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Special Film Series
Fanfare's annual "special" film series offers four critically-acclaimedrecent films. Winner of the Academy Awards Best Picture, The English Patient is an epic film of adventure, intrigue, betrayal and love about four strangers whose lives become inextricably connected. (Oct. 1) Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade is a gothic tale about a gentle, charming man just released from an asylum who befriends a young boy and his widowed mother. (Oct.15) Shine is an emotionally transcendent drama inspired by the troubled but triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott (Oct. 22). Michael Collins tells the story of the Irish patriot, statesman and "man of peace." (Oct. 29).
Special films are at 7pm at University
Cinema, 1006 N. Oak. Free.Foreign Film Series
Fanfare offers movie classics from Italy, France, Spain and Germany. From Germany, Zentropa, is about a young American of German descent in post-war Germany whose relationship with the daughter of his boss at the Zentropa railway company leads to sinister links with Nazi activities (Oct. 7). In the sequel to the French classic Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Jean's daughter seeks revenge on the village that destroyed her father (Oct.14). Il Postino, the 1995 Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, is the humorous and moving tale of a simple postman who finds himself delivering letters to one of the century's most romantic poets (Oct. 21). All the passion and spectacle of Bizet's Carmen come to life in a dazzling screen opera starring Placido Domingo and Julia Migenes-Johnson (Oct. 28).
Foreign Films are at 3:30pm, Music
Recital Hall, SLU. Free.