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LSC Events for Wednesday, October 14, through Tuesday, October 20


Friday, October 16, and Sunday, October 18

Grease (1978) movie picture

The witty, energetic, and immensely popular musical about teenage life in the 50's makes its 20th anniversary return - now with a remastered digital soundtrack. Danny (John Travolta) is the fearless leader of the leather-clad T-Birds, a group who takes pride in their cars, their girls, and above all, their coolness. The trouble begins when Danny falls in love with the straitlaced Sandra Dee (Olivia Newton-John) over summer vacation. When the two return to school, Danny has a reputation to keep, and Sandra is unable to fit in with the "cool scene." Love and pride must strike a compromise for this summertime romance to survive. Features the hit musical numbers "Summer Nights," "Greased Lighting," and "Hopelessly Devoted to You."
110 min, rated PG, with DTS digital sound
Times:
7 & 10 in 26-100 on 10/16
7:00 in 26-100 on 10/18

Friday, October 16

Ta'm e guilass (1997)

A sublime and deceptively simple parable about life's possibilities, Abbas Kiarostami's Ta'm e guilass (Taste of Cherry) follows Mr. Badii, a weary and increasingly desperate middle-aged man who has decided to end his life. Driving through the hilly outskirts of Tehran, in search of someone who will bury him if he succeeds or rescue him if he fails, he meets an assortment of different characters: Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student, and a museum employee, each with their own reason to turn down the job: fear, religious scruples and the humanist's revulsion at a life willfully squandered. A haunting film of piercing intensity, Taste of Cherry is told with Kiarostami's incomparable sense of poetry and lyricism. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. An Iranian film in Persian with English subtitles. This is a free event cosponsored by LSC and the Large Events Funding Board.
95 min, not rated
Times:
7:30 in 54-100 on 10/16

Saturday, October 17, and Sunday, October 18

Six Days Seven Nights (1998) movie picture

Anne Heche plays Robin Monroe, a magazine writer on a romantic getaway with her fiance, who is persuaded to take a break from her vacation to cover a story on a neighboring island. The only plane available is piloted by drunkard Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford), who develops an immediate dislike for Robin. She returns the sentiment, but they have no other options. The two crash on a desert island and are forced to rely on each other to survive, growing ever closer - in spite of themselves - as they do.
101 min, rated PG-13, with DTS digital sound
Times:
7 & 10 in 26-100 on 10/17
10:00 in 26-100 on 10/18

Monday, October 19

El Callejon de los milagros (1995)

This Mexican film is based on the novel by the Egyptian Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood and the connection between them and Don Ru, the owner of the local pub; Eusebia, his wife; Guicho, his son, and Abel, his friend, who emigrate to America in search of fortune; Susanita, the single landlady always hoping to marry a good man; Jimmy, the pub's employee, who collects the money when Don Ru is not there; Alma, the very good looking girl, who becomes a luxury prostitute while Abel is away, etc. This movie won the Ariel (the Mexican Oscar) as best movie in 1995.
140 min, not rated
Times:
8:00 in 10-250 on 10/19

Tuesday, October 20

Korczak (1990)

An account of the final days of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the Second World War. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as Janusz Korczak, is a man of high principles. Unafraid of shouting at German officers, he must be frequently persuaded to save his own life. His orphanage, set up in a cramped school in the Warsaw ghetto, provides shelter to 200 homeless children. Putting his experimental educational methods into practice, he installs a kind of children's self-government, which delivers a type of justice that stands in sharp contrast to that of the outside world. The Ghetto's mayor assures Korczak that the orphanages will be saved, but of course can not succeed in fulfilling his promise in face of the Nazi SS. In the final roundup he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the train to Treblinka with his orphans. In Polish with English subtitles. This is a free event cosponsored by LSC and the Large Events Funding Board.
115 min, not rated
Times:
8:00 in 26-100 on 10/20

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