Bodas de Sangre (1981) Spain. Director: Carlos Saura. Wed, Dec 3 at 7 pm in Sarratt Cinema Presented by: William M. Akers, Senior Lecturer, Film Studies Program Focusing on a single dress rehearsal for legendary choreographer Antonio Gades’s adaptation of...
Ten (2002) Iran. Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Tues, Dec 2 at 7 pm in Sarratt Cinema Presented by: Gregg Horowitz, Assoc Professor of Philosophy & Robert Talisse, Assoc Professor of Philosophy and Political Science Renowned filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami¹s latest...
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale, serious...
LOLITA (1962) **The Saturday, Nov 22 Noon screening will be introduced by Sarah Childress, Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University whose research interests include avant-garde and Latin American cinema.** LOLITA, among its many other virtues, could be Kubrick’s...
Just how hard is it to be happy? In the effervescent new comedy from writer/director Mike Leigh (“Vera Drake,” “Secrets & Lies”), Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited school teacher who brings an infectious laugh and an unsinkable sense of...