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Last updated Monday, September 26, 2005
Film Series:A Film Series runs
throughout the year.
Throughout the Summer-- Dr. Pepper's Summer Children's Series at Studio Movie Grill. http://studiomoviegrill.com/Upcoming.html#summer. KinoMonda World Cinema at TCU through May, 2005 and then on through the summer. For summer films or to nonminate a film for next year, go to wholewideworld.tcu.edu Wednesdays at 6:30 pm - Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Sid Richardson, Lecture Hall #4 (bldg next to Library/basement floor)
Hispanic Heritage Film Series in October
Make
no
mistake…the contributions of Spain and Latin America to the Arts in
general,
and to film specifically, are understood and respected world-wide. This years’ selection of films does not seek
to produce a particular theme or genre, but instead relies on four
popular
foreign cinema works that are broadly and easily accessible to
audiences across
the planet. All films are subtitled with English and were chosen as a balance to the Latin American Festival’s Spring presentations, which feature both newer cinema and directors, as well as classical works that have influenced not only Hispanic cinema but the entire world of cinema arts. Film
(7:00 ish)
Country
Food (6:15)
10/06
Women
on the Verge of
Spain
Alta Cocina
Mexicana/Lanny LanCarte, Jr A Nervous
Breakdown 10/13 Il Postino
Italy Scampi's/Ann Diakis 10/20 Strawberry and
Chocolate
Cuba Sapristi!/Carlos Cavasos
10/27 Man facing
Southwest
Argentina
Blue Mesa/Cosme
Porras
October 6th: Women on the Verge
of a Nervous Breakdown: Arguably Spain's greatest director, and
one of
the few directors worldwide capable of capturing postmodernism and
traditionalism in the same film without making them fist fight, even in
the
same room, perhaps even in the same bed. "Women
on the Verge" relies on many of Almodovar's most
famous
characters--Antonio Banderas you know, Carmen Maura you might know,
Rossy de
Palma you should know:) --to wage war on the genres of soap opera,
melodrama
and happily-ever-after. Awards and nominations: Academy, BAFTA, Donatello, Golden Globe, Goya, New York Film Critics, Toronto, and so many more... Lanny Lancarte,
Jr.: www.lannyskitchen.com Evolution
is defined as the
adaptation of an organism to a specific environment.
With reference to Lanny Lancarte’s Alta Cocina Mexicana,
this
definition serves no purpose. What
Lancarte has done with food is less on the style of Darwin and more
along the
lines of Remedios Varo or Rufino Tamayo. Lancarte has taken a
historical form,
almost holy in culture’s resistance to adaptation, and reworked it. That we are talking about food, but might be
talking about art, is appropriate and intentional.
October 13th: Il Postino:
Think poetry has no application in your
day-to-day world? Il Postino might be
the story of Pablo Neruda, but I enjoy imagining it is the story of a
lucky
postman. God sends Chilean poet Pablo
Neruda (in exile) to a fictional Italian village where the postman
borrows
Neruda’s work in order to woo the woman of his dreams.
A lite entry into Anne Marie Weiss’s
year-long tribute to Pablo Neruda. Ann Diakis of
Scampis: Yes, I know, the food is not Latin American, per se, and this is Hispanic Heritage, but I will
leave convention to others. If you
haven’t enjoyed Diakis’ Scampi’s Restaurant on Magnolia Street, here is
a
chance to enjoy it in as part of the Kinomonda series.
Ann’s restaurant might be expected in Boston’s
Little Italy or New York’s Astoria, but to find it in Fort Worth is our
stroke
of luck. The fare is
traditional to
modern, but the blending of
Mediterranean cuisines is deliciously non-traditional, at least on this
side of
the Atlantic. October 20th: Strawberry and
Chocolate: Tomas Gutierrez Alea’s story
of how post modern angst has no problem slipping inside the US blockade
of this
tiny island. Virtually any modern Cuban
film must hurdle the story of Castro’s failed experiment and the story
of our
failed experiment. This one does so
beautifully, and we are left with a much richer human conversation,
taking
place in the ideological rubble of US/Cuban politics.
