Schedule of Public Screenings
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
(dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 1988, Spain) 100 min.
A television actress (Carmen Maura) embarks on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly abandoned her, finding insights from the eccentric characters she encounters along the way. Also stars Antonio Banderas. COMEDY.
Oscar nomination: Best Foreign Language Film
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 7 PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
High Heels
(dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 1991, Spain) 112 min.
After a fifteen-year absence, a woman (Victoria Abril) returns and discovers her daughter has married one of her mother’s ex-lovers. Almodóvar imbues humor, pathos, and romance with his striking visual style, while honoring the authentic emotions of his characters. COMEDY, DRAMA, ROMANCE
Winner: César Award (France) Best Foreign Film.
Golden Globe nomination: Best Foreign Film
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Orfeu Negro
(dir. Marcel Camus, 1959, Brazil) 100 min.
The romantic Greek myth of Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice, is retold against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro’s wild, intoxicating Carnival. Featuring the music by Antonio Jobim. FANTASY .
Winner: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
City of God
(dir. Fernando Meirelles, 2002, Brazil/Portugal) 130 min.
In the slums of Rio, two teenagers grow apart as one strives to become a photographer and the other a kingpin. THRILLER. COMING-OF-AGE.
Winner of a BAFTA Film Award. AFI Audience Award. Nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Thursday, February 28, 2019 -7 PM
CSUN Gallery Of Film Poster Art’s Hollywood Worldwide exhibition screenings and lectures
FILMS BY JACQUES BECKER
Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot)
(w/d Jaques Becker, 1954, France) 94 min.
Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur. Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A touchstone of the gangster-film noir genre, Touchez pas au grisbi is also pure Jacques Becker––understated, elegant, evocative.
Lecture by Dr. John Schultheiss, Department of Cinema and Television Arts
Wednesday, March 6, 2018 - 7 PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Carmen
(dir. Carlos Saura, 1983, Spain), 102 mins
Carlos Saura uses Flamenco dance as the primary discourse for Bizet’s Carmen.
Antonio (Antonio Gades), a choreographer facing a midlife crisis, brings in a sultry young dancer to perform the lead. Emotions and jealousies run high, as the lives of the dance company converge into the opera’s story, blurring the lines between fiction and reality. MUSICAL.
Winner of the BAFTA Award Best Foreign Language film. Oscar nomination Best Foreign Film
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
The Exterminating Angel
(dir. Luis Buñuel, 1962, Mexico), 95 mins.
In Bunuel’s surreal, existential black comedy, guests at a lavish, bourgeois dinner party find themselves inexplicably unable to leave at the end of the evening. As days pass, the hypocrisies and facades of their social status are exposed. SATIRE. BLACK COMEDY.
Winner: Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
The Official Story
(dir. Luis Puenzo, 1985, Argentina) , 112 mins.
After the end of Argentina’s Dirty War, a middle-class teacher sets out to uncover the true identity of her adopted daughter’s birth mother, but soon realizes that knowing the truth carries with it a heavy price. DRAMA.
Winner: Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Strawberry and Chocolate
(dir. Tomas Gutierrez & Carlos Tobias, 1993, Cuba) , 108 mins.
This Oscar-nominated film is the story of two very different men — one gay, one straight — one a communist, one an individualist — one suspicious, the other open— and how love grows between them despite it all. DRAMA
Winner: Silver Bear Berlin International Film Festival
Oscar nomination: Best Foreign Language film
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Amores Perros
(dir. Alejandro Iñarritu, 2000, Mexico) , 154 mins.
Iñarritu interweaves seemingly unrelated storylines with masterful complexity, a style he revisited in Babel (2006). In Amores Perros, a horrific car accident intertwines three stories of loss, regret, and the harsh realities of life, for the sake of love.
Winner: BAFTA Best Foreign Language Film. AFI Award Best Feature.
Oscar nomination: Best Foreign Language film
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 7 PM
CSUN Gallery Of Film Poster Art’s Hollywood Worldwide exhibition screenings and lectures
FILMS BY JACQUES BECKER
Le Trou (The Hole)
(w/d Jaques Becker, 1960, France) 132 min.
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Based on the novel by José Giovanni, Jacques Becker’s Le Trou balances lyrical humanism with a tense, unshakable air of imminent danger
Lecture by Dr. John Schultheiss, Department of Cinema and Television Arts
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Y Tu Mama Tambien
(dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2001, Mexico), 106 mins.
In Mexico, two teens, Julio and Tenoch, persuade a beautiful older woman to embark on a road trip to the most beautiful beach in Mexico. Their road trip brings forth lessons about life, love, sex, and friendship. COMING-OF-AGE. ROAD MOVIE.
Nominations: Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Pan's Labyrinth
(dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2006), 118 mins.
In Falangist Spain, 1944, the young stepdaughter of a sadistic military officer escapes into a fantasy world, where she must prove her royal blood by carrying out three horrific tasks in order to be reunited with her father, the King. FANTASY, HORROR.
Winner of three Academy Awards.
Winner BAFTA for Best foreign Language film.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Frida
(prod. Salma Hayek; dir. Julie Taymor, Wtr. Gregory Nava, 2002, Mexico), 123 mins.
Salma Hayek stars in this biography of Frida Kahlo, the renowned Mexican artist who channeled her seering physical pain into her paintings, while navigating her tempestuous marriage to artist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). BIOPIC.
AFI Movie of the Year. Winner of BAFTA Film Award. Nominated for six Academy Awards.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Aqui Entre Nos
(dir. Patricia Martinez de Velazco, 2011), 73 mins.
Fed up with being taken for granted by his wife and three daughters, Rodolfo decides to take the day off. Mayhem ensues. COMEDY.
Winner: Bronze Zenith Montreal World Film Festival.
Winner: Golden Palm Mexico International Film Festival.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 7PM
Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
LatinAuteur — Cinema from Spain to Latin America
Museo
(dir. Alonzo Ruiz-Palacios, 2018, Mexico), 128 mins.
Based on a true story. In 1985, after casing the security system of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and finding it lacking, a group of criminals set out to steal a fortune in priceless, pre-Hispanic relics. HEIST THRILLER. SOCIAL DRAMA.
Winner: Silver Bear Berlin International Film Festival
Winner: Golden Athena Athens Film Festival
