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Motorcycle Diaries
Rated R, 126 minutes
13-Jan-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"A beautifully wrought account of the dawning of the social conscience of one of the 20th century's most romanticized revolutionaries."
-- Todd McCarthy, VARIETY
"A gorgeous, poetic and stirring epic."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
Free Promotional Screenings
The Browning Cinema will be hosting a FREE Sneak Preview screening of the soon to be released Miramax Film "The Chorus". This film has been nominated for a Best Foreign Film Golden Globe Award. The screening will be held in the Browning Cinema, inside the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Tickets must be reserved by calling: 574-631-2800.
Les choristes (The Chorus)
14-Jan-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Directed by Christophe Barratier (2004)
Starring Gerrard Jugnot and Jacques Perrin.
Composer and director Christophe Barratiers hit film, Les Choristes, is a music-filled tale about how one mans simple dream changed the future for a forgotten group of children in post-war France. This heart-warming film and its divine soundtrack has led to a surge in choir membership all over France. Slated for U.S. release by Miramax later this year -- See it here, first!
Color. 95min., PG-13
In French with English subtitles.
"A well-nigh irresistible film celebrating the redemptive power of music."- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"a crowd-pleaser."- Kevin N. Laforest, MONTREAL FILM JOURNAL
"You'll be singing the praises of this charming little French movie."
-Cherryl Dawson, THEMOVIES.COM
Sex is Comedy
Rated NR, 92 minutes
15-Jan-05, Saturday
7:00pm 10:00pm
"An insightful glimpse into the mechanics of filmmaking."
-- Rich Cline, FILM THREAT
"If Breillat's aim is demystifying how passion and desire are simulated on-screen, then Sex Is Comedy is successful."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
ND Student Film Festival
(Tickets go on sale Jan. 10th)
20-Jan-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
21-Jan-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
22-Jan-05, Saturday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
24-Jan-05, Monday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
25-Jan-05, Tuesday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
26-Jan-05, Wednesday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Fellini's 8 1/2
Rated NR, 138 minutes
22-Jan-05, Saturday
3:00pm, (PAC Classic 100)
"Brilliant Fellini film -- probably his best."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS
"Astute beyond words."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
L'auberge Espagnole
Rated R, 122 minutes
27-Jan-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
"L'auberge espagnole is so full and nourishing that even with a two-hour-plus running time, it's sad to see it end."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A pleasure for anyone looking back or forward to the experience of leaving home for the first time."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
I (Heart) Huckabees
Rated R, 106 minutes
28-Jan-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, meaningful world, indeed."
-- Lisa Kennedy, DENVER POST
"Amid the pandemonium there's a sense of truly rigorous soul-searching."
-- Megan Lehmann, NEW YORK POST
"By far the most original comedy of the year."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
Vertigo
29-Jan-05, Saturday
3:00pm, PAC Classic 100
"Pure Hitchcock."
-- Martyn Glanville, BBC
Bright Leaves
Rated NR, 107 minutes
29-Jan-05, Saturday
7:00pm 10:00pm
"It's a meandering visit by a curious man with a quiet sense of humor."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Bright Leaves leaves you feeling invigorated by the boundless curiosity, humor and high spirits of its creator."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Packed with pleasure."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
Maria Full of Grace
Rated R, 101 minutes
4-Feb-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"A stunner of a film."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
"Both artistically and spiritually itself full of grace."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Bonnie and Clyde
Rated NR, 114 minutes
5-Feb-05, Saturday
3:00pm, (PAC Classic 100)
"When I saw it, I felt an exhilaration beyond describing."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Memorable and breathtaking."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
Tarnation
5-Feb-05, Saturday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"A film that defies description. I'd call it some kind of miracle."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Certainly one of the strangest and most interesting movies of the year."-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"It ís just devastating stuff."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
Saved
Rated PG-13, 92 minutes
10-Feb-05, Thursday
7:30pm only
"I liked it a lot, thumbs up."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"An acutely perceptive and boldly hilarious satire of fundamentalist education."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
In Good Conscience
Rated NR, 82 minutes
11-Feb-05, Friday
3:30pm only
Gay Pioneers
Rated NR, 80 minutes
11-Feb-05, Friday
7:00pm only
Angels in America: Part I
Rated NR, 180 minutes
11-Feb-05, Friday
9:00pm only
"a tour-de-force of masterful storytelling, with a stellar cast."
-- David Foucher, EDGE BOSTON
Angels in America: Part II
Rated NR, 180 minutes
12-Feb-05, Saturday
2:00pm only
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Rated R, 115 minutes
12-Feb-05, Saturday
7:30pm only
Bloody Sunday
Rated R, 110 minutes
17-Feb-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Nanovic International Film Series
"A movie to remember."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
"You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
House of Flying Daggers
18-Feb-05, Friday
10:00pm only
19-Feb-05, Saturday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"The most gorgeous movie of the year."
