Le Mepris (15)
Posted By Attique Rehman at 20/05/2010 09:59:15
Starring:Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Picoli
Director:Jean-luc Godard
Genres:Drama
Country:France
Widely acknowledged as a classic, Le Mepris is a story of a couple in a tempestous marriage.Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. But because he let his wife Camille drive with Prokosch and he is late, she believes, he uses her as a sort of present for Prokosch to get a better payment. So the relationship ends.
"Godard has finally dared to get serious,achieving not mock pathos but perfect tragedy" Joshua Rothkopf(Time Out,NY)
This film will include an Introduction at 6.15pm by Dr Grame Hayes,lecturer in French studies.Tickets will be available at the door for £2 and doors will be open from 6pm.
Certificate:15
Year of Release:1963
Run Time:1hr 40mins
Language:French(English subtitles will be provided for this film)
Ashes of Time Redux (15)
Posted By Attique Rehman at 13/05/2010 12:55:02
Starring:Li Bai, Jacky Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau
Director:Kar Wai Wong
Genres:Action/Adventure
Country:Hong-Kong
The
Ashes of Time is a story of a broken hearted hitman who moves to the
desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carryout his contract
killings. Master Hong Kong film maker Wong Kar-wai directed this
lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the
film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum
for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features
a virtual who's-who of the Hong Kong film world.
Winner of the
Best Asian Film Award in 1997, Hong-Kong Film Award, Golden Osella
Award and a total of 10 wins and 9 nominations.
“One of the
rare movies that can be enjoyed strictly for style and atmosphere, It
is difficult, demanding, maddening, a beautiful, astonishing, surreal-
and a masterpiece” Jeffrey M. Anderson
Tickets will be available at the door for £2 and doors will be open from 6.10pm.
Certificate:15
Release Year:1996
Run Time:1hr 35mins
Language: Cantonese(English subtitles will be provided for this film)
Once (15)
Posted By Attique Rehman at 07/05/2010 15:35:37
Cast:Alaistair Foley, Catherine Hansard, Darren Healy and Senan Haugh
Director:John Carney
Genres:Drama,Musical,Romance
Country:Ireland
A Dublin-based busker and vacum-cleaner repairman enters into a relationship with a piano playing florist.
One day, after admiring the musician's songs and asking if he would take a look at her broken vacum, the flower-pushing piano player discovers that she shares a remarkable sonic rapport with the guitarist.Directed by John Carney and featuring a cast comprised entirely of professional musicians.
Winner of 2008 Oscar Award, Critics Choice Award, COFCA Award, Audience Award and a total of 13 awards with 19 nominations.
"Easily one of the best films of the year" John.P
This film will be introduced at 6.15pm by Mairead Ni Bhriain, lecturer in French studies.Tickets will be available at the door for £2 and doors will be open from 6.10pm.
Certificate:15
Release Date:2007
Run Time: 1hr 25min
Language:English
Outside the Law:Stories from Guantanamo
Posted By Attique Rehman at 21/04/2010 09:18:15
Director(s):Polly Nash & Andy Worthington
Run time:75mins + Question & Answer session immediately after the screening
Outside the Law tells the story of Guantánamo ( including sections on extraordinary rendition and secret prisons) with a particular focus on how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and international laws, how prisoners were rounded up in Afghanistan and Pakistan without adequate screening (and often for bounty payments), and why some of these men may have been in Afghanistan or Pakistan for reasons unconnected with militancy or terrorism (as missionaries or humanitarian aid workers, for example).
The film is based around interviews with former prisoners (Moazzam Begg and, in his first major interview, Omar Deghayes, who was released in December 2007), lawyers for the prisoners (Clive Stafford Smith in the UK and Tom Wilner in the US), journalist and author Andy Worthington, and also includes appearances from Guantánamo’s former Muslim chaplain James Yee, Shakeel Begg, a London-based Imam, and the British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce.
There will be a question and answer session with the director of the documentary,Andy Worthington and former Guantanamo Bay prisoners, Omar Deghayes and Moazzam Begg.
"The film was fantastic!It has the unique ability of humanizing those who were detained at Guantanamo like no other seen." Sari Gelzer, Truthout
This screening will take place on Tuesday 4th May at 6.30pm in the Aston Students' Guild, FREE to all Aston University community however booking is essential.To place a booking, please email: a.u.l.rehman@aston.ac.uk
This event is brought to you by the Aston Triangle Cinema Club in collaboration with the Aston Students' Guild
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