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13/3/2002

Film Series

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh

Carnegie Museum of Art Department of Film and Video
March/April Film Series
Film Series

Mexican Montage
March 14 - April 27, 2002

These seven recent films suggest the variety of outstanding Mexican productions in the past few years, including the work of accomplished and internationally respected directors, such as Arturo Ripstein and María Novaro, as well as first features by talented newcomers Alexander González Iñárritu, Oscar Urrutia Lazo, and Carlos Bolado.

This series is presented in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, and staff with valid ID are admitted free to this series.

Rito Terminal
Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.
Magical realism pervades this fascinating film as ancient ritual clashes with the modern world. Mateo, a young photographer from the city, loses his shadow while documenting a traditional ritual in a remote mountain village. During his quest to recover it, he is drawn into a supernatural odyssey in which he is forced to confront the onslaught of progress destroying indigenous Mexican cultures. This first feature from director Oscar Urrutia Lazo was filmed on location in the scenic mountains of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
(Mexico, 2000) 110 min.
Directed by Oscar Urrutia Lazo
In Spanish and Náhuatl with English subtitles

No One Writes to the Colonel
Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
Ripstein, Mexico's most distinguished director, has adapted this story from a novella of the same title by Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez. This magnificent and heart-wrenching film is set in the tropical heat and heavy rains of a decaying 1950s Mexico. There a retired colonel and his ailing wife vainly await, in rapturous melancholy, the arrival by mail of a long-promised military pension. With Salma Hayek.
(Mexico, 1999) 118 min.
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
In Spanish with English subtitles

Bajo California: The Limit of Time
Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
After a terrible automobile accident on the Mexico-California border, a guilt-ridden man abandons his family in search of redemption in the wilderness of his ancestral homeland, Baja California. As he treks the desert wastelands and climbs the Sierra Mountains, his encounters during this spiritual quest include the ghosts of Jesuit missionaries. Noted Mexican film editor Carlos Bolado's (Like Water for Chocolate) directorial debut is an allegorical road movie of stunning natural beauty with the resonance of poetry. Director Bolado will be present Saturday.
(Mexico, 1999) 96 min.
Directed by Carlos Bolado
In Spanish with English subtitles

Give Me Power
Thursday, April 4, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.
Todo El Poder, a brave and sophisticated political satire, reveals one of Mexico's most frightening realities: that much of the crime faced by its citizens is perpetrated either by the police or by gangs with official protection. Inspired by real events, this dark and irreverent comedy portrays a filmmaker who decides to take the law into his own hands by using his camera as a weapon against a band of dangerous thugs with high-level protection. Director Sariñana conceived his script after being robbed at gunpoint four times in Mexico City.
(Mexico, 1999) 102 min.
Directed by Fernando Sariñana
In Spanish with English subtitles

Fiber Optics
Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.
While conducting separate investigations of a seemingly routine crime of passion, an unemployed reporter and a mediocre lawyer slowly discover that they are pawns within a vast, hidden network of organized crime. The two men are led by a mysterious, spying "voice" that uses telephone and e-mail to issue commands. This romantic thriller dares to show how the digital revolution of the 1990s has entered into a monstrous coalition with the deeply ingrained political corruption of a Latin-American police state.
(Mexico, 1997) 100 min.
Directed by Francisco Athié
In Spanish with English subtitles

Without a Trace
Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
Winner of the Latin American Cinema Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Sin Dejar Huella is a smartly written and visually sumptuous road movie about two women on the run. Aurelia is a single mother who has fled her factory job and drug-dealing boyfriend; Ana is a smooth-talking smuggler of fake Mayan artifacts fleeing a corrupt cop. When they cross paths at a truck stop on Mexico's dusty northern border, they decide to travel together to the lush tropics of Yucatan, knowing that their budding friendship is built on secrets and deceptions.
(Mexico, 2000) 105 min.
Directed by María Novaro
In Spanish with English subtitles

Love's a Bitch
Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.
Amores Perros, Iñárritu's blistering debut feature, is an intensely emotional story of human and canine lives that violently collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, every moment in the film seethes with vitality and a passion for life, even at its harshest and bleakest. This enormously successful movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, and received a host of other international film awards.
(Mexico, 2000) 153 min.
Directed by Alexander González Iñárritu
In Spanish with English subtitles

Film Series

National Cinemas - Italy & Germany
March 15 - April 14, 2002

This series celebrates the recent publication of two books on national cinemas by professors of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh: Marcia Landy, Italian Film, and Sabine Hake, German National Cinema. The series is intended to pose the question of what it means to speak of a "national cinema" in a time when national identities, and "nation" as the basis of identity, are undergoing such radical changes, especially but not exclusively in Europe.

This series is presented in conjunction with the Center for West European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, and staff with valid ID are admitted free to this series.

