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WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
SHOW DATE: 4/4
SPEAKER(S): Shannon Dunn, Director of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Office of Cultural Affairs
Here's some information about the film:
Denmark/UK, 111 min., directed/written by Lone
Scherfig (ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS, which played at CSC
on 2/24/02)
Official Site:
http://www.wilburthemovie.co.uk/
http://www.thinkfilmcompany.com/
The English language debut of Lone Scherfig (ITALIAN
FOR BEGINNERS) WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF is a
darkly comic melodrama about chronically suicidal
Wilbur (JAMIE SIVES - 'Glasgow Kiss') and his
good-hearted big brother Harbour (ADRIAN RAWLINS -
Breaking The Waves). Their father dies, leaving them
with nothing but a worn down second-hand bookshop in
Glasgow. Wilbur survives yet another suicide attempt
and goes to hospital, where he meets Horst (MADS
MIKKELSEN - Open Hearts), a cynical psychologist and
his empathic head nurse, Moira (JULIA DAVIS - 'Big
Train'). Like Harbour, they believe that Wilbur needs
a girlfriend. But even though women fall for Wilbur
all the time, they can't get close to him.
"A love story, a melodrama and a tearjerker that packs
a considerable punch."
Allan Hunter, Screen International
Intermission
SHOW DATE: 3/28
SPEAKER(S): tba
Here's some information about the film:
Ireland, 105 min., directed by John Crowley and
written by Mark O'Rowe
Starring Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, and Shelly
Henderson
Official Site:
http://www.ifcfilms.com/
Here is a nice article about the film:
http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_040322crowley.html
INTERMISSION is a raucous story of the interweaving
lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops,
pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. With Irish
guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter
and romance is tested to the extreme.
An ill-timed and poorly executed break-up sets off a
chain of events affecting everyone in town. There's
the hapless romantic and his sex-starved best friend,
the hotshot detective and the crook he's after, a
young girl on the rebound with an older married man
(not to mention his deserted wife), an ambitious TV
producer, abandoned fiancée, preteen trouble-maker --
all unaware of how their choices are profoundly
intertwined.
Add a botched robbery, some brown sauce, a woman's
moustache, flying rocks and dancing single seniors and
you have INTERMISSION.
THE LADYKILLERS
SHOW DATE: 3/21
SPEAKER(S): Lee Gardner
Here's some information about the film:
THE LADYKILLERS
(2004, U.S., directed by Joel Coen and written by
Ethan Coen, O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?, FARGO.)
Official Site:
http://ladykillers.movies.go.com/
Here's some information about the film:
Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks teams up for the first
time with Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Joel and
Ethan Coen ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?") for this
retelling of the critically acclaimed 1955 comedy, THE
LADYKILLERS. Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr
III, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who’s assembled a
gang of "experts" for the heist of the century. The
thieves: experts in explosions, tunneling, and muscle,
and the critical "inside man." The base of operations:
the root cellar of an unsuspecting, church-going
little old lady named Mrs. Munson (IRMA P. HALL). The
ruse: the five need a place to practice their church
music. The problem: it quickly becomes evident that
Dorr’s thieves lack the mental capacity to do the job.
The bigger problem: they have all seriously
underestimated their upstairs host.
THE COMPANY
SHOW DATE: 3/7
SPEAKER(S): Arleen Monahan
Here's some information about the film:
U.S., 112 min., directed by Robert Altman and written
by Barbara Turner from a treatment by Neve Campbell.
Official Site:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/thecompany/
"Robert Altman's surpassingly beautiful ballet movie
feels lighter than air -- but in fact it's the great
director's most tender and memorable film in years."
-- Charles Taylor,SALON.COM
With THE COMPANY, this iconic director brings his
fluid, masterful camera-work to the world of dance.
Altman's vision for the film is an extremely intimate
one: we will see the difficult daily work, the intense
pressures of performance, the richly textured
behaviors of the dancers -- whose professional and
personal lives grow impossibly close -- and of course
the sheer beauty of dance: exhilarating, kinetic, and
thrillingly observed.
The authenticity and richness of THE COMPANY is rooted
in the unprecedented way in which Altman will shoot
the film: with the complete cooperation of the Joffrey
Ballet of Chicago. Screenwriter Barbara Turner
(POLLACK, GEORGIA) spent over two years on and off
with the Joffrey, observing and writing. Joffrey
dancers will constitute the core of Altman's ensemble.
This Sunday's guest speaker for Robert Altman's THE
COMPANY will be Arleen Monahan, Founder and Director
of the Maryland Ballet Theatre.
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