Thursday, January 8 / 7:30 & 9:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Jack Black, and the movie, kick ass. —Newsweek
Comedy dynamo Jack Black stars in this uproarious yukfest as a musician passing himself off as a substitute teacher at a tony prep school, where he decides to train his 10-year-old charges to rock. (Richard Linklater, 2003, 108 minutes)General public $6 / UCSB students free (show valid ID at door)
Charlie—The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
With director Richard Schickel
Monday, January 12 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
An enormously rewarding, multi-faceted portrait of a cinematic genius —Times (London)
Charlie Chaplin comes alive through contemporary interviews with the likes of Marcel Marceau, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, archival footage, and delightful classic clips. Director—and Time magazine film critic—Schickel will hold a Q&A after the screening. (2003, 132 minutes)General public $10 / UCSB students $8
An Evening with Andre Gregory
Thursday, January 15 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Theater director, actor and story-teller extraordinaire Andre Gregory will give a fascinating presentation and introduce the mesmerizing film classic My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981, 101 minutes), co-starring Wallace Shawn.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
Wednesday, January 28 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Spellbinding...a Citizen Kane-like meditation —New York magazine
A riveting documentary about the haunting art and haunted personal life of Louis Kahn, one of the 20th century’s most visionary architects, directed by Nathaniel Kahn, his son from one of his two longtime mistresses. (2003, 116 minutes)
Monday, February 2 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
A moving portrait...Demme’s most politically committed film —Variety
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) helmed this labor of love, a stirring documentary about charismatic Jean Dominique, Haitian radio personality and a heroic fighter for democracy. Demme is an invited guest. This film is a nominee for The Fund For Santa Barbara Social Justice Award for Documentary Film. (2003, 91 minutes)Co-presented with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
All tickets $8.50
The Truth of Nonfiction: Documentary Filmmakers Panel
Thursday, February 5 / 7 pm / Campbell Hall
In feature films, the director is God; in documentary films, God is the director —Alfred Hitchcock
It’s a boom time for documentary film, as filmmakers find new idioms and new vocabularies. This panel will be an engaging and entertaining look at nonfiction films by the people who make them. Invited guests at press time include Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, The Agronomist), George Hickenlooper (Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, The Mayor of the Sunset Strip).
Co-presented with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
General public $15 / UCSB students $10
Thursday, February 5 / 9 pm / Campbell Hall
Get out your hankies —Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The first-ever Mongolian entry for the foreign-language Oscar, this emotional powerhouse of a film follows the adventures of a family of Gobi Desert camel herders who face a crisis when a mother camel rejects her newborn, a rare pure white calf. (Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falomi, 2003, 93 minutes)Co-presented with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
All tickets $8.50
Monday, February 9 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Informative and beguiling, as seductive as the tango itself —Los Angeles Times
Shot almost entirely in Argentina, this award-winning, lyrical journey into the power of tango offers spectacular modern and historical footage against a vivacious musical backdrop. (Adam Boucher, 1998, 67 minutes)The screening will be followed by a demonstration by dancers from Tango Santa Barbara. Tango Santa Barbara is Brian Griffin and Fay Villanueva.
Thursday & Friday, February 26 & 27 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Celebrate the spirit of adventure with this perennial A&L audience favorite. Featuring the world’s best films and videos on mountain subjects, the Banff Festival Tour awes audiences with thrills and grandeur captured in exotic locations. An entirely different program screens each evening.
General public $12 / UCSB students & youth 18 & under $10
Monday, March 1 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Offers the comedy and pathos of great drama and the visual magnificence of painting —Salon.com
A rural one-room French elementary school is the setting for this profound documentary that follows the last year of a calm and wise retiring teacher whose adoring students range in age from 3 to 12. (Nicolas Philibert, 2002, 104 minutes)
Wednesday, March 3 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Essential viewing —Boston Globe
A fascinating documentary about the 1960s and ‘70s radical student group that used any means necessary to oppose the Vietnam War, including violence. As one member claims, “When you feel you have right on your side, you can do some pretty horrific things.” (Sam Green & Bill Siegel, 2003, 92 minutes)
Wednesday, March 10 / 7:30 pm / Campbell Hall
Tough and relentless, dazzlingly researched and crafted —LA Weekly
An award-winning, gripping Brazilian film that documents a bus hijacking that spirals out of control, Bus 174 is “tense, engrossing and superbly structured,” according to the Village Voice. (José Padilha, 2002, 122 minutes)For more information about each film,
please see our Winter Cinema 2004 News Release.
All films in original languages with English subtitles if necessary.
General public $6, UCSB students $5 unless noted otherwise.
Tickets for all films are available in advance at the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm.
Phone orders: 2 ticket minimum, $3 service charge per order.
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