Every Monday • 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. • Shapiro Wing AB
Coordinator: Mary Sampson & Carl Richards
If you enjoy watching and discussing vintage and new foreign, independent (indie), and documentary films, join us to watch a series of thought-provoking films. Check the weekly OLLI email bulletin or the OLLI web site for information on each week’s film. A list of dates and titles will also be posted on the bulletin board next to the OLLI office.
OLLI Art House Cinema--Monday, Oct. 12--6:00--8:00 PM--Shapiro Wing AB
RABBIT--PROOF FENCE--Australia's aboriginal integration program of the 1930's broke countless hearts--among them, those of young Molly, Gracie and Daisy, who were torn from their families and placed in an abusive orphanage. Without food or water, the girls resolve to make the 1500--mile trek home. Meanwhile, a well--intentioned tracker is trying to return them to the authorities. Australia--2002
OLLI Art House Cinema--Monday--Oct. 19--6:00--8:00 PM--Shapiro Wing AB
THE CLOSET--It's Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener with a twist when Daniel Auteuil (as milquetoast accountant) is about to get fired for literally being a bore. At the last minute, a neighbor concocts a "new life" for Auteuil as an out-of-the-closet (read: intriguing) homosexual, and suddenly everything changes. Gerard Depardieu co-stars as a homophobic office mate who may be masking a few feelings of his own. French--2000
OLLI Art House Cinema--Monday, October 26--6:00--8:00 pm--Shapiro Wing AB
WATER--After losing her husband to illness, 8-year-old Chuyia is forced to live out the rest of her life in a temple for Hindu widows, communing with 14 other women and a cruel headmistress who agrees to take her in. But it's through the trials of another widow, a beautiful prostitute named Kalyani who is being courted by a man from a lower caste, that Chuyia learns the true restrictions of widowhood. India-1 hr. 57 min.-2005
OLLI Art House Cinema--Monday--Nov. 2--6:00--8:00 PM--Shapiro Wing AB
BRICK--This unconventional film noir--set in the halls of a modern-day high school--marks a promising debut for writer director Rian Johnson. Teenage loner Brendan Fry is forced to navigate his school's social network when a secret crush turns up dead and the murderer is anyone's guess. Through intense interactions with Thespians, band geeks and druggies (including a grown-up Lucas Haas), Brendan works to crack the cliques---and the case. Filmed at San Clemente High School where Johnson, the writer/director went to school. 1 hr. 50 min. 2006
OLLI Art House Cinema--Monday--Nov. 16--6:00--8:00 PM--Shapiro Wing AB
TROUBLE THE WATER--
Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal recount a surprising tale of heroism in New Orleans, where a wannabe rapper and her husband brave the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina to rescue their neighbors. Featuring live video diary footage from the couple, the Oscar-nominated documentary is both a poignant portrait of a family's will to survive and a startling portrayal of Katrina's devastating power. 2008
1 hr. 36 min.
OLLI Art House Cinema--Monday, Nov. 30.--6:00--8:00 PM--Shapiro Wing AB
Because of the problems we've had showing TROUBLE THE WATER, we will not be using that one at all this semester. The film for Nov. 30 will be GEORGY GIRL, followed by HOW ABOUT YOU on Dec. 7.
GEORGY GIRL--Nominated for four Oscars, director Silvio Narizzano's cheeky 1966 British comedy stars Lynn Redgrave as 22-year-old Georgy, a chubby but sassy virgin who finds herself with two men on her hands. It seems that her dad's amorous, middle-aged boss, James Leamington (James Mason) wants to make her his mistress;meanwhile, the father (Alan Bates) of her narcissistic roommate's (Charlotte Rampling) illegitimate child falls in love with Georgy. What's a dithering girl to do?
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