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Sun Apr 29
Boy Called Twist PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, April 29th - 11:00 am - Oak Street Cinema

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Director: Tim Greene

 

Recommended for Ages 13+  Some scenes contain rough language and violence.


A contemporary re-telling of Dickens’ Oliver Twist, made in South Africa. Orphaned boy Twist escapes to Cape Town’s streets, where he falls in with Fagin’s gang of thieves. With gritty honesty, this debut feature superbly captures the contemporary equivalents of Dickens’ seedy individuals as it shadows the timeless tale in its own inimitable style.

 

South Africa, 115 minutes, 2005, 35mm.

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 17 2007 )
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Chariton's Choir (I Chorodia Tou Haritona) PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 21st - 5:15pm Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 1:00p.m. Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Grigoris Karatinakis


Chariton Ulianov (Georges Corraface) has one great love: Life! His postition as School Master in a small provincial town on the island of Corfu gives him the opportunity to disseminate his own unique philosophy to the students that particapate in his greatest passion: the choir.

Last Updated ( Sunday, April 29 2007 )
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Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, April 22nd - 9:00pm - St. Anthony Main :

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Sunday, April 29th - 3:30pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Chris Kraus

 

Four Minutes is a well-crafted film telling the story of two scarred women who fight with each other as they confront themselves to hang on to life. A long-time piano teacher at a local women’s prison, Traudel Kruger meets an unapproachable and violent young woman, Jenny von Loeben, recently-admitted to the facility.

Last Updated ( Sunday, April 08 2007 )
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Journey, The (Yatra) PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, April 27th - 9:00pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 1:30pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Director: Goutam Ghose

 

A superb must-see film, in which award-winning director Goutam Ghose elicits powerful performances from an acclaimed cast including Nana Patekar, Deepti Naval and the ageless Rekha. Ghose’s sharp scripting and direction gradually build the drama into an electrifying sequence of events where fact and fiction tensely oscillate.

 

Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
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Loach is a Fish Too (Niqui Ye Shi Yu) PDF Print E-mail
 Loach is a Fish Too

Saturday, April 28th - 7:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 5:45 pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Yang Ya-zhou

 

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Young provincial woman Ni Qiu (“”loach”” in Chinese), recently divorced, decides to take her twin girls to Beijing in search of a better life. On the train she meets an older man who has the same name as her, a contract labourer who tries to charm her with stories of the big house he'll get for her.

 

Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
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Manual of Love (Manuale d'amore) PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 9:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 7:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Director: Giovanni Veronesi


Manual of Love is a hilarious comedy, chronicling the four phases of love: “Falling in Love,” “The Crisis,” “The Betrayal,” and “The Abandonment.’ Tommaso and Giuliia go throught the pleasures and surprises of “falling in love.” 

 

Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
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Me and My Sister (Soeurs fâchées, Les) PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, April 25th - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main :

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Saturday, April 28th - 1:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

Sunday, April 29th - 11:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Alexander Leclere

 

A wonderful French “kitchen sink” drama, a tale of two mis-matched sisters, perhaps more aptly described by its French title,  Les Soeurs Fâchées (The Angry Sisters)!  Growing up in a small town in the provinces, older sister Martine now lives in the Parisian upper middle class with snobbish friends and a boring husband.  Her younger sister,  Louise – natural and straightforward -- works as a beautician in a provincial town.   



Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
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Rock n Roll Never Dies PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, April 22nd - 2:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 4:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

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Director: Juha Koiranen

 

“Tiger” is a young man going on 40, who still lives with his parents and who sleeps with his beloved, homemade guitar.

 



Last Updated ( Sunday, April 08 2007 )
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Salonika, City of Silence PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, April 29th - 7:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

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Director: Maurice Amaraggi

 

In his roots journey to Salonika, Maurice Amaraggi, 62, explores the port city that once was a thriving cosmopolitan Jewish center, until its Sephardic community was destroyed in the Holocaust. Today’s mix of new immigrants and buildings -– including a University, built over a Jewish cemetery of 10,000 graves – hides a rich and dark past. The Sephardic history of Salonika is so completely buried, that even the ghosts do not have anywhere to wander.

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 10 2007 )
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Ten, The - Closing Night! PDF Print E-mail
 The Ten

Sunday, April 29th - 7:00pm Crown: Block E

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Closing night gala to follow at Bellanotte

 

Director: David Wain

 

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The Ten is comprised of 10 blasphemous and hysterical stories that put the insanity back in Christianity. Inspired by each of the Ten Commandments, every story is told in a different style, but the characters and themes overlap.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 10 2007 )
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War Dance PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, April 29th - 4:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

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Directors: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix

 

Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war, War/Dance tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo.

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 10 2007 )
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