Four  Foreign Films in Fall on Fridays

( . . . and two weeks off.)

all generously brought to you by the Tri-State Cinema Society and
the College of Liberal Arts at USI

University of Southern Indiana’s   

free public film series

Friday nights at  7:30pm in  Forum 1

up on the big screen in their original theatrical 35mm film and widescreen formats,
shown in their original languages (with sub-titles),
and with informally-guided discussions following each film for any and all who wish to stay

Nov  4^th             Circle of Deceit   (1981)     (West Germany)

7:30pm                                 Directed by  Volker Schlöndorff (89 min) 
                                    Cast:  Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla

     A Hamburg newspaperman arrives in civil war-torn Beirut to chronicle the bloody Lebanese war and joins a cynical international coterie of competitive fellow journalists.  Shot on location in the still smoldering streets of Beirut and without taking sides, Circle of Deceit is a film that renders both the lethal chaos of urban warfare and the moral tug-of-war of modern Mid-East politics with equal precision.  (-L.M.)

Nov  11^th                 Katyn  (2007)   (Poland) 

7:30pm                         Directed by Andrzej Wajda     (122 min)   (scope) 

 

     Base on historical events after Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1940, Katyn tells the story of four officers as they struggle to uncover the truth about the Stalin-ordered liquidation of the Polish officer corps in which nearly 22,000 men were slaughtered in the Katyn Forest. 

November  18^th                    (Note: there will be no film this Friday.)
November  25^th                    (Note: there will be no film this Friday.)

 

Dec  2^nd           Police Adjective  (2009)   (Romania)
7:30pm                         Written/Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu (115 min)  

      Composed of long, uninterrupted takes with a minimum of dialogue, Police Adjective’s structure is about as accurate a depiction of police procedure as is possible within the confines of a feature film in which a young undercover cop undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager.

Dec  9^th           The Good, the Bad, and the Weird  (2008)  
7:30pm                         Writer/Director:  Jee-woon Kim      (139 min)     (scope)      (South Korea)

   Set in WWII-era Manchuria, this wild irreverent re-make of the classic 1966 Sergio Leone film pits a manic outlaw, a nasty holy man, and a determined bounty hunter (and some Chinese gangsters and the Japanese army) against each other in hot pursuit of a treasure map and hurls them towards a showdown in the desert.