"The Magic of Cinema" is a film series sponsored by Peninsula College with funding from the Peninsula College Foundation and the Associated Student Council. The series seeks to present the range of possibilities of film as an art form through screenings of classics from Art Cinema and Hollywood's Golden Age, as well as contemporary foreign and independent features, and documentaries. The series will continue throughout the school year.
All shows are in the Little Theater. Tickets are $5 at the door or $1.00 with a current Peninsula College Student ID card.
If you have questions about the film series or would like to be added to the series email list to receive updates about the schedule, please email Bruce Hattendorf.
Winter 2009 Movable Fest!
Local film buffs will have the chance to see some more great films this winter when Peninsula College and the Port Townsend Film Festival once again partner to bring the MOVABLE FEST to Port Angeles. This is the second year the college and the Film Festival have brought films shown at the Port Townsend Film Festival to Peninsula College's Little Theater on the main campus.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2009
Film: MI FAMILIA (Gregory Nava, 1995), 7:00:00 PM, Little Theater
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Mi Family (1995) a drama directed by Gregory Nava, tracks three generations of a Mexican-American family that emigrated from Mexico and settled in East Los Angeles. The picture stars Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales, as well as Jennifer Lopez in her first film role.
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote, "Their story is told in images of startling beauty and great overflowing energy; it is rare to hear so much laughter from an audience that is also sometimes moved to tears. Few movies like this get made because few filmmakers have the ambition to open their arms wide and embrace so much life."
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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009
Film: SENORITA EXTRAVIADA (Lourdes Portillo, 2001), 7:00:00 PM, Little Theater
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| Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this compelling investigation unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed for the brutal murders of women living along the Mexico-U.S. border. In the midst of Juárez’s international mystique and high profile job market, there exists a murky history of grossly underreported human rights abuses and violence against women. The climate of violence and impunity continues to grow, and the murders of women continue to this day. Relying on what Portillo comes to see as the most reliable of sources – the testimonies of the families of the victims –Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman documents a two-year search for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy. |
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FRIDAY, MAY 08, 2009
Film: EL INMIGRANTE (Dave Eckenrode, John Eckenrode and John Sheedy, 2005), 7:00:00 PM, Little Theater
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is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during his journey north. "El Inmigrante" examines the perspectives of a diverse cast of players in this border narrative. A cast which includes the de Haro family, the community of Brackettville, Texas-where Eusebio was shot, members of vigilante border militias in Arizona, the horseback border patrol in El Paso, and migrants en route to an uncertain future. |
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2009
Film: El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983), 7:00:00 PM, Little Theater
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El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava, received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1985, the first American independent film to be so honored.
The drama features Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, in their first film roles, as two indigenous youths who flee Guatemala in the early 1980s due to ethnic and political persecution. They head north and travel through Mexico to the United States, arriving in Los Angeles, California, after an arduous journey.
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "El Norte tells their story with astonishing visual beauty, with unashamed melodrama, with anger leavened by hope. It is a Grapes of Wrath for our time."
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