World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 28th we’ll be watching Alain Resnais’s 1960 French/German film: Last Year at Marienbad (94m)! “In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A’s husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Tvl1Fuxt8
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
Janurary 24th we’ll be watching Pedro Almodovar’s 1999 Spanish film: All About My Mother (102m)! “A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, Manuela cried until her eyes ran completely dry. Far from seeing clearly, the present and the future become mixed up in darkness. She begins looking for his father who has become a transvestite.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDrXOySB3EQ
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 14th we’ll be watching Federico Fellini’s 1972 Italian film: Roma (1h59m)! “As a young man, Fellini (Peter Gonzales) leaves his small Italian town to go to the big city of Rome, live in a boarding house and cavort with the natives in the 1930s and ’40s. In an alternating storyline, the older Fellini (Federico Fellini) goes back to make a movie about Rome, filming things like traffic jams at the Colosseum and the subway system, which hides underground crypts. By inter-cutting this footage, Fellini the director draws comparisons to the old Rome and the new. ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-83XJB9mr0
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays DOUBLE FEATURE
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 7th we’ll be watching a French double feature! First, we’ll watch Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 film The Red Balloon (34m), which elegantly captures the adventures of a boy who befriends a seemingly sentient balloon and follows it through the streets of Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DU9SFT5B6I Then, we’ll watch Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée (27m), a science fiction film constructed almost entirely from still photos that tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WstrUci5Fbg
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
January 31st we’ll be watching Chris Marker’s 1983 Japanese/French film Sans Soleil (103m)! “This experimental film by acclaimed French director Chris Marker collects footage recorded in various countries around the world and presents it in collage-like form. The movie features no synchronized sound, but instead ties the various segments together with music and voice-over narration, which ponders the topics such as memory, technology and society. As the scenes shift, locations range from Japan to Iceland to Africa, creating a truly international work.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IrnrqOuVo4
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 21st we’ll be watching Pavel Chukhrai’s 1997 Russian film: The Thief (94m)! “In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a place to stay where he becomes everyone’s favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile the widowed Russian with a young son falls for a soldier who turns out to have another identity.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7FGGvRQYU
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 14th we’ll be celebrating love with Mira Nair’s 2002 Indian film: Monsoon Wedding (1h55m)! “A BAFTA-winning film about a father, Lalit Verma, trying to marry off his daughter, Aditi, in the traditional manner. Aditi is having second thoughts, while her cousin Ayesha Verma, 17, is just beginning to realize she’s attractive to boys, and her other cousin, Ria, has a shocking revelation ready. Her brother, however, just wants to dance.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQjw-UyAX0
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 7th we’ll be watching Ang Lee’s 2000 Chinese film: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (120m)! “In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr6KyDfmWic
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!