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*
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Ave., Fresno
http://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
Discussant: Bapsi Sidhwa
Fiction Reading and Q &A with aurthor Bapsi Sidhwa
Friday, September 17, 2010
Place: Peters Building 191 (parking relaxed in UBC lot)
Co-sponsored by MFA Program in Creative Writing
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
Discussant: Robert Fisk
Afternoon Interview/talk: Time/location to be announced
Friday, September 24, 2010
Co-sponsored by Mass Communication & Journalism Department & Fresno Center for Nonviolence
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
Discussant: Michael Hagopian (Filmmaker)
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
Discussant: Shahrnush Parsipur
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
Discussants: Berta Gonzalez & Eduardo Gillet Juarez
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
Discussants: Rob Hauer (Director of Photography)
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
Discussant: Lynn MacMichael
All About Dad (2009)Friday, December 3, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: McLane Hall 121
Discussant: Mark Tran (Filmmaker)
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
