FILM@UC
archive: fall 2011 | |
 | September 1 West Side Story [Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, USA, 1961] Love blossoms amid the escalating hostility between rival New York City street gangs in this classic, award-winning musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. |
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 | September 8 LiTTLEROCK [Mike Ott, USA, 2010] A Japanese brother and sister pair travelling the United States suddenly find themselves stranded in a small town in this gentle, clever take on the fish-out-of-water story. |
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 | September 15 The Class [Laurent Cantet, France, 2008] Words and actions take on explosive potential, threatening to consume both teacher and students alike, in a polyglot working class classroom brimming with hostility and hope. |
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 | September 22 Last Train Home [Lixin Fan, China, 2009] This haunting documentary examines the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in China’s massive annual New Year’s migration as 130 million workers return home to their rural villages amid the vast changes sweeping their nation. |
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 | September 29 The Robber [Benjamin Heisenberg, Austria, 2010] A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber in this rare and riveting combination of exhilarating action film and engrossing character study. |
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 | October 6 Holy Land Hardball [Brett Rapkin, USA, 2010] This humorous and engaging documentary chronicles the struggles of a Boston-area bagel maker to realize his dream of creating a professional baseball league in Israel, despite his being met with incredulity, dismissal, and even hostility. |
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 | October 13 City of Life [Ali Mostafa, UAE, 2009] Three parallel but separate lives of an embittered Indian cabbie, a quietly suffering Romanian flight attendant, and a young and privileged Emirati, collide in Dubai in the first feature-length film from the United Arab Emirates. |
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 | October 20 Repeaters [Carl Bessai, Canada, 2010] Three emotionally-scarred addicts in a rehab clinic find themselves seemingly doomed to endlessly relive the same day again and again in this dark, ambitious thriller that is a metaphor for the paradoxes of substance abuse. |
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 | November 14 SPECIAL PRESENTATION:Drums Along the Mohawk[John Ford, USA, 1939, 104 min.] To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the novel by Walter D. Edmonds, we show this classic in connection with Dr. Frank Bergmann's ENG 600 Selected Topics course. Although Ford took liberties with the text, the film, starring Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, and Edna May Oliver, is a riveting account of how the Revolutionary War played out in the Mohawk Valley. |
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