Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Time: 6:30 PL
Place: Henry Madden Library, room 2206
Throne of Blood (1957)
In conjunction with “Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor” exhibition
One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare, Akira Kurosawa’s film reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells the tale of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh theater to make a Macbeth that is all his own-a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom. Criterion film version, in Japanese with English subtitles. 109 minutes.
Discussant: Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Co-sponsors: Henry Madden Library & Japanese Students Association
For more information contact Marcia Morrison at marciamo@csufresno.edu or 278-7177
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Beginning fall semester 2011, CineCulture fulfills GE Integration Area MI (MCJ 179, class # 76223).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Showing posts with label Cineculture Screenings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cineculture Screenings. Show all posts
Monday, April 11, 2011
My Name is Khan (Autisim Awareness Month Film Screening)
Date: Friday, April 15, 2011
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: Peter’s Education Center Auditorium
My Name is Khan (2010)
Directed by Karan Johar. Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan), a Muslim man with Asperger syndrome, lives happily with his wife, Mandira (Kajol), in San Francisco until a tragedy drives her away after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now he is on a quest to recapture the heart of the woman he loves. Traveling across America, Rizwan faces prejudice because of his religion and unusual behavior, but he also inspires the people he meets with his unique outlook on life. Rated PG-13, in Hindi with English subtitles, 161 minutes. http://www.mynameiskhanthefilm.com/
Discussants: Kamal Abushamsieh, Simeen Mansuri, and Forouz Radnejad
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Beginning fall semester 2011, CineCulture fulfills GE Integration Area MI (MCJ 179, class # 76223).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: Peter’s Education Center Auditorium
My Name is Khan (2010)
Directed by Karan Johar. Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan), a Muslim man with Asperger syndrome, lives happily with his wife, Mandira (Kajol), in San Francisco until a tragedy drives her away after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now he is on a quest to recapture the heart of the woman he loves. Traveling across America, Rizwan faces prejudice because of his religion and unusual behavior, but he also inspires the people he meets with his unique outlook on life. Rated PG-13, in Hindi with English subtitles, 161 minutes. http://www.mynameiskhanthefilm.com/
Discussants: Kamal Abushamsieh, Simeen Mansuri, and Forouz Radnejad
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Beginning fall semester 2011, CineCulture fulfills GE Integration Area MI (MCJ 179, class # 76223).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Monday, April 4, 2011
Psycho
Date: April 8, 2011
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Time: Tower Theatre, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
Psycho: Fresno Filmworks presents Psycho at the Tower Theatre. The 1960 thriller, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, will be shown in 35 mm, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, and John Gavin. The movie tells the story of a secretary trying to escape her unhappy relationship by stealing money from her employer. The woman stops at a motel managed by a quiet young man who lives with his mentally ill mother. She is mysteriously murdered.
Discussant: Manuel Muñoz
The screening will feature a discussion with Central Valley native Manuel Muñoz, an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and the author of the new novel What You See in the Dark, a lyrical interpretation of the making of Hitchcock’s iconic movie.
Screening sponsor: Fig Garden Bookstore.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Beginning Fall 2011, CineCulture fulfills GE Integration Area MI (MCJ 179, class # 76223).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Time: Tower Theatre, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
Psycho: Fresno Filmworks presents Psycho at the Tower Theatre. The 1960 thriller, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, will be shown in 35 mm, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, and John Gavin. The movie tells the story of a secretary trying to escape her unhappy relationship by stealing money from her employer. The woman stops at a motel managed by a quiet young man who lives with his mentally ill mother. She is mysteriously murdered.
Discussant: Manuel Muñoz
The screening will feature a discussion with Central Valley native Manuel Muñoz, an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and the author of the new novel What You See in the Dark, a lyrical interpretation of the making of Hitchcock’s iconic movie.
Screening sponsor: Fig Garden Bookstore.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Beginning Fall 2011, CineCulture fulfills GE Integration Area MI (MCJ 179, class # 76223).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Monday, March 21, 2011
Celebrating Women's Herstory Month & International Water Day
Date: Friday, March 25, 20100
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Living Downstream (2010)
Discussants: Maricela Mares-Alatorre (Green Action, Kettleman City) & Kara Brodfuehrer (California Rural Legal Assistance)
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Living Downstream is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water. 85 minutes.
http://www.livingdownstream.com/
Co-sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Living Downstream (2010)
Discussants: Maricela Mares-Alatorre (Green Action, Kettleman City) & Kara Brodfuehrer (California Rural Legal Assistance)
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Living Downstream is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water. 85 minutes.
http://www.livingdownstream.com/
Co-sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Monday, March 7, 2011
Oscar Shorts (2010)
CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents: Oscar Shorts
Film Screenings
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011 & Friday, March 11, 2011
Place: Tower Theater
815 E. Olive Avenue
Fresno, CA
Thursday showtimes: live action at 5:30 p.m. and animation at 8:30 p.m.
