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Fall 2010 International Film Series
September 8, 2010
MACOMB, IL - - Western Illinois University's Fall 2010 International Film Series offers 12 unique films on Wednesdays and Thursdays at Macomb's Rialto Cinemas, 1405 E. Jackson St.
The International Film Series is sponsored by WIU's College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC). For show times and costs, visit earlann.net/rialtocinemas.html or call (309) 833-2626.
One show – "John Rabe" – already has been featured. The balance of the fall lineup includes the following:
Sept. 8-9: "Winter's Bone" – Drama and thriller about an unwavering Ozark Mountain girl who hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Directed by Debra Granik. (R, 100 min.)
Sept. 15-16: "The Kids Are All Right" – Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life in a comedy directed by Lisa Cholodenko. The film stars Annette Bening and Juliana Moore. (R, 106 min.)
Sept. 22-23: "Harry Brown" – In the crime drama starring Michael Caine, an elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. Directed by Daniel Barber. (R, 103 min.)
Sept. 29-30: "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" – Jan Kounen directs this romantic drama of two foreign and misunderstood characters that were brought together in the early 1900s. The film details the relationship between the two and how they came together. (R, 120 min., black/white with French subtitles)
Oct. 6-7: "I Am Love" – A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, follows the fall of the haute Bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and love. (R, 120 min., Italian and Russian subtitles)
Oct. 13-14: "The Extra Man" – The comedy, directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, involves a man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's upper east side taking a young aspiring playwright under his wing. The film stars Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline and Cathy Moriarty. (R, 105 min.)
Oct. 20-21: "Get Low" – A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party while he was still alive. The film stars Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek and is directed by Aaron Schneider. (PG-13, 100 min.)
Oct. 27-28: "City Island" – Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies star in a film about the Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations and careers with one another and find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-convict, who is a corrections officer by day and a hopeful actor by night. Directed by Raymond De Felitta. (PG-13, 104 min.)
Nov. 3-4: "The Joneses" – A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors and are hiding something. Directed by Derrick Borte and starring David Duchovny and Demi Moore. (R, 96 min.)
Nov. 10-11: "Mother and Child" – Rodrigo Garcia directs the drama centered around three women: a 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago and an African American woman looking to adopt a child of her own. Starring Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson and Naomi Watts. (R, 125 min.)
Nov. 17-18: "Mao's Last Dancer" – A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, who, at the age of 11 was taken from a poor Chinese village and moved to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he defected and was a principal dancer with the Houston and Australian ballet companies.
Posted By: University Communications (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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