SDFF in Boulder! Nov 13-15

Friday, November 13th

7:00 PM FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN

A battle of the sexes told with myth and magic: Gustav Deutsch's erotically charged epic,crafted from extraordinary archive footage. (93 min)

9:30 PM LEAVES OF GRASS

"One Edward Norton performance is often enough reason to see a movie, so it comes as no surprise that the prospect of two--he plays twins--is very much the main attraction, and reward" of this film says Variety. (105 min)

Saturday, November 14th

7:00 PM BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS

Werner Herzog and Nicholas Cage revisit Abel Ferrara's 1992 film, that "in its own way every bit as sincerely, doggedly demented as its ostensible source." (121 min)

9:30 PM ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE HAIR GIRL

"De Oliveira celebrates his hndredth birhday with a blithe shaggy dog story that shows his storytelling at its simplest and most pleasurable." -Screen Daily (64 min)

Sunday, November 15th

7:00 PM BEST WORST MOVIE

"Strangely moving...insightful...consistently funny and smart about celebrity, vanity and bad movies -and what makes them lovable." -Variety (93 min)

9:30 PM TROLL 2

"Some filmes are so bad they're great. TROLL 2 is so bad that it's actally a life chaanging experience." -Horrorwwatch.com (95 min)

Daily Camera Letter to the Editor 11/05/09

When the Daily Camera contacted me for my opinion on the new art house theater I was away from my desk promoting my series on the radio and missed my chance to remind people about the International Film Series. The resulting article states that “Boulder has not had an art house presence since Landmark Theaters closed its Crossroads Cinema on Pearl Street in 2007.” Yikes! The IFS brings over a hundred international and independent films to Boulder every year, along with many special events. We are sometimes overlooked due to our location on campus, but we do our best to reward cinephiles with affordable and eclectic programming. We’ll even pay for your parking if you buy a punch card. People who patronize us have had a chance to see Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God), Terry Jones (Life of Brian), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), and many other filmmakers in-person (often for free). We’ve also been doing this since 1941; that’s not just a good art house presence, that's a singular track-record with bragging rights as Boulder's first art-house series - and still kicking.

Back to the new Dairy Center theater: It can only help to have another place showing quality foreign and independent films in the community. These films desperately need word-of-mouth and buzz which my calendar program can’t sustain since we only show films for a day (or sometimes two). On our Fall program alone we brought over 40 premieres to the Boulder area and only two non-premieres that had already shown at CineMark. Guess which film has done the best business so far? The one that had already shown at CineMark. It just goes to show that awareness is key, and the more the merrier. So welcome aboard!

Pablo Kjolseth

IFS Director

A short local view on the upcoming I CAN SEE YOU

http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/10/25/i-can-see-you/#more-15417

Happy Halloween Week!!

This week is filled with great movies to get in the holiday spirit! For great specials this week tweet @boulderifs halloween.

Film Festival Fundraiser!

AFRICAID’S

2009 Kisa Film Festival

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Screenings at 4:00 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Starz Film Center at the Tivoli

900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, Colorado

Admission is free, and parking in the Tivoli Student Union surface lot will be validated in the box office.

African Items, Books & Jewelry **** Coffee and Dessert

AfricAid will be screening several short films created by a number of Coloradans about their connections to, experiences, and work in Africa, as well as other African films. Come join us for some of the evening or for all of it, and share in the experience of personal digital storytelling and African filmmaking. We look forward to spending the evening together watching great films and supporting girls’education in Africa through the Kisa Project. For more information about the festival program, visit www.africaid.com.

The Kisa Project is an innovative AfricAid initiative that will directly link families and groups in the U.S. with some of Africa’s brightest young women – our Kisa scholars. American families and groups will raise funds for a Kisa Project scholarship, which will provide these young women with a school scholarship, entrance into a two-year leadership program, and individualized mentorship. During this period, the American sponsors will develop a meaningful relationship and forge strong bonds with their Kisa scholar, sharing in the joys and challenges of one another’s life stories through an interactive website. Upon graduation, these talented young women will return to their home communities to implement vital community projects and provide life-skills mentoring to other young women. In this way, the Kisa Project helps to uplift and support the next generation of leaders across Africa – and within your own community.

NO IMPACT MAN (Again)

As our screening of NO IMPACT MAN was so heavily impacted by technical problems we are going to show it again on:

Sunday, October 11 at 7pm only.
Sunday, October 18 at 7pm only.

Marina Goldovskaya

Marina Goldovskaya, world-famous award-winning Russian documentary filmmaker, professor (UCLA) presents:

Sunday, October 25, 3-6 pm, HUMANITIES 125

THE HOUSE ON ARBAT STREET, 1993, 59 min
The story of the people who lived in the House on Arbat Street in Moscow is the story of Russia in the 20th

century. Built in the early 1900s, this grand apartment building at first was a residence of rich and privileged families. Then, after the Revolution of 1917, it was turned into a collective housing unit. People from very different backgrounds were brought in and told to live together. Through historical footage and the reminiscences of former residents, some now 99 years old, the incredible story of the House on Arbat Street comes alive.

THE SHATTERED MIRROR, 1992, 60 min
This

film is an extraordinary personal journey through ordinary Russian life at a time of great change. The filmmaker uses her camera and familiarity with Russian society to present an intimate and piercing view of her fellow citizens and her country. At a fast-moving pace, we meet her friends and acquaintances, from the simple laborer to a newly rich entrepreneur. The filmmaker turns the camera on her own life as well, providing deeply personal revelations, through scenes of her own wedding and of her mother's death.

Monday, October 26, 3-5:30pm, ALTAS 102

A TASTE OF FREEDOM, 1991, 46 min. The film is a unique glimpse into the spring of 1990, a time of amazing change and urgency as Russia took its first steps after the fall of a 75-year old totalitarian regime. At the heart of it is a young family of journalists – Sasha Politkovsky (a prominent TV anchor), his wife Anna (who was destined to become a journalist of truly international fame for her coverage of the Chechnyan conflict and contemporary Russian issues) and their children.

THREE SONGS ABOUT MOTHERLAND, 2008, 39 min. This film gives a frank and vibrant picture of Russia today by focusing on its three different cities. In the Far East, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, older Russian citizens cling to the glorious promises of the Soviet Industrialization, and express disappointment at its ultimate failure. Then, Moscow bids farewell to Anna Politkovskaya, the fearless journalist and human rights activist who was assassinated for her political activity amid the chaotic power struggles of the post-Soviet nation. Finally, residents of Khanty-Mansijsk, one of the centers of Siberia’s budding oil industry, speak about their beloved fairy tale-like town, where the communist dream has been swept away by new aspirations for a prosperous future.

All screenings are free and open to the public

THE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE GCAH, DEPARTMENTS OF GSLL AND FILM STUDIES, AND THE SLAVIC DISCUSSION GROUP