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Friday, February 3 - 7:30 pm
THE WOMEN ON THE 6th FLOOR

2011 (Not Rated)  106 min.  France/subtitles
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Natalia Verbeke, Lola Dueñas, Sandrine Kiberlain

Paris, 1960, Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife, Suzanne, while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid, Maria. Through Maria, Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building's sixth floor, the servants' quarters. He befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids, refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds. The women's influence on the house brings change…muy rápido. A marvelously entertaining romantic comedy with a heartfelt political message.

“The distance between the bourgeoisie and the working class has never been so delightfully measured as in this delicious upstairs downstairs comedy.” - Louise Keller, URBAN CINEFILE

“The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces forever, and seeing THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR makes you hope they'll never stop. While American mass-audience comedies stride fearlessly toward the scatological, the French continue to go the old-fashioned route. They rely on clever writing, brisk direction and, most of all, a long tradition of comic performance that values impeccable timing and flawless acting from top to bottom.” - Kenneth Turan, L. A. TIMES

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, February 10 - 7:30 pm
TAKE SHELTER

2011 (R)  120 min.  USA
Director: Jeff Nichols
Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart, Shea Whigham

A DISCUSSION SESSION WILL FOLLOW THE FILM.

#5 film on Roger Ebert's annual Top 10 list of the best films of 2011.

Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife, Samantha, and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah's healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. But the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within the community doesn't compare to Curtis' private fear of what his dreams may truly signify. Faced with the proposition that his disturbing visions signal disaster of one kind or another, Curtis confides in Samantha, testing the power of their bond against the highest possible stakes. Most of the film was shot on location in Lorain County. Timothy Johnson, first assistant director on the film and a former LCCC student, will introduce the movie and answer questions afterwards. Don't miss this special Film Society event.

“This is masterful filmmaking.” - Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“A film for troubled times. TAKE SHELTER taps into current anxieties about economic meltdown and climate change disaster with its scarily apt depiction of a man driven to the edge by apocalyptic fears.” - Jason Best, MOVIE TALK

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, February 17 - 7:30 pm
ORANGES AND SUNSHINE

2011 (R)  103 min.  United Kingdom
Director: John Loach
Cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Lorraine Ashbourne

ORANGES AND SUNSHINE tells the true-life story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times; the mass deportation of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Single-handedly and against overwhelming odds, Margaret reunited thousands of families and drew wordwide   attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead and sent to children's homes on the other side of the world, where many were subjected to appalling abuse. These forgotten children were promised oranges and sunshine but they got hard labor and life in institutions. This is a magnificent new British film that is a testament to the human spirit. 

"ORANGES AND SUNSHINE has a vital story to tell and does so with taste and restraint. By keeping the characters' emotions in check, the film allows us to respond to every turn in the story, and each new revelation, in our own way. The cumulative impact is devastating. I can't say enough about this exceptional film.” - Leonard Maltin, IndieWIRE

“Pitch perfect...beautifully and sensitively crafted...mesmerising performance...Watson is luminous.” - Mariella Frostrup, HARPERS BAZAAR

“A powerful real-life story told with sensitivity and grace.” - TIME OUT

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, February 24 - 7:30 pm
THE WAY

2011 (PG-13)  115 min.  USA
Director: Emelio Estevez
Cast: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, James Nesbitt, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick Van Wageningen

A DISCUSSION SESSION WILL FOLLOW THE FILM.

Tom, an American doctor, comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Comino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey.  What Tom doesn't plan on is the    profound impact the journey will have on him and his "California Bubble Life.” Inexperienced as a trekker, Tom soon discovers that he will not be alone on this journey. On THE WAY, Tom meets other pilgrims from around the world, each with their own issues and looking for greater meaning in their lives: a Dutchman, a Canadian, and an Irish writer who is suffering from a bout of writer's block. From the unexpected and, oftentimes, amusing experiences along THE WAY, this unlikely quartet of misfits creates an everlasting bond and Tom begins to learn what it means to be a citizen of the world again. Through Tom's unresolved relationship with his son, he discovers the difference between “the life we live and the life we choose.”

“There's a contemplative loveliness to THE WAY, an affecting personal project both for Emilio Estevez, who wrote, directed and plays a small role, and for his father, Martin Sheen." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“Gentle, likable and profoundly touching, it makes you want to dig out the hiking boots and make the same journey.” - Angie Errigo, EMPIRE

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, March 16 - 7:30 pm
LE HAVRE

2011 (Not Rated)  93 min.  France/subtitles
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Cast: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blondin Migriel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin 

#9 film on Roger Ebert's annual Top 10 list of the best films of 2011.

In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the warm humor of classic silent cinema, LE HAVRE is a charming, deadpan delight, a comically enchanted movie oasis from the real world where people can rise to the occasion and do the right thing. LE HAVRE offers moviegoers a magical port in the storm, a cinematic refuge from real life where good intentions are enough. 

