SHOWTIMES
(unless otherwise noted)
Saturdays at 7pm
Sundays at 3:30pm & 7pm
Mondays at 7pm

Theme: "Cosmopolitanism: The World on Film"

JAN 26, 27, 28  INFERNAL AFFAIRS

Directed by Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak, 2002, Hong Kong, 101 m.
The film on which Martin Scorsese based his Oscar-winner The Departed, Infernal Affairs is a cat-and-mouse drama involving a Triad member who has infiltrated the Hong Kong police department and an undercover cop planted inside the gang.
Monday Speaker: Seth Mulliken

FEB 2, 3, 4  THE WORLD OF APU

Directed by Satyajit Ray, 1959, India, 105 m.
The finale to Ray’s incomparable three-part saga about the emotional and spiritual life of a Bengali boy, from childhood through adolescence to maturity, details the joys and struggles experienced by Apu as a young adult.
Monday Speakers: Dan Jefferson and Susan Marcosson

FEB 9, 10, 11  HOUSE OF FOOLS

Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, 2002, Russia/France, 104 m.
Revisiting a bizarre but true 1996 news story, psychiatric patients in a Russian institution, including a young woman who believes she’s the fiancée of pop singer Bryan Adams, become entrenched in the Chechen War.

Monday Speaker: Boris Briker

FEB 16, 17, 18  METROPOLIS

Directed by Rintaro, Japan, 2001, 107m.
A breathtaking fusion of computer and cel animation, this manga-based epic focuses on the adventures of a private investigator and his son who come to the big city for the first time in their search for a missing robot.
Monday Speaker: Masako Hamada

FEB 23, 24, 25  CHILDREN OF HEAVEN

Directed by Majid Majidi, 1997, Iran, 89 m.
Majidi provides an engaging look at a poor Iranian family and how, despite financial difficulties and other obstacles, they remain a happy and loving group.
Monday Speaker: Nasser Chour

SPRING BREAK

MAR 15, 16, 17  WARRIOR QUEEN

Directed by Hezekiah Lewis, 2008, USA, 54 m. total
This work in progress, filmed on location in Africa, reveals the sincerity and bravery of a Ghanaian queen and revolutionary who led an armed revolt against British rule in 1900-1901. Also on the roster are two other shorts by Lewis, Memoirs of a Smoker, a documentary about a poet’s use of cocaine, and Curtain Call, in which a young African American artist struggles with racism.
Monday Speaker: Hezekiah Lewis

EASTER BREAK

APR 5, 6, 7   RINGU

Directed by Hideo Nakata, Japan, 1998, 96 m.The original horror film from which The Ring was taken, Ringu centers on a cursed videotape
that kills viewers within seven days. Although there are few deaths and almost no gore, it’s been called “the most unsettling film since The Exorcist,” because of its bone-chilling atmosphere.
Monday Speaker: Rick Worland

APR 12, 13, 14   THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SHORTS

Various directors, USA, 2006, 95 m.
In this sextet of award-winning short films, topics as diverse as aging, marital sex and the fantasy lives of children are addressed by filmmakers from Australia, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.
Monday Speaker: Joe Ansolabehere

APR 19, 20, 21   LA PROMESSE

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 1989, Belgium, 92 m.
The Dardenne brothers’ socially conscious drama focuses on a teenager who defies his father, an underhanded slumlord, to help an immigrant family.
Monday Speaker: Gustavo Benavides

APR 26, 27, 28    PARIS, JE T’AIME

Various directors, 2006, France/Liechtenstein, 116 m.
Comprised of 18 shorts, each by a different, celebrated filmmaker from around the globe, this collective venture explores what it means to live and love in the City of Light.
Monday Speaker: Elana Starr

Each film will be screened four times in the Connelly Center Cinema:
• Saturdays at 7 pm
• Sundays at 3:30 & 7 pm
• Mondays at 7 pm
Speakers appear only at the Monday evening screenings.
Admission is FREE for students with ID and $5.00 for all others.
Tickets are available at the Connelly Center Cinema box office,
approximately 20 minutes prior to any showing.
For more information call: 610.519.4750 on weekdays between 9 am and 5 pm,
or consult the www.culturalfilms.villanova.edu/