Visions of a Universal Humanity
When: Saturday, July 3, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Barbara Marx Hubbard
Starring: Barbara Marx Hubbard
Runtime: 75 min
Year: 2010
Description:
The second movie in the award winning HUMANITY ASCENDING Documentary Series, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard brings together some of the finest minds of our time including world renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, biologist Bruce Lipton, scholar Jean Houston and others who present cutting edge perspectives on humankind's potential to create a positive future for the Earth. VISIONS is a movie that takes us beyond now, beyond 2012, into a future filled with infinite possibilities.
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Smile
When: Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Jeffrey Kramer
Starring: Mika Boorem, Luoyong Wang
Runtime: 107 min
Year: 2005
Description:
Two babies are born on the same day, but worlds apart – rural China and Malibu, California. Born with a facial deformity, Lin faces quite hardship. Katie, who lives a pampered life, is drawn to work with the doctors gift program based on operation smile. An adventure brings the teenage girls together, their lives forever changed.
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Salaam Bombay
When: Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal
Runtime: 113 min
Year: 1988
Description:
Back from an errand for a seedy circus owner, urchin Krishna finds the troupe has picked up and disappeared, leaving him with barely enough money for a 3rd class ticket to Bombay. From here on, Krishna is constantly on the run delivering tea in one of the city's red light districts; sleeping in a garbage-strewn alley new friends; snatching moments of pleasure with pilfered sweets or at a Bollywood musical; and doing the bidding of a drug kingpin/pimp whose latest project is taming an abducted 16-year-old into a prostitution.
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The Legend of 1900
When: Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Runtime: 165 min
Year: 1998
Description:
An orphan is born on a cruise ship in 1900, and left in a lemon crate in the ballroom. The baby is raised by a machinist on the ship, who hides him in the great ship's belly. Knowing nothing of the world beyond the coal room and his porthole view of the sea, 1900 is devastated when his 'adopted father' is fatally wounded in a terrible ship accident. He begins playing for the passengers, falls for a New York girl, but has never been on land in his life, and so is too fearful to follow her. His life is lived entirely on board the ship where he gains more and more fame for musical talent…
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Something like Happiness
When: Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Bohdan Sláma
Starring: Tatiana Vilhelmová, Pavel Liska
Runtime: 102 min
Year: 2005
Description:
Monika, Tonik and Dasha grew up together in the same housing project on the outskirts of a small industrial city. Now the childhood friends are adults, each struggling with feelings of desire and loneliness, longing and failure.
While her boyfriend pursues wealth and success in America, Monika waits, ever-hopeful that he will arrange for her to join him. Tonik has fled his stifling conservative family and lives with an eccentric aunt: together they struggle to defend her derelict farmhouse against the encroaching industrial development nearby. Dasha, fragile, unpredictable, edging ever nearer to the brink of despair, she turns viciously on those closest to her. Though none would admit it, each craves something the other has and it's these unspoken longings which bind them in difficult, complex, passionate friendships.
Vibrant and deeply affecting, Something Like Happiness is a funny, tender and very human drama of passions and lives half-understood and veering out of control, shadowed by tragedy, shot through with hope.
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Stranger Than Paradise
When: Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint
Runtime: 89 min
Year: 1984
Description:
As Willie and Eddie journey west after winning some money, we see that the supposedly beautiful city of Cleveland is cold and desolate with a frozen lake. The further trip to Florida ends in the middle of nowhere next to a bleak and windswept ocean. Paradise is still somewhere out of reach. Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous Florida suburb. With its delicate humor and dramatic nonchalance, Jim Jarmusch’s one-of-a-kind minimalist masterpiece, shot in black-and-white and featuring only non-professional actors, Stranger Than Paradise, forever transformed the landscape of American independent cinema.
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Bliss
When: Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Abdullah Oguz
Starring: Özgü Namal, Talat Bulut
Runtime: 105 min
Year: 2007
Description:
Adapted from internationally acclaimed author Zulfu Livaneli's novel, BLISS is an unconventional road movie in which the executioner of an honor killing and his victim go on a journey of self-discovery.
