January 17 – THE CINDERELLA MAN



All films will be screened Tuesday nights at 7:00pm in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, except those marked with **, which will be screened in the Miles Auditorium of the Mechanical Engineering Building.

January 17 – CINDERELLA MAN

RUSSELL CROWE, RENEE ZELLWEGER. Directed by RON HOWARD. Fact-based story of depression era boxing champ James J. Braddock. The film opens with Braddock winning a fight in 1928 and becoming a contender for a championship bout. The film then quickly jumps five years into the future. The depression is on and Braddock has had a series of defeats. Fighting injured, including with a broken hand, made him less of a fighter. Braddock, like many others in that era, lost everything in the stock market and scrimping by on the small fights he can get and on dock work. When his trainer manages to get him one more fight on the spur of the moment against the current #2 contender, Braddock rises to the occasion…. PG-13–2005.

January 24 – THE CONSTANT GARDENER

RALPH FIENNES, RACHEL WEISZ. Directed by FERNANDO MEIRELLES. Based on the best-selling John le Carré novel and from the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God. In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. R–2005.

January 31 – THE MARCH OF THE PENGUINS

CHARLES BERLING, ROMANE BOHRINGER. Directed by LUC JACQUET. From the team that brought us Winged Migration…. Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. And more… G–2005.

February 7 – DOWNFALL

BRUNO GANZ, ALEXANDRA MARIA LARA. Directed by OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL As the Russians advance through Berlin in the spring of 1945, Adolf Hitler and his remaining military and secretarial staff shelter in his large bunker complex in the centre of the city. His mood swings between completely unjustified optimism that his forces will still break through, and rage against the incompetence and betrayal of his military commanders. Reality does finally start to break through and the Fuhrer and the others in the bunker start to make their final personal preparations for the inevitable. Great acting job from Bruno Ganz. R–2004.

February 14 – CITY OF GHOSTS

MATT DILLON, JAMES CANN. Directed by MATT DILLON. A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he's been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground. R–2002.

February 21 – THE BIG SLEEP **

HUMPHREY BOGART, LAUREN BACALL. Directed by HOWARD HAWKS. Private-eye Philip Marlowe is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's youngest daughter, Carmen, who has fallen into bad company and is likely to do some damage to herself and her family before long. He soon finds himself falling in love with her older sister, Vivien, who initially takes a deep dislike to Mr Marlowe. However, the plot thickens when murder follows murder...

PG-13–1946.

February 28 – MURDER BALL**

Keith Cavill, Andy Cohn, Scott Hogsett, Christopher Igoee, and Bob Lujano. Directed By Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro. A film about quadriplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. More than merely a sports documentary or an inspirational profile of triumph over adversity, Murderball offers a refreshing and progressive attitude toward disability while telling unforgettable stories about uniquely admirable people. Murderball was one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of 2005. PG-13 -- 2005

March 7 – HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

JENNIFER CONNELLY, BEN KINGSLEY. Directed by VADIM PERELMAN. Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter's chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house's former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results. R –2003.

March 21 – LORDS OF DOGTOWN

ROBINSON, EMILE HIRSCH. Directed by CATHERINE HARDWICKE. A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend. PG-13–2005.

April 4 – CHARACTER Jan Decleir, Jonathan Maxwell Reeves. Directed by Mike van Diem.

Character, the 1997 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is an Oedipal struggle both primal and epic with a Dickensian sweep and a dark Kafka-esque center. The film starts with a heated argument between two men, and when the elder is found dead with a knife in his chest the younger man is arrested and revealed to be his son…. Adapted by first-time director Mike Van Diem from the 1938 novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk, this handsome epic is assured from the first frame, and excellent performances by Decleir (whose imposing Dreverhaven seems to tower over all by will as much as by size) and van Huet bring to life this study of two tortured psyches whose love emerges only through conflict and competition. 1997-R

April 11 – SAFETY LAST

HAROLD LLOYD, MILDRED DAVIS. Directed by FRED NEWMEYER. Country boy (Lloyd) heads to the big city to seek success. While working as a clerk in a department store, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone who can bring more customers to the store. He then arranges for a friend, a "human fly," to climb the face of the store building as a publicity stunt. Unfortunately the "human fly" is a wanted man, and when "The Law" shows, our hero must make the climb, himself. At each ledge he encounters new difficulties, climaxing in the famous 'clock scene.' 1923. Tonight's film features Chris Brown, the Chopin of the Ozark Plateau on piano. Underwritten by the Civil Engineering Department.

April 18 – THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH

JENNI COURTNEY, PAT SLOWEY. Directed by JOHN SAYLES. Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a selkie -- a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle, and some think that he is being raised by the seals. Then Fiona catches sight of a naked little boy on the abandoned isle of Roan Inish, and takes a more active role in uncovering the mysteries which abound. PG – 1994.

April 25 – GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK

DAVID STRATHAIRN, ROBERT DOWNERY JR. Directed by GEORGE CLOONEY.

Without force-feeding its timely message, Good Night, and Good Luck illuminates history to enlighten our present, when the need for a free and independent press is more important than ever. The film is an honorable tribute to the journalistic integrity of legendary CBS newscaster Edward R. Murrow, who confronted the virulent and overzealous anti-Communist witch-hunting of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1953-54, and emerged as a triumphant truth-seeker against the abuses of corporate and governmental power. While using crisp black-and-white cinematography by Robert Elswit to vividly recreate the electrifying atmosphere of the CBS newsroom and the early years of television, Clooney (son of long-time Cincinnati newsman Nick Clooney) proves his directorial skill by juggling big themes and an esteemed ensemble cast, never stooping to simplification of ethically complex material. PG--2005

May 2 – THE MEANING OF LIFE

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones. Directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. The comedy group’s last full length movie returns to the feel of the hugely popular BBC TV show. It features small comedy sketches dealing with all of the stages and trials of life. Expect the un-expected. Plenty of religious, vulgar, and sexual humor sure to offend everybody at some point. There are even musical numbers, but with that same unmistakable brand of Python humor. R-1983

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