Fall Film Series begins September 20

The Fall Film Series at Augusta State will debut in a new setting when it opens Monday, September 20, with the French film, To Be and to Have, winner of the 2004 National Film Critics Award for best documentary. All films will be shown in 170 University Hall–ASU’s newest classroom building–at 7 p.m.

The film concerns a dedicated and gifted teacher whose world is a one-room schoolhouse in the French countryside. It follows teacher and students through one school year. Peter Rainer from New York Magazine wrote, “Great! One of the most emotionally gratifying movies about teaching ever made.”

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 170 University Hall. Admission is free.

For more information, call Student Activities at 737-1609.

Fall Film Series

Sept. 27 – Broken Wings – When her husband dies, an Israeli mother must cope with her own grief and that of her four children, as she tries to keep the family together and functioning.

Oct. 4 – Touching the Void – The film is about Joe Simpson’s nonfiction about his climbing the 21,000-foot Siula Grande Mountain in Peru, breaking a leg, and eventually making it back alive.

Oct. 11 – The Man Without a Past – This Finnish film is about a stranger who after arriving in Helsinki suffers a near-fatal mugging that erases his memory. 

Oct. 18 – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . And Spring – Set in and around a stunning lakeside Buddhist temple, this understated and powerful Korean film examines a man’s life in five telling moments.

Oct. 25 – Goodbye, Lenin – A disarming,offbeat comedy in which a young German attempts to convince his mother that the Berlin Wall is still standing and that Communism rules East Germany, after she awakes from a long coma.

Nov. 1 – The Devil’s Backbone – The film is about a newly-orphaned, ten-year-old boy who finds himself in an orphanage seething with secrets in this ghost story set during the last days of the Spanish Civil War.

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