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CineCulture, together with Filmworks presents: NO, May 10: TOWER THEATER
CineCulture, together with Filmworks presents: NO, May 10: TOWER THEATER, 815 E. OLIVE AVENUE, FRESNO
NO (2012) May 10, 5:30 & 8:30: The Toronto Globe and Mail calls this Chilean political drama “a cunning combination of high-stakes drama and media satire.” Chile’s Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie stars Gael García Bernal as a young advertising executive who spearheads a campaign to free Chile from the rule of military dictator Augusto Pinochet. In 1988, due to international pressure, Pinochet is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Against all odds, with scant resources, and under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, the ad man and his team devise an audacious plan for the opposition to win the election and set Chile free. Based on the unpublished stage play “El Plebiscito,” written by Antonio Skármeta. In Spanish, with English subtitles. 118 minutes.
Discussion Circle
After the 5:30 show, join Dr. William Skuban to talk about the film. Dr. Skuban is a professor of Latin American history and chair of the Department of History at California State University, Fresno. He obtained his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of California, Davis with research specializations in Peruvian and Chilean history. He is author of the book, Lines in Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier (New Mexico, 2007), as well as various articles on nationalism, international relations and nation-state formation in publications such as Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Revista Andina, and the edited volume Ampliando miradas: Chile y su historia en un tiempo global (Santiago, 2009). Discussion moderated by Filmworks board member Dr. Mary Husain. http://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-wskuban.html
Advance tickets cost $10 general and $8 for students and seniors, and they can be purchased by check or cash at the Tower Theatre box office, 815 E. Olive Ave. Tickets and details are available at FresnoFilmworks.org or at (559) 960-7032.
For more information:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179, Fall Schedule # 73279) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Fresno State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact us in advance to your participation or visit:
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi
(Film Screening Friday, May 3, 5:30 p.m. Peter’s Education Center Auditorium west of Save-
Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building)
May 3: Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi
Discussant: Marilyn Mulford (Filmmaker)
The film follows exiled Chilean musician, Quique Cruz, from the Bay Area to Chile and
back to the U. S. in a unique journey as he creates his master work, a multimedia art piece to
heal his wounds inflicted by state sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime. He visits former
concentration camp sites and ruins, and talks to his mother about his disappearance and
incarceration for the first time in thirty years. To help tell his story, he searches for artist friends
who were incarcerated with him. In these intimate conversations—with writer Nubia Becker,
poet Anita Moreira and painter Guillermo Nuñez—we see these artists, and their art, as they re-
tell their experiences as political prisoners and talk of how they use their art for healing. The film
utilizes experimental footage, intimate accounts from Quique and the other protagonists, and art
to build dramatic tension. The Musical score is an intricate element of the film. The film spans
the years from Salvador Allende’s Chile through the coup led by Augusto Pinochet. It ends at the
former torture site in 2006 with the dedication by current Chilean President Michelle Bachelet of
a theater where Quique performs his piece in front of thousands of people. 55 minutes.
http://www.archeologyofmemory.org/
Co-Sponsors: Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures and Chicano Latin American Studies
Departments
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m.
on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and
staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course
(MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General
Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
Fresno State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If
you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access
provided, please contact us in advance to your participation or visit:
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Valley of Saints
(Film Screening Friday, April 26, 5:30 p.m. Peter’s Education Center Auditorium west of Save-Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building)
April 26: Valley of Saints (2012)
Discussant: Nicholas Bruckman (Producer)
Gulzar works as a boatman on the beautiful Dal Lake, paddling tourists to see some of the most spectacular landscapes of the Himalayas. Living with his uncle in a leaky shack and barely able to make ends meet, he plans to run off to Delhi with his best friend Afzal. A military crackdown derails their escape. Waiting for conditions to change, Gulzar is asked to escort a mysterious woman who is studying the impact of pollution on the lake. Gulzar starts to see how trash and sewage are a threat to the delicate ecosystem and learns simple methods to help alleviate the problem. But as Gulzar falls for Asifa, jealousy threatens his boyhood friendship with Afzal and he must make choices that had not occurred to him before. Poetic and romantic, this first film set in the endangered communities of Kashmir’s Valley of Saints blends fiction and documentary to bring audiences inside this unique world. In English/Kashmiri with English subtitles. 82 minutes.
