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2008 British Television Advertising Awards
Sunday, November 15, 1:30
Various directors. This program of funny, inventive, provocative British commercials (chosen by top advertising executives and producers) includes almost 100 ads—including one by Harmony Korine and another by Martin Scorsese. Cleveland premiere. (Britain, 2007, color, Beta SP, 98 min.) Special thanks to Peter Bigg, BTAA.
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Hausu (House)
Wednesday, November 18, 7:00
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. This crazy, stylish, one-of-a-kind horror comedy (an underground hit that is just now surfacing) tells of seven Japanese high-school girls who vacation at a creepy, secluded old house belonging to the aunt of one of them. Some very unpleasant surprises await. The delighted audience that saw this movie in August didn’t know what hit them. Adults only! (Japan, 1977, color, subtitles, Beta SP, 87 min.)
Gotta Dance
Friday, November 20, 7:00
Sunday, November 22, 1:30
Directed by Dori Berinstein. "A feel-good movie if ever there was one" (The Hollywood Reporter), this new documentary chronicles the creation of the New Jersey Nets’ NETsational Seniors, the first NBA hip-hop dance team composed entirely of people aged 60 and over. "Joyous…Heartwarming" –Variety. Cleveland premiere. (USA, 2008, color, 35mm, 93 min.)
Malls R Us
Friday, November 27, 7:00
Sunday, November 29, 1:30
Directed by Helene Klodawsky. This wide-ranging look at the history, architecture, economics, and politics of international shopping malls asks whether these facilities are a plague upon the earth, or places of community and ceremony, the modern equivalent of town squares and cathedrals. "Provocative" –Roger Ebert. Cleveland premiere. (France/Canada, 2009, color, DVD, 78 min.)
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
Wednesday, December 2, 7:00
Directed by Margarita Jimeno. Filmed over five years, this energetic music film documents the rise of New York-based gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello (fronted by the charismatic Eugene Hütz) from underground club sensation to international phenomenon. “An exhilarating document” –Village Voice. Cleveland premiere. (USA, 2008, color/b&w, some subtitles, Beta SP, 87 min.) www.lorberfilms.com/gogol-bordello-non-stop/
Little Ashes
Friday, December 4, 7:00
Sunday, December 6, 1:30
Directed by Paul Morrison, with Javier Beltrán, Robert Pattinson, and Matthew McNulty. Set in Madrid circa 1922, this elegantly-shot historical fantasy speculates that painter Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca were lovers while attending university with their mutual friend, filmmaker Luis Buñuel, another rising artist of the first rank. Cleveland premiere. Rated R.
(Britain, 2008, color, 35mm, 112 min.) www.littleashes-themovie.com
Cherry Blossoms
Friday, December 11, 6:30
Sunday, December 13, 1:30
Directed by Doris Dörrie. Winner of the Roxanne T. Mueller Award for Best Film at the 2009 Cleveland International Film Festival, this moving film (a variant on Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 Japanese masterpiece Tokyo Story) tells of a Bavarian husband and wife who decide to visit their grown children in Berlin and Tokyo—with surprising results. (Germany/France, 2008, color, subtitles, 35mm, 127 min.) www.strandreleasing.com
The Wonder of It All
Friday, December 18, 7:00
Sunday, December 20, 1:30
Directed by Jeffrey Roth, with Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, et al. In this uplifting new documentary, a prizewinner at numerous film festivals, Seven Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon tell how the experience changed them. Cleveland theatrical premiere. (USA, 2007, color, Beta SP, 82 min.)www.thewonderofiTallfilm.com
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45365
Wednesday, December 23, 7:00
Directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross. Two former Buckeyes lovingly chronicle small-town life in their hometown of Sidney, Ohio (near Dayton) in this new movie that was one of our biggest summertime crowd-pleasers. Best Documentary Feature at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. (USA, 2009, color, DVD, 90 min.) www.45365movie.com
Holiday Film Festival: Gauguin on Film
December 26–31
Three different film versions of the life of Paul Gauguin will complement our current special exhibition Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889. All will show in the Morley Lecture Hall during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Gauguin the Savage
Saturday, December 26, 1:30
Tuesday, December 29, 1:30
Directed by Fielder Cook, with David Carradine and Lynn Redgrave. In this little-known, Emmy-winning TV drama, Gauguin (played here by the late David Carradine) abandons his wife and children in Europe for a life of artistic freedom in Tahiti.
USA, 1980, color, Beta SP, 125 min.
The Wolf at the Door
Sunday, December 27, 1:30
Wednesday, December 30, 1:30
Directed by Henning Carlsen, with Donald Sutherland and Max von Sydow. This biographical film dramatizes Paul Gauguin’s return to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti, and his difficulty in selling enough paintings to finance the trip back to his island paradise. (Denmark/France, 1986, color, in English, 35mm, 100 min.)
The Moon and Sixpence
Thursday, December 31, 1:30
Directed by Albert Lewin, with George Sanders and Herbert Marshall. In this film version of a W. Somerset Maugham novel inspired by the life of Gauguin, a self-centered London stockbroker leaves his wife and family to pursue a painting career in Paris, then Tahiti. Restored 35mm archive print from the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. (USA, 1942, b&w/color, 35mm, 89 min.)
Tickets
All films show in the lecture hall, unless noted. Each program costs $8, CMA members $6, seniors 65 and over $6, students $6, or one film series voucher. Vouchers, in books of 10, can be purchased at the box office for $60, CMA members $50.
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