Fall 2002 International Film Series
Featuring 35mm prints exclusively.
Screening on Sundays at 7:30 pm in the Trabant University Center Theater.
All foreign-language films are shown with subtitles.
Admission is free and open to the public.

Y tu mamá también, Nine Queens, Devil's Backbone, Dogtown, Baran,
Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, No Man's Land, Fast Runner

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October 6 Y tu mamá también [...and your mother, too]
(Mexico, 2001) 105 min.

This remarkably assured road movie stars Gael García Bernal (Amores Perros) and Maribel Verdú (Belle Epoque, Goya). Two self-styled urban cowboys accompany an older woman on a quest to find the perfect beach. "Fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating" (Elvis Mitchell, N.Y. Times).

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October 13 Nine Queens [Nueve reinas]
(Argentina, 2002) 115 min.

Two con artists team up for a scam involving nine rare stamps in this homage to Alfred Hitchcock and David Mamet. "Leaves you feeling tense and terrific. It's fun to be fooled." (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

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A ghost story set in a crumbling boarding school during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, as the sins of the adults are spiritually revisited upon the children. Director Guillermo del Toro's (Cronos, Mimic) vision is "compelling, unpredictable and unique" (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times).

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Revisit the 1970s and L.A.'s last "beachfront slum" to witness the birth of modern skateboarding in this "dazzlingly crafted documentary" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly). "Here is an entire movie about looking cool while not wiping out. Call it a metaphor for life." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

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November 3 Baran
(Iran, 2001) 94 min.

On a construction site in Iran, one of the illegal Afghani immigrants is a young girl disguised as a boy. Director Majid Majidi (The Color of Paradise) tells another "simple story with [the] dazzling vision [of a] visual poet" (Mike Clark, USA Today).

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November 10 Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis [Robotic Angel]
(Japan, 2001) 107 min.

"So intricate, so sublime, that the ordinary world seems to be the one missing a dimension" (A.O. Scott, N.Y. Times) In a futuristic city, a tyrant enacts his plan to rule, but will the workers and the robots go along? Adapted from a classic Japanese comic book in tribute to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. "If you have never seen a Japanese anime, start here" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

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November 17 No Man's Land [Nikogarsnja zemlja]
(Slovenia, 2001) 98 min.

Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film. A Bosnian and a Serb soldier are trapped together in a trench with an unexploded mine; then a television journalist and U.N. officials arrive... "Samuel Beckett-like drama... merciless and mirthlessly funny" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly).

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November 24 The Fast Runner [Atanarjuat]
(Canada, 2001) 172 min.

Sponsored by the University Gallery and the Center for American Material Culture Studies. Winner of 6 Genie Awards and the Caméra d'Or for Best First Feature at the Cannes Film Festival. "A stunning, fully formed masterpiece [that] retells a thousand-year-old Inuit legend about a blood feud between families unleashed by shamanistic forces" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly). An epic in every sense of the word: this movie starts out slowly but becomes gripping. "Spellbinding visuals combine with compelling drama" (Megan Turner, N.Y. Post).

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Sponsored by the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and
Public Events, the Office of the Provost, and the English Department's Film Program.

Director: Peter X Feng / Assistant: Kate Newell / Manager: Linda
Russell / Publicity: Diana Simmons

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This page was updated on September 24, 2002.