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Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited • ADMISSION IS FREE7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings • Curris Center Theater

INEMA INTERNATIONALMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Fall 2016

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AUG. 25-26-27 • MAURITANIA, 2015

TIMBUKTU

Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako With Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri.Rated PG-13, 1h 37 mins.

Passionate, humanistic and enormously powerful, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards and screened in competition for the "Palme d Or" at Cannes Film Festival 2014. Based on the forceful takeover of Mail in 2012, Timbuktu is a searing and extraordinary fable about the dangers of religious extremism that positions Sissako at the forefront of African cinema. Timbuktu tells the story of Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed), a cattle herder who lives in the mountains outside the titular city with his wife and children. They keep a distance from the religious fundamentalists who control the town, until the family is forced to confront the growing terror. “Timbuktu is also a work of almost breathtaking visual beauty. It’s a work of art that seems realized in an entirely organic way.”– Glenn Kenny, rogerebert.com.

SEPT. 1-2-3 • CHINA, 2015

THE NIGHTINGALE

Dir. Philippe Muyl, Ning NingWith Li Bao Tian, Yang Xin Yi.Chinese with English subtitles, N-R, 1h40 mins. Belgian film-maker Philippe Muyl (The Butterfly) returns with a magnificent new take on a family road movie, entirely set in China. In order to keep a promise he made to his wife, Zhu Zhi Gen prepares to return with his wife’s caged bird, the sole companion of her final years, to her native village where he’ll set the bird free. He’d decided to make this trip alone, but Ren Xing, his granddaughter, a spoiled little city girl, is forced to go with him. During this journey to the outer reaches of traditional China and through magnificent Zhigen landscapes, these two people who share nothing in common open up to each other, sharing memories and adventures. Ren Xing will discover new values, particularly those related to the heart. Well acted and beautifully photographed, the movie offers a window into both modern urban and traditional Chinese life ---The Daily Telegraph.

SEPT. 8-9-10 • COLOMBIA, 2015

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

Dir. Ciro GuerraSpanish with English subtitles, N-R, 123 min.

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Embrace of the Serpent, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black and white, Serpent centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. Playing like a cinematic rendering of Carlos Castaneda’s psychotropic writings coupled with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness (and recalling Apocalypse Now, of course, and also Aguirre: Wrath Of God), this artfully rendered black and white Oscar nominee dissolves back and forth between two different tales. Guerra’s haunting and beautifully shot film transports us into the realm of the mystical and surreal (Will Lawrence, empireonline.com)

SEPT. 15-16-17 • FRANCE, 2015

MARGUERITE

Dir. Xavier GiannoliWith Catherine Frit, Michel Fau, Andre Marcon.French with English subtitles, Rated R, 129 mins.

A rich eccentric baroness was totally convinced that her voice sounded good, all the while massacring the greatest of songs with the collusion of a carefully selected and hypocritical audience. "Unbridled passion built on lies (based on the story of American singer Florence Foster Jenkins) and skillfully transposed by Xavier Giannoli in 1920s Paris, France, to paint a poignant and funny portrait of a woman whose flaws tear open a restrictive social environment"---Fabien Lemercier, Cineropa. Despite its running time, this bitter–sweet comedy’s suspense lasts until the final frames. The musical score is splendid.

SEPT. 22-23-24 • GERMANY/MEXICO, 2013

GUTEN TAG RAMON/BUEN DIA RAMON

Dir. Jorge Ramírez SuárezWith Ingeborg Schöner, Arcela Ramirez, Kristyan Ferrer, Adriana Barraza.German and Spanish with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 1h59 mins.

The film tells the heartwarming story of a young man from a small Mexican town who travels to Germany to find work to support his family and becomes stranded without shelter or money. He struggles to survive on the streets until he meets Ruth, a lonely senior citizen with whom he develops an astonishing and touching friendship that transcends borders and prejudices. “Good Day, Ramón tackles many profound issues ranging from friendship to compassion and joie de vivre while never becoming preachy, corny or dull. It's a genuinely heartfelt and delightful crowd-pleaser that will make your spirit soar.” --- nycmovieguru.com.

SEPT. 29-30/ OCT. 1 • JAPAN/USA, 2013

THE WIND RISES

Dir. Hayao MiyazakiWith Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijimia, Miori Takimoto. Japanese with English subtitles, Rated PG-13, 126 Min. Japanese animation films are alternately haunting and whimsical, mimicking a child’s colorful imagination while also situating this imaginative world in serious historical contexts. Films by Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps the greatest purveyor of the genre, have a fervent international following, as they demonstrate the vital and deceptively complex cinematic work that animation can do. This film about young Jiro, who longs to be a pilot, is not only about a child’s dreams, but also about the political and social struggles Japan faced between the two world wars. Jiro sees flight as a thing of beauty, not as a weapon for warfare. Supposedly his last film, Miyazaki leaves us with a vivid reminder of why he is a master of the form. “A visually sumptuous celebration of an unspoiled prewar Japan.” ---Mark Schilling, The Japan Times.

OCT. 6-7-8 NO FILM, FALL BREAK

OCT. 13-14-15 • SPAIN, 2014

WILD TALES

Dir. Damián SzifronWith Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, co-produced by Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar. Spanish with English subtitles, Rated R, 122min.

Six dark stories involving six situations full of revenge, dangerous and unexpected arguments or misunderstandings which change the lives of people who are involved in them. “Szifron orchestrates each sequence expertly, demonstrating a flair for delivering absurd complications with marvellous comic timing and rich cinematic style”----Norman Wilner, NOW Toronto.

OCT. 20-21-22 • USA, 2015

REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM

Dir. Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott. English, 73 mins.

Requiem For The American Dream is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky—widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive—on the defining characteristic of our time: the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. “The short, sharp, smart essay-film makes excellent use of Chomsky's insights while serving as one of the best entry points to the discussion of inequality.”– John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

OCT. 27-28-29 • USA/UK CLASSIC 1979

HALLOWEEN SCARY MOVIE ALIEN

Dir. Ridley ScottWith Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt and Ian Holm.English, Rated R, 1h57 mins.

A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic cult movie. On the way home from a mission, the Nostromo's crew answers a distress signal from a nearby planet. Things get even stranger when an alien starts stalking the crew. A very scary movie … "In space, no one can hear you scream." --- Lucia Bozzola, Rovi.

NOV. 3-4-5 • INDIA, 2013

THE LUNCH BOX

Dir. Ritesh BatraWith Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.English and Hindi with English subtitles, Rated PG, 1h 44 mins.

In Cannes, this film won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail d'Or. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an old man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality. (Cinemosaic.net) “The slow-burning relationship is handled with wit, charm and poignancy, but Batra and cinematographer Michael Simmonds also excel at conveying loneliness in a teeming metropolis. Charming and whimsical, it's a feast for the eyes.”---David Parkinson, empireonline.com.