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| FOREIGN FILM CLUB PRESENTS AS OUR LAST MOVIE:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds
Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki creator of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke
FRIDAY, MAY 13 @ 7:30 IN THE QUAD
Bring blankets and such stuff since it might be a lil chilly
Free Popcorn, Free movie
Info on movie:
Director and Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Rating: PG for violence
Run Time: (US version) 84 minutes
Year released: 1984
Country: Japan
Language: Jananese
Other Titles: Kaze no tani no Naushika, Warriors of the Wind
Synopsis (from disney website):
From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation and the creator of the academy award winning Spirited away (best animated feature film) comes Hayao Miyazaki’s epic masterpiece Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
A thousand years after a global war, a seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of only a few areas still populated. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the valley are engaged in a constant struggle with powerful insects called Ohmu, who guard a poisonous jungle that is spreading across the Earth. Nausicaä and her brave companions, together with the people of the valley, strive to restore the bond between humanity and the earth,
Nausicaä of the valley of the wind is written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a timeless story about courage and compassion in the face of danger.
User Comment (from imdb.com): Unlike anything you've seen
Links:
Official Page: http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/miyazaki/index2.html
Fans Info Page (really nice looking): http://www.wingsee.com/ghibli/nausicaa/
IMDB's Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/
FFC XANGA: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=foreignfilm
TRAILER (on the left column): http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/moviefinder/products/2534403.html
We'd love to see you guys there since this is the last movie!
ALSO!!!! FOR THOSE WANTING TO BE AN OFFICER...
hey you guys, well for next year im looking for 3 members to take the positions of VP, Secretary, and Treasurer. I've included the application (in the email). I'm looking for those who have attended many of our movies (including how long they've been members), and for those who will work hard for the club, and of course <3 foreign films:)!!!!! More details are on the ap, so check it out. Also, ill have some at the meeting this friday. I hope you guys will consider applying, it will be lots 'o fun!!!! ^ ^ The Aps will be due Friday, May 20th by 7th period to the choir room, there will be a manilla folder when u walk into the classroom to the right with other manilla folders.
SEE EVERYONE FRIDAY! <3 Gabby | | |
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Foreign Film Club will be going on a field trip this Friday! Sorry again for the infamous short notice, but we need to cram in an activity this month, and hopefully you will be available.
We’ll be watching “Les Choristes”, a French film at Camera 7 at 6:45. If it helps we can unofficially discuss ride problems by calling me at home (408.253.3727).
Here’s a synopsis of the movie, a long with pictures and a link to the movie website for your curiosity.
Please come pick up forms tomorrow (Wednesday) at the top of the rally court. I will sit there and.. sit there.
Please have them in by Thursday to Ms. Isola.
Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation for minors. What he discovers disconcerts him--the current situation is repressive. Through the power of song, Clement will try to transform the students.
Release Date: January 14th, 2005 (NY/LA).
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some language/sexual references and violence.
Runtime: 96 min
Click here to view the trailer (several formats available) : http://www.cinema.com/films/9074/the_chorus/trailers.phtml
The Chorus has also been nominated for Best Foreign Film in the Oscars as well as Golden Globe.
Fun-facts:
In 2004, this was the number one movie at the French box-office, with more than 8.6 million admissions.
Actor, co-producer 'Gerard Jugnot' mortgaged his Paris apartment to help finance the film. The bet paid off and he ended up making over 5 million euros for "Les Choristes" as actor and co-producer, earning him the title of highest-paid French actor in 2004, overtaking Jean Reno and Gerard Depardieu.
Pictures:
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Come with the Foreign Film Club to “The Chorus” at 6:45 this Friday at Camera 7. Check out our xanga for more details! (Link to xanga: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=foreignfilm)
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| FREE MOVIE. FREE POPCORN.
Foreign Film Club Presents:
Whale Rider
Tomorrow (Friday) after school at 3:30 in the Lynbrook Auditorium.
FREE MOVIE. FREE POPCORN.
Trailer: http://www.whaleriderthemovie.com/trailer/htm_high.html
Synopsis:
In a small New Zealand coastal village, Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation for more than 1000 years, a male heir born to the Chief succeeds to the title.
The time is now. The Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins - a boy and a girl. But the boy and his mother die in childbirth. The surviving girl is named Pai.
Grief-stricken, her father leaves her to be raised by her grandparents. Koro, her grandfather who is the Chief, refuses to acknowledge Pai as the inheritor of the tradition and claims she is of no use to him. But her grandmother, Flowers, sees more than a broken line, she sees a child in desperate need of love.
And Koro learns to love the child. When Pai's father, Porourangi, now a feted international artist, returns home after twelve years, Koro hopes everything is resolved and Porourangi will to accept destiny and become his successor.
But Porourangi has no intention of becoming Chief. He has moved away from his people both physically and emotionally. After a bitter argument with Koro he leaves, suggesting to Pai that she come with him. She starts the journey but quickly returns, claiming her grandfather needs her.
Koro is blinded by prejudice and even Flowers cannot convince him that Pai is the natural heir. The old Chief is convinced that the tribe's misfortunes began at Pai's birth and calls for his people to bring their 12-year-old boys to him for training.
He is certain that through a gruelling process of teaching the ancient chants, tribal lore and warrior techniques, the future leader of their tribe will be revealed to him.
Meanwhile, deep within the ocean, a massive herd of whales is responding, drawn towards Pai and their twin destinies.
When the whales become stranded on the beach, Koro is sure this signals an apocalyptic end to his tribe. Until one person prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people. The Whale Rider.
[All photo and text has been taken from the Whaleriderthemovie.com website.]
3:30 Lynbrook Auditorium. Tomorrow, Friday March 18th. | | |
| The Foreign Film Club Presents:
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
Playing this Friday in the Lynbrook Auditorium
3:30 pm
Free movie and popcorn!
CAST & CREW
Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig
Directed by Luis Buñuel
more...
SYNOPSIS
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE is Luis Buñuel's scathing and surrealistic political comedy masterpiece about a wealthy group of friends repeatedly prevented from beginning their elaborate dinner by increasingly strange events.
MPAA RATING
PG
RUNTIME
1 hour, 41 minutes
It’s supposed to be really funny. | | |
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Foreign film club presents:
Bob le flambeur:
showing this Friday,
In the quad at 8 pm
Melville's fifth film, Bob le flambeur was his first foray into the stylized underworld which became his signature. And as is often the case, though Bob le flambeur doesn't quite look like a New Wave film, it pointed the way for what followed it. Godard couldn't have made Breathless (1959) without Bob le flambeur, which he quotes several times. Melville even appears in Breathless, as a director interviewed by Jean Seberg, proclaiming his desire “to become immortal and then die.”
Bob le flambeur opens with day breaking at Sacre-Coeur, then follows the tram down the steep slope of Montmartre to Pigalle, snuffing its lights and shuttering its doors in anticipation of the day: “from heaven to hell.” It's reminiscent of Franju's opening to Le Sang des bêtes (Blood of the Beasts), where young lovers embracing at the flea market yield to an abattoir. Both are, as Melville puts it, “love letters to a Paris that no longer exists.” They offer up the contradictions possible only in a world not yet aware of its passing.
Shot in crisp, gritty black and white by Henri Decaë, Bob le flambeur fuses the carefully perfect compositions of William Wyler with the rough immediacy of the New Wave. The result is an austerely honest artifice reminiscent of Melville's hero, John Huston. The camera never calls attention to itself, but hand-held shots and natural lighting lend the image a fluidity and hard truth impossible to achieve in the studio.
For more information visit: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/03/25/bob_le_flambeur.html
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