FILM@UC
archive: spring 2008 | |
 | January 24 Tekkon Kinkreet [Michael Arias, Japan, 2006, 100 min.] Two mysteriously powerful, yet vulnerable, street urchins who have cast themselves as the protectors of Treasure Town get caught in the crosshairs of a Yakuza turf war in this visually stunning animated spectacle that weds frenetic action with surprising poignancy and emotional depth. |
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 | January 31 A New Day In Old Sana'a [Bader Ben Hirsi, Yemen, 2005, 86 min.] A well-to-do young photographer is torn between protecting his family’s honor and following his heart in this achingly romantic film shot entirely on location in Yemen’s ancient capitol city of Sana’a. |
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 | February 7 Belle De Jour [Luis Buñuel, France, 1967, 101 min.] Fantasy and reality become blurred in the life of an unsatisfied young bourgeois wife who turns to prostitution in the afternoons while her husband is at work. |
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 | February 14 Belle Toujours [Manoel de Oliveria, France, 2006, 68 min.] This homage to Buñuel’s classic film reunites the lead characters 38 years later in an elegant meditation on aging, memory, and yearning. |
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 | February 21 An Unreasonable Man [Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, USA, 2007, 122 min.] The life and career of legendary consumer advocate Ralph Nader are explored in this illuminating and often entertaining -- and balanced – documentary, the title of which was inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s insight that “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” |
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 | February 28 Khadak [Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, Belgium/Mongolia, 2007, 104 min.] A young man destined to become a shaman discovers the truth behind a mysterious plague that is killing his people’s animals and destroying their nomadic way of life in this gorgeous and absorbing drama set in the snow-swept steppes of Mongolia. |
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 | March 6 Linda, Linda, Linda [Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan, 2005, 114 min.] Three high school girls in Japan, determined to form a rock band and play in their school’s festival, are faced with the sudden departure of their lead singer and her last minute replacement, a Korean exchange student who can hardly speak a word of Japanese. |
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 | March 13 Half Moon [Bahman Ghobadi, Iran/Iraq, 2006, 107 min.] After the fall of Saddam Hussein, an aged Kurdish folk musician leads his many sons from Iran into Iraqi Kurdistan to perform a final concert in this unconventional road film about life, death, and music. |
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