LIMITE
dir. Mário Peixoto
(1931, 120 min)
Tuesday, March 20
7:30 PM
SLC 171
Monotonous? Very. Self-indulgent? Obviously. Perfect? By no means. Brilliant, ambitious and innovative? Yes - and that is only the beginning. Also include adjectives such as 'poetic,' 'forceful,' and 'mythical' and you will have a better idea of this classic.
—Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT
dir. María Luisa Bemberg
(1993, 102 min)
Tuesday, March 27
7:30 PM
SLC 171
Subtly Fellini-esque right down to the casting of Marcello Mastrioianni as the leading man, this first directorial effort by Argentina's María Luisa Bemberg is as merrily macabre as a troop of carnival clowns with their painted-on smiles, as darkly spellbinding as a Grimm brothers fairy tale.
—Monica Hayde, PALO ALTO ONLINE
JAPÓN
dir. Carlos Reygadas
(2002, 128 min)
Tuesday, April 3
7:30 PM
SLC 171
The 31-year-old Mexican writer-director Carlos
Reygadas, in his first feature film, creates an
obscure and haunting and unpredictable parable
covering the same themes as Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 A
TASTE OF CHERRY.
—Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
LAND IN ANGUISH
dir. Glauber Rocha
(1967, 106 min)
Tuesday, April 10
7:30 PM
SLC 171
LAND IN ANGUISH, an explosive study of art and politics in the third world, is Glauber Rocha's most personal film as well as his most brilliant contribution to political cinema.
—Robert Stamm, JUMP CUT
THE SWAMP
dir. Lucrecia Martel
(2001, 103 min)
Tuesday, April 17
7:30 PM
SLC 171
By their nature, movies limit the senses to sight and sound, but Martel creates a world so hazy, dense, and oppressive that it has a tactile quality, hot as the jungle intruding on the estate's borders.
—Scott Tobias, ONION A.V. CLUB
BATTLE IN HEAVEN
dir. Carlos Reygadas
(2005, 98 min)
Tuesday, April 24
7:30 PM
SLC 171
Provocative, explicit, horrifying, uncompromising, yet unmistakably humanist, BATTLE IN HEAVEN is the film that Bruno Dumont should have made after L'HUMANITÉ.
—Acquarello, STRICTLY FILM SCHOOL
NOTE: GRAPHIC MATERIAL. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
