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City of God
SHOW DATE: 2/2
SPEAKER(S): Gina Freeman Caruso
Here's some information about the film:
http://www.cidadededeus.com.br/english/cidade_00.asp
Brazil, 130 min., dirs. Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
The main character in Cidade de Deus is not a person.
It is a place. Cidade de Deus is a poor housing
project that has become the most dangerous place in
Rio de Janeiro. In order to tell the story of the
place the film tells the stories of many
characters--focusing on two boys who take different
paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug
dealer.
About this week's speaker:
Gina Freeman Caruso, the sometime film curator for the
Walters Art Museum, has since worked as an editor,
photo editor, and writer for the Washington Post
Magazine. A few years ago, she missed being a
teacher--and that's what she's doing right
now--teaching adolescents who are coming of age.
The Quiet American
SHOW DATE: 1/26
SPEAKER(S): Lopez
Here's some information about the film:
About this week's film:
THE QUIET AMERICAN
US, 118 min., dir. Phillip Noyce (RABBIT-PROOF FENCE)
Based on the acclaimed novel by Graham Greene, THE
QUIET AMERICAN stars Oscar winner Michael Caine (CIDER
HOUSE RULES) as a British journalist in French
occupied Saigon in 1952. Brendan Fraser co-stars as
the title character. Completed in 2001, THE QUIET
AMERICAN was deemed "unpatriotic" and too
contorversial for release in the wake of the 9/11
attacks. Now with the U.S. on the brink of yet
another foreign war, this film couldn't be more
timely.
About this week's speaker:
LOPEZ Morning show on-air personality, film critic,
talk show host, and provocateur on 98 Rock, WIYY
Baltimore returns to CSC for the first time since
handling the duties on Season 25 series fave BOWLING
FOR COLUMBINE.
Morvern Callar
SHOW DATE: 1/12
SPEAKER(S): Paul Zinder
Here's some information about the film:
About this week's film:
MORVERN CALLAR, UK, 97 min., dir. Lynne Ramsay
www.companypictures.co.uk--(then click on "Film")
Based on the acclaimed novel by Alan Warner, MORVERN
CALLAR stars Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (SWEET AND
LOWDOWN, MINORITY REPORT) as a supermarket worker
from a small port town in the west of Scotland who
embarks on extraordinary journey to the south of Spain
and transforms her life. Screen International calls
this film by emerging director Lynne Ramsay
(RATCATCHER), "Poetic, stunningly beautiful and
untainted by crass commercial concerns."
About this week's speaker:
PAUL ZINDER
is a Baltimore native living abroad in Italy as an
associate professor of film at the American University
of Rome. An MFA from Syracuse University, Zinder has
taught at Towson University, UMBC, and Temple. Paul
has also directed such film festival hits as MOM MOM
LOVES HERBERT & PRINCE ALBERT HURTS.
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