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INEMA INTERNATIONALMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Fall 2017

Sponsored by generous donations from the Murray community at large, Murray State University, WKMS, Alpha Mu Gamma and the Japanese Club. Thanks to all who contribute to the success of Cinema International and especially Diego Caleno (projection), Drs. Mike Waag and Reika Ebert, the Curris Center staff - Debbie Futrell, Dwayne Getton and Michael Eaves. Printing Services, The Murray Ledger and Times and The Murray State News.

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AUG. 24-25- 26 • AUSTRALIA/UK, 2016

LIONDir. By Garth DavisWith Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman.English/Hindi/Bengali. PG-13, 118 mins.Lion is an incredible story based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Bierley, screen play by Luke Davis. Saroo is a 5 year old who ekes a living on the streets with his brother. One day they are separated, little Saroo gets lost and survives many challenges before being adopted by an Australian couple. 25 years later, the adult Saroo - played by Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) - tries to find his birth mother from Google Earth pictures and faint memories. (theguardian.com).

AUG. 1 SEPT. 1 - 2 • USA, 2009

AMREEKA Dir. Cherien DabisWith Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler and Miriam Smith.English/Arabic, N.R, 96 mins.Written and directed by Palestinian-American Cherien Dabis, Amreeka is a heart-warming and funny first feature. Muna and Fadi have the misfor-tune to arrive from Palestine soon after the start of the war in Iraq, when anti-Arab sentiment runs high. She arrives in a distant Chicago suburb with no money but high hopes. “Amreeka is a heartwarming film, not a political dirge. Much of this warmth comes from the actress Nisreen Faour’s perfor-mance.

SEPT. 7-8- 9 • SOUTH AFRICA, 2009

DISTRICT 9 “SCI-FI MOVIE FRIDAY” SPONSORED BY WKMSDir. Neill BlomkampWith Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope.English. Rated R, 112 mins.In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled “prawn-like” alien popu-lation appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. 28 years later, the Aliens are living in a refugee camp which deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9. Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 is a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction movie that dives into a meaningful social commentary as it makes a clear parallel with the Apartheid regime in South Africa which ended in 1994. Images “prod our conscience.” (RubinSafaya, Cinemalogue.com).

SEPT. 14-15- 16 • GUATEMALA, 2015 • NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTHIXCANUL Dir. Jayro BustamanteWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Marvin CoroyMayan(Kaqchikel)/Spanish, with English subtitles. N.R, 100 mins.First film produced in the Kaqchikel language, Ixcanul which means Volcano, is a drama/thriller based on the true story of a young woman who lives in an indigenous community of coffee-farmers on the slope of a volcano in Gua-temala. “Transporting, hypnotically beautiful” and “downright Herzogian”, Ixcanul combines its fable-like plot with striking realism.” (Scott Foundas, Variety) It deals with the vulnerability of poor, indigenous farmers and women in particular, unable to determine their own destinies because they live in isolation with little or no Spanish.

SEPT. 21-22- 23 • ARGENTINA, 2011

CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD Dir. Benjamín Ávila With Natalia Oreiro, Teo Gutierrez-Roméro, Ernesto AlterioSpanish with English subtitles. N.R, 110 mins.This story is about love, militancy, undercover life told from the point of view of a young boy, Juan aged 12. His family returns to Argentina under new identities to fight against the Military Junta (1976-1983) that rules the country. This exceptional film makes effective use of graphic animation to capture the spirit and passion of the freedom fighters and gives voice to their children, caught in a battle that they did not choose.

SEPT. 28-29-30 • BELGIUM, 2015.

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT

Dir. Jacob Van Dormael With Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine De-neuve, Yolande Moreau.French with English subtitles. N.R, 114 mins.Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels? He lives in a high-rise apartment and takes sadistic delight in dreaming up new “laws” to torment humanity. Like her brother J.C. before her, Ea tries to fix the mess her Father has made of humanity. “The Brand New Testament is a modern, magical and rollicking fairy tale for adults.” (Twitchfilm). Coming out of the land of Surrealism, “The Brand New Testament takes a subversive, surreal and funny look at biblical themes through a modern and refreshingly origi-nal lens.” (Rotten Tomatoes).

OCT. 12-13- 14 • CHINA/FRANCE, 2002

BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS

Dir. Dai Sijie With Zhou Xun (周迅), Liu Ye (劉燁), Chen Kun (陳坤).Mandarin w/English subtitles. N.R, 111 mins.Based on the director’s semi-autobiographical novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000), this acclaimed “coming of age” film is set during China’s cultural revolution. Two young university students are sent to a mountain village for a Maoist re-education to purge them of their decadent Western education. Thanks to their skills in music and the discovery of a cache of forbidden French books, they awaken the imagi-nation of a young seamstress to a world beyond her beautiful, yet remote surroundings. There is very little bitterness in this retelling, but rather “a sense of resilience and fondness for youth, beauty and (the liberating power of) literature.”

OCT. 19-20- 21 • BHUTAN, 2003

TRAVELLERS AND MAGICIANS

Dir. Khyentse Norbu. With Neten Choking, Tshewang Dendup, Lhakpa Dorij, Sonam Kinga.In Dzongkha with English subtitles, N.R, 108 mins.Described as transporting and magical by critic Steven Rea (Philadelphia Inquirer), this wonderful film with beautiful scenes by cinematographer Alan Kozlowski, takes the viewer on a journey across this small country of 2 million inhabitants, located south of Tibet, where there are more monks than soldiers, and where a royal decree declared the Gross National Happiness (and not GDP) as a measure of success. Writer/filmmaker and Tibetan lama Khyentse Norbu makes the complex appear simple. Travel-lers and Magicians is a philosophical story within a story, as a monk tells a mystical fable of lust, jealousy and murder. It’s a cautionary tale about happiness, reminding us to live in the present moment and not in our dreamlands. “For Norbu, filmmaking has become his form of Thangka painting.” (John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews).

OCT.26-27- 28 • GERMANY, 1922. • HALLOWEEN SCARY MOVIE

NOSFERATU

Dir. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. With Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroder. German intertitles with English subtitles, PG-13, 94 mins.Nosferatu is a black and white film adapted from the vampire novel Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1887). It is a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema, released in the United States in 1929. One of the silent era’s most influential masterpieces, Nosferatu’s eerie, chilling gothic feel set the template for the Horror genre. “The film is in awe of its material. It seems to really believe in vampires”. (Rogerebert.com).

NOV. 2-3-4 • AUSTRIA, 2011

BREATHING

Dir. Karl Markovics With Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Ger-hard Liebman, Georg Friedrich German with English subtitles, N.R, 90 mins.Roman is a teenage boy who grew up from birth in institutions and is now in a detention facility for the accidental killing of another youth. One day, a chance discovery challenges him to reconsider his identity. Starkly lit, composed in the Austrian style of Haneke, Hausner et al, Markovics’s film displays a sense of redemptive purpose that is more like the British social realists and may also have been inspired by The Son, by Belgian neo-real-ists Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (Rotten Tomatoes).

NOV. 9-10- 11 • JAPAN, 2013

THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA

Dir. Isao Takahata. With Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii. Japanese with English subtitles. PG, 137 mins.The Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語) is the adaptation of a 10th-century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese prose narrative. This animated fantasy drama about a celestial being come from the Moon to experience life on Earth looks like a water color painting come to life. It is slow moving but absolutely breathtaking visually. It was deemed “best animated movie of the year.” (David Ehrlich, The A.V. Club).

OCTOBER 5-6-7

FALL BREAK - NO FILM