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Bridget Jones's Diary
SHOW DATE: 4/1
SPEAKER(S): Sandy Asirvatham
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 124 lbs., alcohol units 3, cigarettes 10, calories 2465 (but mainly bagels)...
Cinema Sundays launches Series #21 on Sunday, April 1st, at 10:30 am with the eagerly anticipated new film, Bridget Jones's Diary.
Based on Helen Fielding's international best-seller Bridget Jones's Diary, Golden Globe winner Renee Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Jerry Maguire) stars in the title role as the dynamic, irrepressible and outrageously original Bridget Jones.
32-year-old Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she's writing. With a taste for adventure, and an opinion on every subject from exercise to men to food to sex and everything in between, she's turning the page on a whole new life.
Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill) and Colin Firth (Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient). It's from the makers of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and is directed by Sharon Maguire.
City Paper columnist Sandy Asirvatham (Underwhelmed) will be the guest speaker.
Slamdance: On the Road
SHOW DATE: 3/25
SPEAKER(S): Justin Schwarz
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Cinema Sundays concludes Series #20 on Sunday, March 25th, at 10:30 am with a special treat: an exclusive program of short independent films from the Slamdance Film Festival. Now in its 7th successful year in Park City, Utah, the Slamdance has truly come into its own and is widely accepted within the industry as the best place to discover emerging talent on the film festival circuit. This past January, Slamdance premiered dozens of films to international acclaim, drawing record audiences concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival.
Throughout the year, Slamdance sends representatives around the globe to present new, exciting films to diverse audiences in alternative venues. Nestled amongst trips to Santigo, Cannes, Amsterdam, New York, and Toronto is this visit to Baltimore's CSC. The program includes: - Me and the Moilsies, (dir. Justin Schwarz, 20 min, 2000) The adventures of a Hassidic street gang on the Jersey shore;
- Boundaries, (dir. Greg Durbin, 19 min., 2000) *Winner Jury Prize for Best Short Film Angelica is pursued across the international border by a mute trombonist;
- Here, (dir. Brendan Donovan, 12 min., 2001) Lee Majors ($6 Million Man) stars as an aging hit-man searching for a change;
- The Good Things, (dir. Seth Wiley, 27 min., 2000) A toll-booth worker is torn between leaving home tosee the world, or staying in the small Kansas town where he grew up.
...and others.
Justin Schwarz (Me and the Moilsies) will discuss his film and the Slamdance experience.
About Adam
SHOW DATE: 3/18
SPEAKER(S): Chris Kaltenbach
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"About Adam," dir. Gerard Stembridge, Ireland, 105 min. starring Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Frances O'Connor, Charlotte Bradley, Alan Maher.
"And Adam said: "The woman you put beside me, gave me fruit, and I ate." -- Genesis 3:12
Temptation takes on a wickedly delicious new flavor in About Adam, as every character is seduced... all by the same mysterious man: the sinfully sweet Adam. Like his Garden of Eden counterpart, this sexy modern Dubliner has become the apple of one woman's eye and everyone else's forbidden fruit.
It all begins with Lucy Owen (Academy Award Nominee Kate Hudson, Almost Famous), a torch singer in a hip Dublin café, who's had countless love affairs, none of which have ever come close to grand passion. Enter Adam (Stuart Townsend), her seemingly perfect man. From the minute she spots the handsome stranger, Lucy's world begins to change. Adam is boyish, kind and eminently lovable and he fulfills Lucy's need for wild spontaneity while allowing her for the first time to feel the lure of commitment. Although she's long avoided the "L word" there's no doubt about it: Lucy has fallen. Best of all, Adam seems to really fit into Lucy's close-knit Dublin family, winning over her two sisters literary Laura (Frances O'Connor) and sophisticated Alice (Charlotte Bradley) as well as her mother (Rosaleen Linehan) with his devastating charms. Even younger brother David (Alan Maher) is mesmerized. But is there more About Adam than the Owens family imagines?
Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun film critic, will be this week's guest speaker.
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