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ONCE
SHOW DATE: 6/3
SPEAKER(S): ***** MYSTERY GUEST *****
Here's some information about the film:
Written and directed by John Carney. Starring Alaistair Foley, Catherine Hansard, Glen Hansard, Kate Haugh, Senan Haugh and Darren Healy.
2006 Ireland Rated R 85 minutes.
Synopsis
A modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard from the Irish band "The Frames," the film tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record songs that reveal their unique love story.
Click here for official site and trailer!
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/once/
It’s not often Cinema Sundays presents musicals. In fact the last musical we screened to my knowledge was Dancer in the Dark, a fine piece of light entertainment. While Irish singer/songwriter is not my cup of tea this film has received universally fine reviews (97% positive on RottenTomatos.com!) and should be a treat.
I want to thank Mike Giuliano for sitting in for me while I was away at the Palevsky family Bar Mitzvah…(how could you forget your tefilin!) I also want to thank my colleague Dyana Neal for her fine work on Sweet Land.
Our speaker this week is a mystery guest from Cinema Sundays’ past. Greetings Mystery guest, enter and sign in please.
SWEET LAND
SHOW DATE: 5/20
SPEAKER(S): Dyana Neal
Here's some information about the film:
Directed by Ali Selim. Written by will Weaver (Short Story, A Gravestone Made of Wheat) and Ali Selim. Starring Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston and Ned Beatty.
2005 USA Rated PG 110 minutes.
Synopsis
When Lars Torvik’s grandmother Inge dies in 2004, he is faced with a decision – sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920, or cling to the legacy of the land. Seeking advice, he turns to the memory of Inge and the stories that she had passed on to him.
Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf but her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers makes her an object of suspicion in the small town, and she and Olaf are forbidden to marry. Alone and adrift, Inge goes to live with the family of Olaf’s friend and neighbor Frandsen and his wife Brownie, where she learns the English language, American ways, and a hard-won independence.
Inge and Olaf slowly come to know each other, and against the backdrop of endless farmland and cathedral skies they fall in love, a man and woman united by the elemental forces of nature. Still unable to marry, they live together openly, despite the scorn of the neighbors and the disapproval of the local minister. But when his friend Frandsen’s farm is threatened by foreclosure, Olaf takes a stand, and the community unites around the young couple, finally accepting Inge as one of their own.
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http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/about.htm
Last week it was Canada this week it’s Minnesota! Cinema Sundays continues its survey of the frozen north with the film Sweet Land (Fargo meets Days of Heaven meets A Prairie Home Companion) Unfortunately, I will not be with you this week as I will be in Montreal on mandatory Bar Mitzvah duty. CSC’s fabulous Mike Giuliano will be your host.
Our speaker this week is WBJC’s afternoon host Dyana Neal. A refugee from Minot North Dakota it’s a pleasure to welcome her to Cinema Sundays.
AWAY FROM HER
SHOW DATE: 5/13
SPEAKER(S): Linda Di Libero
Here's some information about the film:
Directed by Sarah Polley. Written by Alice Munro and Sarah Polley. Starring Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis and Kristen Thomas.
2006 Canada Rated PG 110 minutes.
Synopsis
Married for 50 years, Grant and Fiona’s commitment to each other appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. (Please note the authentic Kanadian spelling). This serenity is broken only by the occasional, carefully restrained reference to the past, giving a sense that this marriage may not always have been such a fairy tale. This tendency of Fiona’s to make such references, along with her increasingly evident memory loss, creates a tension that is usually brushed off casually by both of them. As the lapses become more obvious and dramatic, it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore the fact that Fiona is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Eventually, Fiona decides that it is time for her to enter Meadowlake, a retirement home that specializes in the disease. One of the more archaic rules of Meadowlake is that a patient may not have any visitors during their first month in the facility in order to “adjust.” After an excruciatingly painful 30 days separated from his wife, Grant returns to Meadowlake to discover Fiona seems to have no memory of him and has turned all of her affection to Aubrey (Michael Murphy), another resident in the home.
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http://www.caprifilms.com/awayfromher/
Cinema Sundays is very pleased to be presenting the Baltimore Premier of Sarah Polley’s Away From Her. Julie Christie returns to the screen joined by an amazing cast in a film that has won a young director tremendous accolades. I realize it’s been far too long since CSC has featured a film with a dysfunctional family and After the Wedding should go a long way to remedy the situation. I hope you all enjoyed Nosferatu last week and I want to thank The Maryland Film Festival and Jed Dietz for making the screening available to CSC members. If all goes well I should return from Budapest in plenty of time for Sunday’s screening.
Our speaker for this week is Linda Di Libero who comes to us from the film studies department of Johns Hopkins University. It’s a pleasure to have her back at CSC.
NOSFERATU @ THE FILM FESTIVAL
SHOW DATE: 5/6
SPEAKER(S): none
Here's some information about the film:
Nosferatu (1922 with live Orchestra)
Directed by F.W. Murnau and written by Henrik Galeen. Starring Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim and Greta Schroder. Music provided live by the Alloy Orchestra.
1922 Germany Rated S/WLO (Silent with live orchestra!) 94 minutes.
Synopsis (from MD Film Festival Site)
"I like the reality of things, but not without the fantasy - they must dovetail. Is that not so with life, with human reactions and emotions? We have our thoughts and also our deeds." -- F. W. Murnau
Born in Germany in 1889, Friederich Wilhelm Murnau studied art history at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, joined the great Max Reinhardt’s theater school, and learned film by making propaganda films for Germany in WW I. His first great work was Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which he made in 1922. Shortly after, the young film industry in California hired him, first at Fox and then at Paramount, where he won great acclaim (his Sunrise was nominated for several Academy Awards) before he was killed in a car accident in 1931. He stands alongside D. W. Griffith as one of the giants of the silent era.
Banned in Sweden until 1972, Nosferatu tells a classic vampire tale. A young real estate agent, Hetter, is sent by his strange boss, Knock, to the Land of the Phantoms to close a deal with the mysterious Count Orlok. Along the way, Hetter is warned about the Count -- normal drivers won’t even take him all the way to the castle -- but he continues undeterred. Through breathtakingly bold cinematic techniques and a legendary performance by Max Schreck as Count Orlok, F. W. Murnau delivers a seminal piece of filmmaking.
--Jed Dietz
About The Alloy Orchestra :
The Alloy Orchestra -- Terry Donahue, Roger Miller, and Ken Winokur -- has appeared at many MFF events performing their original scores for classic silent films, including the premiere of The Phantom of the Opera. They have been writing and performing original scores for silent movies for 16 years, and regularly debut new work at the Telluride Film Festival. They have composed for filmmaker Erroll Morris and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Click here for Maryland Film Festival Site!
http://www.md-filmfest.com/films.cfm?id=73
Cinema Sundays is pleased to be a part of the Maryland Film Festival with this special screening. The film begins at 11:00 and you should get there early. Rumor has it that there will be free breakfast provided by the MFF at the tent village at 10:00 am. CSC members will need to bring their tickets to the MFF Ticket Tent in the new Filmmakers Tent Village, where their card will then be punched as a CSC admission. Your ticket does not guarantee you a seat so you can either come early Sunday morning or exchange your CSC ticket for a film festival ticket for Nosferatu at any time during the festival. Your CSC membership only applies to you. If you want to bring guests they need to purchase tickets through the MFF.
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