Winter 2007
Winter Series 2007
2/12- 12th: Away from Her
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-vistors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings.
Cast:
Julie Christie,
Olympia Dukakis,
Michael Murphy
Directed By: Sarah Polley
Released By: Lionsgate
Executive Producer(s):
Atom Egoyan
Douglas Mankoff
Executive Producer(s)
Daniel Iron Producer
Jennifer Weiss Producer
Simone Urdl Producer
Victoria Hirst Co-Producer
Host Peter Travers: CNN, Rolling Stone Magazine
Guest: Olympia Dukakis
Director Sarah Polley & Olympia Dukakis at The Toronto Film Festival
Director Debut by Actress Sarah Polley: Go (1999), eXistenZ (1999), Guinevere
(1999), Last Night (1998), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Exotica (1994), Babar:
The Movie (1989) (voice), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).
In 1944, the young Jewish woman Rachel
Steinn tries to flee by boat, together with her family and other Jews,
from the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands to the liberated southern
part of the country. However, they are attacked by the Germans. Rachel
is the only survivor, but she does not manage to escape from the occupied
territory. Later it turns out that such trips are arranged by Dutch
traitors in cooperation with German officer Günther Franken, for
the purpose of stealing the property of the refugees.
Directed by:
Paul Verhoeven
Written by:
Gerard Soeteman
Paul Verhoeven
Cast:
Carice van Houten,
Sebastian Koch,
Thom Hoffman
Official Site: Link
HOSTED BY PETER TRAVERS
STARTER FOR 10
Set in the mid-Eighties, 'Starter For Ten' is a romantic comedy about a working-class kid, struggling to make his way in the rarified world of an Upper-class British University. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on the British TV Quiz Show, University Challenge, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. 'Starter For Ten' is a bitter-sweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Cast:
James McAvoy,
Alice Eve,
Rebecca Hall,
Dominic Cooper
Directed By: Tom Vaughan
HOSTED BY PETER TRAVERS
Photo
Credit: Dan Molyneux
Film Critic Godfrey Cheshire and
Arnd Wedemeyer (Princeton University German Dept),
Discuss 2006 Academy Award Foreign Film Nominee: LIVES WITH OTHERS.
1/29: The Lives of Others
The Lives of Others - (Nominated 2006 Best foreign language film of the year) East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the "operation" is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn't anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in the lives of others--in love, literature, free thinking and speech--makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A dangerous game has begun. - A Wiedemann & Berg Production Germany
Cast:
Martina Gedeck,
Ulrich Muehe,
Sebastian Koch,
Ulrich Tukur,
Thomas Thieme
Directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Produced by: Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann, Dirk Hamm
Official Site: Link
Days of Glory -Nominated 2006
Best foreign language film of the year
DAYS OF GLORY - The liberation of Italy, Provence, the Alps, the
Rhone Valley, the Vosges and Alsace marked vital stages in the Allied victory.
And in the place that France was able to take among the Allies following
the Armistice. This victorious and bloody march on Germany was carried out
by the 1st French Army, recruited in Africa to sidestep the German occupiers
and the officials of the Vichy regime: 200,000 men, including 130,000 "natives" comprising
110,000 North Africans and 20,000 Black African. The rest of the force was
made up of French North Africans and of young Frenchmen who had fled the
Occupation. This is the forgotten story of the so-called "native" soldiers.
Cast:
Bernard Blancan,
Sami Bouajila,
Jamel Debbouze,
Aurelie Eltvedt,
Benoit Giros
Directed by: Rachid Bouchareb
Produced by: Muriel Merlin (II),
Jean Brehat,
Alexandre Lippens
HOST: GODFREY CHESHIRE
Congratulations To The Other Best foreign
language film of the year Nominees:
2005 SPRING SEASON NY FILM CRITICS SERIES: “Water” A Hamilton-Mehta
Production Canada.
“ After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production Denmark
“ Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios
Picasso Production Mexico
Opening: 1/22- Grey Matters
GRAY MATTERS - The New Film, Written, Produced
and Directed by Bergen County’s Own - Sue Cramer - born and raised
in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and attended Fair Lawn High School. GRAY MATTERS
is about a woman named Gray and her brother both fall in love with
the same woman. Written, Directed & Produced by Bergen County,
New Jersey's own Sue Kramer.
Cast:
Heather Graham,
Alan Cumming,
Sissy Spacek,
James Marsden,
Alejandro Abellan
Produced by: Alexander Payne,
Margaret Riley (II),
Ted Liebowitz
Molly Shannon, Sue Kramer, writer and director, and Heather Graham
Tom Cavanagh
Guests: Tom Cavanagh and Sue Kramer
Host: Stephen Witty (Star Ledger/Newhouse News)