Co-Sponsor: Center for Creativity and the Arts
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
9th Annual Fresno Film Festival April 19-21
CineCulture, together with Filmworks presents: 
: TOWER THEATER, 815 E. OLIVE AVENUE, FRESNO
Fresno Filmworks presents the 9th annual Fresno Film Festival at the historic Tower Theatre. This year’s festival will feature filmmaker discussions, social gatherings, and award-winning short- and feature-length films from all over the world. The lineup includes the American independent drama “On The Road,” an adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel; the Chilean biopic “Violeta Went to Heaven,” about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra; the Spanish silent film “Blancanieves,” an experimental interpretation of Snow White; and more.
Tickets for individual programs cost $10 general and $8 for students and seniors; festival passes cost $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Tickets and passes can be purchased starting April 1 at the Tower Theatre box office, 815 E. Olive Ave., or online at FresnoFilmworks.org.
For more information:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicutlural International (MI).
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Son of the Olive Merchant (2011)
April 12: Son of the Olive Merchant (2011)
Discussant: Mathieu Zeitindjioglou (Filmmaker)
For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey to learn about Mathieu’s Armenian heritage and the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Mathieu and Anna question and discuss the genocide with the people they meet during the trip, and what they learn is startling. Son of the Olive Merchant incorporates footage from their honeymoon mixed with additional interviews, news footage, historical documents and animation. In English, French & Turkish with English subtitles. 76 minutes.
Co-Sponsor: Armenian Studies Program
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Divorce in Iran
(Film Screening Friday, April 5, 5:30 p.m. Peter’s Education Center Auditorium west of Save-Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building)
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation) (2011)
Discussant: Dr. Partow Hooshmandrad
Set in contemporary Iran, the family drama A Separation shows the painful dissolution of a marriage. The movie has won dozens of international honors, including the 2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie tells the story of Simin, who wants to leave Iran with her husband, Nader, and their daughter. When Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer’s-suffering father, Simin sues for divorce. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but their daughter decides to stay with her father. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his ailing father in his wife’s absence, he hopes that his life will return to normal. However, when he discovers that the woman has been lying to him, he realizes there is more on the line than just his marriage. In Farsi, with English subtitles. Rated PG-13, 123 minutes.
Co-Sponsors: Middle East Studies Program & Persian Language and Culture Studies
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Is it getting hot in here…..?
March 22: Chasing Ice (2012)
Discussants: Joan Sharma & Peter Van De Water
In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk. Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality. It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet. Rated PG-13, 75 minutes.
Saturday, March 23: Environmental Guardianship Workshop at Arte Americas
Saturday’s workshop, 9 AM-1:30PM, will cover the Precautionary Principle and Guardianship of the Earth for Future Generations. Hands-on exercises from Joanna Macy’s books, Coming Back to Life and Active Hope, group discussions, Indigenous speakers and plans for next steps will empower participants to act on new insights gained from their experiences at the workshop and from the Sustainability Art Exhibits at Arte Americas.
Chief Crowfoot of the Canadian Blackfoot Nation said, What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Come, learn, be empowered – see our beautiful Earth with new eyes. We are her guardians, working to preserve her beauty and bounty so that our children and grandchildren may live to carry on the work.
Co-Sponsors: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom & Center for Creativity and the Arts
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Celebrating Women’s Herstory Month
Celebrating Women’s Herstory Month
(Film Screening Friday, March 15, 5:30 p.m. Peter’s Education Center Auditorium west of Save-Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building).