Might I also add that the discussion of propaganda and
artistic
expression which takes place in this film need only a few minor
adjustments to
still be relevant. Carlos Cavasos of
Sapristi! Sapristi! is living evidence that the borders of cuisine are
fictional and need not be elevated to
menu status. Sapristi! crosses every
cuisine possible—a current inventory includes escargot, a goat cheese
pasta,
Vietnamese noodle and a list of wines and cheeses that reads more like
an
encyclopedia than a menu. Carlos
Cavasos own Laredo tradition can often be found in a list that includes
such staples
as posole. When Kinomonda has no idea
of how to match a cuisine and a film, we call Carlos for assistance.
October 27th: Man Facing
Southeast: ET came to earth and
befriended a boy in a California suburb and we all went smarmy. That is why it is confusing to me when
another one comes to earth, this time in a mental ward in Argentina,
and US
critics were not as pleased. Please! Yes, there are a long
line of space folks hoping to help us…Why be offended.?
We need it. If you saw the film K-PAX, you
have seen the redone US version. On
another planet, in a fictional culture, there is someone a lot like me
who does
film series based upon US remakes of good Latin American Cinema. On
this planet
you’ll have to see the superior Argentine version on its own. Cosme Porras of Blue
Mesa: Blue Mesa has been a standard in Desert Southwestern Cuisine for
years,
mixing the unique blend of traditional Latin, Anglo and Indigenous
flavors in a menu that varies with such things as the chili
Harvest in
Hatch, New Mexico
and the myriad tequilas emerging from south of the border.
Porras’ own Mexican roots are evidenced in
Blue Mesa’s Chili Rellenos and the assortment of asada options from the
grill,
giving Blue Mesa a unique range and take on the term tex-mex, as well
as
Southwestern. KinoMonda (rest of the
season--through May, 2005): November 3: Red Beard, Directed by Akira Kurosawa, Japan November 10: Mother India,
Directed by Mehboob Kahn, India December 1: Ponette,
Directed by Jaques Doillon, France January 12: Goodbye, Lenin, Directed by Wolfgang Becker, Germany January 19: Pistol Opera, Directed by Seijun Suzuki, Japan January 26: Ju Dou, Directed by FiengLiang Yang;Yimou Zhang, China February 2: In the Mood for Love, Directed by Kar Wai Wong, Hong Kong February 9: Show Me Love, Directed by Lukas Moodysson, Sweden February 16: The Story of a Three Day Pass, Directed by Melvin Van Peebles, France February 23: Forbidden Games, Directed by Rene Clements, France March 2: Dancer in the Dark, Directed by Lars Von Trier, France March 9: Frida, Directed by Julie Taymor, Mexico/USA March 16: Casa de Los Babys, Directed by John Sayles, Mexico/USA March 23: City of God, Directed by Lund/Meirelles, Brazil March 30: Yi Yi, Directed by Edward Yang, Taiwan April 6: In this World, Directed by Michael Winterbottom, Pakistan/UK April 13: Elling, Directed by Peter Naess, Norway April 20: La Cage Aux Folles, Directed by Eduard Molinaro, France May 5: The Red Violin, Directed by Francois Girard, Canada/Italy May 12: Orchestra Rehearsal, Directed by Federico Fellini, Italy free thought **free food ** free cinemawholewideworld.tcu.edu IN ITS REGULAR
LECTURE HALL 4 AT TCU.....
Sid Richardson Lecture Hall #4
Want to be challenged and provoked at the cinema? If so, this is not your film:) Les Choristes is a "feel good" film of the highest order, a story about a choir and a school for troubled youth. Les Choristes was nominated for Foreign Film of the Year, and if you are willing to engage the film on its level it will be an enjoyable night at the movies. Cinema Paradiso will be shown Next week at the Rosemarine Theater! jls Note: "Les Choristes" ("The Chorus") is one of my favorite films. Good lessons for life, and beautiful singing! "Cinema Paradiso" is one of my very favorite films and the story of the effect a movie theatre had on the lives of the people in the town. Filled with nearly every great scene from the movies of our lives. Any one up for a field trip next week to Fort Worth to see "Cinema Paradiso"? Email me. If you can't make it, check it out from the video store when you want to feel good about the movies and about life. -bj3 Stars Cinema: Jewish Film Series, throughout the year. http://www.3starscinema.org/index.htm |