Friday showtimes: live action at 8 p.m. and animation at 5:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
March 10-11: Oscar Shorts (2010)
Fresno Filmworks presents Two Nights at the Oscars, at the Tower Theatre. The evenings will feature five full programs of Academy Award-nominated live action and animation short films.
Advance tickets cost $10 general and $8 for students and seniors, with a special $15 price for one double-feature program.
For more information:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Film Screenings
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011 & Friday, March 11, 2011
Place: Tower Theater
815 E. Olive Avenue
Fresno, CA
Thursday showtimes: live action at 5:30 p.m. and animation at 8:30 p.m.
Friday showtimes: live action at 8 p.m. and animation at 5:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
March 10-11: Oscar Shorts (2010)
Fresno Filmworks presents Two Nights at the Oscars, at the Tower Theatre. The evenings will feature five full programs of Academy Award-nominated live action and animation short films.
Advance tickets cost $10 general and $8 for students and seniors, with a special $15 price for one double-feature program.
For more information:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Library of the Early Mind
Library of the Early Mind
The public is invited to an exclusive Central Valley showing of a new film, “Library of the Early Mind,” a documentary film about contemporary books for young people. The 85-minute movie explores the art and impact of children's literature on our kids, our culture, and ourselves. The film features 40 prominent authors and illustrators, including Gregory Maguire, Lemony Snicket, Nancy Garden, Jerry Pinkney, Brian Selznick, and more. The number of books in print by the cast of this film exceeds 240 million.
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Room 2206 in the south wing of the Henry Madden Library
refreshments will be served in that same room starting at 6 p.m. Admission is free but seating is limited to 95 on a first- come, first-served basis. Older children are welcome if accompanied by an adult.
For information call the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at 559-278-8116.
The public is invited to an exclusive Central Valley showing of a new film, “Library of the Early Mind,” a documentary film about contemporary books for young people. The 85-minute movie explores the art and impact of children's literature on our kids, our culture, and ourselves. The film features 40 prominent authors and illustrators, including Gregory Maguire, Lemony Snicket, Nancy Garden, Jerry Pinkney, Brian Selznick, and more. The number of books in print by the cast of this film exceeds 240 million.
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Room 2206 in the south wing of the Henry Madden Library
refreshments will be served in that same room starting at 6 p.m. Admission is free but seating is limited to 95 on a first- come, first-served basis. Older children are welcome if accompanied by an adult.
For information call the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at 559-278-8116.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ciao Professore (1993)
Film Screening: Ciao Professore (1993)
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011
5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Discussant: Dr. Ed EmanuEl
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
In director Lina Wertmüller's upbeat comedy, Marco Sperelli (Paolo Villaggio) -- a priggish upper-class teacher from northern Italy -- is mistakenly assigned to a tumbledown school in an impoverished village near Naples. But upon arriving, he finds most of his students hustling on the streets to earn money for their families; Sperelli becomes the pupil as the kids tutor him about life's realities. Based on Me, Let's Hope I Make It, a collection of essays written by Neapolitan street kids and edited by Marcello D'Orta. In Italian with English subtitles. Rated R, 91 minutes.
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. (MCJ 177T, Spring 2011 course # 36134).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011
5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Discussant: Dr. Ed EmanuEl
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
In director Lina Wertmüller's upbeat comedy, Marco Sperelli (Paolo Villaggio) -- a priggish upper-class teacher from northern Italy -- is mistakenly assigned to a tumbledown school in an impoverished village near Naples. But upon arriving, he finds most of his students hustling on the streets to earn money for their families; Sperelli becomes the pupil as the kids tutor him about life's realities. Based on Me, Let's Hope I Make It, a collection of essays written by Neapolitan street kids and edited by Marcello D'Orta. In Italian with English subtitles. Rated R, 91 minutes.
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. (MCJ 177T, Spring 2011 course # 36134).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Cinecuture Film Screenings: Spring 2011
Film Screenings Friday, 5:30 p.m., McLane Hall 121 (exceptions noted*)
January 28: Ciao Professore (1993)
Discussant: Dr. Ed EmanuEl
In director Lina Wertmüller's upbeat comedy, Marco Sperelli (Paolo Villaggio) -- a priggish upper-class teacher from northern Italy -- is mistakenly assigned to a tumbledown school in an impoverished village near Naples. But upon arriving, he finds most of his students hustling on the streets to earn money for their families; Sperelli becomes the pupil as the kids tutor him about life's realities. Based on Me, Let's Hope I Make It, a collection of essays written by Neapolitan street kids and edited by Marcello D'Orta. In Italian with English subtitles. Rated R, 91 minutes.
