Mountain Cinema Club: Foreign Films & Select Films

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Winter/Spring 2000
Wednesday
January 19
- Run, Lola Run" German
Bursting with energy and flat-out fun, Lola has 20 minutes to search for 100,000 marks to save her bumbling boyfriend from mobsters...in three scenarios.
Wednesday
February 16
- Afterlife Japan
A meditation on the randomness of pleasure, of memory, of life itself...You could spend an eternity watching movies and not see one with the qualities of "Afterlife". That's how special, how original this intimate Japanese film is." Kenneth Turan, LATimes
Wednesday
March 15
- Dinner Game French
A classic French verbal farce in which things get beautifully and hysterically out of control.
Wednesday
April 5
- Among Giants English
A thoughtful look at working class Britons. Takes place in the beautifully rugged Yorkshire countryside.
Wednesday
April 19
- Eternity and a Day Greek
One of the five finalists for the best foreign film at the "99 Oscars. A modern "Odyssey".
Wednesday
May 3
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Autumn Tale French
"One of Eric Rohmer's wisest and most enjoyable films". -LA Times. The romantic difficulties of a 45 year old widow who is devoted to the Rhone Valley winery left to her by her parents. Her misguided friends, with good intentions, create havoc when they place a personal ad (among other frenetic efforts to help.)

Wednesday
May 17
- My Life So Far British
Remembrances of a Scottish adventure-filled childhood in the late '20's. NY Times writes that "it suggests Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" with the demons subdued.
Wednesday
June 7
- To be Announced