Sundays, 2 PM, Kerr McGee Auditorium in the鈥疢einders School of Business
NW 27th Street and McKinley Ave, 向日葵视频 City, OK 73106
A discussion session follows each film for those who wish to stay
Free Admission, Donations Appreciated
Director: Dr.鈥疕arbour Winn, [email protected]
For More Information, Call (405) 208-5472
September 25, 2011, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Marcel Camus鈥� Black Orpheus, Brazil (1959), 100 Min.
Set amidst the frenzy of carnival time in Rio de Janeiro, the opening film Black Orpheus combines fantastic fact with frenzied fiction. Camus grafts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice onto the modern slums of Rio at carnival time.
October 9, 2011, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Lee Chang-dong鈥檚 Poetry, South Korea (2010), 139 Min.
Poetry is about an aging woman who is faced with a crippling medical diagnosis and complex family realities, but finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class. Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed 鈥淪ecret Sunshine鈥� is considered a masterful study of the subtle empowerment鈥攁nd moral compass鈥攐f an elderly woman. It won the best screenplay prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
October 23, 2011, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
George Sluizer鈥檚 The Vanishing, USA (1993), 109 Min.
A psychological thriller, The Vanishing tells the story of a young man's obsessive search for his girlfriend after she disappears at a rest stop during a short trip. The film, frightening and moving with a chilling conclusion, is a small masterpiece as director Sluizer confronts and examines the true nature of evil and obsession in all its methodical, exacting banality.
November 6, 2011, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Ken Loach鈥檚 Kes, UK (1969), 110 Min.
Named one of the 10 best British films of the century by the British Film Institute, Kes stands as cinema鈥檚 quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. The story is about Billy, a 15-year-old miner鈥檚 son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dreary life. Using real locations and nonprofessional actors, Loach鈥檚 poignant coming-of-age drama remains one of England鈥檚 most beloved and influential films.
January 22, 2012, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Jean Renoir鈥檚 The River, India (1951), 99 Min.
Renoir described his film with the quote, 鈥渁 film about India without elephants and tiger hunts.鈥� Guided by Rumer Godden鈥檚 autobiographical novel, he rejected the India of exotic action and spectacle to make a meditative film set beside a tributary of the Ganges. Renoir鈥檚 entrancing color feature contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the river, around which their daily lives unfold. Into this expat community of schoolgirls and widows arrives a wounded American war veteran whose presence awakens a host of desires. The River鈥檚 success launched a new era of portraying India on screen. Film director Martin Scorsese called it one of 鈥渢he two most beautiful color films ever made. I watch that film three times a year. Sometimes four.鈥滻t was one of the two most requested films on the evaluation forms from last year鈥檚 OCU film series.
February 5, 2012, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Majid Majidi鈥檚 Children of Heaven, Iran (1997), 89 Min.
After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
February 19, 2012, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Claudia Llosa鈥檚 The Milk of Sorrow, Spain (2009), 94 Min.
Winner of the Golden Bear for best picture at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, The Milk of Sorrow reflects the legacy of sexualized violence. Gently paced and exquisitely shot, its story鈥攖inged with magical realism鈥攖ells of an anxious young woman finding her way in the world after the death of her mother and Peru鈥檚 grim decadesof civil strife with the Shining Path insurgents. Plumbing the generational reverberations of trauma, believed by the indigenous population to be passed on through a mother鈥檚 milk, Llosa. The niece of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, explores the possibility of female empowerment in a culture suffocated by superstition and poverty.
March 4, 2012, Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff, Japan (1954), 124 Min.
In medieval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Admission to the film series is free to the public. Donations to help sustain the institute鈥檚 mission are appreciated. Donations can be made at each film, mailed to the OCU Film Institute Endowment or to the OCU Film Institute鈥檚 Designated Endowment in the Community Foundation of the Kirkpatrick Family Fund. 向日葵视频 City University and the Thatcher Hoffman Smith Endowment Fund for the University鈥檚 Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film and Literature also support the institute.
