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Hunger
Showing at the Real West Cinema
11585 Hwy. 180 E, 575.538.5659
August 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Admission $8.00, WNMU Students with ID Free
Directed by Steve McQueen
IRELAND, Runtime 96 mins.
Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish National Liberation Army but a provisional volunteer with the IRA, acted with the IRA as part of a broader Irish Republican movement within the Long Kesh prison where this movie occurs. He led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the "no wash" protest (led by Brendan "The Dark" Hughes) in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatizes events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands' death.
The film opens with prison guard Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) preparing to leave for work; checking under his car for bombs, putting on his uniform in the locker room and ignoring his colleagues' attempts at cameraderie. Davey (Brian Milligan), a new IRA prisoner, arrives at the gaol, and following his refusal to wear the prison uniform, he is labeled "non-cooperative." His new roommate, Gerry (Liam McMahon), has smeared the cell with feces from floor to ceiling in resistance to the prison regime.
Sands is the focus of the film. He deeply believes in the cause that he was imprisoned for and in the righteousness of dying to win political status for Republican prisoners. In one of the film's most notable scenes Sands debates the morality of the hunger strike with a visiting priest (Liam Cunningham).
Website: Hunger
Sponsor:
Manzanita Ridge
Presentd by the WNMU-Silver City International Film Society |
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Departures
Showing at the Historic Silco Theater
311 N Bullard St, 575.534.9005
August 21, 2009 at 7:00 PM
August 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM
August 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Admission $6.00, WNMU Students with ID Free
Directed by Yojiro Takita
JAPAN, Runtime 2 hrs. 10 mins.
Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Website: Departures
Sponsor:
The Curious Kumquat &
Mary Dearhamer
Presentd by the WNMU-Silver City International Film Society |
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Easy Virtue
Showing at the Real West Cinema
11585 Hwy. 180 E, 575.538.5659
September 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Admission $8.00, WNMU Students with ID Free
Directed by Stephen Eliott
UK, Runtime 97 mins.
To his ancestral seat, a fresh young man named John (Ben Barnes) brings his great love Larita (Jessica Biel) to meet his hostile mother (Kristin Scott Thomas), his shambling father (Colin Firth) and his unfortunate sisters Marion (Katherine Parkinson) and Hilda (Kimberley Nixon), one snobbish, the other fawning. Perhaps the innocent John never realized how toxic his mother and elder sister were until Larita arrived to attract their poison. Larita is an auto racer, the recent winner of the Monaco Grand Prix. It's worth remembering that in the 1920s, racing drivers and pilots were admired almost like astronauts (see Shaw's "Man and Superman") are today, and females were goddesses. Yet Larita, an American unschooled in the labyrinth of the British upper crust, earnestly hopes to make her alliance with John a success. She does everything that an American girl is taught to do, even supervising the preparation of what may be the first edible meal ever served in the stately home (recall that all-purpose 1920s Brit recipe: "Cook until dead"). Scott Thomas and Colin Firth are old hands at their characters, the one brittle and unpleasant, the other depressed, disillusioned and unhappily wed. Ben Barnes is your prototypical fresh young man. Jessica Biel will surprise some with her skill; she takes to Coward as if to the manner (if not manor) born.
Website: Easy Virtue
Sponsor:
It Could Be You!!
Presentd by the WNMU-Silver City International Film Society |
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