Memoires of a Geisha
When: Saturday, Aug 1, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Li Gong, Suzuka Ohgo
Runtime: 140 minutes
Year: 2005
Description: In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.
A fascinating story, which traces a young girl's determination to free herself from the imprisonment of scullery maid to geisha, then from the imprisonment of geisha to a woman allowed to love.
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My Life
When: Saturday, Aug 8, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Bruce Joel Rubin
Starring: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman
Runtime: 117 minutes
Year: 1993
Description: A life of an advertising executive seems to be going well with a great job, a beautiful loving wife and a baby on the way. Then he suddenly finds out that he has the dreaded disease that will leave him dead within months. Knowing that he may never see his child, he sets out to videotape his life for his child, and ends up on a voyage of self-discovery and reconciliation.
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Forrest Gump
When: Saturday, Aug 15, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn
Runtime: 142 minutes
Year: 1994
Description: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrest's mother; Gary Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp; and the special effects artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events and people.
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Cinema Paradiso
When: Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Antonella Attili, Enzo Cannavale
Runtime: 173 minutes
Year: 1990
Description: A famous Italian film director, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown at a Sicilian village for the first time after an absence of 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of the highlights and tragedies about his lost teenage love that shaped his life and inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker.
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Heaven Can Wait
When: Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
Runtime: 101 minutes
Year: 1978
Description: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
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Al Otro Lado (The Other Side)
When: Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Gustavo Loza
Starring: Adrian Alonso, Adrian Marquez
Runtime: 90 minutes
Year: 2005
Description: This drama delves into the lives of three young children whose fathers have left their countries in search of work or better opportunities and in a candid way shows the pain and desolation of those left behind. A Cuban boy who lives in poverty with his mother longs to visit his father in the United States, a Moroccan girl attempts to reunite with her father, and in Mexico, and a boy disobeys his father to visit a strange lagoon…
Spanish, subtitled in English.
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Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)
When: Saturday, Sep 12, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Patricia Riggen
Starring: Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo
Runtime: 106 minutes
Year: 2007
Description: UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. When Rosario's mother--the boy's guardian--dies in her sleep, Carlitos starts his own journey, crossing the border, to find his mother.
Spanish, subtitled in English
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My Family
When: Saturday, Sep 19, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Gregory Nava
Starring: Edward James Olmos, Rafael Cortés
Runtime: 128 minutes
Year: 1995
Description: My Family traces three generations of a Mexican-American family who want to achieve the American dream; however there are many obstacles along the way. Witnessing the immigrant’s family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs, their struggle to stay together and survive the mean streets of East Los Angeles, My Family is an excellent portrait of how important culture and family are among Latino households.
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Buscando a Leti (In Search of Leti)
When: Saturday, Sep 26, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Dalia Tapia
Starring: Carmen Cenko, Rosa Isela Frausto
Runtime: 96 minutes
Year: 2006
Description: Leti, a ten-year-old girl, is the protagonist of this film. The grandparents become the caretakers when her parents leave Mexico to find work in Chicago. She is discriminated against by her own grandmother, Agustina, for having a dark complexion and indigenous features. The grandfather, Vitorio, protects Leti from the grandmother's prejudiced attitude and bad treatment. The loving bond with her grandfather--is threatened when her parents return to take Leti to the United States.
Spanish, subtitled in English
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El Norte
When: Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Gregory Nava
Starring: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando
Runtime: 141 minutes
Year: 1983
Description: Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms", i.e., manual laborers) and organizing in an effort to improve their lot in life, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to "El Norte" ("the North", i.e., the USA). After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling through Mexico, they make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants.
Spanish, subtitled in English
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The Opposite of Life
When: Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Niviere Fontane
Starring: Sarah Kopp, Michelle Ivy
Runtime: 82 minutes
Year: 2009
Description: Two women, on the verge of accomplishment, lives forever change when they receive the unexpected results of a pregnancy test. Seventeen year old, Ashley, is raped and tries to abort her unwanted pregnancy, but her ultra-religious parents interferes. Meanwhile Terri, a law student, fears that a child would obstruct with her career aspirations and thus considers having an abortion - much to the dismay of her husband.
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Home
When: Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Starring: Glenn Close
Runtime: 95 min
Year: 2009
Description: In this visually astonishing portrait of the Earth as seen from mesmerizing aerial views, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of the complex natural processes on planet earth; it captures the miraculous ways the Earth recycles energy and matter, and describes the linkage within delicate eco-systems. This documentary offers an astounding balance between informing about the alarming facts of destructive processes caused by human carelessness, and letting the viewer feel and enjoy the breathtaking magic of our planet.
