[NEohioPAL] Tickets Now Available for LCCC's Stocker Arts Center Fall 2012 Film Series

[Kimberly Carrasquillo]

Tickets Now Available for LCCC's Stocker Arts Center Fall 2012 Film Series

>From exciting thrillers to inspiring dramas, film lovers will enjoy the excitement and variety of the Stocker Arts Center Fall 2012 Film Series at Lorain County Community College.

The fall series, sponsored by the LCCC Film Society, begins on Friday, September 7 with "A Separation," an engaging drama about the divorce of an Iranian couple.

Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3 each, which is good through the end of the 2012-2013 Film Series. The admission price for each film is $6 with the membership card. In addition to tickets to individual shows, anytime tickets are available for $6 each and may be used at any film from now through the end of the 2012-2013 film series.

Film memberships that are purchased now through September 6 will receive an extra free anytime film ticket as a bonus for early membership purchase.

The Stocker Arts Center box office is open Mondays through Fridays from 12-6 p.m. and one-and-one-half-hours before ticketed events, including films. For more information, call the box office at (440) 366-4040 or go to www.stockerartscenter.com <http://www.stockerartscenter.com> 

The Stocker Arts Center Film Series is truly an alternative cinema, as most of these films have not played in Lorain County and are often not readily available on video. Audiences have the opportunity to sample the gourmet flavor of prize-winning foreign films, and the exciting energy and originality of contemporary independent American and international cinema.

The Stocker Arts Center's Film Series focuses on human relationships, moral and social issues, cultural and religious diversity, and universal human emotions and aspirations, including humor, disappointment and tragedy.

Below is a listing of films in the LCCC Stocker Arts Center Film Society's Fall 2012 Film Series. The 2013 Winter/Spring series will be announced in December 2012.

 

A SEPARATION
Friday, September 7- 7:30 p.m.

2011 (PG) 122 min.  Iran/Subtitles; Director: Asghar Farhadi; Cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini

A discussion session will follow the film.

"A Separation" begins with the event of its title: Nader and Simin sit in front of a local judge debating their decision to get a divorce. Simin wants to move abroad, where she feels their daughter, Termeh, will have better prospects for the future. Nader feels he should stay in Iran with his elderly father, who has Alzheimer's. Simin believes the only solution is for the couple to separate. From this fractured start unravels a series of events that will lead to a single tragic incident, an incident that becomes the focus of a tense altercation between those involved, their families and friends, as well as the police. Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, delivers a morally complex tale, which never allows viewers to easily point the finger of blame, gradually revealing information that shows neither side is entirely innocent or guilty. Farhadi's film is made all the more memorable due to its outstanding performances: the ensemble cast picked up both Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and the film also won the Golden Bear, the first Iranian film to receive the accolade. It also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of 2011.

 

A BETTER LIFE
Friday, September 14 - 7:30 p.m.

2011 (PG-13)110 min. USA; Director: Chris Weitz; Cast: Demian Bichir, José Julián, Dolores Heredia

Carlos (Demian Bichir) is a hard-working Mexican-born gardener who does his best to fly under the radar of the authorities, living in fear of being stopped for a minor offense and facing deportation. In every other sense, he's law-abiding and staunchly ethical. Laboring long hours on a Los Angeles gardening crew, Carlos has singlehandedly raised his only son, Luis (José Julian), 14.  His wife left when Luis was very young, and Carlos has quietly carried on.  "A Better Life" follows the daily rigors of Carlos' job, tending lawns and risking peril to trim the towering palm trees of people far more fortunate. Meanwhile, Luis has begun to drift away, drawn to a local gang. He looks down on his father, regarding his work as servile. Nevertheless, Carlos sleeps on the couch in their one-bedroom apartment so Luis can have the bed and get enough rest to do well in school. Spurred by the desire to protect Luis from gang influences, Carlos takes a financial risk, investing what little he has to buy a truck and start his own gardening business. Things take a bad turn, and all Carlos has worked for is jeopardized.  Carlos and Luis team up to rectify things and, in the process, come to understand each other.  

 

FOOTNOTE

Friday, September 21 - 7:30 p.m.

2011 (PG) 105 min.  Israel/subtitles; Director: Joseph Cedar; Cast:  Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen, Alma Zack, Micah Lewensohn

A discussion session will follow the film.

Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work, while his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son Uriel, meanwhile, is thrilled to see his father's achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father's. Will he sabotage his father's glory?   "Footnote" won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

HIPSTERS

Friday, September 28 - 7:30 p.m.

