Upcoming Screenings
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COLOSSAL
YOUTH
Tuesday, November 10 @ 7:30pm
“The
film consists of a series of hieratically lit
and colored encounters between a Cape Verdean immigrant named Ventura
and assorted friends, family and neighbors, each more down and out than
the next, shot in low-angled single takes in a near-abandoned old
quarter of Lisbon and a new government-run apartment complex...A truly
incantatory experience, Colossal
Youth
is an impressive, often transfixing excavation of emotionally dark
territory, and its duration is directly tied to its overall shape and
impact. It’s a singular vision of underclass existence, simultaneously
decrepit and monumental.” -Kent Jones, FILM
COMMENT
Director Pedro Costa in person!
Curated in association with the American Film Institute. Co-hosted
by the UCI Film and Video Center, the UC Humanities Research
Institute, the UCLA Departments of Film, TV, and Digital Media and
Spanish and Portuguese, and the Los Angeles Film and TV Office of the
French Embassy.
"electrified by this raw existential intensity...visually rapturous"
-Nathan Lee, VILLAGE VOICE
"It's unlike anything else I've seen—mysterious, exalted, demanding,
leisurely paced, and very beautiful" -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO
READER
WRITTEN and DIRECTED by: Pedro
Costa
In Portuguese with English subtitles
155 min View the Japanese trailer!
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RED
CLIFF
Thursday, November 12 @ 7:30pm
Melnitz Movies, in
co-sponsorship with the Asia Institute presents Red Cliff, the
most expensive Chinese film ever made and the first collaboration
between
John Woo and
Tony Leung since the 1992
classic Hard Boiled. This breathtaking war epic, immortalized in the
classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, brings to the
screen the legendary tale of the Battle of Red Cliff that heralded the
end of the Han Dynasty in 208 AD. Vastly outnumbered by Han General Cao
Cao's
brutal, fast-approaching army, two troublesome warlords band together
to mount a
heroic campaign – unrivaled in history – that changed the face of China
forever.
The film that broke Titanic's box office record in
mainland China!
"Red Cliff scales the heights. It balances character, grit, spectacle
and visceral action in a meaty, dramatically satisfying pie that
delivers on the hype." -Derek Elley, VARIETY
"Woo weaves incidents together with astonishing dexterity, proving
himself a worthy heir of the Kurosawa-Peckinpah tradition of superior
dialectic montage and movement." -Christoph Huber, CINEMASCOPE
DIRECTOR: John Woo
WRITERS: Terence Chang, Woo, Khan Chan
CAST: Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chang Chen
A Magnet Releasing film
In Mandarin with English subtitles
148 min
View
the trailer
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NO
IMPACT MAN
Tuesday, November 17 @ 7:30pm
A New York City liberal
takes a giant leap and makes the decision to spend 12 months without
television, taxis or take-out, turning off the electricity to become a
walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, polar bear
saving, local food-eating, 100% sustainably living citizen of planet
Earth. All while taking his baby daughter
and caffeine loving, luxury seeking, retail-obsessed wife along with
him. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing
inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and
media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened
bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical
lifestyle change.
Co-presented by the UCLA
Institute of the Environment and the Documentary Salon. Director Laura
Gabbert in person!
"Terrifically entertaining. Compelling and extremely funny." -Betsy
Sharkey, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Proof that 'eco' and 'entertainment' aren’t mutually exclusive.” -John
Anderson, VARIETY
DIRECTORS: Laura Gabbert and
Justin Schein
CAST: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin
An Oscilloscope Laboratories release
93 min
View the trailer
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THE
SUN
Thursday, November 19 @ 7:30pm
In the last days of August 1945, as the Japanese prepare to surrender
to occupying American forces, Emperor Hirohito rummages around his
palace, trying to make sense of the impending defeat and his own
responsibility for it. In an unforgettably poignant performance by
Issey Ogata, Hirohito is fully brought to life as an educated,
ineffectual gentleman, aware of his fallibility but trapped by rituals
of adoration behind the mask of divinity. Aleksandr Sokurov, brings his
customary
imagistic brilliance to this tour-de-force of historical
reconstruction. As controversial for its interpretative conjectures as
it is visually arresting, The Sun is a complex, important work by a
major filmmaker. - New York Film Festival
A co-presentation of Melnitz Movies and the Terasaki Center for
Japanese Studies
“A mind-boggling essay on the end of divinity and the pleasures of life
as an ordinary mortal” -Olaf Moller, FILM COMMENT
“One of the best films of the year.” -James Quandt, ARTFORUM
DIRECTOR: Aleksandr Sokurov
WRITERS: Yuri Arabov, Jeremy Noble
CAST: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
Opens at Laemmle Theatres, November 27. A Lorber Films Release
In English and Japanese with English subtitles
115 min
View
the Japanese trailer
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