March 4, 2001 Girlfight
(US, 2000) 90 min.

This debut feature from writer-director Karyn Kusama won the Grand Jury Prize and Best Director at Sundance 2000. A proud young woman from Brooklyn finds focus when she enters the boxing ring. "Star Michelle
Rodriguez punches through to announce herself as a superb new movie talent...Kusama scores big points" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly).

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March 11, 2001 Boesman and Lena
(France/South Africa, 2000) 88 min. In English.

Danny Glover and Angela Bassett star in John Berry's adaptation of Athol Fugards apartheid-era play. "Glover finds every nuance of Boesman's pride and frustration as well as his deeply buried, nearly evaporated reservoir of tenderness....  Bassett stokes Lena's pain to such white heat that the screen fairly burns" (A.O. Scott, New York Times).

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March 18, 2001

Match Factory Girl/Tulitikkutehtaan tytt
(Finland, 1989) 70 min.

"Hilarious and tragic and, in its purity and simplicity, sometimes almostholy" (Hal Hinson, Washington Post). A young woman strikes back when a lover does her wrong. From the maker of Drifting Clouds and Leningrad Cowboys Go West. "Utterly deadpan...hideously funny" (John Hartl).

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April 8, 2001

Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
(US, 2000) 112 min.

Woody Guthrie's protege, Elliott Adnopoz (better known as Ramblin' Jack
Elliott), was a major influence on Bob Dylan but largely unheralded until
he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.  As his nickname
suggests, he lived on the road: his daughter,  filmmaker Aiyanna Elliott,
tries to find out why. "A thoroughly engaging, musically superb portrait of
a man both endearing and maddening" (Harper Barnes, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch).

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April 15, 2001

Kippur
(Israel, 2000) 117 min.

A medic's perspective on the 1973 Yom Kippur War, from the director of
Kadosh. Amos Gitais semi-autobiographical tale employs a series of long
takes to depict modern warfare in all its chaotic brutality.

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April 22,2001

Color of Paradise/Rang-e khoda
(Iran, 1999) 90 min.

"Artfully simple, beautifully observant of man and nature...a miniature epic" (Richard Corliss,Time). From Majid Majidi, the maker of Children of
Heaven, the story of a blind 8-year old boy in Teheran and the father who resents him. "A visionary experience of the natural world" (Steven Holden,New York Times).

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April 29, 2001 Goya in Bordeaux
(Spain, 2000) 102 min.

Another visually-stunning film from director Carlos Saura (Carmen,Tango),
and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.  Francisco Rabal portrays the great painter during his years in exile. "Impressionistic, narratively convoluted and visually ravishing" (Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star).

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May 6, 2001 Solas/Alone
(Spain, 1999) 98 min.

People's Choice, 1999 Berlin film Festival. A simple story of "plainspoken
forlorn quietude" (Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly) about a woman's bleak life and her mother's simple compassion, nominated for 11 Spanish Academy Awards.  "Honest...earned sentiment" (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle).

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