Show Dates and Film Titles

 

September 26 Shaolin Soccer

(Hong Kong 2004) 111 minutes

This award winning action comedy about a rag-tag soccer team became the top-grossing Hong Kong film production ever. "Crammed with wild action, obvious but well-mounted gags, and playful effects, the film is refreshingly silly." (Ed Park, Village Voice)

 

October 3 Intimate Strangers

(France 2004) 102 minutes

Acclaimed director Patrice Leconte (The Girl on the Bridge, The Man on the Train) tells the story of a troubled woman who inadvertently visits the office of a tax accountant instead of her psychologist. "As a modest conflation of mystery, melodrama and witty romance, Leconte's tale of intimacy and aloneness has its definite charms." (Stephen Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer)

 

October 10 I'm Not Scared

(Italy 2004) 110 minutes

This engrossing suspense thriller tells the story of a 10-year-old boy coming of age in rural southern Italy. "A reminder of true childhood, of its fears and speculations, of the way a conversation can be overheard but not understood, of the way that the shape of the adult world forms slowly through the mist." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)

 

October 17 No film showing.

 

 

October 24 Baadasssss!

(United States 2004) 108 minutes

A history lesson and an homage rolled into one -- Mario Van Peebles plays his father, Melvin, depicting his difficulties in making Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (considered by many to be the first American independent film). "A sobering and wildly entertaining account of how the elder Van Peebles crashed through the hurdles that continue to hinder independent filmmakers." (Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer)

October 31 Control Room

(U.S.A./Egypt 2004) 84 minutes

A documentary by Jehane Noujaim, an Arab-American journalist who has lived in both Egypt and America, about how the U.S. networks and the Arab satellite news channel Al Jazeera covered the early days of the war in Iraq. "If there are indeed two sides to every story, Control Room offers an unparalleled opportunity to observe the other side and then make up our own minds." (Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News)

November 14 Nói

(Iceland 2004) 82 minutes

Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland . In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. "Kari successfully meshes comedy, ennui and tragedy, much in the manner of Jim Jarmusch and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki." (V.A. Musetto , New York Post)

 

November 15 (Monday) Goodbye, Lenin!

(Germany 2004) 118 minutes

Sponsored by International Programs

Alex must help his mother, in a coma since before the fall of the Berlin Wall, adjust to life in reunified Germany. "It is a sweethearted comedy about the fall of Communism and the lingering nostalgia for an East Germany that no longer exists." (Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic)

 

November 21 Japanese Story

(Australia 2004) 100 minutes

A geologist who reluctantly escorts a Japanese businessman on a tour through the outback learns much about cross-cultural relationships and her own strengths. "Toni Collette's extraordinary performance, Alison Tilson's sensitive script and Ian Baker's sensational cinematography add up to a surprising film set against the rugged backdrop of Western Australia's stunning Pilbara desert." (Ken Fox, TV Guide’s Movie Guide)

 

December 5 The Story of the Weeping Camel

(Mongolia/Germany 2004) 90 minutes

A tale about a family of herders in Mongolia's Gobi desert who face a crisis when a mother camel unexpectedly rejects her newborn calf. "Beyond its rare visions of remote vistas, Camel's great charm lies in its seeming simplicity." (Leslie Camhi, Village Voice)

 

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