irected and written by Ferdinando Eimbcke. (Don’t ask me how to pronounce it!) Starring Enrique Arreola, Diego Catano, Daniel Miranda and Danny Perea. 2005 Mexico. Rated R Running time 90 minutes.

Here is the official Site.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/duckseason/

Description

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery. The electricity company, Rita, the neighbor, Ulises, a pizza deliveryman, eleven seconds, the Real Madrid-Manchester game, some chocolate brownies and a horrible painting of ducks, all combine to break the harmony of what promised to be a placid Sunday, and reveal issues such as the parents' divorce, loneliness, the confusion between adolescent love and friendship, as well as frustration in adult life. "Temporada de Patos" is a movie that shows that, when the lights go off, we can see the stars.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407246/trailers-screenplay-X31821-10-2

Our speaker this week is Murray Horowitz Director of the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre in beautiful Silver Spring Maryland. Murray is one of the most talented and witty people around. Formerly of NPR, writer, composer, comedian. We are delighted to have him. I also want to thank last week’s speaker Bryan Murray (no relation to Murray Horowitz) for his insights into Clean.

Directed by Olivier Assayas and Winner of this year’s Best Actress award at the Cannes film festival. Starring Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Beatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar. Rated R Running time 111 minutes.





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Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) is a woman who wrestles with her dream of becoming a singer, her fitness as a mother, and daily life without her partner Lee (James Johnston). Her past is riddled with drugs and regrets, the result of which left Lee dead in a desolate motel room in Hamilton, Ontario, and landed Emily with a six-month jail sentence. The only thing that she desires for the future is a loving relationship with her son Jay, who is being cared for by Lee's parents, Albrecht (Nick Nolte) and Rosemary (Martha Henry). While Rosemary blames Emily for the death of Lee, Albrecht recognizes the importance of the bond between a mother and her son, and his faith sets the standard for the faith Emily must find in herself. Clean follows Emily to Hamilton, Paris, London and San Francisco and in three languages (English, French and Cantonese), as she battles for a place in a world reluctant to forget the woman she has been and unwilling to accept her as the woman she longs to be.

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http://www.cinemovies.fr/players/player.php?IDfilm=3032&IDBA=4679

Winner of this year?s Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Directed and written by Gavin Hood based on the novel by Athol Fugard. 2005 UK, South Africa. Rated R Running time 94 minutes.

Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae), a 19-year-old orphaned hoodlum living in a shantytown just outside Johannesburg, South Africa, steals a car, but when he finds a baby in the backseat, he learns that he has to grow up and start taking some responsibility.

Well last weeks discussion and screening of Why We Fight was certainly interesting! If it came to blows I?m not sure who I would have bet on, speaker Bob Somerby or the History Teacher. Bob had the height advantage but she looked pretty feisty. It was a good opportunity for us all to do a little venting. Cinema Sundays continues to stay in the controversial vanguard this week with Tsotsi! Nothing like a little gangland violence and child rearing to keep things fresh! Seriously though, it?s a pleasure to be getting the Baltimore Premiere of this film which just won the Oscar and so many other prizes.

If you?ve never been to Cinema Sundays before, see below for our stimulating yet official description.

Our speaker for this week is my illustrious predecessor Gabe Wardel. It?s a pleasure to welcome him back from the left coast. I?m sure he brought us all wine and goodies. I would also like to thank our speaker last week Bob Somerby, I hope we didn?t frighten him too much.

This thought provoking documentary directed by Eugene Jarecki won this year’s Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.  2005 USA.  Rated PG  Running time 98 minutes.

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Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Eugene Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions. 

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

After a fascinating sojourn in the American southwest last week we leave the moldy corporeal world of Melquiades Estrada for the simplicities of real life.  Why we fight promises to be a fascinating documentary concerning issues that affect us all.  I predict a fabulous and spirited discussion.