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2 for 1 on Monday & Tuesday with the GHAC Let*s Go! Arts Card
"Cool-headed, lighthearted and outrageously entertaining..." - Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
"...dizzying, drop-dead fascinating documentary" Kenneth Turan, LA Times
"This entertaining, provocative film raises pointed issues about con artists and their sometimes-culpable "victims," and also speaks to the elusive pursuit of documentary truth." - Elena Oumano, Village Voice
"I couldn't pull myself away...fascinating" Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of Forbidden Love (US title Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan), was exposed as a fake. In Australia, she’d won fame and fortune as a Jordanian virgin on the run from Islamic extremists who’d put a Fatwah on her head for her campaign against honor killings. But she was really Norma Bagain, a Chicago real estate agent and mother of two, on the run from the FBI for one million dollars of fraud. Weaving murder, deceit, greed, the East/West clash and an international literary scandal into a web that entangles us all, Broinowski’s acclaimed documentary about Norma Khouri’s real-life drama is even stranger than her fiction.
(Australia, 104 min)
Fri 6/26 7 PM
Sat 6/27 & Sun 6/28: 2:40 PM, 4:50 PM, 7 PM
Mon 6/29 - Thurs 7/2: 7 PM
"See it. Bring your kids if you have them. Bring someone else’s kids if you don’t." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"Don't take another bite till you see Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“A civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry” - Variety
If we are what we eat, then how well do we really know ourselves? Food, Inc. is a look inside the modern world of food production. Drawing upon works by Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), director Robert Kenner exposes the food industry's highly mechanized underbelly.
From the official site:
"Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coil--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults."
(USA, 94 min)
Fri 7/3: 7 PM, 9 PM
Sat 7/4: 3 PM, 5 PM, 7 PM, 9 PM
Sun 7/5: 3 PM, 5 PM, 7 PM,
Mon 7/6 - Thurs 7/9: 7 PM
Fri 7/10 and Sat 7/11: 9:30 PM
Sun 7/12: 12:30 PM
Mon 7/13 - Weds 7/15: 5 PM
discussion after the 4:50 screening on Sunday, July 12 with Elliott Pollack. Discussion will begin at 7 PM.
"Fascinating...artful and compelling."
- Frank DiGiacomo, Vanity Fair
"Makes a powerful argument...a movie that, like a well-made thriller,
gets under your skin."
- Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post
"Heart-rending!"
- Stephen Holden, New York Times
"Eye-opening...frightening, powerful stuff."
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"Infectiously persuasive."
- Sarah Sluis, Hollywood Reporter
"Dramatically compelling...a ripping indictment of the medical
establishment's failure to uphold its oath."
- Dann Gire, Chicago Daily Herald
"Head-spinning...riveting...a rigorously researched and highly
thorough piece of investigative reporting."
- Lauren Wissot, Slant Magazine
"...rest assured that the devilishness of our health-care system is contagious to all. Under Our Skin does a superb job capturing that harsh reality." - Time Out New York
Interview with director Andy Abrahams Wilson in San Francisco Magazine
A dramatic tale of microbes, medicine and money, Under Our Skin plays like a taut thriller—but it is our own lives that may be at stake. This riveting film, a documentary with the propulsion of a narrative, investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, named after the Connecticut town where the disease was first discovered. While controversy swirls around the issue, each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are "all in their head." Following the stories of patients and physicians as they battle for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our health care system and a medical establishment all too willing to put profits ahead of patients
(USA, 104 min)
Fri 7/10: 7 PM
Sat 7/11 & Sun 7/12: 2:40 PM, 4:50 PM, 7 PM
Mon 7/13 - Weds 7/15: 7 PM
Listen to an interview with the director Olivier Assayas
" a near perfect blend of humor and heartbreak, a lyrical masterwork ...Assayas creates that rare summer movie — one that matters." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"extraordinary ...packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication." A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A family is forced to decode the meaning behind objects when the matriarch dies, leaving behind a carefully furnished mansion. Summer Hours was commissioned by the Musee D'Orsay for their 20th anniversary.
