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Film Studies
Events
Film Studies Events for Fall 2009
Fall 2009 Film and Speaker Series
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September 21 at 7:30 pm Wendy and Lucy Wendy is on her way to Alaska in hopes of finding lucrative work and a new life for herself and her dog, Lucy. But when her car breaks down in Oregon, her tenuous financial situation begins to unravel. Based on the short story, “Train Choir,” by John Raymond, Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life revealing the limits and depths of people’s duty to each other in tough times. |
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October 5 at 7:30 pm Lust, Caution This espionge thriller is set in WWII-era Shanghai. A young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets caught up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue involving a ppowerful political figure, Mr. Yee. In Mandarin with English subtitles. |
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October 12 at 7:00 pm Regret to Inform Co-sponsored with the Department of Art as part of the “Women, War, and Documentary Film Series,” Regret to Inform chronicle’s director Barbara Sonneborn’s personal odyssey to come to terms with the war that took her husband’s life. Sonneborn speaks with with American and Vietnamese widows from both sides of the conflict who speak openly about the men they loved and how war changed their lives forever. This event will include a short intro by the director and Q & A following the screening. |
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November 1 at 8:00 pm V For Vendetta As part of “ArtsFest: Art and Power”, Film Studies presents V For Vendetta. Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the film tells the story of a young woman who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as “V.” Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression and bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption. |
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November 9 at 7:30 pm Dunia/Kiss Me Not on the Eyes Dunia, a student of poetry and belly dancing, whose artistic expression is inhibited because she cannot experience desire, begins an all-consuming search for ecstasy in poetry, dance, and music–taking us into the world of women in a society that both fetishizes and oppresses female sexuality. In Arabic with English subtitles. |
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November 16 7:30 pm Southern Comfort A true-life love story with a mind-bending twist. Robert Eads, a trans-sexual cowboy, is dying from ovarian cancer, and doctors refuse to help. Then, when he least expects it, Robert finds the love of his life in Lola, a male-to-female. A story of romance, prejudice and the new frontier of gender.
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