-- Jami Bernard, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"An outrageously gorgeous spectacle of balletic aggression."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"An absolute must-see."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
Sunrise
Rated NR, 110 minutes
19-Feb-05, Saturday
3:00pm, (PAC Classic 100)
"Reckless, romantic, and extravagant."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"One of the most luminous experiences you will have in a movie theater."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD
Secrets and Lies
24-Feb-05, Thursday 7:00pm
"Leigh's best work yet is indisputably screen art, but it's a flesh-and-blood 'people' movie, too."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
To Kill a Mockingbird
24-Feb-05, Thursday 10:00pm
"A timeless, resonant plea for tolerance"
-- Dan Jardine, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
Gentleman's Agreement
25-Feb-05, Friday 7:00pm
"The film does try to tackle a subject matter that has not been covered too well by Hollywood at the time"
-- Dennis Schwartz, WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
Philadelphia
25-Feb-05, Friday 10:00pm
"compassionate, compelling and emotionally devastating."
-- Rita Kempley, WASHINGTON POST
La Strada
Rated NR, 110 minutes
26-Feb-05, Saturday
3:00pm, (PAC Classic 100)
Vatican's Top Films of All Time
"La Strada is the first film that can be called entirely 'Felliniesque.'"
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A marvelous film."
--Jamie Russell, BBC
The Pawnbroker
26-Feb-05, Saturday 7:00pm
"Dramatizes the psychological impact of the Nazi concentration camps, while drawing parallels to contemporary conditions of New York City ghetto life"
-- Dan Jardine, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
The Mission
Vatican's Top Films of All Time
26-Feb-05, Saturday 10:00pm
"Deeply moving film that reminds us of the vitality of love, the miracle of grace, and the transforming power of acts of conscience."
--Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
Bad Education
Rated NC-17, 109 minutes
3-Mar-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Nanovic International Film Series
"A rapturous masterwork."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Superbly orchestrated, visually impressive pic."
-- Jonathan Holland, VARIETY
Sideways
Rated R, 124 minutes
10-Mar-05, Thursday
11-Mar-05, Friday
12-Mar-05, Saturday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"By far the year's best American movie."
-- Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE
Rosenstrasse (2004)
Rated PG-13, 136 minutes
17-Mar-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
"One of the cinema's most stirring celebrations of married love and a portrayal of the 'good German' in World War II that is true, convincing and profoundly moving."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The greatest story ever told...
...as told by Hollywood
King of Kings (1961) *
Rated NR
18-Mar-05, Friday
7:00pm, 230 minutes
Barabbas (1961) *
Rated NR
19-Mar-05, Saturday
7:00pm, 134 minutes
Passion of Christ (2003) *
Rated R, 127 minutes
24-Mar-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Ben Hur (1959)
Rated PG-13
25-Mar-05, Friday
7:00pm, 282 minutes
Trouble in Paradise
Rated NR, 82 minutes
19-Mar-05, Saturday
3:00pm, (PAC Classic 100)
"This comedy of jewel thieves is itself the prize sparkler of Lubitsch's enterprising career."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
Captains of April (2000) *
Rated PG-13, 123 minutes
31-Mar-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Rated R, 122 minutes
1-Apr-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00
"I can hardly think of another movie in which sheer intelligence and decency have been made to seem so attractive or effective."
-- David Denby, NEW YORKER
"Don Cheadle takes his rightful place among America's greatest actors in Hotel Rwanda."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
Lawrence of Arabia
Rated NR, 227 minutes
2-Apr-05, Saturday
2:00pm, (PAC Classic 100) ***Note Time
"Lawrence is too emotionally overpowering for critical reservations."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
"It's an astonishing, unrepeatable epic."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Divine Intervention (2003)
Rated R, 92 minutes
2-Apr-05, Saturday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"An almost irresistible work of art."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Simmering, sharply observed work."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
Soldiers of Salamina * (2003)
Rated NR, 118 minutes
7-Apr-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Ghost in the Shell 2: The Innocence
Rated PG-13, 100 minutes
8-Apr-05, Friday
10:00pm only
FREE Screening sponsored by the East Asian Language and Literature
just sit back and enjoy the lush, trippy visuals."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"You can call me fanboy, but this is the best anime I've ever seen."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
The Bicycle Thief
Rated NR, 90 minutes
9-Apr-05, Saturday
3:00pm, (PAC Classic 100)
"Scarcely a story found in the street, The Bicycle Thief is an allegory at once timeless and topical."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"The Bicycle Thief is so well-entrenched as an official masterpiece that it is a little startling to visit it again after many years and realize that it is still alive and has strength and freshness."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
9-Apr-05, Saturday
Rated NR, 100 minutes
7:00pm only
FREE Screening sponsored by the East Asian Language and Literature
The film will be followed by a Q&A with Director Lu Chuan
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
8-Apr-05, Friday
7:00pm only
9-Apr-05, Saturday
10:00pm only
Rated R, 105 minutes
FREE Screening sponsored by the East Asian Language and Literature
"A film destined to leave mouths agape."
