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Carmen
Tuesday, June 26 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Story of an obsession—a devouring passion. —Carlos Saura
Spanish director Carlos Saura’s sizzling flamenco version of George Bizet’s popular opera resets the story in a contemporary rehearsal hall and melds romance with fiery dance. Starring Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol and Paco de Lucia. Shown in conjunction with the Flamenco Arts Festival.
(1983, 95 minutes)
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Powaqqatsi
Thursday, June 28 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
An unforgetable, mind-expanding experience. —L.A. Weekly
Beyond narrative, Powaqqatsi (Life in Transformation) concentrates on the human side of our relationship to the environment with richly peopled landscapes from India, Egypt, Kenya, Nepal and Brazil woven together by Philip Glass’ mesmerizing score. Sequel and complement to Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi.
(1988, 99 minutes)
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40th Anniversary Screening
West Side Story
Sunday, July 1 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Nothing short of a cinema masterpiece. —The New York Times
Using Leonard Bernstein’s score, Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics and Jerome Robbin’s choreography, director Robert Wise masterfully updates the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. His version of the star-crossed lovers entangled with New York City street gangs is one of the finest musical films ever made. With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer and Rita Moreno.
(1961, 152 minutes)
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Thursday, July 5 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
One of the jauntiest war-of-the-sexes comedies. —The New Yorker
Iconoclastic Spanish director Pedro Almódovar employs a pop culture sensibility to chronicle the madcap disintegration of Pepa (Carmen Maura), an actress in pursuit of the lover who jilted her. With Antonio Banderas before he was Zorro. Lust, doped gazpacho and danger on the streets of Madrid.
(1988, 88 minutes)
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The Dinner Game
Sunday, July 8 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Enjoyable forehead smacker of a French farce. —Entertainment Weekly
Bittersweet fun from the author of La Cage Aux Folles. A “game” where Parisian sophisticates invite unsuspecting “jerks” to dinner for cruel amusement backfires when a pretentious editor’s life intersects with an absurdly eccentric tax man named Pignon.
(Francis Veber, 1998, 78 minutes)
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Some Like It Hot
Thursday, July 12 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
One of the enduring treasures of the movies. —Chicago Sun Times
Billy Wilder’s quintessential buddy film, funnier because it’s done in drag. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon witness the Valentine’s Day Massacre and hide out down in Roaring Twenties Miami, sharing bunks with ukulele-playing singer Marilyn Monroe and her all-girl band.
(1959, 121 minutes)
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When the Cat’s Away
Sunday, July 15 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Wonderfully funny, touching and unforgettable. —Wall Street Journal
Vivid hipness and a nimble sense of place suffuse this film that begins when Chloé loses her black cat Gris-Gris and ends with the promise of romance found in her own back yard. Director Cedric Klapisch’s stylistic combination of contemporary artifice—fashion photography and acid jazz—and a timeless peek through Paris streets adds up to a captivating investigation of the overlooked familiar.
(1997, 95 minutes)
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Down By Law
Thursday, July 19 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Neo-bête-noir comedy, part nightmare, part fairytale. —Jim Jarmusch
In his third film, director Jim Jarmusch teamed John Lurie, Tom Waits and a very funny Roberto Benigni in a prison breakout as poignant and strange as a Louisiana bayou myth. Or as Roberto writes, “It’s a sad and beautiful world.” Robby Muller’s photography with songs by Waits.
(1986, 107 minutes)
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Baraka
Sunday, July 22 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Visionary, shimmeringly beautiful. —Los Angeles Times
A stunning, wordless global odyssey from the producers of Koyaanisqatsi and Chronos, the filmmakers spent over a year filming in 30 different locales including Angkor Wat, Mecca, the Temple of Karnak and the Varanasi Ghats in India. With music by Michael Stearns, inspired by Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth.
(Ron Fricke, 1993, 96 minutes)
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Cinema Paradiso
Thursday, July 26 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Movie lovers will lose their hearts. —Rolling Stone
Unquestionably one of the most beloved movies of all time. Projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) befriends young filmgoer Salvatore and together they explore the life-changing magic of cinema in a quaint world rattling toward modernity.
(Giuseppe Tornatore, 1989, 123 minutes)
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The Apu Trilogy
from India’s legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray
Sunday, July 29 / Campbell Hall
2 p.m. Pather Panchali (1955, 115 minutes)
4:15 p.m. Aparajito (1956, 113 minutes)
6 p.m. Dinner Break
7:30 p.m. The World of Apu (1959, 106 minutes)
Special three-film package: $10 students, $12 general
(or see individual films at regular prices)
Satyajit Ray, one of the supreme masters of humanist cinema, traces the life of Apu from birth to early manhood. Brilliantly scored by Ravi Shankar, each of the films stands on its own as a masterpiece; together they form one of the richest experiences in the history of cinema.
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Horse Thief
Thursday, August 2 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
The best film of the decade. —Martin Scorsese
Visually stunning and spiritually resonant, Horse Thief tells of a Tibetan man forced to steal to survive. This Chinese film earned censorship for its evocative delineation of the ceremonies of a culturally usurped people. A rare experience, and a screening not to be missed. Near legend now—it inspired Scorsese’s Kundun.
(Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986, 88 minutes)
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All films are in original languages with English subtitles if necessary.
Students: $5. General: $6.
Tickets for all films are available in advance at the Arts & Lectures
Ticket Office and at the door beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Phone orders: 2 ticket minimum, $3 service charge per order.
For more information: 893-3535 v/tty
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