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The Corporation
When: Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Starring: Jane Akre, Ray Anderson
Runtime: 145 min
Year: 2004
Description: This documentary performs an analysis of corporations, the most dominant institution of our times; their global economic dominance, their psychopathic tendencies, and their incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in the unrelenting pursuit of profit. Most remarkable is the range of people interviewed for this film that argue from all sides of the "corporation issue". Ira Jackson, Ray Anderson - CEO of Interface, the world's largest carpet manufacturer; Noam Chomsky, Richard Grossman, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore, Milton Freidman - Noble Prize winning economist, and many more. How did the corporation begin, how has it evolved, and what could it turn into?
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Food, Inc.
When: Saturday, Nov 7, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Robert Kenner
Starring: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser
Runtime: 94 min
Year: 2009
Description: Lifting the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly, Food, Inc. features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin; and reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat and how it's produced. Kenner uses photography and imagery to make his points, and he interlaces this film with scenes of amazing beauty as well as graphic cruelty.
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Humanity Ascending
When: Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Patricia Gaul
Starring: Barbara Marx Hubbard
Runtime: 40 min
Year: 2007
Description: Barbara Marx Hubbard is one of the most renowned minds on the planet today exploring human evolution in a spiritual light. What if humans are capable of consciously evolving into a new world? She posits that evolutionary forces characterized by intensified social and technological creativity, deepening spirituality and environmental awareness are collaborating to create an inconceivable global change.
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Saawariya
When: Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor
Runtime: 142 min
Year: 2007
Description: A Bollywood musical romance "Saawariya" is a lush production featuring fabulous sets, an extravagant musical score. Indian cinema’s past meets its present in the lavish Saawariya.
”It’s a love story taken to another level. Unrequited love never looked or felt so good. The film is spellbinding, heartwarming, and yes, heartbreaking as well.”
And “Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya is an eternal film that transports the viewers across time and space into a world that exists just beyond our ordinary lives.” Bhansali's Saawariya inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story called White Night is like experiencing a refreshing love story off a picturesque fairy tale book. Yet, it is real and enrapturing.
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Umrao Jaan
When: Saturday, Nov 28, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: J.P. Dutta
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shabana Azmi
Runtime: 188 min
Year: 2006
Description: Ruswa's novel tells the story of a young courtesan kidnapped by a habitual offender who had been imprisoned for ten years as a result of her father's damning testimony. Determined to curse his accuser with a fate worse than death, the vengeful ex-convict spirited the man's daughter away and sold the young girl - then known as Amiran - to a brothel in Lucknow. Subsequently given the name Umrao, raised in the lap of luxury, and trained to be a great entertainer, the young girl would grow up to become one of the most beautiful and popular entertainers of her time. Yet despite all of her success, something was missing in the life of the girl now known as Umrao. Though fortune seemed to smile down on her against all odds, Umrao soon fell in love with the powerful Nawab Sultan and longed to start a family with the influential figure despite the fact that their love seemed doomed from the onset.
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Dor
When: Saturday, Dec 5, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Starring: Ayesha Takia, Shreyas Talpade
Runtime: 147 min
Year: 2006
Description:"Dor" transliterates the Hindi word "daur," or "run," which also can be a euphemism for any all-out effort. And that's what this movie is about - one woman's desperate race, against the clock, against cultural obstacles, and against the worst aspects of human nature - to save her husband's life. The crisis around which Dor revolves is one that millions of Indians can relate to: wives left at home while husbands go abroad to seek their fortunes and remit money to support their families.
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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
When: Saturday, Dec 12, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Karan Johar
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta
Runtime:193 min
Year: 2006
Description:Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna centers on the budding romance between Dev and Maya, who are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, the protagonists still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they find in each other. From a relationship starting off in pleasant barbs, the two begin to develop and acknowledge the feelings they have beneath the surface. When their feelings come to the forefront, what results is a collision of lives and emotions, affecting everyone involved and changing them forever.
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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
When: Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 - 8:00pm
Director: Aditya Chopra
Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma
Runtime:167 min
Year: 2009
Description:This is what happened to Surinder Sahni (Shahrukh Khan) - a simple, clean hearted, honest man working for Punjab Power, leading a humdrum life, when he meets his total opposite and finds love in the flamboyant, fun-loving, vivacious - Taani (Anushka Sharma) for whom the whole world is her canvas. She paints her own life with the colors of the rainbow; until unforeseen circumstances change it all and brings the two together. What follows is a journey filled with laughter, tears, joy, pain, music, dance and a lot of love. A journey that makes us believe that there is an extraordinary love story in every ordinary jodi.
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