(France, 103 min) in French with English subtitles
Fri 7/17: 7 PM
Sat 7/18 & Sun 7/19: 2:40 PM, 4:50 PM, 7 PM
Mon 7/20 - Thurs 7/23: 7 PM
"Equally a portrait of the artist and a portrait of a decade, this celebratory documentary makes the short, accelerated life of Keith Haring (1958–1990) inseparable from that short, accelerated period we know as '80s New York." - Brian Miller, Village Voice
An intimate exploration of the background and career of one of the most popular and significant artists of the 20th century, Keith Haring, whose motto was "art is for everyone!" Features interviews archival footage of Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Kim Hastreiter, Grace Jones, Madonna, Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle, Kenny Scharf, Carlo McCormick, Andy Warhol, Ann Magnuson, Tony Shafrazi, and Junior Vasquez.
"...the movie is uncommonly absorbing." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...a gentle film about a quiet man in conflict with his world, his father, himself. It is also about death and its rituals. Yet the film manages to be anything but dark; whimsy and sweet irony are laced throughout, a warmhearted blend that turned it into the surprise winner of 2008's Oscar for foreign-language film." - Betsy Sharkey, LA Times
When a small symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands, cellist Daigo Kobyashi is suddenly unemployed. He moves back to his hometown an answers a Help Wanted ad for "Departures," which he assumes is a travel agency. Not asking the details of the job until after being hired, Daigo finds himself (and, well, finds himself) preparing bodies for cremation.
(Japan, 130 min) in Japanese with English subtitles
Fri 7/24: 7 PM
Sat 7/25 & Sun 7/26: 2 PM; 4:30 PM; 7 PM
Mon 7/27 - Thurs 7/30: 7 PM
"Miss Hepburn is clever and amusing" - Bosley Crowther, New York Times (1955)
Discussion with Bob Kagan, Film Studies professor at Manchester Community College
Katherine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, a lonely American woman from Akron, Ohio who unexpectedly finds romance during her dream vacation in Venice, Italy.
"Revanche is an extraordinary film, mythic in feeling...From its first moments, there's no turning away from this movie."" - Mark LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"...the gorgeous, brooding, unpredictable neo-noir Revanche is one of the year's best films." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"Revanche gets its hooks into you early and leaves them there..." Scott Foundas, Village Voice
"A riveting, Oscar-nominated thriller whose French title can mean both revenge and reconciliation, just about always feels like it's cocked and ready to explode." - Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post
Part Greek tragedy, part film noir, the film follows the intertwining lives of two couples on opposing sides of the law.
(Austria, 121 min) in Austrian and Russian with English subtitles
Fri 7/31: 7 PM
Sat 8/1 & Sun 8/2: 2 PM; 4:30 PM; 7 PM
Mon 8/3 - Thurs 8/6: 7 PM
"Inspired by a real-life incident, this captivating Israeli film is both a compelling story of self-determination and an astute evaluation of the current state of a divided territory." - Trevor Johnston, Time Out London
"The rare ability to make intelligent, entertaining cinema from hot-button current issues is beautifully illustrated by "Lemon Tree," a multifaceted drama straddling the Palestinian-Israeli chasm that's marbled with irony, generosity, anger and pure crowd-pleasing optimism." - Derek Elley, Variety
Salma, a Palestinian widow, has a new neighbor: the Israeli Defense Minister. His new house is opposite her lemon grove on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces declare that Salma's trees pose a threat to the Minister's safety and issue orders to uproot them. Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees. Salma's legal and personal journey brings her deep into the complex, dark, and sometimes funny chaos of the ongoing Middle Eastern struggle.
(Israel/Germany/France, 106 min) in Arabic, Hebrew, French, and English with English subtitles
Fri 8/7 7 PM
Sat 8/8 & Sun 8/9: 2:40 PM, 4:50 PM, 7 PM
Mon 8/10 - Thurs 8/13: 7 PM
"...Federico Fellini's most marvelous film. It's an extravagantly funny, sometimes dreamlike evocation of a year in the life of a small Italian coastal town" - Vincent Canby, New York Times
In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini’s most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.
See more info on our Education programs
Made possible with the support of Real Art Ways Members, Travelers, the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, the Fisher Foundation, the Hartford Courant Foundation, the Kohn-Joseloff Foundation and Lincoln Financial.
More Film Field Trip offerings can be found on our education page.
See more info on our Education programs
Made possible with the support of Real Art Ways Members, Travelers, the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, the Fisher Foundation, the Hartford Courant Foundation, the Kohn-Joseloff Foundation and Lincoln Financial.
More Film Field Trip offerings can be found on our education page.
