Foreign Film Friday: “Dreams” by Kurosawa
“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 just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: “The Circle”
“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. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: “Undertow”
“Undertow” (2009, 1h 50m, Peru, Romance/Drama by Javier Fuentes-León)
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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. When a fatal accident befalls the community, he is faced with hiding his true feelings or coming to terms with who he is and risk losing everything, including those he loves.
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Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: “The Exterminating Angel”
“The Exterminating Angel” (1962, 1h 35m, Mexico, Comedy/Fantasy by Luis Buñuel)
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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.
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Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: “Cinema Paradiso”
“Cinema Paradiso” (1988, 2h 35m, Italy, Drama by Giuseppe Tornatore)
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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 films. When Salvatore grows up, falls in love with a beautiful local girl (Agnese Nano) and takes over as the Paradiso’s projectionist, Alfredo must convince Salvatore to leave his small town and pursue his passion for filmmaking.
Multiple awards, including Academy Award for Best International Film.
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Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: Tortilla Soup
Tortilla Soup, 102min, Spanish, 2001 Comedy by Ripoll, 2 wins, 7 Nom.
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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 taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman (Raquel Welch) sets her sights on Martin’s affections.
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Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: Babette’s Feast
Babette’s Feast, 103 min, Danish/French,
1988, Drama by Axel, Oscar, 11 wins, 9 Nom.
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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 on a sumptuous meal for these melancholic and frugal people.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: Weeping Camel
Weeping Camel, 93 min, Mongolian, Drama 2003, Drama by Davaa & Falorni, 10 wins 9 Nom.
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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 a solution to compel the mother to accept her calf.
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.
Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)
Foreign Film Friday: The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children, 116min, French, Fantasy, 1995 by Caro & Jeunet, 5 wins, 14 Nom.
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Foreign Film Friday: “Blow-up” by Antonioni
(1966, 1h 51m, United Kingdom, Thriller/Mystery by Michelangelo Antonioni)
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A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock, a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave, and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists.
Cannes Film Festival: won the Palme d’Or
Academy Awards: nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
The film was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, including Outstanding British Film.