March 15: The Invisible War (2012)
Discussant: Kirby Dick (Filmmaker)
The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigation into one of America’s most disturbing secrets: the epidemic of rape within the US military. Focusing on the powerful stories of several young veterans, the film is a moving examination of the staggering personal and societal costs of these assaults. Meticulously researched, the film reveals that hundreds of thousands of service members have been assaulted over the past several decades, with nearly half of those assaulted being male. Combining interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress with the devastating testimony of veterans, the film catalogues the conditions that have protected perpetrators and allowed this epidemic to continue. Both a comprehensive inquiry and an insight into what can be done to bring about much-needed change, The Invisible War urges us all, civilian and military alike, to fight for a system that protects our men and women in uniform. Nominated for an Academy Award (Documentary Feature) 93 min.
Co-Sponsors: Fresno Center for Nonviolence, Peace Fresno, & Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom & Fresno County Women Lawyers’ Association
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Caesar Must Die
CineCulture, together with Filmworks presents: Caesar Must Die, March 8: TOWER THEATER, 815 E. OLIVE AVENUE, FRESNO
Caesar Must Die (2012): March 8, 5:30 & 8:30 p.m.
The Hollywood Reporter calls this Italian drama “a fascinating encounter between theater and reality.” Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear prize at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, the movie follows a group of real-life convicts as they rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar. Rebibbia Prison in Rome serves as the theater, as the prisoners compete for roles, immerse themselves in their characters, and carry their anxieties and hopes back to their cells each night after rehearsals. As the inmates struggle, their angry confrontations put the show in danger. On the anticipated opening night, the play is a success. But one inmate sums up the bittersweet experience: “Since I have known art, this cell has turned into a prison.” Directed by famed Italian filmmaker brothers Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. In Italian, with English subtitles. 76 minutes.
Discussion Circle
After the 5:30 p.m. show, join Fresno State professors Laurel and Howard Hendrix to talk about the film. Laurel Hendrix teaches Renaissance and late medieval literature, including Shakespeare. She has published articles on Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron, and she is currently teaching a course on Shakespeare and film. Howard V. Hendrix teaches literature and writing courses. He is the author of six novels and dozens of short stories. He has essays in current and forthcoming issues of Boom: A Journal of California (UC Press) and a novella due out shortly from Analog magazine. Discussion moderated by Filmworks board member Jefferson Beavers.
Tickets cost $10 general and $8 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased by check or cash at the Tower Theatre box office, 815 E. Olive Ave. For more information:
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/
CineCulture: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicutlural International (MI).
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Marilyn Monroe as a Misfit
(Film Screening Friday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. Peter’s Education Center Auditorium west of Save-
Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building).
March 1: The Misfits (1961)
Discussant: Lois Banner
The Misfits is the story of an aging burlesque performer (played by Marilyn Monroe), who
has come to Reno, Nevada, to secure a divorce, and her interactions there with three cowboys
(played by Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach). Set in Reno in the 1950s, with
many scenes shot at a rodeo and in the nearby desert, it is a parable of the overtaking of the
frontier by mechanization, of masculinity and femininity in a modernizing world, and of good
and evil in the human spirit. Monroe’s husband, Arthur Miller, wrote the screenplay; the
characters are based on their real life counterparts; Monroe speaks lines she spoke in real life.
Many film critics consider it to be among the finest American movies ever made. (Lois Banner)
124 minutes.
Co-Sponsors: Department of History and Women’s Studies Program
*Also on March 1, Presentation by Lois Banner: “Marilyn Monroe: Uncovering the
Mysteries of her Life and Death,” Peters Education Center Auditorium at 4 p.m.
Lois Banners’s 2012 biography, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, will be available for
purchase and author signing.
For more information: CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m.
on Fridays.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State campus students, faculty, and
staff, and community, at no charge. CineCulture is also offered as a 3 unit academic course
(MCJ 179) in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. CineCulture fulfills General
Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI).
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
For further information about CineCulture contact:
Dr. Mary Husain (Instructor & Club Adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Narek Avetisyan (Club President) at avetisyan1@mail.fresnostate.edu
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