February4: Welcome (2009)
Discussant: Dr. Rose Marie Kuhn
Welcome by writer/director Philippe Lioret is a compassionate and inspiring drama about the hope of new beginnings and the power of true love, centered on two couples contending with issues of separation and dislocation. A huge critical and box office success in its native France, this profoundly moving masterwork was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, named Best Film at the 2010 Lumiere Awards, and received an astonishing ten Cesar nominations including Best Film and Director. In French, English & Kurdish with English subtitles. NR, 109 minutes.
http://www.welcomemovie.com.au/
February 11: Fresno Filmworks: Made in Dagenham (2010)*
This dramatic comedy tells the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford car plant in Dagenham east of London, where 187 female sewing machinists walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. After being re-classified as “unskilled workers,” the women put down their tools and strike, a fight that leads to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. The film is nominated for four British Independent Film Awards, including best actress for Hawkins and best supporting actor for Hoskins. Directed by Nigel Cole, who also directed Calendar Girls. 113 minutes. http://www.sonyclassics.com/madeindagenham/#/home/
Screenings: 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. at the Tower Theater.
February 18: A Day Without a Mexican (2004)
Discussants: Sergio Arau (filmmaker) & Yareli Arizmendi (film co-author and leading actress)
Directed by Sergio Arau and co-starring Yareli Arizmendi. One morning, California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state; they have all inextricably disappeared. The economic, political and social implications of this disaster threaten California's way of life, and for one group (all white, except for one Latina), the cracks in their private lives are forced wide open. Rated R, 100 minutes.
Also on 2-18, Conversations with Sergio & Yareli*
2 p.m., PB 191 (parking relaxed in the UBC lot)
http://www.sergioarau.com/menu.htm, http://www.yareli.com/menu.htm
February 25: Skin (2008)
Discussant: Tony Fabian (Filmmaker)
Based on a true story, SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds. SKIN is a story of family, forgiveness and the triumph of the human spirit. PG-13, 107 minutes. http://www.skinthemovie.net/site/home
March 4: Vincent Who?(2009)
Discussant: Curtis Chin (Filmmaker)
In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers who said, "it's because of you mother** that we're out of work." When the judged fined the killers a mere $3,000 and three years probation, Asian Americans around the country galvanized for the first time to form a real community and movement. This documentary features interviews with the key players at the time, as well as a whole new generation of activists. "Vincent Who?" asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and how far we have yet to go. 40 minutes.
http://www.vincentwhofilm.com/about/
March 10 & 11: Fresno Filmworks: Oscar Nominated Shorts (2010)*
March 18: Super Amigos (2007)
Discussant: Adela Santana
Real-life superheroes take on corruption, poverty and hatred, including homophobia, in Mexico City in Arturo Perez Torres's documentary about five men who utilize the leitmotif of the masked luchador to promote their political agendas, fighting crime and hatred with a secret identity. In taking their fight from the ring to the streets, the masked avengers have attracted the attention of their country and become modern-day heroes to millions. In Spanish with English subtitles. 82 minutes. http://www.opencityworks.com/superamigos/
March 25: Living Downstream (2010)
Discussant: To be announced
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Living Downstream is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water. 85 minutes.
http://www.livingdownstream.com/
April 8-10: Fresno Filmworks Festival*
April 11 : Fresno Filmworks: Psycho*
Screening followed by discussion with Manuel Nunez, author of the book, What You See in the Dark
April 15: My Name is Khan (2010)
Discussant: Forouz Radnejad
Directed by Karan Johar. Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan), a Muslim man with Asperger syndrome, lives happily with his wife, Mandira (Kajol), in San Francisco until a tragedy drives her away after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now he is on a quest to recapture the heart of the woman he loves. Traveling across America, Rizwan faces prejudice because of his religion and unusual behavior, but he also inspires the people he meets with his unique outlook on life. Rated PG-13, in Hindi with English subtitles, 161 minutes. http://www.mynameiskhanthefilm.com/
April 29: Baba Aziz (2006)
Discussant: Joan Sharma
Nacer Khemir directs this visually stunning tale. While trekking across the desert with his granddaughter, a blind dervish, entertains her with nightly tales of a prince who gave up his kingdom to gaze into a mystical pool and meditate upon his own soul. Along the way, the pair meets similar dreamers who discover that the journey may be more important than the goal. In Farsi & Arabic with English subtitles, 96 minutes. NR. http://typecastfilms.com/1027/bab-aziz-the-prince-who-contemplated-his-soul/
May 6: To Be Announced
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Spring course # 36134].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions. For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms, maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain, mhusain@csufresno.edu
January 28: Ciao Professore (1993)
Discussant: Dr. Ed EmanuEl
In director Lina Wertmüller's upbeat comedy, Marco Sperelli (Paolo Villaggio) -- a priggish upper-class teacher from northern Italy -- is mistakenly assigned to a tumbledown school in an impoverished village near Naples. But upon arriving, he finds most of his students hustling on the streets to earn money for their families; Sperelli becomes the pupil as the kids tutor him about life's realities. Based on Me, Let's Hope I Make It, a collection of essays written by Neapolitan street kids and edited by Marcello D'Orta. In Italian with English subtitles. Rated R, 91 minutes.