When 17-year-old Meryem is found disheveled and unconscious by the side of a lake, her family believes the worst - that her chastity has been lost and that she has been a willing accomplice in its disposal. They turn to the ancient principle of "tore," a strict moral code governing the rules of sexual practice, which condemns Meryem to death. The duty of defending the family's honor is given to distant cousin Cemal, who must take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her along the way. The two begin to fall for each other and their journey takes an unexpected turn when they meet Irfan, an academic escaping his big city angst, who is also looking for a second chance in life. Set against the impressive backdrop of Turkey's natural wonders, BLISS pits tradition against modernity, urban against rural and East against West, all the while refusing to settle for easy answers.
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The Middle of the World
When: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Vicente Amorim
Starring: Cláudia Abreu, Wagner Moura
Runtime: 85 min
Year: 2003
Description:
The Middle of the World is a road movie on bicycles. It is freely adapted from the true story of an unemployed truck driver who, with his wife and five children, pedals from Paraíba, in the poverty-stricken Northeast of Brazil, all the way to Rio de Janeiro looking for a job. Romão, the father, feels destined to earn 1000 reais a month – a vast sum for Brazilian standards. On four bikes, the family goes through five states, knows solidarity and indifference, aggressiveness and cordiality. A 2000-mile odyssey through the hinterlands of Brazil all the way to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's best-known postcard. The Middle of the World shows the quest for the dream of a decent life – a story of dreams and hope.
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Viva Cuba
When: Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Starring: Malú Tarrau Broche, Jorge Milo
Runtime: 80 min
Year: 2005
Description:
In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malú's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malú's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
When: Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 8:00pm
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michael Berryman
Runtime: 133 min
Year: 1975
Description:
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who tries in every way to disobey the rules, to find a way out of the mental hospital. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.
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Spiritual Warriors
When: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 7:00pm
Cost: This movie is $10 incl. free book
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Director: David Raynr
Starring: Robert Easton, Jsu garcia
Runtime: 120 min
Year: 2007
Description:
Finn, whose only day job seems to be drug running is one step away from slammer when the movie begins. He is unable to connect with anyone, including himself. His patient girlfriend shows signs that the relationship may be wearing thin. Then in a chance encounter with an eccentric man, he finds a connection that is both, disturbing and strangely comforting. Visions appear soon after, and Finn jumps without a net into an action adventure both across the globe and deep into his soul. As he travels through surreal sceneries from Malibu’s Pacific Plateau to the desert Plateaus of Egypt a new world unfolds with more dimensions than he has ever experienced before. Through his many challenges and the steady support of Roger, Finn comes face to face with the truth of his spiritual nature and the purpose of his life - to love. The film is an invitation to a journey to the remotest of all places – inside ourselves.
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Wake up Sid
When: Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 7:00pm
Director: Ayan Mukerji
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma
Runtime: 134 min
Year: 2009
Description:
Sid is enjoying his youth spent idling around and having fun without any responsibilities. Aisha is a driven woman, who moves to Mumbai to become a writer. She and Sid meet and immediately click. Aisha gets her own apartment and lands a job at a hip magazine. Sid, after failing his final year exams, has a huge blowup with his father and moves out in a huff and crashes at Aisha's place. Living together isn't easy, Sid and Aisha being extreme opposites, but their friendship deepens and so does their sense of being true to themselves.
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Letters to God
When: Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 7:00pm
Director: Jeffrey Johnson
Starring: Jeffrey Johnson, Tanner Maguire
Runtime: 113 min
Year: 2010
Description:
A boozing postal worker finds his life turned upside down by a boy struggling with cancer. Young Tyler Doherty faces his cancer with a strong spirit and good humor, and maintains his faith by writing letters to God--letters that the neighborhood's new mailman, Brady McDaniels, doesn't know how to handle. Gradually, McDaniels finds himself drawn into the Doherty family's life… and drawn to Tyler's lonely mother, Maddy.
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