtle, the film still makes us think about the importance of things that we arbitrarily assign value to. In this film's instance, the assigned value is pretty high. The variety of coping mechanisms is what makes this film so real.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
August 1, 2012 - "The Tree" (2010)
The Tree, 2010
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Origin: France | Australia | Germany | Italy
Language: English
Running time: 100 min
After her husband's sudden death, Dawn must provide for her four kids despite her grief, while young Simone is convinced her father's spirit now lives in a giant fig tree in the yard. But the tree's roots soon threaten the stability of their home. (from Netflix.com)
U.S. box office: $71,158
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Review of last week's film (Yi Yi, four stars)Steven says: This is a "let it soak in" film. At nearly three hours, there is a lot to take in, to process, to analyze. It is richly layered with everyday characters dealing with everyday events - school, ailing parents, money-borrowing relatives. It is how their stories intersect and interact that brings larger drama and larger questions. At the film's heart is the question: are you searching for something real in life or something magical? In the end, it seems that the magic is unattainable and even harmful, unless you give yourself over to something real first. I'm still thinking about it though, so these ideas may not hold true tomorrow.
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Origin: France | Australia | Germany | Italy
Language: English
Running time: 100 min
After her husband's sudden death, Dawn must provide for her four kids despite her grief, while young Simone is convinced her father's spirit now lives in a giant fig tree in the yard. But the tree's roots soon threaten the stability of their home. (from Netflix.com)
U.S. box office: $71,158
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Review of last week's film (Yi Yi, four stars)Steven says: This is a "let it soak in" film. At nearly three hours, there is a lot to take in, to process, to analyze. It is richly layered with everyday characters dealing with everyday events - school, ailing parents, money-borrowing relatives. It is how their stories intersect and interact that brings larger drama and larger questions. At the film's heart is the question: are you searching for something real in life or something magical? In the end, it seems that the magic is unattainable and even harmful, unless you give yourself over to something real first. I'm still thinking about it though, so these ideas may not hold true tomorrow.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
July 25, 2012 - "Yi Yi" (2000)
Yi Yi, 2000
Director: Edward Yang
Origin: Taiwan | Japan
Languages: Mandarin | Hokkien
Running time: 173 min
Among movie critics' highest-rated foreign films of 2000, Yi Yi chronicles three generations of a Taiwanese family mired in a crisis of self-doubt. The film focuses mostly on computer worker N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu) and his wife and two children. A chance meeting with a former lover compels N.J. to question the assumptions on which his life is based. Warm and thoughtful, Yi Yi posits that truth is something we may never know. (from Netflix.com)
U.S. box office: $901,359
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Review of last week's film ("Something Like Happiness", four stars)
Steven says: The theme of this movie centers around what passes for happiness. We've been here before with similarly titled films, but the relationships seem more real, more grounded in truth. For sure, the characters aren't normal - what would a movie be with normal people in it, right? But their struggles, emotions, and consequences are places we've been ourselves. The introductory scenes are sparse and lack engagement, but somewhere in the 20-25 minute range, everything clicks and there's no turning back. You'll love, despise, ache and cringe throughout this movie.
Director: Edward Yang
Origin: Taiwan | Japan
Languages: Mandarin | Hokkien
Running time: 173 min
Among movie critics' highest-rated foreign films of 2000, Yi Yi chronicles three generations of a Taiwanese family mired in a crisis of self-doubt. The film focuses mostly on computer worker N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu) and his wife and two children. A chance meeting with a former lover compels N.J. to question the assumptions on which his life is based. Warm and thoughtful, Yi Yi posits that truth is something we may never know. (from Netflix.com)
U.S. box office: $901,359
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Review of last week's film ("Something Like Happiness", four stars)
Steven says: The theme of this movie centers around what passes for happiness. We've been here before with similarly titled films, but the relationships seem more real, more grounded in truth. For sure, the characters aren't normal - what would a movie be with normal people in it, right? But their struggles, emotions, and consequences are places we've been ourselves. The introductory scenes are sparse and lack engagement, but somewhere in the 20-25 minute range, everything clicks and there's no turning back. You'll love, despise, ache and cringe throughout this movie.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
July 18, 2012 - "Something Like Happiness" (2005)
Something Like Happiness, 2005
Director: Bohdan Slama
Origin: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Running time: 102 min
Monika (Tatiana Vilhelmova), Tonik (Pavel Liska) and Dasha (Anna Geislerova) are three friends from a small working-class Czech town. Living in a depressed cloud of industrialization spewed from one of the country's largest chemical factories, the trio dreams of a brighter life, each of the three finding solace through love, fantasy or escape. Ultimately, comfort and happiness surface as they learn to accept the things they cannot change. (from Netflix.com)
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Review of last week's film (Happy, Happy, 3.5 stars)Steven says: For our main characters, happiness is a masquerade. It often takes external forces to help one figure out that happy is a matter of perspective, of circumstance and of choice. The journey from point A to point B is messy, sometimes funny, and educational. And by the time you end up at point B, maybe, just maybe you truly are happy, or at least headed in the right direction. "Happy, Happy" shows four people on this journey in a tightly woven narrative interspersed with its own version of an ironic Greek (aka bluegrass gospel quartet) chorus. You know these people. You might even be these people. Where is your happy?
Director: Bohdan Slama
Origin: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Running time: 102 min
Monika (Tatiana Vilhelmova), Tonik (Pavel Liska) and Dasha (Anna Geislerova) are three friends from a small working-class Czech town. Living in a depressed cloud of industrialization spewed from one of the country's largest chemical factories, the trio dreams of a brighter life, each of the three finding solace through love, fantasy or escape. Ultimately, comfort and happiness surface as they learn to accept the things they cannot change. (from Netflix.com)
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Review of last week's film (Happy, Happy, 3.5 stars)Steven says: For our main characters, happiness is a masquerade. It often takes external forces to help one figure out that happy is a matter of perspective, of circumstance and of choice. The journey from point A to point B is messy, sometimes funny, and educational. And by the time you end up at point B, maybe, just maybe you truly are happy, or at least headed in the right direction. "Happy, Happy" shows four people on this journey in a tightly woven narrative interspersed with its own version of an ironic Greek (aka bluegrass gospel quartet) chorus. You know these people. You might even be these people. Where is your happy?
Sunday, July 8, 2012
July 11, 2012 - "Happy, Happy" (2010)
Happy Happy, 2010
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Origin: Norway
Languages: Norwegian | Danish | German
Running time: 85 min
Set in a remote Norwegian town, this black comedy centers on cheerful housewife Kaja (Agnes Kittlesen), who is contentedly wedded to her loveless high school sweetheart but lands in hot water when a risqué encounter with her urbane new neighbor, Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen), goes too far. With a full-blown affair on her hands and Christmas just around the corner, Kaja falls back on blinding optimism to get her through the snowballing scandal. (from Netflix.com)
MPAA rating: Rated R for sexual content including brief graphic nudity
U.S. box office: $44,947
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Origin: Norway
Languages: Norwegian | Danish | German
Running time: 85 min
Set in a remote Norwegian town, this black comedy centers on cheerful housewife Kaja (Agnes Kittlesen), who is contentedly wedded to her loveless high school sweetheart but lands in hot water when a risqué encounter with her urbane new neighbor, Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen), goes too far. With a full-blown affair on her hands and Christmas just around the corner, Kaja falls back on blinding optimism to get her through the snowballing scandal. (from Netflix.com)
MPAA rating: Rated R for sexual content including brief graphic nudity
U.S. box office: $44,947
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