Smart Arts
Events
Friday Night Film
Series
The fall season features six outstanding recent films. It includes a brief introduction to each film, program notes, and discussions. Performances begin at 8:00 pm in the Academic Arts Theatre.A season subscription costs only $48; for Westchester Community College students, staff, and seniors
over 60, the cost is $42. A single admission, when available, is $9 ($8 for seniors).
Professor Bill Costanzo is your host. For further information, call 914-606-6700. (For campus closings due to weather, call 914-606-6900).
Infrared listening devices are available at the box office.
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Fall
2008 Film Series |
September - October |
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The Fall season features six outstanding recent films. It includes a brief
introduction, program notes and discussions. Click for a Series Subscription Form. |
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| September 5 |
THE GOLDEN DOOR |
Italy, 2007 |
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Emanuele Crialese, the young Italian filmmaker who learned his trade at NYU’s film school returns to Sicily again five years after Respiro. Set during the great wave of late nineteenth- century immigration to America, Emanuele Crialese’s beautifully photographed, deeply felt story follows Salvatore, a poor farmer who dreams of bringing his
ragged family across the Atlantic. Crialese infuses striking moments of stark realism and magical imagery as well as a shipboard romance.
English and Italian with English subtitles (112 minutes)
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| September 12 |
BLACK BOOK |
Netherlands, 2007 |
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Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is known for his fast-paced, sexy, violent American thrillers (RoboCop, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers). After 20 years of Hollywood, he returned home for the creative freedom to make Black Book, a film set in Nazi occupied Holland. It removes the usual moral partitions between Resistance fighters
and the Gestapo.
Dutch, German, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles (145 minutes) |
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September 19 |
MY BEST FRIEND |
France, 2007 |
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French director Patrice Leconte (The Widow of St. Pierre, Man on the Train, Intimate Strangers) offers a nimble little comedy on the underrated topic of male friendship. Daniel Auteuil is François, a self-centered antiques dealer who is more interested in things than people. When he hears himself described as pitifully friendless, he takes up the challenge.
French with English subtitles (95 minutes) |
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| September 26 |
BROTHERS |
Denmark, 2005 |
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Michael is a responsible family man, respected and beloved. His younger brother, Jannick, is a jobless ne’er-do-well, just released from jail. But when Michael leaves home to serve in Afghanistan, their roles begin to change dramatically.
Danish with English subtitles (110 minutes) |
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October 3 |
THE LIVES OF OTHERS |
Germany, 2007 |
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Winner of last year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Film, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s debut film offers a rare look inside East Germany’s secret Stasi from 1984 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ulrich Mühe delivers a haunting performance as Wiesler, the brilliant spy.
German, with English subtitles (137 minutes) |
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| October 10 |
THE BEST OF YOUTH |
Italy, 2003 |
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The saga of the Carati brothers and their personal journey concludes through two more decades of Italy’s recent history. The final two-hour segment of the popular series begins with the aftermath of Christmas 1983 and follows the family to Tuscany, Palermo, and Norway. A new generation comes of age.
Italian with English subtitles (120 minutes) |
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Mail
Completed Form
To: Friday
Night Film Series, Hartford Hall
Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY 10595
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Please return to: FRIDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES, Hartford Hall Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY 10595
I enclose a check for Fall 2008 made payable to: Westchester Community College Film Series to cover the cost of: |
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____ Regular subscription (s) at $48 each
total: _________ |
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____ Senior citizen
subscription (s) at $42 each
total: _________ |
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Name: ________________________________________________________ |
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Address: ______________________________________________________ |
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Town: _________________________ State: _____ Zip:
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Date:_______ Email: _________________________(only for Film Series announcements) |
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For tickets and additional information
about films, call 914-606-6700.
For additional information about
cultural events, call 914-606-6262.
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