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Friday, October 16, and Sunday, October 18
The witty, energetic, and immensely popular musical about teenage life
in the 50's makes its 20th anniversary return - now with a
remastered digital soundtrack. Danny (John Travolta) is the fearless
leader of the leather-clad T-Birds, a group who takes pride in their
cars, their girls, and above all, their coolness. The trouble begins
when Danny falls in love with the straitlaced Sandra Dee (Olivia
Newton-John) over summer vacation. When the two return to school,
Danny has a reputation to keep, and Sandra is unable to fit in with
the "cool scene." Love and pride must strike a compromise for
this summertime romance to survive. Features the hit musical numbers
"Summer Nights," "Greased Lighting," and "Hopelessly
Devoted to You."
110 min, rated PG, with DTS digital sound
Times:
7 & 10 in 26-100 on 10/16
7:00 in 26-100 on 10/18
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Friday, October 16
Ta'm e guilass (1997)
A sublime and deceptively simple parable about life's
possibilities, Abbas Kiarostami's Ta'm e guilass (Taste of Cherry)
follows Mr. Badii, a weary and increasingly desperate middle-aged man
who has decided to end his life. Driving through the hilly outskirts
of Tehran, in search of someone who will bury him if he succeeds or
rescue him if he fails, he meets an assortment of different
characters: Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier,
a seminary student, and a museum employee, each with their own reason
to turn down the job: fear, religious scruples and the humanist's
revulsion at a life willfully squandered. A haunting film of piercing
intensity, Taste of Cherry is told with Kiarostami's incomparable
sense of poetry and lyricism. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival. An Iranian film in Persian with English
subtitles. This is a free event cosponsored by LSC and the Large
Events Funding Board.
95 min, not rated
Times:
7:30 in 54-100 on 10/16
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Saturday, October 17, and Sunday, October 18
Anne Heche plays Robin Monroe, a magazine writer on a romantic getaway
with her fiance, who is persuaded to take a break from her vacation to
cover a story on a neighboring island. The only plane available is
piloted by drunkard Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford), who develops an
immediate dislike for Robin. She returns the sentiment, but they have
no other options. The two crash on a desert island and are forced to
rely on each other to survive, growing ever closer - in spite of
themselves - as they do.
101 min, rated PG-13, with DTS digital sound
Times:
7 & 10 in 26-100 on 10/17
10:00 in 26-100 on 10/18
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Monday, October 19
El Callejon de los milagros (1995)
This Mexican film is based on the novel by the Egyptian Nobel Prize
Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from Cairo to Mexico
City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood
and the connection between them and Don Ru, the owner of the local
pub; Eusebia, his wife; Guicho, his son, and Abel, his friend, who
emigrate to America in search of fortune; Susanita, the single
landlady always hoping to marry a good man; Jimmy, the pub's employee,
who collects the money when Don Ru is not there; Alma, the very good
looking girl, who becomes a luxury prostitute while Abel is away,
etc. This movie won the Ariel (the Mexican Oscar) as best movie in
1995.
140 min, not rated
Times:
8:00 in 10-250 on 10/19
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Tuesday, October 20
Korczak (1990)
An account of the final days of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz
Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during
the Second World War. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as
Janusz Korczak, is a man of high principles. Unafraid of shouting at
German officers, he must be frequently persuaded to save his own life.
His orphanage, set up in a cramped school in the Warsaw ghetto,
provides shelter to 200 homeless children. Putting his experimental
educational methods into practice, he installs a kind of children's
self-government, which delivers a type of justice that stands in sharp
contrast to that of the outside world. The Ghetto's mayor assures
Korczak that the orphanages will be saved, but of course can not
succeed in fulfilling his promise in face of the Nazi SS. In the final
roundup he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the train to
Treblinka with his orphans. In Polish with English subtitles. This
is a free event cosponsored by LSC and the Large Events Funding Board.
115 min, not rated
Times:
8:00 in 26-100 on 10/20
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