February4: Welcome (2009)
Discussant: Dr. Rose Marie Kuhn
Welcome by writer/director Philippe Lioret is a compassionate and inspiring drama about the hope of new beginnings and the power of true love, centered on two couples contending with issues of separation and dislocation. A huge critical and box office success in its native France, this profoundly moving masterwork was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, named Best Film at the 2010 Lumiere Awards, and received an astonishing ten Cesar nominations including Best Film and Director. In French, English & Kurdish with English subtitles. NR, 109 minutes.
http://www.welcomemovie.com.au/
February 11: Fresno Filmworks: Made in Dagenham (2010)*
This dramatic comedy tells the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford car plant in Dagenham east of London, where 187 female sewing machinists walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. After being re-classified as “unskilled workers,” the women put down their tools and strike, a fight that leads to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. The film is nominated for four British Independent Film Awards, including best actress for Hawkins and best supporting actor for Hoskins. Directed by Nigel Cole, who also directed Calendar Girls. 113 minutes. http://www.sonyclassics.com/madeindagenham/#/home/
Screenings: 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. at the Tower Theater.
February 18: A Day Without a Mexican (2004)
Discussants: Sergio Arau (filmmaker) & Yareli Arizmendi (film co-author and leading actress)
Directed by Sergio Arau and co-starring Yareli Arizmendi. One morning, California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state; they have all inextricably disappeared. The economic, political and social implications of this disaster threaten California's way of life, and for one group (all white, except for one Latina), the cracks in their private lives are forced wide open. Rated R, 100 minutes.
Also on 2-18, Conversations with Sergio & Yareli*
2 p.m., PB 191 (parking relaxed in the UBC lot)
http://www.sergioarau.com/menu.htm, http://www.yareli.com/menu.htm
February 25: Skin (2008)
Discussant: Tony Fabian (Filmmaker)
Based on a true story, SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds. SKIN is a story of family, forgiveness and the triumph of the human spirit. PG-13, 107 minutes. http://www.skinthemovie.net/site/home
March 4: Vincent Who?(2009)
Discussant: Curtis Chin (Filmmaker)
In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers who said, "it's because of you mother** that we're out of work." When the judged fined the killers a mere $3,000 and three years probation, Asian Americans around the country galvanized for the first time to form a real community and movement. This documentary features interviews with the key players at the time, as well as a whole new generation of activists. "Vincent Who?" asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and how far we have yet to go. 40 minutes.
http://www.vincentwhofilm.com/about/
March 10 & 11: Fresno Filmworks: Oscar Nominated Shorts (2010)*
March 18: Super Amigos (2007)
Discussant: Adela Santana
Real-life superheroes take on corruption, poverty and hatred, including homophobia, in Mexico City in Arturo Perez Torres's documentary about five men who utilize the leitmotif of the masked luchador to promote their political agendas, fighting crime and hatred with a secret identity. In taking their fight from the ring to the streets, the masked avengers have attracted the attention of their country and become modern-day heroes to millions. In Spanish with English subtitles. 82 minutes. http://www.opencityworks.com/superamigos/
March 25: Living Downstream (2010)
Discussant: To be announced
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Living Downstream is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water. 85 minutes.
http://www.livingdownstream.com/
April 8-10: Fresno Filmworks Festival*
April 11 : Fresno Filmworks: Psycho*
Screening followed by discussion with Manuel Nunez, author of the book, What You See in the Dark
April 15: My Name is Khan (2010)
Discussant: Forouz Radnejad
Directed by Karan Johar. Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan), a Muslim man with Asperger syndrome, lives happily with his wife, Mandira (Kajol), in San Francisco until a tragedy drives her away after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now he is on a quest to recapture the heart of the woman he loves. Traveling across America, Rizwan faces prejudice because of his religion and unusual behavior, but he also inspires the people he meets with his unique outlook on life. Rated PG-13, in Hindi with English subtitles, 161 minutes. http://www.mynameiskhanthefilm.com/
April 29: Baba Aziz (2006)
Discussant: Joan Sharma
Nacer Khemir directs this visually stunning tale. While trekking across the desert with his granddaughter, a blind dervish, entertains her with nightly tales of a prince who gave up his kingdom to gaze into a mystical pool and meditate upon his own soul. Along the way, the pair meets similar dreamers who discover that the journey may be more important than the goal. In Farsi & Arabic with English subtitles, 96 minutes. NR. http://typecastfilms.com/1027/bab-aziz-the-prince-who-contemplated-his-soul/
May 6: To Be Announced
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Spring course # 36134].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions. For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms, maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain, mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wasteland
CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents: Wasteland
Film Screening
Date: January 14, 2011
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theatre, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
January 14: Wasteland (2010): Directed by Lucy Walker, this documentary from Brazil and the UK, which won an Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, follows artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Muniz photographs an eclectic band of “catadores,” or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. The artist’s initial objective was to paint the catadores by using garbage, but his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they re-create photographic images of themselves out of trash reveals both the dignity and the despair of the catadores. As the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives, the movie offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art, with a score by electronic musician Moby. In English, 90 minutes.
