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With a Friend Like Harry
SHOW DATE: 4/29
SPEAKER(S): Mike Giuliano
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With a Friend Like Harry (Harry, un ami qui vous vent du bien), dir. Dominik Moll, France, 115 min. starring Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin, Laurie Caminata, Lorena Caminata. In French with English subtitles.
Michel (Lucas) and Claire (Seigner) are having a terrible vacation. During a sweltering heat wave, along with their three young daughters, they are traveling to the countryside to work on restoring a farmhouse. The kids are cranky--and the cramped car is not air conditioned. Problems with the building they've been restoring now for the past three years continue to mount. But help is on the way in the form of Harry (Lopez), an acquaintance who will do whatever
it takes to make Michel happy. If it seems to good to be true, it probably is...
From this set-up, director Dominik Moll (Intimacy) weaves a suspenseful thriller that has been compared to works by Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Charbrol, and René Clement.
Guest Speaker: Mike Giuliano writes for Patuxant Publishing, the Baltimore Sun, and Baltimore City Paper. He is the all-time leading CSC guest speaker making a record 21st appearance as a CSC guest host.
The Dish
SHOW DATE: 4/22
SPEAKER(S): Pierre Bely
Here's some information about the film:
The Dish, dir. Rob Sitch, Australia, 101 min. starring Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Genevieve Mooy, Tayler Kane. official site
Everyone alive in July 1969 remembers where they were when they watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon with his famous declaration, "That's one small step for man...one giant leap for mankind." But few people have considered the story behind that broadcast.
Until now.
The Dish, a new Australian comedy directed by Rob Sitch (The Castle), tells the extraordinary true story that Australia played in televising the historical lunar landing.
Inauspiciously located on a remote sheep farm in rural New South Wales, the Dish is a mammoth, 1000-ton radio telescope the size of a football field. In 1969, NASA intended to use the Dish as a back-up to its prime receiver in Goldstone, California. But a last minute changerendered the Goldstone telescopes ineffective, and the Aussie dish became NASAs only option.
Al Burnett (Patrick Warburton), NASAs by-the-book representatvie clashes with the eccentric Australian telescope crew: widowed scientist Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill), sarcastic technician Ross Mitchell (Kevin Harrington), and the shy calculations expert Glenn Lathan (Tom Long).
Roger Ebert calls the Dish "An inspired human comedy." Come to CSC this week and find out why.
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