TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH 2009Six acclaimed new films, direct from the 2009 Telluride Film Festival Many screenings are sold out. Remaining tickets are available online or through the Hopkins Center Box Office (603.646.2422). CLICK HERE TO BUY T@D TICKETS. All seats $12. Note: While many shows are sold out, tickets are often available for private re-sale in the lobby before show time. You can also check with the Box Office (603.646.2422) periodically as a few tickets could become available before show time. Friday, September 184:00/6:30/9:00 pm AN EDUCATIONWe would say to remember Carey Mulligan's name, but after seeing this 24-year-old's debut, there's no chance you'll forget it. In Lone Scherfig's irresistible coming-of-age story, adapted by Nick Hornby, Mulligan plays Jenny, a spirited student getting two educations in early 1960s Twickenham—one in English literature from a kindly schoolteacher and the other in the school of life from a smooth-talking hustler (Peter Sarsgaard) twice her age. At the center of an extraordinary ensemble that also includes Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson, Mulligan flicks her hair ever just so, peppers her conversation with bits of French to sound more sophisticated, and finds that book learning can't fend off grown-up heartbreak. It's the kind of performance for which the phrase “a star is born” was invented. (U.K., 2009, 95m) Courtesy of Sony Classics Saturday, September 194:00/6:30/9:00 pm COCO BEFORE CHANELAnne Fontaine traces famed designer Coco Chanel's early life, from French orphanage and years as a barroom chanteuse to the development of her distinctive fashion aesthetic. Haute couture—and the sense of an artist coming into her own—has seldom been as wondrous to behold. Featuring the superb Audrey Tautou, and already a smash hit in France, COCO shows Chanel, with inspiration from such unlikely sources as a fisherman's shirt and a man's riding jacket, countering the frills and corsets still dominating women's fashion in early 20th-century Paris. There is a grand, tragic romance with a British playboy and a lasting friendship with a patron, while costume designer Catherine Leterrier's magnificent fabrics are practically characters in themselves. In French with subtitles. (France, 2009, 105m) Courtesy of Sony Classics Sunday, September 203:00/5:30/8:00 pm THE LAST STATIONWriter-director Michael Hoffman delivers a thrilling comic-dramatic account of Leo Tolstoy's final months. Played with quiet authority by Christopher Plummer, our Tolstoy has renounced fiction, built a school to educate peasants and advocates socialism, pacifism and sexual chastity. His new secretary (James McAvoy) becomes the comic foil between two formidable opponents scheming for control of Tolstoy's estate. One is Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), a rigid true believer, who wants to spread Tolstoyan doctrines around the world. The other is Sofya (Helen Mirren), Tolstoy's wife of 48 years and the mother of his 13 children, who proved her dedication by copying, by hand, War and Peace…six times. Their marital squabbles are riveting, with Mirren's hairpin turns between comedy and tragic humiliation. (GER/RUS, 2009, 107m) Courtesy of The Little Film Co. A discussion with Jay Parini (author of the novel The Last Station) follows the 3pm screening. It begins at 5pm in the Hanover Inn's Hayward Lounge. All are welcome. Monday, September 214:00/6:30/9:00 pm VincereFor 40 years, writer-director Marco Bellocchio has been a ferocious critic of Italian institutions: family, church and political system. His latest is no different but now tinged with the plaintive sadness of a mature master. VINCERE follows the tragic story of Benito Mussolini's mistress Ida Dalser, who bore Il Duce a son and whose desperate efforts to be acknowledged ensured her doom. With his brilliant use of newsreel footage, Bellocchio suggests how Mussolini's rise was enabled by the new mass medium of cinema (a fistfight in a movie theater between fascists and communists is a high point). He also mirrors Ida's descent with the sentimentality of '30s melodrama, making Dalser's suffering emblematic of the nation's ordeal under the fascists. In the central roles, Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi are mesmerizing. In Italian with subtitles. (Italy, 2009, 128m) Courtesy of IFC Films Tuesday, September 224:00/6:30/9:00 pm BRIGHT STARThe consuming but unconsummated passion between the poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne spawned some of the most celebrated love letters in literary history. In the lyrical and lushly expressive new film by Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Abbie Cornish gives a beautifully nuanced performance as the shy young seamstress whose knowledge of both poetry and human desire deepens under the thrall of the brilliant young bard (Ben Whishaw), while Paul Schneider nearly walks off with the movie as Keats's possessive friend and patron. With a master's touch, Campion transports us back to a time when poems were commonplace, while reminding that the artistic soul cannot be nourished by intellect alone. "My Love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you," wrote Keats to Brawne. Likewise, BRIGHT STAR takes our breath away. (New Zealand, 2009, 119m) Courtesy of Apparition Films Wednesday, September 234:00/6:30/8:30pm THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANESTHE LAST TRUCKPart city symphony, part visual poem, THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES explores the invisible life of London, its patterns and hidden secrets, seen through the eyes of crane drivers working far above its streets. What emerges is a lyrical meditation about how our existence is shaped through the environment we inhabit, for both the denizens of the sky and the ground. (U.K., 2008, 27m) Courtesy of Girl Out Prod. / Two days before Christmas 2008, the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio closed and 2,700 people lost their jobs. THE LAST TRUCK views the plant's final months through the workers' eyes as they reflect on the pride they take in their product and re-imagine their future. In revealing interviews with people who considered themselves more family than co-workers, the film captures the emotional toll of losing not just a job, but a sense of self. (U.S., 2009, 40m) Courtesy of HBO Films |
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