“The movie is as lovable as silent comedy . . . it just plain makes you feel good.” - Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“LE HAVRE is also a love letter to France, in particular to a half-imaginary, half-vanished realm of proletarian Frenchness incarnated in the films and popular music of the first half of the 20th century.” - A. O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, March 30 - 7:30 pm
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

2011 (PG-13)  94 min.  USA
Director: Woody Allen
Cast:  Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni

#8 film on Roger Ebert's annual Top 10 list of the best films of 2011.

Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture; Directing - Woody Allen; Art Direction; Writing (Original Screenplay) - Woody Allen 

What follows is an excerpt of an article in the New York Times by author Joseph Berger: “Many a writer or artist has longed to travel back in time to the sizzling Paris of the 1920s, to sip absinthe with Hemingway at Les Deux Magots or dine on choucroute garnie with Picasso at La Rotonde. Imagine the conversation!  What has beguiled audiences about the new Woody Allen movie, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, is that the protagonist, Gil, a disenchanted Hollywood screenwriter played by Owen Wilson, gets to live exactly that fantasy. He runs into Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald at an elegant soiree, where he hears Cole Porter crooning, “Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love).” He gets writing advice from laconic Hemingway, persuades Gertrude Stein to read the manuscript of his novel, and falls in love with Picasso's mistress. He meets Salvador Dalí, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Josephine Baker, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray and others in the enormously talented cast of expatriates and bohemians that peopled Jazz Age Paris. Reeling from the folly of World War I and so offering fodder for novels and paintings dripping with disillusionment, Paris was the center of the artistic universe then, and those legends really did converge on Paris around the same time. 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then, wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you for Paris is a moveable feast,' Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast, his memoir that was posthumously published in 1964 . . .” This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS ranks as Woody Allen's most popular film ever!

“The magic of Paris and the mystique of an era gone-by are the stars of MIDNIGHT IN PARIS - Woody Allen's best film for years.” - Louise Keller, URBAN CINEFILE

“It is marvelously romantic, even though - or precisely because - it acknowledges the disappointment that shadows every genuine expression of romanticism.” - A. O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, April 13 - 7:30 pm
MONSIEUR LAZHAR

2011 (PG - 13)  94 min.  Canada/subtitles
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Cast: Monhamed Fellag, Danielle Proulx, Sophie Nelisse, Emilien Neron

A DISCUSSION SESSION WILL FOLLOW THE FILM.

Academy Award Nomination: Best Forein Language Film

There are some sights a child was never meant to see. When a group of Montreal students finds their beloved teacher hanging from the ceiling of their elementary school classroom, the shock of the incident is, needless to say, traumatizing. Her replacement, Algerian refugee Bachir Lazhar, now has the doubly difficult task of reaching his distraught students while securing his own asylum from past tragedies in his homeland. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir's former life, nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment. The film depicts the encounter between two distant worlds and the power of self expressions. Writer-director Falardeau tackles these topics with a delicate touch, bringing wit and warmth to the classroom scenes and granting the heavier material an appropriate gravity. It's not often that you see elementary school and global politics sharing a screen, but MONSIEUR LAZHAR makes the fit an entirely natural one, as Bachir and his students come to terms with loss, guilt, and other issues that life has prematurely thrown at them. It's an inspiring character study that earns every one of its heart-warming moments the hard way - through insight, empathy, and eloquence. A visual ode to the power of teaching and human compassion, the film has been selected as the Canadian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards and it won the Best Canadian Feature Film Award at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

“Philippe Falardeau has enthralled audiences and critics alike with an outstandingly crafted film that deals with touching themes. Being in the Oscar race is a well-deserved honour for MONSIEUR LAZHAR.” - Carolle Brabant, TELEFILM OF CANADA

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 


Friday, April 20 - 7:30 pm
A DANGEROUS METHOD

2011 (R)  93 min.  USA
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Sarah Gadon

#2 on the Cleveland Plain Dealer's top 10 films of 2011!

On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the settings for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A DANGEROUS METHOD explores the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them. Sensuality, ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought.

“…A subtle and intellectually thrilling true story . . . Jung, as he gropes after ultimate meanings and symbols, is surely one of us, an ambivalent inhabitant of the country Freud discovered.” - A. O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

“An erotic mindbender! An exhilarating provocation! The actors give it their all, especially Keira Knightley. Michael Fassbender is outstandingly good. A purring, stellar Viggo Mortensen has a high old time playing a man who likes to have the last word.  Leave it to David Cronenberg to make the cerebral sizzle.” - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

“A triumph of filmmaking. Michael Fassbender is flat out magnificent as Carl Jung.” - Erica Abeel, HUFFINGTON POST

Film Admission: Patrons, except LCCC students/faculty/staff with valid ID, must purchase an annual membership in the LCCC Film Society for $3.00/each, which is good for the entire season (through April 20, 2012). The admission price for each film is $6.00/ticket with your membership card. 
 
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