Foreign Film Friday: The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children, 116min, French, Fantasy, 1995 by Caro & Jeunet, 5 wins, 14 Nom. Classic movies from around the world every Friday! Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
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The City of Lost Children, 116min, French, Fantasy, 1995 by Caro & Jeunet, 5 wins, 14 Nom. Classic movies from around the world every Friday! Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Weeping Camel, 93 min, Mongolian, Drama 2003, Drama by Davaa & Falorni, 10 wins 9 Nom. Classic movies from around the world every Friday! Mongolian docudrama about a nomadic family in the Gobi Desert attempting to save a rare white camel calf rejected by its mother after a difficult birth. The family journeys to find […]
Babette's Feast, 103 min, Danish/French, 1988, Drama by Axel, Oscar, 11 wins, 9 Nom. Classic movies from around the world every Friday! Denmark, 1871. Having fled France, cook Babette Hersant arrives in West Jutland and soon becomes a housekeeper for two unmarried sisters. But when Babette wins the lottery, she decides to spend the money […]
Tortilla Soup, 102min, Spanish, 2001 Comedy by Ripoll, 2 wins, 7 Nom. Classic movies from around the world every Friday! Three grown sisters, Maribel (Tamara Mello), Leticia (Elizabeth Peña) and Carmen (Jacqueline Obradors) try to cope and live with their father Martin (Héctor Elizondo) ; a veteran chef who is slowly losing his sense of […]
"Cinema Paradiso" (1988, 2h 35m, Italy, Drama by Giuseppe Tornatore) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) instills in the boy a deep love of […]
"The Exterminating Angel" (1962, 1h 35m, Mexico, Comedy/Fantasy by Luis Buñuel) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece. Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available. Centrally located just off I-240 […]
"Undertow" (2009, 1h 50m, Peru, Romance/Drama by Javier Fuentes-León) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! A respected local fisherman is expecting his first child with his beautiful wife. However, their peaceful existence is threatened by his love for a visiting artist whose presence is viewed as a threat by the villagers. […]
"The Circle" (2000, 1h 30m, Iran, Documentary/Drama by Jafar Panahi) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! Rife with anger and compassion, the systemic oppression of women in contemporary Iran is told through the intertwined experiences of two women over the course of one day in Panahi’s Golden Lion masterpiece. Donation-based admission. […]
"Dreams" (1990, 1h 59m, Japan, Fantasy/Drama by Akira Kurosawa) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available. Centrally located […]
“Amarcord” (1973, 2h7m, Italy, Comedy/Drama by Federico Fellini) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! A semi-autobiographical, episodic comedy-drama, set in a 1930s coastal Italian village during the Fascist era, that unfolds as a series of vibrant, nostalgic vignettes over the course of a single year. The movie is anchored by Titta, […]
(2004, 2h1m, USA, War/Thriller by Terry George) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! A biographical drama based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotel manager who sheltered over 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Using his shrewd negotiation skills and corporate leverage, he […]
(2002, 1h52m, Spain, Romance/Thriller by Pedro Almodóvar) Classic movies from around the world every Friday at 7! A psychological melodrama that follows the unconventional friendship between Benigno, a lonely male nurse, and Marco, a sensitive journalist, who bond at a Madrid clinic while caring for two comatose women—Alicia, a ballet student, and Lydia, a professional bullfighter. […]