Category: Film

Boy

May 3rd 2012 | Posted in: Film | Posted by: The Ross

BOY
Fri, May 4 - Thu, May 10

The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand "Thriller" is changing kids' lives. Inspired by the Oscar nominated Two Cars, One Night, BOY is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson. Boy is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky, a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy's other hero, his father, Alamein, is the subject of Boy's fantasies, and he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he's "in the can for robbery". When Alamein returns home after 7 years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential, and learn to get along without the hero he had been hoping for. —©Official Site

“...comic tale of a youngster's growing relationship with a long-absent father has a surprising rhythmic genius: joy juxtaposed with humiliation, silliness with sadness, fantasy with reality, and none of it formulaic.”—David DeWitt, New York Times

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Monsieur Lazhar

March 28th 2012 | Posted in: Film | Posted by: The Ross

MONSIEUR LAZHAR
Fri, May 18 - Thu, May 31

Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film

In Montreal, an elementary school teacher dies abruptly. Having learned of the incident in the newspaper, Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, goes to the school to offer his services as a substitute teacher. Quickly hired to replace the deceased, he finds himself in an establishment in crisis, while going through his own personal tragedy. The cultural gap between Bachir and his class is made immediately apparent when he gives them a dictation exercise that is beyond their reach. Little by little, Bachir learns to better know this group of shaken but endearing kids, among whom are Alice and Simon, two charismatic pupils particularly affected by their teacher's death. While the class goes through the healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir's painful past; nor do they suspect that he is at risk of being deported at any moment.—©Music Box Films

“Discreet, delicate, and cautious... takes you by surprise... Writer-director Philippe Falardeau dances delicately along the razor's edge of the familiar. But his film has tact and taste and just the right blend of tension and relief.”—Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian

“An exquisite, humanistic and subtly topical work of cinema art that manages to keep the intimate, revelatory sensibility of a one-man play intact while fleshing out the characters and creating a very realistic and richly detailed school community,”—Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail

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Pina

March 28th 2012 | Posted in: Film | Posted by: The Ross

PINA
Fri, May 4 - Thu, May 10

“Dance, dance or we are lost.” Pina Bausch’s final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for Wim Wenders’ breath taking tribute to the legendary choreographer. PINA is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. PINA is a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders. He takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was the home and center for Pina Bausch's creativity.—©Official Site

“Choreography is a notoriously perishable art. Dances often struggle to outlive their creators.... 'PINA' is, above all, an act of preservation, a memorial that is also a defiance of mortality -- completely alive in every dimension.”—A.O. Scott, New York Times

“[PINA]...gives us the supreme pleasure of watching fascinating bodies of widely varying ages in motion, whether leaping, falling, catching, diving, grieving, or exulting.”—Mellissa Anderson, Village Voice

"[PINA is]...so exquisitely made and filled with such powerful beauty, it suggests thrilling new possibilities for the marriage of movies and dance.”—Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian

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Forum Film Screening: "Happy," with panel discussion at Nebraska Wesleyan University

January 26th 2012 | Posted in: Film | Posted by: Nebraska Wesleyan University

Tue, February 21, 2012 - 7:00pm

Location:

Olin B Lecture Hall

Get rid of those winter blues by attending a screening of the new documentary "Happy."

The Happy Movie is a 90-minute documentary that sets out to answer what makes us happy. Academy Award-nominated director Roko Belic takes viewers to the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia to explore the secrets behind our most valued emotion. You will see the story of Melissa Moody, a beautiful mother of three who led the "perfect life" until she was hit by a truck. Disabled for nine years and disfigured for life, she demonstrates how she is happier now that before her accident. Manoj Singh, a rickshaw puller from the slums of Kolkata, India, who lives in a hut made of plastic bags, is found to be as happy as the average American. These stories and more will lead viewers to a deeper understanding of howto live a more fulfilling, healthy, happy life.

Following the film, a panel of NWU professors who have expertise in the area of happiness and positive psychology, will share their thoughts and offer insight.

The film is free and open to the public.

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