Screening Sponsors: Recyco inc. & Skee’s Recycling.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Registration information: MCJ 177T, Spring 2011 course # 36134.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Film Screening
Date: January 14, 2011
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theatre, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
January 14: Wasteland (2010): Directed by Lucy Walker, this documentary from Brazil and the UK, which won an Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, follows artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Muniz photographs an eclectic band of “catadores,” or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. The artist’s initial objective was to paint the catadores by using garbage, but his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they re-create photographic images of themselves out of trash reveals both the dignity and the despair of the catadores. As the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives, the movie offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art, with a score by electronic musician Moby. In English, 90 minutes.
Screening Sponsors: Recyco inc. & Skee’s Recycling.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Registration information: MCJ 177T, Spring 2011 course # 36134.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The River Ran Red
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane building 121
Film Screening
The River Ran Red (2008) details the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. 60 min.
Winner of the Best International Historical Documentary of the New York International Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_H2FyEuHc
Discussant: Dr. J Michael Hagopian (Filmmaker)
Co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane building 121
Film Screening
The River Ran Red (2008) details the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. 60 min.
Winner of the Best International Historical Documentary of the New York International Film and Video Festival and Second Place (History and Biography) of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_H2FyEuHc
Discussant: Dr. J Michael Hagopian (Filmmaker)
Co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"
CineCulture, together with The College of Arts and Humanities, and the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism present:
Presentations by Robert Fisk & David Barsamian
"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno
Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191
Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area
Film Screening: Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls “Shooting Death.”
Film Screening
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Discussant: Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, he has lived in the Middle East for three decades, and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He was named British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times. Fisk has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of the only two Western journalists in the city at the time), from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
David Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine and he lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The Institute for Alternative Journalism has named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" and he has received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism in 2003.
http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Also sponsored by Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Presentations by Robert Fisk & David Barsamian
"Robert Fisk & David Barsamian: Middle East Fantasies and Myths"
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno
Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191
Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area
Film Screening: Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls “Shooting Death.”
Film Screening
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Discussant: Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, he has lived in the Middle East for three decades, and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He was named British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times. Fisk has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of the only two Western journalists in the city at the time), from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
David Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine and he lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The Institute for Alternative Journalism has named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" and he has received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism in 2003.
http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Also sponsored by Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Monday, September 13, 2010
Earth (1998): Film Screening and Discussion with Bapsi Sidhwa
Film Screening
Date: Friday, September 17,2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Earth (1998): Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and directed by Deepa Mehta, the movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan. English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Parsee, with English subtitles, 110 minutes.
Discussant: Bapsi Sidhwa
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Date: Friday, September 17,2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Earth (1998): Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and directed by Deepa Mehta, the movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan. English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Parsee, with English subtitles, 110 minutes.
Discussant: Bapsi Sidhwa
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"
CineCulture, together with The Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and the MFA Program in Creative Writing presents:
Presentations by Bapsi Sidhwa
"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 12 noon
Place: Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191
Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area
Internationally acclaimed author Bapsi Sidhwa was raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She is an award winning Pakistani novelist striving above all to bring women's issues of the Indian subcontinent into public discussion. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Her 5 novels: Cracking India, The Pakistani Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Water, have been translated and published in several languages. Her novel Water is based on Mehta’s film of the same name. Her anthology City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore was published in 2006. Sidhwa’s play, An American Brat, was produced by Stages Repertory Theater in Houston March 2007 and received critical acclaim. Her play, Sock ’em With Honey, played in London in 2003.
Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany and the 2007 Primo Mondello Award in Italy. Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, Southampton University and Brandeis.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Presentations by Bapsi Sidhwa
"A Reading and Conversation with Bapsi Sidhwa: From Page to Screen"
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 12 noon
Place: Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium, PB 191
Open and free to the public. Relaxed Parking in University Business Center Area
Internationally acclaimed author Bapsi Sidhwa was raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She is an award winning Pakistani novelist striving above all to bring women's issues of the Indian subcontinent into public discussion. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Her 5 novels: Cracking India, The Pakistani Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Water, have been translated and published in several languages. Her novel Water is based on Mehta’s film of the same name. Her anthology City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore was published in 2006. Sidhwa’s play, An American Brat, was produced by Stages Repertory Theater in Houston March 2007 and received critical acclaim. Her play, Sock ’em With Honey, played in London in 2003.
Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany and the 2007 Primo Mondello Award in Italy. Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, Southampton University and Brandeis.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089. The last day to add with permission # is 9-20).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Micmacs
Date: September 10, 2010
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
September 10: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous work includes Amelie and The City of Lost Children. With the imagination and fantasy of a Buster Keaton picture, this French comedy tells the story of Bazil, a bad-luck orphan with a stray bullet lodged in his brain. Released from the hospital after an accident, the gentle-natured Bazil is homeless. He is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a cave. One day Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his misfortunes. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends, he sets out to take revenge. French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/
For more information:
Contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089)
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
September 10: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous work includes Amelie and The City of Lost Children. With the imagination and fantasy of a Buster Keaton picture, this French comedy tells the story of Bazil, a bad-luck orphan with a stray bullet lodged in his brain. Released from the hospital after an accident, the gentle-natured Bazil is homeless. He is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a cave. One day Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his misfortunes. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends, he sets out to take revenge. French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/
For more information:
Contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department (MCJ 177T, course # 76089)
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
CINECULTURE FILM SERIES: FALL 2010
House of Flying Daggers (2005)
Friday, September 3, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
Directed by Yimou Zhang . The year is 859 AD, and China's once flourishing Tang Dynasty is in decline. Unrest is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that are forming in protest. The largest and most prestigious of these rebel groups is the House of Flying Daggers, which is growing ever more powerful under a mysterious new leader. The film differs from other wuxia films, in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film. Mandarin with English subtitles, PG-13, 119 minutes
Discussant: Ed EmanuEl
(Fresno Filmworks: Micmacs) (2009)
Friday, September 10, 2010*
(Fresno Filmworks: Micmacs) (2009)
Friday, September 10, 2010*
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Ave., Fresnohttp://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With the imagination and fantasy of a Buster Keaton picture, this French comedy tells the story of Bazil, a bad-luck orphan with a stray bullet lodged in his brain. Released from the hospital after an accident, the gentle-natured Bazil is homeless. He is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a cave. One day Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his misfortunes. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends, he sets out to take revenge. French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.
Earth (1998)
Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
Fiction Reading and Q &A with aurthor Bapsi Sidhwa
Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM
Place: Peters Building 191 (parking relaxed in UBC lot)
Co-sponsored by MFA Program in Creative Writing
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/
http://www.bapsisidhwa.com/
Directed by Deepa Mehta. Adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, the movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan. English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Parsee, with English subtitles, 110 minutes.
Shooting War
Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
Afternoon Interview/talk: Time/location to be announced
Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
Robert Fisk, bestselling author and journalist based in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Independent, has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and International journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. In the afternoon he will give a talk (interview format with David Barsamian and MCJ faculty journalists). Robert Fisk will show clips he shot in the Middle East that he calls Shooting Death.
The River Ran Red (2008)
Friday, October 1, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
Co-sponsored Armenian Studies Department
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_H2FyEuHc
This film details the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 along the Euphrates River. From his archives of 400 testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, award-winning filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian weaves a compelling story of terrifying intensity, taking the viewer from the highland waters of the river to the burning deserts of Syria... and to the final resting place of those whose blood ran red in the waters of the Euphrates. 60 minutes.
Women Without Men (2010)*
Friday, October 8, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: Peters Building 191
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities & the 3rd Annual Middle East Studies Conference
http://www.womenwithoutmenfilm.com/
In her feature-film debut, Women Without Men, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a British and American backed coup removed the democratically elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the film weaves together the stories of five individual women during those traumatic days, whose experiences are shaped by their faith and the social structures in place. Looking at Iran from Neshat’s point of view allows us to see the larger picture and realize that the human community resembles different organs of one body, created from a common essence.
Pharsi with English subtitles, 95 minutes.
Friday, Which Way Home (2009)
October 15, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/which-way-home/index.html
The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “ The Beast.” Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones.This 2010 Oscar nominee for “best feature documentary,” shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness. English & Spanish, 90 minutes.
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction (2010)
Friday, October 22, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
Discussant: Monte Thompson (filmmaker)
http://www.speciesalliance.org/video.php
Co-sponsored by WILPF
This is the first feature-length documentary film to fully investigate the growing threat to Earth's life-support systems from the loss of biodiversity. If current trends continue, scientists warn that half or more of all plant and animal species on Earth will become extinct within the next few decades. Call of Life investigates the scope, the causes, and the predicted effects of this unprecedented loss of life, but also looks deeper, at the ways in which both culture and psychology have helped to create and perpetuate the situation. The film not only tells the story of a crisis in nature, but also in human nature, a crisis more complex and threatening than anything human beings have ever faced before. 80 min.