-- Andrew Sun, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Tony Jaa is the real thing."
-- David Chute, L.A. WEEKLY
Irish Film Series
All Screenings FREE
Four Days in July
14 Apr 2005, Thursday
7:00pm
The Last of the High Kings
14 Apr 2005, Thursday
10:00pm
Black Day at Blackrock
15 Apr 2005, Friday
4:00pm
Bad Behaviour
15 Apr 2005, Friday
7:00pm
Yu Ming is Aimn Dom
15 Apr 2005, Friday
10:00pm
Rory O'Shea was Here
15 Apr 2005, Friday
10:15pm
Rebel Frontier
16 Apr 2005, Saturday
1:00pm
The Rocky Road to Dublin
16 Apr 2005, Saturday
4:00pm
The Mapmaker
16 Apr 2005, Saturday
7:00pm
Dead Bodies
16 Apr 2005, Saturday
10:00pm
Born into Brothels
Rated NR, 85 minutes
21-Apr-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"A documentary that changed the lives both of subjects and filmmakers, it will reorder the worldview of whoever sees it."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Heroism can come in subtle forms. This is one of them."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
The Sea Inside
Rated PG-13, 125 minutes
28-Apr-05, Thursday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
29-Apr-05, Friday
7:00pm and 10:00pm
"Soars to the fantastically romantic heights of love between a man and a woman."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"A gorgeous film."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rated NR, 172 minutes
30-Apr-05, Saturday
3:00pm
PAC Classic 100
Modern Times
30 Apr 2005, Saturday
9:00pm
Free Outdoor Screening in QUAD
Rain site to be the Browning Cinema
The Animation
Show (International Animation)
05 May 2005, Thursday
7:00pm
05 May 2005, Thursday
10:00pm
Fistful of Dollars
06 May 2005, Friday
7:00pm
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
06 May 2005, Friday
10:00pm
Greek Cinema Now
Film series sponsored by the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, ND Cinema and the Chicago Greek Film Festival.
June 3rd - June 5th, 2005
A Song is Not Enough
Rated NR, 118 minutes
03-June-05, Friday
7:00pm 10:00pm
Greek language with English subtitles
35mm print
2003, Elissavet Chronopoulou, Greece, 118 min.
With Gogo Brebou, Fenia Papadodima
This politically charged melodrama is the first feature film by one of Greece’s most promising woman directors. Shifting fluidly between the 1990s and the 1970s, the story centers on a documentary filmmaker whose latest project leads her back to childhood memories of her long-estranged mother, a politically active actress who was imprisoned by the military junta. A SONG IS NOT ENOUGH is a sometimes painful revisiting of one of the most divisive periods of recent Greek history, but it is at heart an affirmative and affecting account of a
mother and daughter’s journey toward reconciliation.
Kalabush
Rated NR, 90 minutes
04-June-05, Saturday
7:00pm 10:00pm
Greek language with English subtitles
35mm print
2003, Adonis Florides & Theodoros Nikolaides, Greece, 90 min.
With Marios Ioannou, Semeli Oikonomou
" Bittersweet, well-acted, and surprisingly complex." -- Peter Keogh,
Boston Phoenix.
Winner of prizes for Best Actor at the 2004 Thessaloniki Film Festival and Best Comedy Feature at the 2004 New York Film and Video Festival, KALABUSH is a stinging satire of bureaucracy and xenophobia. Mistakenly thinking he‚s reached Italy, Syrian illegal immigrant Mustafa lands in Cyprus during the carnival season. During six frantic days in which his path crosses those of other outsiders, Mustafa discovers that he has become an invisible non-person and that his promised land has run out of promise.
Playing Parts
Rated NR, 88 minutes
04-June-05, Sunday
5:00pm & 7:00pm
Greek language with English subtitles
35mm print
2003, Panayotis Portokalakis, Greece, 88 min.
With Lena Kitsopoulou
The Byzantine setting lends novelty and charm to this enchanting, beautifully costumed romance based on a true story from the Greek Middle Ages. Antonina, a high-spirited young actress in a theatrical troupe, enjoys playing seductive games offstage. One such game enmeshes the powerful general Andronicus. But then she falls in love with a young man, risking scandal and the wrath of her protector.
* screened in video format