2008 (Not Rated) 125 min. Russia/subtitles; Director: Valery Todorovsky; Cast: Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgeniya Brik

A smash success in Russia and winner of top Russian Awards, including Best Film, Best Sound, Best Art Design, and Best Costume Design, "Hipsters" is a candy-colored musical set in the drab Soviet Union of the 1950s. More political than "Hairspray," and way cooler than "High School Musical," it inspired a wave of Hipster parties across Russia. The movie sets to music the story of a strait-laced young Communist party member named Mels. In the midst of a raid on a group of kids caught wearing American-style clothes and listening to jazz, he's smitten with an adorable Hipster named Polly, who sports bright red lipstick and a poodle skirt. Casting caution and his grey uniform to the wind, the newly christened "Mel" barters on the street for a saxophone and a snappy checkered suit with huge lapels, and soon he's cultivating an awe-inspiring pompadour. But as the Hipsters face growing up in Cold War society, they realize that life isn't always a song and dance.

 

NICKY'S FAMILY

Friday, October 5 - 7:30 p.m.

2011 (Not Rated) 96 min.  Czech Republic, Slovakia; Director: Matej Minác; Cast: Sir Nicholas Winton, Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel

"Nicky's Family" tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton, now 102 years old, did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife, 50 years later, hadn't found a suitcase in the attic, full of documents and transport plans. Today, the story of this rescue is known all over the world. He was knighted by Queen Elisabeth II, and the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 583 recognizing his remarkable deed. More than 120,000 children in the Czech Republic signed a petition to award Nicholas Winton the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dozens of Winton's "children" have been found and to this day his family has grown to almost 6,000 people, many of whom have gone on to achieve great things themselves.  

"Nicky's Family" was named Best Documentary at the 2012 Montreal World Film Festival and it continues to move audiences across the United States, most recently winning 10 audience awards at U.S. film festivals.

 

HEADHUNTERS

Friday, October 12 - 7:30 p.m.

2011 (R) 101 min.  Norway/subtitles; Director: Morton Tyldum; Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnove Macody Lund

Based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, "Headhunters" is a psychological crime drama about a man living on both sides of the law who is caught in a dangerous game.  Roger Brown makes his living as a corporate recruiter, finding talented people who work for other companies and making them lucrative offers to join the firm currently signing his paychecks. Roger's work pays a handsome salary, but he suffers crushing insecurity when it comes to his beautiful wife Diana, and he constantly showers her with expensive gifts in hopes of staying on her good side. Between Diana's expectations and the expensive tastes of Roger's mistress Lotte, Roger needs cash, so he's taken on a high-paying second job - stealing rare works of art. Roger is just good enough and smart enough to know that he'll get caught eventually, and when he learns of a man with an authentic Rubens, he hopes to make one last score that will keep him well set for a long time. But Roger soon learns there's a catch - the man with the painting is also someone he's supposed to recruit for a client, and he's clearly a few steps ahead of Roger.

 

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
Friday, October 26 - 7:30 p.m.

2012 (PG-13) 118 min. United Kingdom; Director: John Madden; Cast: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy

"Everything will turn out all right in the end and if it is not all right, then it is not yet the end."  So says the young Indian owner of the Marigold Hotel. The story follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.  

 

THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
Friday, November 9 - 7:30 p.m.

2011 (Not Rated) 109 min.  France/subtitles; Director: Daniel Auteuil; Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Daniel Auteuil makes his directorial debut with this affectionate remake of a Pagnol classic. This sun-soaked melodrama stars Auteuil as Pascal Amoretti, a hard-working well-digger who is raising six girls on his own, after the death of his wife. Holding a special place in his heart is his beautiful eldest daughter, 18-year-old Patricia, who has come home from school in Paris to help care for her sisters. Patricia soon catches the eye of Jacques, the playboy son of a rich storekeeper. Their attraction quickly blossoms into something more, and when Jacques, a pilot, is suddenly called away to fight in the Great War, Patricia is left alone to face the consequences of their passion.  Upon learning that he is about to become a grandfather, Pascal is torn between honor and his love for his daughter. This is a beautiful story of love, family, work, and honor that never gets too sentimental but earns the many tears and smiles it evokes. Beautifully shot in the Provence countryside, the film captures all the warmth and humanist spirit of Pagnol's original. 

 

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Friday, November 16 - 7:30 p.m.

2012 (PG-13) 91 min. USA; Director: Benh Zeitlin; Cast: Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry

A 6-year-old girl from the southern Delta searches for her long lost mother after her father falls ill and the world spins out of balance in the film that took home the Grand Jury Prize and Best Cinematography award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. A harsh but loving father, Wink, swore that his beloved daughter, Hushpuppy, would be prepared for the day he was no longer able to look after her. Little did Wink realize that day would come sooner than anyone suspected, and when illness strikes him down nature runs amuck. As the soaring temperatures melt ice caps and the sea levels swell, a race of prehistoric beasts named the aurochs emerge to reclaim the planet. Meanwhile, as the apocalypse unfolds, determined Hushpuppy bravely sets out on a mission to reunite with the mother she's never known.  

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Kim Carrasquillo

Writer, Project Coordinator | Marketing and Outreach Initiatives
Lorain County Community College | 1005 N Abbe Road | Elyria, Ohio 44035
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