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2/1/2008 3:10 PM
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Re: What's new at the UICA
These are the films for February so far, check www.uica.org for more info. Wristcutters: A Love Story
From the moment Zia cuts his wrists and enters a bizarre afterlife reserved for suicides, this film becomes a strangely uplifting, comic tale about a journey through the hereafter. It is a world where everyone still bears the scars earned from the manner from which they "offed themselves" while the everyday reality is a twisted mirror image of our own mortal world. Based on the novella Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret. Starring Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon and Tom Waits.
Website: wristcutters.com
"This affectionate slow-blooming romance mines an understated vein of comic melancholy that the actors' wistful performances perfectly capture." - Justin Chang - Variety
Showtimes
1/31 Thursday - 5:00, 9:00 PM
2/1 Friday - 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 PM
2/2 Saturday - 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 PM
2/3 Sunday - No Showings
2/4 Monday - Closed
2/5 Tuesday - 9:00 PM
2/6 Wednesday - 9:00 PM
2/7 Thursday - 9:00 PM Final Showing!
Pierrot Le Fou - One-Week-Only!
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, released in 1965. After abandoning his wife at a Parisian party, bored Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) flees his bourgeois existence with his babysitter and ex-lover, Marianne (Anna Karina). Taking it on the lam to the south of France, the couple becomes an existential Bonnie and Clyde, battling gunrunners, gas station attendants, and American tourists as they come face to face with their own roles as characters in a pop-cultural landscape. A profound turning point in Godard’s cinema, Pierrot le fou recalls the gangster cool of Breathless and Band of Outsiders while also pointing towards the increasingly essayistic, apocalyptic visions of Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Weekend. This landmark work is presented in a new 35mm print.
Website: janusfilms.com/pierrot/index.html
"Arguably one of the few Godard pictures to have the desired balance of romance, adventure, violence, and humor on one side, and philosophy, literary and cinematic allusion, and Brechtian distancing on the other." - TV Guide's Movie Guide
Showtimes
2/1 Friday - 3:00, 7:00 PM
2/2 Saturday - 3:00, 7:00 PM
2/3 Sunday - 12:00, 6:00 PM
2/4 Monday - Closed
2/5 Tuesday - 5:00 PM
2/6 Wednesday - 5:00, 7:00 PM
2/7 Thursday - 5:00, 7:00 PM Final Showing!
Iron Ladies of Liberia - One-Night Free Showing!
She's already overcome tremendous obstacles to become the first woman ever elected president in Africa - now all she has to do is turn around Liberia, a country devastated by unemployment, debt, corruption, and the legacy of civil war. Follow Ellen Sirleaf Johnson through her first year in office as she faces angry mobs, ambitious political rivals, and high-ranking members of the international community. Her story is inspiring a new generation of leaders in Africa and around the world.
Showtime
2/5 Tuesday - 7:00 PM Free Showing!
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Control
Award-winning photographer Anton Corbijn makes his feature directorial debut with this biographical drama concerning the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Based on the book Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by the enigmatic singer's wife Deborah Curtis, Control documents the life of a legend who changed the face of modern music but never lived to witness the remarkable impact of his life's work. The time was the late 1970s, and the post-punk explosion was just gaining momentum in England. At the forefront of this movement was a band named Joy Division. Formed in 1976 and first calling themselves Warsaw, Joy Division favored mood and expression over the aggressive stance that had come to define punk rock. The band was championed by Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, and collaborated with producer Martin Hannett on the album that would become their undisputed masterpiece - 1979's Unknown Pleasures. Newcomer Sam Riley stars opposite Samantha Morton in the film that sets out to tell the definitive story of a true rock & roll legend.
Website: weinsteinco.com
"One of the most perceptive of rock music biopics." - Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
Opens February 8 - Showtimes Forthcoming
Annie Hall
Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). The twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options include pretentious New York intellectuals and lifestyle-obsessed Rolling Stone writers, but la-di-dah-ing Annie seems different. Along the rocky road of their coupling, Allen/Alvy weigh in on such topics as endless therapy, movies vs. TV, the absurdity of dating rituals, anti-Semitism, drugs, and, in one of the best set pieces, repressed Midwestern WASP insanity vs. crazy Brooklyn Jewish boisterousness. Annie Hall blended the slapstick and fantasy from such earlier Allen films as Sleeper (1973) and Bananas (1971) with the more autobiographical musings of his stand-up and written comedy, using an array of such movie techniques as talking heads, splitscreens, and subtitles. Hailed as Allen's most mature and personal film, Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture and also won Oscars for Allen as director and writer and for Keaton as Best Actress; audiences enthusiastically responded to Allen's take on contemporary love and turned Keaton's rumpled menswear into a fashion trend.
