Matinee Showings

So yesterday the Children, Youths and Environments Center (CYE) along with IFS held a matinee showing of SPIRITED AWAY. The goal of this showing was to get schools to bring their students to see a movie as well as participate in some activities to explore the roles of the environment in everyones day to day life. To get youths envolved in environmentalism. However, when Jacob and I set up our ticket table, no one showed up. To prevent this from happening again we are trying to advertise these showings more.  

Oct 2, 10:00 AM- THE RED BALLOON and WHITE MANE

Oct 30, 10:00 AM- BLACK ORPHEUS

Nov 13, 10:00 AM- BLINDSIGHT.

The cost for each showing is $1 for students, FREE for accompanying teachers, and $5 for any other adults. They are screened in ATLAS 102 All of these films have themes envolving youths and their relationships

with the environment. So if you teach, know a teacher, homeschool, have kids or just want to see some good films and learn about environmentalism's role in youth's lifes, then come to our special showings of some great movies.

 

**All of these films are also shown at night in the MUENZINGER 

AUDITORIUM:

Oct 2, 7:00 PM- THE RED BALLOON and WHITE MANE 

Oct 30, 7:00 PM- BLACK ORPHEUS

Nov 13,  7:00 & 9:00 PM- BLINDSIGHT

***Cost for these films is $4 with a CU ID, $5 General Admissionn and FREE for Film Majors. 

$1 off tonight's movie! (Sept 26)

Reminder: Tonight is the last night of Arts and Cultures Week, so it is your last chance to use this $1 off coupon. Come see UP THE YANGTZE and print off this ticket to get in for a buck less!

Spirited Away

I've gotten a couple calls from people regarding the version of SPIRITED AWAY that we are showing and I wanted to let you know that, yes, as we make clear in our printed calendar, it will be the Japanese version with subtitles.

Not that we didn't have a close call! Despite having ordered the subtitled version, we were sent a dubbed print. Thankfully, our projectionists checked the print in advance, the error was caught, and the distributor was able to pull some last-minute strings and overnight us the subtitled version. So all is right with the world again.

Letter to the Daily Camera

Submitted to The Daily Camera on Tuesday, Sep. 23:
Suggested byline: Film Events
Suggested title: BIFF & IFS

Please allow me to correct an error in your front-page article of Sep. 22 regarding a “student film series” that attributes this event to the Boulder International Film Festival. B.I.F.F., and other groups, provided some assistance, but the campus matinee screenings should have been primarily attributed to the Children, Youth and Environment Center for Research and Design (an admittedly cumbersome name that has a shortened acronym: C.Y.E.). The films selected by C.Y.E. for their matinee screenings are being complimented with evening shows (of the same films) as part of the regular International Film Series (I.F.S.) program. Omitting the I.F.S. from the article may have caused some confusion for your readers.

The I.F.S. is Boulder’s first art-house film series. It was established in 1941 and shows over 100 films a year in the Muenzinger Auditorium on the C.U. Boulder campus, just west of the Folsom Stadium. It is locally programmed and provides an oasis for celluloid lovers hungry for new film prints of older films as well as bringing in an abundant supply of Boulder and Colorado premieres. We also keep our ticket prices low, charging you half of what you would pay at the multiplex, and bring many exciting free events to the community (and fans, for example, of either Burden of Dreams or Being John Malkovich should know that both Les Blank and Charlie Kaufman are coming in October). For more information please visit our website at internationalfilmseries.com.

Pablo Kjolseth
International Film Series Director

I read the news today... oh, boy!

Front page of the Daily Camera, lower-right-hand corner, is an article titled "Student film series looks for participants." Huh? I wonder what that's about? As I read further I see that this entire article is about an IFS event done in conjunction with the Children, Youth, and Environment Center for Research and Design (CYE). Nowhere in the article is the International Film Series named or referred to. Instead, the article credits the Boulder International Film Festival.

BIFF... IFS... BIFF... IFS... Two great events. Two very different events. Apples and oranges. One is a festival that happens once a year. The other is a series that goes on through the Fall and Spring. The latter one also happens to have been around since 1941. But if the journalists at Boulder's biggest newspaper don't even know we exist the question that hangs in the air is: for how much longer?

RED HEROINE with DME

Last night the IFS showed RED HEROINE while the Devil Music Ensemble played their live score. The theatre was packed, with people showing up an hour early to make sure they got a seat. The movie of a brave young women saving the day matched up perfectly with DME's music. Each of the musicians had their own shining moment, with a great mix of electric guitar, oriental violin, drums and many more instruments. Although the inter-titles were obviously translated without spell check and a little off screen, the film was still very entertaining. The audience cheered as the Red Heroine came flying in to save the day. After the movie, everyone poured out to meet the band and purchase CDs, DVDs and posters. All in all it was a great experience at the movies.

First Night

Last night was our first IFS film of the Fall '08 Series! This was also my first night working as a cashier for IFS. After a brief training session with Jacob, I was on my way to selling tickets with style, of course with a lot of help from James, my manager for the evening. With JT as our projectionist, everything went smoothly. Even though the audience wasn't the largest we have ever seen, everyone who attended seemed to enjoy the film and were excited to finally have the IFS season back. So welcome back IFS and all of our customers! And don't worry if you missed last nights film because we are showing THE UNFORESEEN again tonight at 7 PM and 9 PM.