Parkside’s Foreign Film Series Set
By DUANE DUDEK
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside foreign film series resumes for its 27th season this fall in the newly renovated Union Cinema on the university campus at 900 Wood Road, Kenosha. The renovation included $100,000 in digital projection and sound equipment, updated acoustics, an assisted-listening system, a new concession area and new seats.
The foreign-language film series opens with a screening of Jafar Panahi’s “Offside,” about a group of Iranian women arrested for trying to attend a soccer game, Sept. 25-28, for which admission is specially priced at $2.
Season tickets for the subscription series are $25. The subscription package begins with “The Kite Runner” and does not include “Offside.”
The film series includes:
Oct. 9-12: “The Kite Runner” (U.S.), about a man who returns to Afghanistan to rescue the son of his best friend, based on Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel, by “Finding Neverland” director Marc Forster.
Oct 23-26: “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (Romania), an abortion drama set in Romania in 1987, where every action is political and fraught with consequence.
Oct. 30-Nov. 2: “L’Iceberg” (France), a farce about an unhappy woman who leaves her routine behind in search of icebergs.
Nov. 6-9: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (France), a fact- based story of a French magazine editor who awakens from a stroke paralyzed and speechless, who painstakingly dictates his memoirs by blinking his left eye.
Nov. 20-23: “After the Wedding” (Denmark), by Susanne Biers, about an orphanage worker in the slums of India with a secret past who is summoned to Copenhagen to receive a grant from a wealthy donor.
Dec. 11-14: “La Vie En Rose” (France), a 140-minute cradle-to- grave, stage-to-sanitarium biography of French chanteuse Edith Piaf that is a portrait of an abrasive diamond in the rough.
Jan. 22-25: “Persepolis” (France), the coming-of-age story of a young girl growing up in Iran under the shah and during the Islamic revolution. Oscar-nominated animated feature co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and based on her graphic novels.
Feb. 5-8: “The Band’s Visit” (Israel), about members of an Egyptian police orchestra who find themselves stranded in a small town in the Israeli desert. Winner of seven Israeli Academy Awards, including best picture.
Feb. 19-22: “Memories of Tomorrow” (Japan), with Ken Watanabe as a high-powered executive stricken with Alzheimer’s.
Feb. 26-March 1: “Lust, Caution” (Hong Kong), graphic psychosexual drama by Ang Lee, about a collaborator in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation who is seduced by a woman who is a member of a resistance group.
March 5-8: “Mafioso” (Italy), a rediscovered Italian mob comedy from 1964.
March 26-29: “Live-In Maid” (Argentina), in which a longtime domestic reassesses her life when her employer falls on hard times.
April 2-5: “12:08 East of Bucharest” (Romania), a story set on the 16th anniversary of the protests that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, when events are revisited on a small-town TV program, whose guests are an alcoholic and a windbag.
April 16-19: “The Counterfeiters” (Austria / Germany), best foreign-language film Oscar winner is a fact-based tale about a master forger in a concentration camp, recruited by the Nazis to counterfeit Allied currency.
For more information, go to www.uwp.edu and type in the key word “foreign films,” or call (262) 595-2345.
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