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WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 17
Crandell Theatre
3:30pm
TICKET TO PARADISE
(BOLETO AL PARAISO)
married to Reggie, arrives at the home and stirs 7:30pm
the pot of old grudges and rivalries. She still acts
like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show
SILENCE
must go on. . . . and it does. We would hate to
characterize Quartet as Marigold Hotel goes to
the opera, but both films are anchored by the
incomparable Maggie Smith, who is joined here
by Michael Gambon and Tom Courtenay. Played
the Toronto Film Festival. 96min Not Rated
MEA MAXIMA CULPA:
As part of our exchange
program with the Havana
Film Festival, we are presenting two features. In
THURSDAY
OCTOBER 18
Ticket to Paradise, Cuban
director Gerardo Chijona Crandell Theatre
shows us a slice of Cuba
1:00pm
that we rarely see. Part Los Olvidados, part
Amores Perros, this powerful and disturbing picture tells the story of Eunice, a small town girl on
When filmmaker Arnon
the run from her sexually abusive father who
Goldfinger emptied out
finds herself down and out in Havana in the comhis grandmother’s Tel
pany of a bunch of wayward homeless kidsAviv apartment after her
slumdogs, but not millionaires. Their lives are so
death, he discovered a
bleak that an AIDS hospice seems preferable to
trove of memorabilia
life on the streets. 88 min Not Rated Subtitled
from her life in Nazi
Germany, including a coin with a swastika on
5:30pm
one side and a Star of David on the other, that in
turn led him on a tangled quest that revealed
(JUNTOS PARA SIEMPRE)
shocking truths about his own family and their
This assured, sharp,
friends. Played the Tribeca Film Festival. 97 min
and charming first
Not Rated Subtitled
feature, a comedy from
3:00pm
writer-director Pablo
Solarz, focuses on a selfabsorbed screenwriter
This first film, set in
for whom the people in
Montreal’s Lebanese
his life–his girlfriends, his mother–are less real
community, revolves
than the characters in his scripts. A little broader
around a young man with
and less cerebral, Solarz is an Argentinian Charlie
a physical defect, who
Kaufman, and here he includes a Kaufmanesque
creates a charming
film-within-a-film that is so gripping it competes
cyber-identity (Romeo 11)
with the framing film, another illustration of his
to compensate for his awkwardness and
conceit–fiction is stranger than life. Stars Peto
insecurity. His coming-of-age issues are not
Menahem who appeared in the brilliant Argentine helped by the family drama that engulfs him: a
serial-killer series, Epitafios, that aired on HBO
father who keeps him on a short leash and two
several years ago. 101 min. Not Rated Subtitled sisters, each with her own issues. When his
avatar persuades a girl to meet him in a hotel
8:00pm
room, his virtual and real selves collide. Played
the Toronto film festival with unexpected and
It’s always an occasion very moving results. 100 min Not Rated Subtitled
when Dustin Hoffman,
5:00pm
one of our greatest
actors, directs a movie.
It doesn’t happen very
This seems to be the year
often–this is only his
of Isabelle Huppert. Drop
second directorial outing,
her into a semi-deserted
after Straight Time in 1978 for which he was
South Korean seaside
uncredited. Quartet is based on a play by Ronald
resort, and you get
Harwood, perhaps best known for The Dresser,
this graceful comedy,
but also the writer of a string of distinguished
directed by critics’
films such as The Pianist, The Diving Bell and the darling Sang-soo Hong. Who is she and what
Butterfly, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
is she doing there? The answers emerge from
Quartet focuses on Reggie and his friends, who a Rashomon-like triad of parallel stories.
are in a home for retired opera singers. Every
Nominated for the Palme d’Or at this year’s
year, on October 10, they take part in a concert to Cannes Film Festival. Played the Toronto film
celebrate Verdi’s birthday. Jean, who used to be festival as well. 89 min Not Rated Subtitled
THE FLAT
TOGETHER FOREVER
ROMEO ELEVEN
QUARTET
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
IN THE HOUSE OF GOD
Alex Gibney is no
stranger to FilmColumbia.
We showed his Oscarwinning documentary on
U.S. torture in Iraq and
Afghanistan, Taxi to the
Dark Side in 2007, and
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer in 2010.
Now he’s back with this hard-hitting investigation
into the Roman Catholic Church’s strange
tolerance for pederasty in its ranks, focusing on
the case of Rev. Lawrence Murphy, who
allegedly sexually abused as many as 200 deaf
boys at a school in Wisconsin from 1950 to 1974.
The film points a finger at the current Pope,
Benedict XVI, for knowingly covering up the
crimes of his priests. John Slattery, Ethan Hawke,
and others voice the deaf survivors. Silence in
the House of God premiered at the Toronto Film
Festival. Alex Gibney will be on hand for a panel
discussion. 106 min Not Rated
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 19
Crandell Theatre
12:30pm
ANY DAY NOW
Set in 1970s Los Angeles
and based on a true
story, the film recounts
the travails of a gay
couple (a drag queen
and his closeted partner,
a district attorney) who
adopt a teenage boy with Down syndrome after
he was abandoned by his parents, providing him
with the first family environment he has ever
known. But the new, same-sex family predictably
provokes the authorities, who try to remove the
boy from the clutches of his gay parents, igniting
a fierce battle between them and the legal
system. Stars Alan Cumming of The Good Wife
and many fine pictures. Won the Audience
Award, Tribeca Film Festival. 97 min Not Rated
2:30pm
MY WORST NIGHTMARE
Anne Fontaine is one of
France’s most celebrated
writer-directors of
domestic comedies.
