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CRIMSON GOLD
SHOW DATE: 2/29
SPEAKER(S): Mike Giuliano, Baltimore treasure, writer, critic and Cinema Sundays Hall of Fame speaker.
Here's some information about the film:
Iran, 95 min. IN Farsi with Englsih Subtitles
directed by Jafar Panahi and written by Abbas
Kiarostami
Official Site:
http://www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=25
A deceptively modest undertaking that brilliantly
combines unpretentious humanism and impeccable formal
values."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
Crimson Gold is an intimate and absorbing drama about
the ways in which the hypocrisies and slights of daily
life can push otherwise reasonable people over the
edge. Based on true events and written by acclaimed
director Abbas Kiarostami, Crimson Gold is the story
of Hussein, a humble, troubled pizza deliveryman who
feels continually humiliated by the injustices he sees
all around him.
The Dreamers
SHOW DATE: 2/22
SPEAKER(S): Loren Glass, Cinema Sundays alum
Here's some information about the film:
Italy/France, 116 min. Rated NC-17
directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (LAST EMPEROR, LAST
TANGO IN PARIS)
Official Site:
http://www.the-dreamers.com/
"Bernardo Bertolucci's new film is an ardently
romantic love song to sex, cinema and the spirit of
the 60's."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
Left alone in Paris whilst their parents are on
holiday, Isabelle (Eva Green) and her brother Theo
(Louis Garrel) invite Matthew (Michael Pitt), a young
American student, to stay at their apartment. Here
they make their own rules as they experiment with
their emotions and sexuality while playing a series of
increasingly demanding mind games.
Set against the turbulent political backdrop of France
in the spring of 1968 when the voice of youth was
reverberating around Europe, THE DREAMERS is a story
of self-discovery as the three students test each
other to see just how far they will go.
Loren Glass, Cinema Sundays alum
(STORYTELLING...he always gets the easy ones) is
Assistant Professor of American Literature
and Cultural Studies at Towson University.
TOUCHING THE VOID
SHOW DATE: 1/8
SPEAKER(S): TBA
Here's some information about the film:
UK, 106 min.
directed by Kevin MacDonald
Official Site:
http://ifcfilms.com/?CAT0=3127&CAT1=4309&SHID=19906&AID=5367&CLR=red&BCLR=CC0000
Newsday 's Gene Seymour praises the film:
"It's a story so compelling that, as they say in the
wire services, it practically tells itself."
Based on the best-selling book by Joe Simpson,
TOUCHING THE VOID is a documentary (with
re-enactments) that tells the compelling story of two
climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who set out to
climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the
Peruvian Andes. It was 1985 and the men were young,
fit, skilled climbers. The west face, remote and
treacherous, had not been climbed before. Following a
successful three-and-a-half-day ascent, disaster
struck. Simpson fell a short distance and broke
several bones in his leg. With no hope of rescue, the
men decided to attempt descent together with Yates
lowering Simpson 300 feet at a time in a slow, painful
process that could have potentially been deadly for
both. One further misstep led to Yates unknowingly
lowering his injured partner over the lip of a
crevasse. With the gradient having gone from steep to
vertical, he was no longer able to hold on. Certain
they were about to be pulled jointly to their deaths,
the only choice was to cut the rope.
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