The 2003 Fall Film Series begins Sept. 29 with Unknown Pleasures

The 2003 Fall Film Series will present Unknown Pleasures at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29 in the Butler Lecture Hall. The foreign film is about two jobless teenagers who prowl the Chinese city of Datong, falling in love while the world around them keeps changing and expanding. Unknown Pleasures was a 2002 Cannes Film Festival nominee and was called “sensational filmmaking,” by J. Hoberman of The Village Voice.

The Film Series is funded by Student Activities and is a series of Monday night foreign or independent films. Stevan Clements, Cree-Walker Distinguished Professor of Communications, is the director of the film series. All screenings begin at 7 p.m. and take place in the Butler Lecture Hall. Admission is free and the screenings are open to the public. For more information, call Student Activities at 737-1609.

Fall Film Series
All screenings are shown at 7 p.m. Mondays in the Butler Lecture Hall

Sept. 29 – Unknown Pleasures: Two jobless teenagers prowl the Chinese city of Datong, falling in love while the world around them keeps changing and expanding, leaving them searching for answers.

Oct. 6 – Talk to Her: This year’s Academy Award winner as Best Foreign Film is the newest by Spain’s Pedro Almodovar. The film is about an elegant and compassionate fable of love and friendship.

Oct. 13 – ABC Africa: Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami traveled to Uganda for 10 days, armed with digital cameras, in order to meet one thousand orphaned children whose parents have died of AIDS and who are now stranded in a refugee camp in Kampala.

Oct. 20 – Chaos: When a bourgeois, French couple witnesses a young prostitute being violently attacked by a group of men near their car, all three of their lives are
changed.

Oct. 27 – The Fast Runner: This film tells the story about the bad blood between two families, stirred up by an evil spirit and brought to a boil when a member of one tribe wins the hand of a lovely young lady from the other tribe. 

Nov. 3 – Blossoms of Fire: A documentary about an enlightened society where men and women exist in rare harmony.

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