Friday Film Screening, 30 Sept '11

'Silver Screen' and IDC present 'World Cinema Showcase'.
Venue: IDC Auditorium, II Floor
Time: 9:00 PM



Film 1: ***ATTACK THE GAS STATION!(1999)***
Director: Sang Jin-Kim
Language: Korean
Runtime: 113 min

Synopsis:
Not satisfied with the money they got from robbing a gas station the previous night, four juvenile delinquents decide to return and start running the station themselves -- holding the staff hostage and collecting cash from the customers!(Flixter)

Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262246/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/attack_the_gas_station/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_the_Gas_Station

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Film 2: ***XXY(2007)***
Director: Lucía Puenzo
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 87 min

Synopsis:
The title of novelist Lucía Puenzo's subtle, thoughtful first feature film, XXY (the third letter is actually a fractured 'X') refers to genetic coding and, most particularly, to the hermaphroditic condition of the 16-year-old Alex, daughter of an Argentinian marine biologist and his wife. They're loving parents who have constantly moved from place to place to protect her from exposure and ridicule, and the time has arrived when they must to decide whether to have a major operation, and which way it should go. Things come to a head when the mother invites a plastic surgeon skilled in sex-change operations to spend the weekend with them, bringing his wife and their 15-year-old son. It's a fraught occasion, tenderly observed, quietly understated and deeply moving..(Observer)

Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995829/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xxy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXY_(film)

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Friday 'World Cinema Showcase', 23rd Sept '11

'Institute Cultural Council' and IDC are glad to present 'World Cinema Showcase'.

Venue: IDC Auditorium, II Floor
Time: 9:00 PM



Film 1: BAJO LA SAL(2008)
Director: Mario Muñoz
Runtime: 110 min

Synopsis:
In Santa Rosa de la Sal, a body turns up in the local salt mine. In comes commandante Trujillo (Zurita), veteran cop, to check on the case. Suddenly the small town becomes the scene of grisly murders and the mysterious string disappearances of teenage girls who all happen to attend the same high school.(Flixter)

Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1110207/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bajo_la_sal/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajo_la_sal

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Film 2: ***FERMAT'S ROOM(2007)***
Director: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña
Runtime: 88 min

Synopsis:
This is a variation on the locked-room idea, a scaled down version of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Four bright sparks - three mathematicians and an engineer - find themselves invited to a lonely house in an isolated part of the country; before they know it, they are locked in, and their invisible host is sending them intellectual brain-teasers by mobile phone. They have 60 seconds to get each one right; if they don't, the walls are slowly forced inwards by a gigantic hydraulic press.(Guardian)

Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fermats_room/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Room

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Friday Film Screening, 16th Sep '11

Film: **Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen**
Director: Satyajit Ray
Language: Bengali with English
Runtime: 113 min


Synopsis:
Goopy wants to sing and Bagha would love to play the Dhol(drum). They meet accidentally and is helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities they land in Kingdom of Shundi where their adventure begins.


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Friday Film Screening, 9th Sept '11

Film: **V for Vendetta(2006)**
Director: James McTeigue
Language: English
Runtime: 132 min


Synopsis:
The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.


Related Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/v_for_vendetta/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)


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Friday Film Screening, 2nd Sept '11

Film: **The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(1920)**
Director: Robert Wiene
Language: Silent Film / German i
ntertitles
Runtime: 71 min
Sub-title:English

Description:
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murder, and starts scouting on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot keep the distance to his pursuers anymore, he lays Jane down on the ground.

Related Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003361-cabinet_of_dr_caligari/


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Friday Film Screening, 26th August '11

Film: **Amadeus(1984)**
Director: Milos Forman
Language: English
Running Time: 160 min


Description:
Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can't understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.


Related Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amadeus/

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Friday Film Screening, 19th August '11

Film: **Salaam Bombay(1988)**

Director: Mira Nair
Language: Hindi


Description:
Mira Nair´s movie debut (after a few short films) is about a side of Bombay that Hindi cinema has rarely ever explored. Before "Salaam Bombay!” the seedy and dark underbelly of the city had mostly been portrayed in the regular masala manner leaving audiences detached to what was happening onscreen. The image of Bombay (or Mumbai as it now likes to be known) is realistically portrayed and Nair went to extreme lengths to ensure that the real throb of the city came across, that it did not seem like a caricature. Real-life poor children living on the streets were cast in important roles thus giving them a big break. They were very excited but, of course, they were not natural actors. They acted the way they had learnt only off Bollywood potboilers with exaggerated mannerisms and over-the-top gestures. It was Nair who encouraged the small actors to allow their natural side to emerge and to embrace realistic gestures rather than overblown ones.


Related Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096028/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaam_Bombay!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salaam_bombay/

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