Marina of the Zabbaleen (2009)
Friday, October 29, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
http://www.marinathemovie.com/
This is the first feature film ever made about the hidden lives of the Zabbaleen People. Enter the extraordinary world of seven-year-old Marina. Through her magical eyes, you'll be led into the never-before-seen Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. Marina spends her days riding flying elephants, befriending mystical pigeons, and dodging out of control butcher knives; she even confronts an evil witch. Despite common misconceptions, all this can happen in a documentary. The film transforms a squalid landfill village into a beautiful, dream-like portrait of family, childhood, and spirituality. Arabic with English subtitles. 70 minutes.
Luna Fest
Friday, November 5, 2010
Time: 7:00 -9:00 PM
Place: Satellite Student Union*
A film festival showing films by, for, and about women while raising fund for the Breast Cancer Fund.
November 12, 2010 (Fresno Filmworks)*
International Education Week
Special Screening: Lion’s Den “Leonera” (2008)
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Time 5:30 PM
Place: Peters Building 191
Discussant: Kathryn Forbes
http://www.leoneralapelicula.com/index-en.html
(Relaxed parking in UBC parking lot)
Director Pablo Trapero. After waking to find her apartment a bloody mess, with her ex-lover Nahuel dead and her ex-lover Ramiro (Rodrigo Santoro) wounded, Julia (Martina Gusman) finds herself pregnant and in prison. Incarcerated with other mothers, she gives birth and tries to raise her son behind bars. As she continues to push for a new trial, Julia also deals with her formerly estranged mother, Sofía (Elli Medeiros), who now wants to take her son from her. Argentina, Spanish with English subtitles. 113 minutes.
November 19: Film to be announced
Friday, November 19, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
All About Dad (2009)
Friday, December 3, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
http://www.allaboutdadmovie.com/
Mr. Do (Chi Pham) has raised his kids to be good Catholics and to live up to his unrealistic expectations. His son Ty (David Huynh) is abandoning pre-med to chase a less practical dream, while Linh (Yvonne Truong) is keeping her fiancé’s Buddhist background a secret. However, they aren’t the only kids with secrets in the Do family. It’s time Dad faces the truth that his kids have grown up. Delightfully hilarious, yet mixed with great tenderness and humanism, All About Dad addresses the familiar theme of old world father vs. new world kids with deftness and originality. It’s a masterful family portrait that’s sure to resonate with any family. 80 minutes.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Terribly Happy
Date: May 7,2010
Times: 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents:
Terribly Happy (2009). Directed by Henrik Ruben. Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. Terribly Happy displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging. Danish with English subtitles, 90 min, not rated.
For more information:
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Times: 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors
CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents:
Terribly Happy (2009). Directed by Henrik Ruben. Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. Terribly Happy displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging. Danish with English subtitles, 90 min, not rated.
For more information:
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Monday, April 26, 2010
Nanking
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Nanking (2007). Directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, this film is a powerful, reminder of the heartbreaking cost of war. The film tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China, in the early days of World War II. The Japanese army invaded China’s capital city in 1937, unleashing a horrific onslaught of murder and rape. In the midst of the rampage, a small group of Westerners banded together to establish a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Unarmed, these missionaries, university professors, doctors and businessmen bore witness to the events, while risking their own lives to protect civilians from slaughter.
The story is told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, chilling archival footage and photos of the events, and testimonies of former Japanese soldiers. At the heart of Nanking is a filmed stage reading of the Westerners’ letters and diaries, featuring Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and Jurgen Prochnow. Through its interweave of archival images, testimonies of survivors, and readings of first-hand accounts, the film puts the viewer on the streets of Nanking and brings the forgotten past to startling life.
Nanking is a testament to the courage and conviction of individuals who were determined to act in the face of evil and a powerful tribute to the resilience of the Chinese people – a gripping account of light in the darkest of times. 90 min.
Discussant: Robert Wilson (son of Dr. R. O. Wilson, a physician featured in the film)
http://nankingthefilm.com/trailer.htm
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
Nanking (2007). Directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, this film is a powerful, reminder of the heartbreaking cost of war. The film tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China, in the early days of World War II. The Japanese army invaded China’s capital city in 1937, unleashing a horrific onslaught of murder and rape. In the midst of the rampage, a small group of Westerners banded together to establish a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Unarmed, these missionaries, university professors, doctors and businessmen bore witness to the events, while risking their own lives to protect civilians from slaughter.
The story is told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, chilling archival footage and photos of the events, and testimonies of former Japanese soldiers. At the heart of Nanking is a filmed stage reading of the Westerners’ letters and diaries, featuring Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and Jurgen Prochnow. Through its interweave of archival images, testimonies of survivors, and readings of first-hand accounts, the film puts the viewer on the streets of Nanking and brings the forgotten past to startling life.
