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Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:46:09 +0000

More film

Oct 16
Sat
Midnight Movies
“Legend.” Union South, Midnight.
Memorial Union Movies
“Spiderman 2.” Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, 7 p.m. Cost: $3.75 UW students.
Cinematheque
“Brass Unbound.” (van der Keuken, Netherlands, 1993) In this exuberant documentary, van der Keuken travels to Ghana, Surinam, Nepal and Indonesia to explore how the traditional style of the colonial brass band has been fused with indigenous music. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Memorial Union Movies
“Spiderman 2.” Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, 9:30 p.m. Cost: $3.75 UW students.
Oct 17
Sun
Memorial Union Movies
“Spiderman 2.” Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, 7 p.m. Cost: $3.75 UW students.
Cinematheque
“Morituri.” (York, Germany, 1947) A group of prisoners manages to escape from a concentration camp into the surrounding woods where another band of escapees has been hiding. When a young German soldier falls into their hands, they learn that deciding his fate isnt so easy. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Memorial Union Movies
“Spiderman 2.” Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, 9:30 p.m. Cost: $3.75 UW students.
Oct 18
Mon
Lakeside Cinema
“Adam’s Rib.” Classic films for fans of all ages. 16mm. Der Rathskeller, Memorial Union, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-6333, film@union.wisc.edu.
Oct 19
Tue
Jewish Cultural Film Festival
“My Brother’s Wedding.” The Wisconsin Jewish Film Festival presents Daniel Akiba’s 2003 documentary of two brothers, one a Reform Jew living in the United States and the other a Hassidic Jew getting married in Israel. Hillel, 611 Langdon St., 7 p.m. Information: 256-8361, jrfirestone@wisc.edu.
Oct 20
Wed
Real to Reel Cinema
“Devil’s Playground.” When an Amish teen turns 16, he or she is free to experience the outside world, where the temptation to fall away from the Amish Church comes in many forms: alcohol, drugs, parties, cars, designer clothes and cable TV. 109 Union South, 8 p.m. Information: 262-1143, tjgerdes@wiscs.edu.
Oct 21
Thu
Jewish Cultural Film Festival
“Class Queers.” The Wisconsin Jewish Film Festival presents Roxanna Spicer and Melissa Levin’s 2003 documentary of three homosexual teenagers struggling for acceptance in the Toronto, Canada, community. Hillel, 611 Langdon St., 7 p.m. Information: 256-8361, jrfirestone@wisc.edu.
International Cinema
“Respiro.” A beautiful young mother living on a small island excites the disapproval of her fellow villagers with her carefree behavior. When her relatives suggest psychiatric treatment, her son must help her escape the town’s condemnation in this Cannes award-winner based on a Sicilian fable. Frederic March Play Circle, 7:30 p.m.
Oct 22
Fri
Cinematheque
“The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family.” (Ozu, Japan, 1941) When the patriarch of the once-important Toda family dies, his children are forced to sell the family house and care for their widowed mother. The selfish siblings shunt her from household to household and pay only lip service to familial duty. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Cinematheque
“The Record of a Tenement Gentleman.” (Ozu, Japan, 1947) A widow reluctantly takes in an orphaned boy but frantically searches for him once he runs away. According to UW film scholar David Bordwell, If Ozu had made only this 72-minute film, he would have to be considered one of the worlds greatest directors. 4070 Vilas, 9:25 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Oct 23
Sat
Cinematheque
“A Question of Silence.” (Gorris, Netherlands, 1982) A female psychiatrist must determine the sanity of three women who brutally murder a seemingly inoffensive male clerk in a dress shop. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Midnight Movies
“How I Won the War.” An inept British World War II commander leads his troops on a series of misadventures, including a mission to set up a cricket match behind enemy lines. Starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon. Main Lounge, Union South, 11:55 p.m. Information: 262-1143, schwarzbauer@wisc.edu.
Oct 24
Sun
Cinematheque
“The Plot to Assassinate Hitler.” (Harnack, Germany, 1955) Made 11 years after the July 20, 1944, assassination attempts on Hitler?€™s life, the film chronicles the German Resistance Movements preparations to assassinate the Fahrer. Before turning to filmmaking, director Harnack was a member of the Resistance Movement. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Oct 29
Fri
Cinematheque
“Late Spring.” (Ozu, Japan, 1949) A young woman refuses to wed so she can provide companionship to her father. Determined to marry her off, he lets her think he plans to remarry. Hailed as one of the most perfect, most complete and most successful studies in character ever achieved in Japanese film. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Cinematheque
“The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice.” (Ozu, Japan, 1952) A simple-minded businessman and his hoity-toity wife are forced to reevaluate their relationship when their visiting niece refuses to participate in an arranged marriage. 4070 Vilas, 9:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Oct 30
Sat
Cinematheque
“Metal and Melancholy.” (Honigmann, Netherlands, 1993) Acclaimed documentarian Honigmann chronicles the experiences of Peruvian taxi drivers during a period of severe economic crisis when it seems anyone with a car ?” a medical publicist, a film actor, a professor of aviation ?” has taken on a second job as a cabbie. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu.
Oct 31
Sun
Cinematheque
“Angry Harvest.” (Holland, Germany, 1984) During the German occupation of Poland, a Catholic farmer comes upon a Jewish woman exhausted from fleeing the Nazis. Excited by her presence, he hides her in his cellar, first as a favor, then against her will, and again as a man who has fallen in love for the first time. 4070 Vilas, 7:30 p.m. Information: 262-3627, tsyoshikami@wisc.edu