Film Studies Announces the Fall 14 Film Series--Youve got to see this... Twelve Monkeys (1995)—September 9th, 2014 Imprisoned in a 2030s’ world devastated by disease, where Earth’s inhabitants are forced to live underground, convict James Cole (Bruce Willis at his finest) is recruited for a mission that will send him back to the 1990s to find the origin of the plague. This Terry Gilliam film immerses its audience in a disorienting, frenetic dystopia, with an intoxicating mix of romanticism, madness, and dread. It’s an American-made/British directed/ sci-fi/cult classic/blockbuster/adventure/romance/phenomenon/based on a French sci-fi short. Brad Pitt won a Golden Globe for his dazzling, manic performance. Also starring Madeleine Stowe and Christopher Plummer. TRAILER: https://youtube/watch?v=15s4Y9ffW_o Winter’s Bone (2010)—September 23rd, 2014 A brutally realistic Jennifer Lawrence stars in this Academy Award-winning film, an unflinching portrait of an Ozark Mountain girl hacking through dangerous social terrain, as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Dark, dangerous, and gritty, the film is directed by Debra Granik, with John Hawkes. In addition to Best Picture, it garnered an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Lawrence) as well as three more Oscar nominations—Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role—and a number of wins at Sundance. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Center. TRAILER: https://youtube/watch?v=bE_X2pDRXyY&feature=kp • A post-film discussion will be held at the Emerson Room at the Inn. The Shining (1980)—October 28th, 2014 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- or, rather, a homicidal boy, in Stanley Kubricks masterful (if controversial) 1980 adaptation of Stephen Kings horror novel. When a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, an evil spiritual presence goads the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. With iconic performances by Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd, and some of the most famous sequences in film history, this is a unique chance to see this perennial classic on the big screen—just in time for Halloween. TRAILER: https://youtube/watch?v=S014oGZiSdI The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) – An ‘ArtsFest: Art and Laughter’ Event—Nov. 4th, 2014 The latest, critically acclaimed, Wes Anderson film is a darkly comic banquet for the eyes and heart, as it chronicles the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The mind-boggling cast includes Ralph Fiennes (as Gustave), F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, and Tony Revolori as Zero. Co-sponsored by the DePauw Public Occasions Committee. TRAILER: https://youtube/watch?v=2bTbW70umbQ The Act of Killing (2012)—December 2nd, 2014 This Oscar-nominated, genre-breaking documentary challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers. Brutal, visually stunning, and, ultimately transformative, director Joshua Oppenheimer calls it a documentary of the imagination: “The film is not an historical narrative. It is a film about history itself, about the lies victors tell to justify their actions, and the effects of those lies; about an unresolved traumatic past that continues to haunt the present.” Co-sponsored by the Prindle Institute and Conflict Studies. TRAILER: https://youtube/watch?v=SD5oMxbMcHM&feature=kp • A Skype discussion will be held with the film’s director, Joshua Oppenheimer, Wednesday, December 3rd, at 4pm in Watson Forum.
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