After a well-received
change of gears–her
documentary Coco
Before Chanel–Fontaine returns to what she
does best. In My Worst Nightmare, Isabelle
Huppert plays an haute bourgeois career woman
and mother. The father of her son’s best friend is 8:45pm
a layabout slacker who cares more for wine and
women than he does for upward mobility. When
she hires him to redo her apartment, he redoes
her life. Played last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
103 min Not Rated Subtitled
4:45pm
HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON BRONZE
Nick the Lounge Singer
as Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Yes, however improbable,
and it works. Directed by
4:30pm
Roger Michel (Notting
Hill), Bill Murray gives his
most inspired perforThis very promising first
mance yet. He even looks like FDR, with his chin
film, also based on a true
thrust out and a cigarette holder jauntily clenched
story, is a coming-of-age
between his teeth. Written by Richard Nelson
tale with vengeance.
(Ethan Frome), this film transpires on a weekend
When one girl gets
in which Roosevelt cements a relationship with
pregnant in a small
the young king of England (yes, George VI again)
French town (in reality,
and his queen, while deftly managing an affair
Gloucester, Massachusetts), she’s initially
with a neighbor and distant cousin, Margaret
distraught, but beguiled by the fantasy that she
“Daisy” Suckley, winningly played by Laura
will be unconditionally loved forever by her
Linney. James Schamus, whose Focus Features
child–she changes her mind. (Why not get a
is distributing the picture, will appear to field
dog?) Sixteen other girls join her in an act of
questions. Played the New York Film Festival.
bizarre solidarity and rebellion against the little
95 min Rated R
that their lives seem to offer them. 17 Girls is
haunted by the sobering knowledge that the
reality the girls face is not the one they imagine Morris Memorial
in their dreamy absorption with their changing
3:00pm
bodies. Played the Toronto Film Festival. 86 min
Not Rated Subtitled
Featuring the best in short films at FilmColumbia
6:30pm
for 2012:
17 GIRLS
LORE
Australian director Cate
Shortland’s Somersault
not only launched her
own career, but that of
Abbie Cornish, and it
looks like Lore will do
the same for Saskia
Rosendahl, who plays the teenage daughter of
dedicated Nazis: an SS officer and his wife.
The picture departs from other Holocaust
dramas by telling its story from the teenager’s
point of view. It’s the end of World War II and
the allied forces are sweeping through Germany.
When her father is arrested, and her mother
gives herself up to the American army after
hearing the news of Hitler’s suicide, Rosendahl,
a (very) good German raised in the Hitlerjugend,
embarks with her four younger siblings in tow on
a dangerous journey through the forest to their
grandmother’s house in Hamburg. (Lore resembles a cross between Little Red Riding Hood and
The White Ribbon.) They are first stalked, and
then helped, surprisingly, by a young man who
carries a yellow star in his papers, forcing
Rosendahl to come to terms with her fierce
anti-Semitism and the crimes her parents
committed in the service of the Third Reich.
108 min Not Rated Subtitled
Set in the suburbs of New
Jersey, three teenage
girls doll themselves up
to the max for a night
out on the town. As the
evening unfolds, things
go terribly wrong. Steven
Strauss, the young director who showed A.C.U.
at FilmColumbia last year, here reveals a genuine
skill with actors as he orchestrates their adventures in a naturalistic style, making for a troubling
and compelling story. 52 min Not Rated
IT WAS MY CITY
A world premiere from Iranian director Tina
Pakravan, of a city of people living their lives
when catastrophe strikes. 8 min
AS WE PASS BY
(VA MIGOZARIUM)
Dir: Parisa Gorgin – Woman is abducted while
others go on their daily errands. 2 1/2 min
Subtitled
6:30pm
SHORTS PROGRAM
SENZA TRUCCO
WHEN A TREE…
(VAGHH DERAKHT…)
VIVIENNE AGAIN
For all those who love
wine, this documentary
transports us to the
Italian countryside to
watch four different
women toiling in their
vineyards from early
spring to the grape harvest in the fall. Working in
harmony with nature throughout the year, picking
the grapes at their peak, and culminating with
the tasting in ancient wine cellars, the film conveys
the dedication and art that goes into making fine
wine. 78 min Not Rated Subtitled
UNDRESS ME (DEVISTEME)
Peint O’ Gwrw Pub
Dir: Sara Khalili – Iranian animation of people
running from the chaos of their world. 6 min
Subtitled
Dir: Kim Garland – A
funeral home employee
saves a dead woman
from the killer closing in
to complete the job.
11min
Dir: Javier Sanz – Two
people whose partners
are unfaithful, find
comfort in each other.
12 min Subtitled
(NATURAL WOMEN - ITALIAN
LADIES OF ORGANIC WINE)
6:30pm
CINEMATIC SIPS:
COCKTAILS IN FILM
One of our coolest
events at FilmColumbia,
featuring film scenes
from Hollywood and
DXONE
the cocktails that help
Dir: Dan Masucci – A family comes to terms with
make those film scenes
their son’s Type 1 diabetes. 18 min
unforgettable. Sip on
delicious drinks while watching great film clips
CASCADE
Dir: Kevin & Sergio Rico – A young man struggles and learn how to mix a perfect batch of cocktails.
to understand the breakup with his first love. 9 min Limited Seating. Peint O'Gwrw Pub, Main Street.
WAKE UP DAVID
Dir: Chad Matthew Hursa – A young man is
forced to come to terms with the death of his
sister in a drunk-driving accident. 15 min