Nanking is a testament to the courage and conviction of individuals who were determined to act in the face of evil and a powerful tribute to the resilience of the Chinese people – a gripping account of light in the darkest of times. 90 min.
Discussant: Robert Wilson (son of Dr. R. O. Wilson, a physician featured in the film)
http://nankingthefilm.com/trailer.htm
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Fresno Film Festival: April 16-18
CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents:
Dates: Fresno Film Festival: April 16-18
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010
7 p.m.: The Last Station (with short film Skylight)
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
12 noon: A Town Called Panic (with short film Wandering Star)
2 p.m.: Shorts Program
4:30 : Kisses (with short film Running Away With Blackie)
7:30 The White Ribbon
Sunday, April 18, 2010
2 p.m.: Only When I Dance (with short film Poor Martians)
4 p.m.: Nora’s Will (with short film, Me Myself, & Your Husband)
7 p.m.: The Most Dangerous Man in America
For more information, including film descriptions and ticket prices:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Culture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Dates: Fresno Film Festival: April 16-18
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010
7 p.m.: The Last Station (with short film Skylight)
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
12 noon: A Town Called Panic (with short film Wandering Star)
2 p.m.: Shorts Program
4:30 : Kisses (with short film Running Away With Blackie)
7:30 The White Ribbon
Sunday, April 18, 2010
2 p.m.: Only When I Dance (with short film Poor Martians)
4 p.m.: Nora’s Will (with short film, Me Myself, & Your Husband)
7 p.m.: The Most Dangerous Man in America
For more information, including film descriptions and ticket prices:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Culture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. [MCJ 177T, Fall course # 37395].
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Monday, March 8, 2010
Oscar Shorts
CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents:
Film Screening
Date: March 12, 2010
Time: 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors, special price for both programs $15
March 12: Oscar Shorts: An exclusive screening of the year’s Oscar-nominated short films, just days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces its winners. For one night only, all 10 shorts nominated for an Academy Award in the live action and animated categories will play at the tower Theatre. For the fifth straight year, due to audience demand, A Night at the Oscars continues the Filmworks tradition of bringing the world’s best short films to the historic Tower Theater.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Film Screening
Date: March 12, 2010
Time: 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Avenue
Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors, special price for both programs $15
March 12: Oscar Shorts: An exclusive screening of the year’s Oscar-nominated short films, just days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces its winners. For one night only, all 10 shorts nominated for an Academy Award in the live action and animated categories will play at the tower Theatre. For the fifth straight year, due to audience demand, A Night at the Oscars continues the Filmworks tradition of bringing the world’s best short films to the historic Tower Theater.
For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: McLane 121
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006). Directed by Massoud Bakhshi, made over the span of five years, the film is a comic and sarcastic narrative about Tehran's transformation from a small village into a huge modern megalopolis. Using an energetic mix of never-before-seen archival footage from the past 120 years, modern images of Tehran, and sometimes asynchronous music and sound, the aesthetic and cultural values of old and new Tehran are brought to life. In the process, director and crew embark on a self-discovery, realizing that while they belong to a drastically transformed Tehran, being a "Tehrani" is a timeless state of mind.
The film has received many critical acclaims, festival nominations and awards, including; Official Selection HOTDOCS, IDFA, Full Frame, Rotterdam Film Festivals; Winner, Best Director, 25th International Fajr Film Festival, Winner, Best Director, 11th House of Cinema Film Festival, Winner, AVINI Prize, Best Documentary of the year 2007 and Winner, Audience Award, CINEMA VERITE International Documentary Film Festival. 67 min.
Discussant: Afshin Matin-Asgari
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: McLane 121
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (2006). Directed by Massoud Bakhshi, made over the span of five years, the film is a comic and sarcastic narrative about Tehran's transformation from a small village into a huge modern megalopolis. Using an energetic mix of never-before-seen archival footage from the past 120 years, modern images of Tehran, and sometimes asynchronous music and sound, the aesthetic and cultural values of old and new Tehran are brought to life. In the process, director and crew embark on a self-discovery, realizing that while they belong to a drastically transformed Tehran, being a "Tehrani" is a timeless state of mind.
The film has received many critical acclaims, festival nominations and awards, including; Official Selection HOTDOCS, IDFA, Full Frame, Rotterdam Film Festivals; Winner, Best Director, 25th International Fajr Film Festival, Winner, Best Director, 11th House of Cinema Film Festival, Winner, AVINI Prize, Best Documentary of the year 2007 and Winner, Audience Award, CINEMA VERITE International Documentary Film Festival. 67 min.
Discussant: Afshin Matin-Asgari
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Rory Carlberg roryjc@csufresno.edu
Faculty Advisor: Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
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