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Film Archive

 

 

The Furman Film Series archive is where you can review films that the series has screened in the past years.

 

Fall, 2006

 

Winter, 2008

 

Spring, 2008
 

 
 

 

Campfire (Israel) October 5

 

NEXT FEATURE:

INDIGENES  Feb 15, 07

See this advanced screening of the winner of Cannes 2006 for Best Actor. The film explores the intricate struggle of colonized North Africans who fight for France’s republican ideals in World War II.

 

 

   

Rachel Gerlik, a widowed mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, wants to join a new religious settlement in the West Bank. However, the committee won’t approve her unless she demonstrates that her family can meet its religious and ideological standards. When her youngest daughter is accused of seducing some boys from her youth movement, Rachel is forced to weigh her allegiances.

Speaker: Film scholar Leonard Quart PhD.
 

 

     

Catch a Fire (UK/South Africa/US) October 19

   

ADVANCED SCREENING 

This political thriller is based on the true story of Patrick Chamusso, an ordinary man forced to resort to terror in extraordinary circumstances. A story of one man's struggle amongst a nation's, set in apartheid South Africa, climaxing in the present day. Tim Robbins plays a charismatic policeman who investigates Patrick and his family.
Speaker: Dr. Natie Kopelowitz, was born and raised in South Africa, and was a member of an anti-apartheid student group.

     
 

The Bridesmaid (France) November 2

   

It’s love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls for Philippe at his younger sister’s wedding. Though their passion for each other is as obvious as it is unquestionable, Philippe soon discovers that Senta’s life is shrouded in mystery. When she asks Philippe for a terrible proof of his love, Philippe must come to terms with who his lover might really be. Directed by New Wave master Claude Chabrol.

Bobby (U.S.A.) November 16

 

ADVANCED SCREENING 

BOBBY revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968.  The story is about how the lives of those at the hotel that evening intersected and will take place against the backdrop of the cultural issues gripping the county at the time, including racism, sexual inequality, and class differences. This film features an all-star cast with Laurence Fishburne, Helen Hunt, and more.

Speaker: Christopher Sharrett, Professor of Communication and Film Studies at Seton Hall University, is a well-known lecturer on political assassinations, and from 1976 to 1979 he was a consultant to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

 

     

Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain/Mexico) November 30

 

ADVANCED SCREENING 

PAN'S LABYRINTH is a fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain. The film centers on Ofelia, a lonely and dreamy child living with her mother and adoptive father; a military officer tasked with ridding the area of rebels. With post-war repression at its height, Ofelia must come to terms with her world through a fable of her own creation.

Speaker: Filmmaker Roberto Bentivegna most recently directed the short The Last Man in Brooklyn.


WINTER '08 SEASON

 

 

February 7

 

Bonneville *preview*

 

Jessica Lange, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates hit the road in a story about three friends who “come of age” for a second time on a trip across the great American West. But what began as a simple trip will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises – and of letting go. Official Selection Toronto FF ‘06

 

Q&A with director producers Robert May and Lauren Timmons

Moderated by Laura Blum

 

February 28

 

Last Jews of Libya

 

Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, this film documents the final decades of a centuries-old Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family. Thirty-six thousand Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, but not a single one remains today. A tale of war, cultural dislocation, and one family's ultimate perseverance.

 

Q&A with director Vivienne Roumani-Denn

March 6

 

Sleepwalking *preview*

 

Produced by and starring Charlize Theron, this family drama follows the struggle of an 11-year-old girl who is having a hard time coming to grips with her mother (Theron) who has abandoned her. Also stars Woody Harrelson and Dennis Hopper. Sundance FF ‘08

 

Print courtesy Overture Films

 

Q&A with Leonard Quart PhD

 

 

 

March 13

 

Steal a Pencil for Me

 

This compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon is about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering as a husband Jack, wife Manja, and lover Ina all find themselves at the same concentration camp during WWII.

 

Q&A with Jack and Ina

March 27

Holly

 

An American expatriate has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl sold to a child trafficker. Patrick embarks on a frantic search through both the beautiful and sordid faces of the country, in an attempt to bring her to safety. “A work of serious, contemplative outrage” – NY Sun

 

Q&A with writer/producer Guy Jacobsen

 


SPRING '08 SEASON

 

 

May 1

SON OF RAMBOW *preview*

The breakout hit of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Son of Rambow captivated audiences with its brilliant portrait of childhood imagination and ingenuity. This nostalgic trip back to the 1980s evokes an era where, for the first time, young minds had access to technology that allowed them to record their own stories while paying homage to the heroes from the movies that inspired them.

Print courtesy Paramount Vantage
2007, Color, France/UK, 96 min

 

May 15

 

FREAKS

Rare screening of Tod Browning’s 1932 cult classic. Banned for over 30 years in the UK! Trapeze artist Cleopatra ruffles the feathers of the side show performers when she marries and tries to poison her midget husband Hans for his inheritance. Once they learn of her plot, Hans' friends execute a fitting revenge!

Q&A with film scholar Chris Sharrett

PLUS “Freaks” vintage memorabilia exhibit after Q&A, courtesy of Tommy Stanziola
 

 

May 29

MONGOL *preview*

Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, this movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. As a boy he passes through starvation, humiliations and even slavery, but later with the help of his love Borte he overcomes all of his childhood hardships to become one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known.

Print courtesy Picturehouse
2007, Color, Germany/Russia/Mongolia, Kazakhstan, 120 min
 

June 12

CHOP SHOP

Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani sets his story of a 12-year-old Latino boy in the no-man’s-land of Willet’s Point, a 20-block stretch of junkyards and chop shops, overshadowed by Shea Stadium’s giant billboard: “Make Dreams Happen.” In a neo-realist style, the film suggests that for many New York City is closer to a third world country than a land of infinite opportunity.

Q&A with dir. Ramin Bahrani
2007, US, Color, 84 min

 

June 19

LA QUESTION HUMAINE/HEARTBEAT DETECTOR

A European-Michael Clayton, Heartbeat Detector unfolds a quietly riveting mystery of blackmail and intrigue, as the long-buried secrets of high-powered corporate executives threaten to bring them down. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) stars as a psychologist working in the Human Resources Department of multinational petrochemical corporation, who discovers long-buried connections to the Third Reich. Michael Lonsdale also stars.

2007, France, Color, 143 min

 

 

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