The 2009 Winter/Spring Movie Series is over, but check back in the fall to see what else we’ll have planned.
Saving Grace (British) 4*, R, 94 min.
Playing January 14, 2009
NUC Community Room
7:30 PM
Newly widowed Grace (Brenda Blethyn) finds herself in financial ruin when she discovers that her dearly departed husband has left her deep in debt from his failed get-rich-quick schemes. With the help of her gardener, Matt (Craig Ferguson), Grace turns her green thumb to growing ganja, and soon, everyone in her small English town is getting high on more than life. Won the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award.
The Road Home (China) Rated G, 4*, 89 min
Playing February 11, 2009
NUC Library Community Room
7:30 PM
Winner of Sundance 2001 and Berlin Film Feastival 2000. Veteran director Zhang Yimou this time trains his camera on a love story between a Chinese boy and girl that endures for 40 years. Starring Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), The Road Home tells the tale of Zhao Di (Ziyi) and how she met the love of her life, Luo Changyu — a new schoolteacher assigned to teach the child.
Like Water for Chocolat (Italy) R, 105 min., 4*
Playing March 18, 2009
NUC Library Community Room
7:30 PM
A feast for the senses, this magical romance from director Alfonso Arau was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe. The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking — and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares in her small village.
The Kite Runner (Afganistan) 128 min, 4* , PG13
Playing April 8, 2009
NUC Community Room
7:30 PM
Years after fleeing the Taliban and immigrating to the United States, an Afghan man (Khalid Abdalla) returns to his war-ravaged homeland to try to repay his debt to a childhood friend whose trust he betrayed. Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball) directs this touching story of family, friendship and bravery, based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini.
Shakespeare in Love (USA) 122 min, 4*, R
Playing May 13, 2009
NUC Community Room
7:30 PM
Multiple Oscar-winning film. What if a penniless William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) fell in love with a noblewoman (Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow) while struggling to write a comedy with the unlikely title “Romeo and Ethel the Sea Pirate’s Daughter?” Might the emotional turmoil inspire him to recraft the play into a tragedy with a more familiar-sounding name?