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Les Invasions Barbares (aka The Barbarian Invasions or Invasion of the Barbarians)
SHOW DATE: 11/23
SPEAKER(S): TBA
Here's some information about the film:
2003, Canada, 99 min.
"What makes The Barbarian Invasions much more than a
facile exercise in generational conflict is that Denys
Arcand, who wrote and directed it, has a sense of
history that is as acute as it is playful."
-- A.O. Scott ,NEW YORK TIMES
DIRECTED and WRITTEN by Denys Arcand (DECLINE OF
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION and JESUS OF MONTREAL)
CAST Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Dorothée
Berryman, Louise Portal , Dominique Michel, Yves
Jacques
Denys Arcand's THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a story
about the humor, hope and unspoken bonds that hold
family and friends together against the onslaughts of
life in our contemporary times. Winner of two major
awards at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the film
merges Arcand's alternately witty and tender
storytelling style with his most deeply emotional tale
to date: that of a father and son who think they have
nothing left in common until - hit with a major crisis
--they learn to share an insatiable appetite for life.
--MIRAMAX
To find out more about the film visit the official Web site:
http://www.miramax.com/the_barbarian_invasions/index.html
Guest speaker: TBA
Shattered Glass
SHOW DATE: 11/16
SPEAKER(S): Lee Gardner
Here's some information about the film:
SHATTERED GLASS
DIRECTED AND WRITTEN by Billy Ray (debut; screenwriter
of HART'S WAR, VOLCANO) 2003, US, 95 min
CAST Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Steve Zahn,
Greg Kinnear, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chloë Sevigny,
Rosario Dawson, Hank Azaria
A.O. Scott of the NEW YORK TIMES calls SHATTERED
GLASS,"an astute and surprisingly gripping drama not
only about the ethics of magazine writing, but also,
more generally, about the subtle political and
psychological dynamics of modern office culture."
SHATTERED GLASS stars Hayden Christensen (LIFE AS A
HOUSE) as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the
respected current events and policy magazine The New
Republic and a freelance feature writer for
publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and
George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him
into one of the most sought-after young journalists in
Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled
in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair
article upon which SHATTERED GLASS is based - suddenly
stopped his career in its tracks. SHATTERED GLASS is a
study of a very talented - and at the same time very
flawed - character. It is also a look inside our
culture's noblest profession, one that protects our
most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and
what happens when our trust in that profession is
called into question.
To find out more about the film visit the official Web
site: http://www.shatteredglassmovie.com/
Our Guest Speaker is City Paper editor Lee Gardner.
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