"Annie Hall contains more intellectual wit and cultural references than any other movie ever to win the Oscar for best picture" - Roger Ebert
Opens February 8 - Showtimes Forthcoming
Youth Without Youth
Master filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's first feature in a decade is a poignant love story, political thriller and lively philosophical quest, filled with stunning images. Tim Roth plays an aging professor of linguistics who finds his youth miraculously restored after surviving a cataclysmic event. Pursued by Nazi scientists he goes on the run, reunites with his lost love (Alexandra Maria Lara), and struggles to complete his lifework of research. The screenplay, which Coppola adapted from a novella by Mircea Eliade, deals with perception and consciousness, time and memory. Says the director: "[It's] the kind of movie I like to make: one that gives more as people give more of themselves to it." Bruno Ganz co-stars.
Website: sonyclassics.com/youthwithoutyouth
"In this film Mr. Coppola blurs dreams and everyday life and suggests that through visual and narrative experimentation he has begun the search for new ways of making meaning, new holy places for him and for us. He may not have found them yet, but, then, he’s just waking up." - Manohla Dargis - The New York Times
Opens February 22 - Showtimes Forthcoming
The Red Balloon / White Mane
A classic children's double feature:
The Red Balloon:
Newly restored and available for the first time in almost a decade, Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children's films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon that seems to have a mind of its own. Wandering through the streets of Paris, the two become inseparable, to the surprise of the neighborhood and the envy of other children. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, The Red Balloon has enchanted the young—and the young at heart—for decades, and it will surely find a new generation of fans with this rerelease. Running time: 34 minutes.
White Mane:
In the south of France is a near-desert region called La Camargue. There lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken in by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, but they must elude the wrangler and his herdsmen to live freely. Beloved by generations of French children, this new restoration is now available to children of all ages in North America. (White Mane is presented in a new English translation, faithful to the original French voiceover and dialogue, spoken by Peter Strauss.) Running time: 40 minutes.
Website: janusfilms.com/redandwhite/index.html
"The Red Balloon turns me into a kid again whenever I see it...[to] see The Red Balloon is to laugh, and cry, at the impossible joy of being a child again." - Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
Opens February 29 - Showtimes Forthcoming
Eraserhead
Newly Restored, 35mm 30th Anniversary Print - See it the way it was meant to be seen!
David Lynch's celebrated debut, "a dream of dark and troubling things," returns to the big screen for the first time in decades in a newly restored, Lynch-approved 35mm print, celebrating the notorious cult film's 30th anniversary. Starring Jack Nance (Twin Peaks) as Henry, a harried young man coping with life in a bleak, post-industrial wasteland (not to mention caring for a creepy new baby that seems more than a little inhuman), Eraerhead may be the closest film has ever come to capturing the look, feel and sounds of an actual nightmare. Filled with surreal imagery, pitch black humor, expressionist sets and photography, rumbling sound design and more than a few choice gross-out moments, Eraserhead is truly a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience. And now experience the film the way midnight movie audiences in 1978 first experienced it, in a beautifully-restored 35mm film print that will make Henry's nightmare your own. Join us Saturday, March 8 at 8 PM for a reception with complimentary hors d'oerves and beverages followed by a 10 PM screening of the film.
"Baffling, amusing, disgusting and entirely unique... marked the beginning of a remarkable career." - Channel 4 Film
Opens March 7 - Showtimes Forthcoming
War / Dance
2008 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war, this award-winning documentary tells the story of three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When their school is invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation's capital is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time in their lives. An uplifting testament to the joy of music and the power of hope from directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine (Winners, Documentary Directing Prize, 2007 Sundance Film Festival).
Website: wardancethemovie.com
"Documentary filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine found an ingenious way to tell their story in a film that is as unflinching as it is uplifting." - Ken Fox - TV Guide
Opens March 21 - Showtimes Forthcoming
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2008 Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
During the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) are busy preparing for a night away. But rather than planning for a holiday, they are making arrangements for Gabita's illegal abortion and unwittingly, both find themselves burrowing deep down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations. Transpiring over the course of a single day, Mungiu's film is a masterwork of modern filmmaking, by parts poignant and shocking. Nominated for 4 European Film Awards including Best Picture and one of the standout hits of the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a modern classic that will stay with you long after you've left the theater.
Website: ifcfilms.com
"Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a stunning achievement." - Jay Weissberg - Variety
Opens April 4 - Showtimes Forthcoming
Taxi To The Dark Side
2008 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
From director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) comes a gripping investigation into the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, exposing a Bush Administration policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights. It's the most incisive examination to date of the Administration's willingness, in its prosecution of the "war on terror," to undermine the essence of the rule of law. What happens when a few men expand the wartime powers of the executive to undermine the very principles on which the United States was founded? Incorporating rare and never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay prisons, and interviews with former government officials, interrogators, prison guards, reporters and the families of tortured prisoners, the documentary dissects the progression of the Administration's policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures, such as Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and others, to the soldiers in the field.
Website: taxitothedarkside.com
"If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, this film will be essential." - A.O. Scott - The New York Times
Opens April 11 - Showtimes Forthcoming
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