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I’m the One That I Want
Thursday, January 11 / 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Wickedly, punishingly funny. —San Francisco Chronicle
A concert film of Margaret Cho’s hilarious solo show lambasting life on her TV sit-com All-American Girl and Hollywood’s vicious star-making machine.
(Lionel Coleman, 2000, 96 min.)
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Aimée & Jaguar
Sunday, January 14 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Rich, urgent poignant and luminous. —Boston Globe
A sensual, unlikely romance unfolds in WWII Berlin between a German housewife and a flamboyant Jewish woman.
(Max Färberböck, 1999, 125 min.)
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Butterfly (La lengua de las mariposas)
Thursday, January 18 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Enchanting and endearing. —NBC-TV
Evocative of Cinema Paradiso, a tale of a young boy and his gentle teacher set amid the Spanish Civil War.
(José Luis Cuerda, 1999, 95 min.)
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Antonio Gaudí
Sunday, January 21 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
An exquisite celebration. — Philadelphia Inquirer
This extraordinary, almost wordless, tribute to the Catalan architect whose creations decorate Barcelona is enriched by Toru Takemitsu’s musical score.
(Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1984, 72 min.)
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Rififi
Sunday, January 28 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
White-hot suspense. —Time Out New York
This French film noir masterpiece broke ground in 1955 by juxtaposing sudden violence, casual humor and unsavory sexual situations, a formula for success in crime cinema worldwide ever since. Winner at Cannes’ for best director, it screens in vivid 35 millimeter.
(Jules Dassin, 118 min.)
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Jazz: The Intimate Art with
On the Road with Duke Ellington
Friday, February 2 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
The essence of jazz caught on the wing. —San Diego Union-Tribune
The first of this pair of classic jazz documentaries honors Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck and Charles Lloyd. On the Road illuminates Ellington’s musical and personal vibrancy.
(Robert Drew, 1980; Jazz: 55 min.; On the Road: 58 min.)
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Titus
Thursday, February 8 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
A fluid time-traveling fantasia on violence. —The New York Times
From acclaimed Broadway director Julie Taymor, Shakespeare’s tragedy of war, corruption and revenge comes to the screen starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange.
(1999, 163 min.)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Friday, February 9 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Classic performances. —New York magazine
The essential screen adaptation of playwright Tennessee Williams’ smoldering drama stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh and Kim Hunter.
(Elia Kazan, 1951, 122 min.)
See A Noise Within in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, January 30.
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A Time for Drunken Horses
Sunday, February 11 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Haunting and unforgettable. —Los Angeles Times
Winner of the Cannes Camera d’Or award, this feature by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi portrays a family of poor Kurdish orphans in a race to save their brother’s life.
(2000, 120 min.)
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Yi Yi (A One and a Two)
Thursday, February 15 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
A marvel of delicacy and humor. —Rolling Stone
Taiwanese director Edward Yang won the best director prize at Cannes for this film about a middle class family in Taipei facing romantic, economic and spiritual crises.
(2000, 173 min.)
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Human Resources (Ressources Humaines)
Sunday, February 18 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Smart, cool-headed, beautifully acted. —The New York Times
A clear, tender illumination of class struggle unfolds in this French tale of a business-school grad and his assembly-worker father.
(Laurent Cantet, 1999, 100 min.)
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Solas
Sunday, February 25 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
As satisfying as it is surprising. —The New York Times
Winner of the audience award at the Berlin Festival, this moving Spanish film follows a woman who changes lives with small acts of kindness.
(Benito Zambrano, 1999, 98 min.)
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Chants of Sand and Stars
Thursday, March 1 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
A journey between the sacred and the profane. —Le Monde
A musical and visual tapestry exploring liturgical music of the Jewish Diaspora from Medieval Spain, Renaissance Venice, the Middle East, Central Asia and Manhattan.
(Nicolas Klotz, 1997, 90 min.)
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Black and White in Color: Vera Bílá with
Latcho Drom (Safe Journey)
Sunday, March 4 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
This Gypsy music double bill introduces singer Vera Bílá, whose worldwide fame contrasts with the modest life and ethnic scorn she knows at home, and features Latcho Drom, a rich look at Gypsy music and culture from India to Spain.
(Vera: Mira Erdevicki-Charap, 1998, 58 min.; Latcho: Tony Gatlif, 1993, 103 min.)
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Safety Last with Never Weaken
with live piano music by Michael Mortilla
Thursday, March 8 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Harold Lloyd dangling from the hands of a giant clock is an indelible silent film image, and just one of the incredible stunts he pulls off while scaling an L.A. skyscraper in Safety Last.
(Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor: Safety Last, 1923, 50 min.; Never Weaken, 1921, 28 min.)
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Jazz ’34
Remembrances of Kansas City Swing
Sunday, March 11 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
First-rate jazz, brilliantly played, visualized and produced. —Los Angeles Times
Robert Altman directed Jazz ’34, recreating an all-night jam session as it might have taken place in a Kansas City club during the Depression. The music played by Ron Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton and many others covers composers from Count Basie to Duke Ellington and includes the restaging a thrilling “battle of the saxes” that actually took place in 1934 between Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Narrated by Harry Belafonte.
(1997, 75 min.)
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Calle 54
(Postponed)
From the Oscar-winning maker of Belle Epoque, a global round-up of Latin music heroes, including Gato Barbieri, Tito Puente, Cachao, Paquito D’ Rivera and more.
(Fernando Trueba, 2000, 105 min.)
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For more information about each film, please see our Winter Films News Release.
These films are sponsored by The Santa Barbara Independent, the Daily Nexus, KCSB 91.9 FM, Blue Agave, Mercury Lounge, Santa Barbara Video Productions and Isla Vista Food Co-op. Chants of Sand and Stars is sponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies. Human Resources and Rififi are made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Cultural Ministry of France. I’m the One That I Want and Aimée & Jaguar are co-sponsored by the UCSB Women’s Center. |
All films are in original languages with English subtitles if necessary.
Students: $5. General: $6. Tickets for all films are available
in advance (893-3535) and at the door beginning at 6:30 p.m.
For more information: 893-3535 v/tty
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