September 24, 2000 Mifune
(Mifune’s Last Song) (Denmark)

“Eccentric humor and teasingly romantic tone…. naturalness, freshness and warmth that is often so transporting it's magical” (Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle). The third film observing Dogma ‘95’s “vow of chastity,” Mifune is not a samurai film, but the story of a man, his retarded brother, and their housekeeper, a prostitute on the run from a stalker. “[The] strong, small ensemble…lends the film a corrosive intimacy” (Wesley Morris, San Francisco Examiner).

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October 1, 2000 Genghis Blues
(USA)

This documentary was the Audience Award winner at Sundance 1999. A blind blues singer from San Francisco travels to Tuva, home of Genghis Khan, to participate in a contest of throat singers. “A more improbable and endearing yarn can't be imagined” (Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times).

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October 8, 2000

Erskineville Kings
(Australia)

Barky (Marty Denniss, who also wrote the screenplay) returns home after the death of his abusive father, to face the resentment of his brother Wace (X-Men’s Hugh Jackman), who had cared for the man during his illness. “Jackman delivers a blistering and intense performance that sears across the screen” (Greg King). “Strong performances from the young cast” (Lex Hall, Filmink)

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October 15, 2000

The Sheltering Sky
(UK-Italy)
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This special showing of The Sheltering Sky, based on the novel by Paul Bowles, is being sponsored by the University of Delaware Library in conjunction with the exhibition, "Paul Bowles: 1910-1999," on display until December 15 in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery of the University of Delaware Library. Bernardo Bertolucci's 1990 film stars Debra Winger and John Malkovich. The award-winning cinematography of Vittorio Storarro cannot be appreciated on video.

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October 22, 2000

Autumn Tale
(France)

“Unforced, relaxed, self-assured and utterly absorbing… the work of a master with nothing left to prove but everything to give” (Stuart Klawans, The Nation). The final installment in Eric Rohmer’s “Tales of Four Seasons” deals with a middle-age woman at the center of two matchmaking plots from her well-meaning friends. “Light-fingered vigor and panache” (Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times).

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October 29,2000

Rosetta
(Belgium)

Best Actress and Palme d’Or, 1999 Cannes Film Festival. “Alive with a sense of urgency as well as currency” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).The story of a 17-year old girl’s tenacious struggle to escape from poverty and achieve a “normal life.” “The purity of Dequenne's performance inspires awe. To a grubby life she brings dignity, clarity, passion, glory” (Richard Corliss, Time).

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November 5, 2000 Regeneration
(Scotland-UK)

Based on the true story of the friendship between a doctor (Jonathan Pryce) and poet Siefried Sassoon (James Wilby), a decorated soldier in the Great War, compelled to enter a mental hospital after protesting "against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.” “The cast is uniformly flawless” (L.J. Strom, Boxoffice).

November 12, 2000 -- Shower -- Rescheduled:  12/3/00

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November 19, 2000

The Wind Will Carry Us
(Iran)

From the director of A Taste of Cherry. A TV producer spends several weeks in a remote mountain village to document events following the imminent  death of a hundred-year-old woman. Acclaimed as Abbas Kiarostami’s greatest film yet, and his most accessible. “Perfectly simple and confoundingly oblique” (A.O. Scott, N.Y. Times).

December 3, 2000 Shower

(Xizhao)
(China)

This charming comedy, set in an old Beijing bathhouse scheduled for demolition, has won audience awards in virtually every major international festival. “Beguiling and poignant” (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times).

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