From: saul ostrow (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2006 - 19:11:59 PDT
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> Vote for Pedro
> Between September 22 and October 1, we are presenting eight films
> by Pedro Almodóvar in Sony Classics’ nationally touring
> retrospective “Viva Pedro.” Moviegoers who would like to learn
> more about this great Spanish director during these two weekends
> can enroll in a two-day seminar being offered as part of the
> Cleveland Institute of Art’s Extended Studies program. The course,
> entitled “Pedro Almodóvar: Spanish Life and American Film,” is
> being taught by Charles Oberndorf, who has been a writing
> instructor at University School for 22 years and has written three
> novels. He is also a longtime Cinematheque regular. Charlie lived
> in Spain in the early 1980s and has followed contemporary Spanish
> cinema ever since. In his class, he will use film clips and
> discussions to explore Almodóvar’s place in post-Franco Spain,
> his fondness for melodrama, his affinity for 1950s American
> “weepies,” and his variations on the themes of freedom and
> desire. The two sessions are on two Sunday afternoons, September 24
> and October 1, from 2-4 pm. Cost for the course is $40, and
> registrants will be able to see any or all of the Almodóvar films
> for only $5 per movie. Or one can pay $64 and see all eight
> Almodóvar movies for free! Call (216) 421-7460 for more
> information, or to sign up.
>
> FRI. 9/22 7:30 PM WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS
> BREAKDOWN
> SAT. 9/23 5:30 PM ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
> SUN. 9/24 4:00 PM THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET
> SUN. 9/24 7:00 PM TALK TO HER
> THU. 9/28 7:00 PM LIVE FLESH
> FRI. 9/29 9:30 PM LAW OF DESIRE
> SAT. 9/30 7:30 PM LAW OF DESIRE
> SAT. 9/30 9:30 PM MATADOR
> SUN. 10/1 4:00 PM MATADOR
> SUN. 10/1 7:00 PM BAD EDUCATION
>
> Friday, September 22, at 7:30 pm
> Viva Pedro
> WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
> MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS
> Spain, 1989, Pedro Almodóvar
> Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas star in Pedro Almodóvar’s
> breakthrough film – a wild, colorful, stylish romp about an
> actress who flips out when her longtime lover leaves her. The NY
> Film Critics Circle chose this Best Foreign Film of 1988. Mercedes
> Noble-Reyes, onetime chair of the Cultural Journeys Committee of
> the Cleveland Int’l Film Festival and longtime Almodóvar fan,
> will introduce the movie. New 35mm color print! Subtitles. 88 min.
> www.vivapedro.com
>
> Saturday, September 23, at 5:30 pm
> Viva Pedro
> ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
> TODO SOBRE MI MADRE
> Spain/France, 1999, Pedro Almodóvar
> A Spanish actress and mother (Cecilia Roth), bereft over the
> accidental death of her teenage son, leaves Madrid for Barcelona.
> There she befriends three unusual women – a stage star, a
> transsexual prostitute, and a pregnant nun – and rekindles her
> will to live. Almodóvar’s moving, well-acted melodrama won the
> Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. With Penélope Cruz. New 35mm
> color print! Subtitles. 101 min. www.vivapedro.com
>
> Sunday, September 24, at 4:00 pm
> Viva Pedro
> THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET
> LA FLOR DI ME SECRETO
> Spain/France, 1995, Pedro Almodóvar
> “Almodóvar’s most open, unadorned, emotive and maybe even
> courageous film to date” (Time Out Film Guide) explores the
> personal and professional frustrations of a successful, forty-
> something writer of romance novels (Marisa Paredes). New 35mm color
> print! Subtitles. 103 min. www.vivapedro.com
>
> Sunday, September 24, at 7:00 pm
> Viva Pedro
> TALK TO HER
> HABLE CON ELLA
> Spain, 2002, Pedro Almodóvar
> Two men become friends while caring for their comatose girlfriends
> in this essential Almodóvar masterpiece that weaves matadors,
> modern dance, and silent movies into an exquisite emotional fabric.
> Winner of the European Film Award for Best Picture, the Oscar for
> Best Screenplay, and a slew of other int’l prizes. New 35mm color
> print! Subtitles. 112 min. www.vivapedro.com
>
> Thursday, September 28, at 7:00 pm
> Viva Pedro
> LIVE FLESH
> CARNE TRÉMULA
> Spain/France, 1997, Pedro Almodóvar
> Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, and Angela Molina star in
> Almodóvar’s surprisingly sober and straight-faced melodrama,
> based on a Ruth Rendell novel. It’s a tale of hatred, jealousy,
> and vengeance in which an ex-con, sent to jail for his accidental
> involvement in a police shooting, seeks revenge on the cop who put
> him away. New 35mm color & scope print! Subtitles. 100 min.
> www.vivapedro.com
>
> Friday, September 29, at 9:30 pm &
> Saturday, September 30, at 7:30 pm
> Viva Pedro
> LAW OF DESIRE
> LA LEY DEL DESEO
> Spain, 1987, Pedro Almodóvar
> Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas star in the second Almodóvar film
> released in the U.S. – one of his funniest and wildest! A blend of
> fantasy, erotic comedy, and murder mystery, the movie charts the
> loves of a gay film director and his transsexual brother-turned-
> sister. No one under 18 admitted! New 35mm color print! Subtitles.
> 100 min. www.vivapedro.com
>
> Saturday, September 30, at 9:30 pm &
> Sunday, October 1, at 4:00 pm
> Viva Pedro
> MATADOR
> Spain, 1986, Pedro Almodóvar
> Antonio Banderas, Assumpta Serna, and Carmen Maura star in one of
> Almodóvar’s earliest – and greatest – films. It’s a lush,
> shocking, eroticized black comedy about a retired bullfighter and
> his handsome protégée, who faints at the sight of blood and
> fantasizes that he has committed a series of murders. “Sumptuously
> sick and funny.” –Pauline Kael. No one under 18 admitted! New
> 35mm color print! Subtitles. 106 min. www.vivapedro.com
>
> Sunday, October 1, at 7:00 pm
> Viva Pedro
> BAD EDUCATION
> LA MALA EDUCACIÓN
> Spain, 2004, Pedro Almodóvar
> Gael García Bernal stars in Almodóvar’s Hitchcockian jigsaw
> puzzle -- about a young man who convinces an old school friend, now
> a film director, to make a movie about their often dark and
> disturbing student days at a Catholic boys’ school. The New York
> Film Critics Circle voted this Best Foreign Film of 2004. Rated
> NC-17; no one under 18 admitted! Subtitles. 35mm. 105 min.
> www.vivapedro.com
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> 16 MM FILM CLASS AVAILABLE
> The Cleveland Institute of Art's Extended Studies program is
> offering a 16mm film class starting September 26. Film instructor
> Robert Banks will lead the class in understanding and using
> lighting, optics, edting, and use of color for one group project
> and one independent film project. Banks is a longtime filmmaker
> and local artist, his films have been screened at the Rotterdam
> Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Sundance, the
> NY Underground Film Festival, among other venues.
>
> Please call Susan Skoczen at (216) 421-7461 or visit the Extended
> Studies website at www.cia.edu
> --
> Timothy Harry
> Assistant Director, Cleveland Cinematheque
> at The Cleveland Institute of Art
> (216) 421-7450 PHONE
> (216) 754-3632 FAX
> email suppressed
> www.cia.edu/cinematheque
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