National Cinemas Introductory Program
Friday, March 15
Kurtzman Room, main floor, William Pitt Union
11:45 Buffet Lunch
12:30 Keynote Talk by Toby Miller
Toby Miller, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University, will speak on the topic National Cinemas-Vital Culture or Yesterday's News?, followed by responses from professors Marcia Landy and Sabine Hake. Free to the public.

Lamerica
Friday, March 15, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 17, 5:00 p.m.
Lamerica takes place in mid-1990s Albania, a country on the brink of complete anarchy after the collapse of communism. Two shady Italian businessmen set up a fraudulent company with a half-crazy, barely intelligible old political prisoner as puppet chairman. When the old man unexpectedly disappears, young Amelio is dispatched to find him, only to be swallowed up in the surrounding social, political, and moral chaos. The metaphoric title of the film is one of many ways in which director Amelio (Stolen Children) questions the notion of "nation" in a new political, economic, and cultural order. The Friday screening will be introduced by Toby Miller, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University. (Italy, 1995) 120 min.
Directed by Gianni Amelio
In Italian with English subtitles

Heidi M
Friday, March 22, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 24, 5:00 p.m.
Heidi, a vivacious Berlin store owner in her late 40s, unexpectedly encounters her ex-husband and his young, pregnant girlfriend, reawakening old wounds. Heidi's amorous involvement with one of her customers, Franz, makes clear her need to resolve the past in order to pursue the future. Klier's extraordinary mix of melodrama, social critique, and road movie aesthetic has reflections of classic New German Cinema of the 1970s as viewed through the lens of a New Europe environment. The Pittsburgh premiere of this work by an outstanding young German director.
(Germany, 2001) 90 min.
Directed by Michael Klier
In German with English subtitles

Palombella Rossa
Friday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 31, 5:00 p.m.
Moretti, Italy's witty and celebrated social satirist, constructs an engaging comedy around, of all things, a communist water-polo player struck with amnesia. The ensuing emotional and ideological chaos is rendered in glorious parody with hilarious attacks on contemporary politics, culture, and media. While Felliniesque passages recall earlier moments in Italian film, Moretti's film evokes an international cultural environment in references like Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire."
(Italy, 1989) 93 min.
Directed by Nanni Moretti
In Italian with English subtitles

No Place to Go
Friday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 7, 5:00 p.m.
Die Unberührbare, evocatively filmed in black and white, is a wrenching portrait of middle-aged Hannah as she is torn apart by self-doubt and naiveté. The story is based on writer-director Roehler's real-life mother, renowned 1960s novelist Gisela Elsner (Riesenzwerge). Shattered by changes accompanying the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall and all it represented, Hannah seeks new beginnings for herself professionally, financially, emotionally. The bravura performance by actress Hannelore Elsner (no relation) as she works her way through binge shopping, drug abuse, flamboyant wigs, and rekindled romances portrays, without angry undertones, an entire German generation set adrift by shifting national, political, and cultural identities. Pittsburgh premiere of one of the most powerful 1990s German films.
(Germany, 1999) 100 min.
Directed by Oskar Roehler
In German with English subtitles

Bread and Tulips
Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 14, 5:00 p.m.
Pane e Tulipani tells the winning tale of Rosalba who, separated by accident from her husband and young son during a vacation trip, sets out penniless on her own for Venice. She finds work with a florist and moves in with a local waiter (wonderfully played by Bruno Ganz), while the husband hires a hilariously inept would-be detective to track her down. The result is a mix of comic farce and romantic discovery that speaks as much to an international audience as it does to traditions of Italian cinema and culture.
(Italy, 2000) 115 min.
Directed by Silvio Soldini
In Italian with English subtitles

Screenings


Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Rito Terminal

Friday, March 15, 7:30 p.m.
Lamerica

Saturday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.
Rito Terminal

Sunday, March 17, 5:00 p.m.
Lamerica

Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
No One Writes to the Colonel

Friday, March 22, 7:30 p.m.
Heidi M

Saturday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
No One Writes to the Colonel

Sunday, March 24, 5:00 p.m.
Heidi M

Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Bajo California: The Limit of Time

Friday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.
Palombella Rossa

Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Bajo California: The Limit of Time

Sunday, March 31, 5:00 p.m.
Palombella Rossa

Thursday, April 4, 7:30 p.m.
Give Me Power

Friday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
No Place to Go

Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.
Bajo California: The Limit of Time

Sunday, April 7, 5:00 p.m.
No Place to Go

Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.
Fiber Optics

Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
Bread and Tulips

Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.
Fiber Optics

Sunday, April 14, 5:00 p.m.
Bread and Tulips

Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Without a Trace

Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
Without a Trace

Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.
Love's a Bitch

Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.
Love's a Bitch

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Admission
Admission to CMA Cinema is $6; $5 for students, senior citizens, and Carnegie members; and $2 for CinéClub members. University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, and staff with valid ID are admitted free to the Mexican Montage and National Cinemas-Italy and Germany series.

Support
General support for the exhibitions and programs at Carnegie Museum of Art is provided by grants from The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Department of Film and Video programs are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, and Dr. Lila Penchansky.

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