Food + Movie
Wed. 4/16
Wonder Home
Mayumi Kimura
2002
4 min, 50 sec.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians,
and their dictatorial manager, travel to America in search of fame.
It’s a comic record of the strange road trip. Very amusing.
Food menu:
Finnish tundra canapé
to see what was happend...
Wed. 4/23
Into the Air's Memory
Ka- Ho Albert
2002
7min. 15 sec.
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
Based on Louis Cha's classic novel 'Eagle Shooting Heroes',
Ashes of Time is a poetic, grandeur story about swordsmen with the complicated plot.
The screening is homage to Leslie Cheung, who recently committed suicide.
Food menu:
Couch-dumpling (veg. & meat)
to see what was happend..,
Wed. 4/30
Rice
Saeri Kiritani
2002
2min.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Nakadai
This is a film about a Ginza bar hostess approaching the age of thirty - an age at which a woman of her profession can either get married or open a bar of her own.Naruse expresses the struggle of the woman’s life in a less sentimental
and pretentious way than Ozu and Mizoguchi.
Food menu:
Japanese spring specialty, Chirashi-sushi
Wed. 5/7
Training Camp, Camp
Franklin D. Evans
2001
4 min. 6 sec.
Director: Emir Kusturica
Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Husnija Hasimovic
Set in former Yugoslavia, this is a story of a young gypsy with telekinetic powers,
who is seduced by quick-cash world of petty crime. It shows the mixing of magical realism,
visual humor and dramatic pathos.
Food menu:
Bohemian vegetable musaka
Wed. 5/14
Geova's Fashion Doc.
Geova Rodriguez
2003, 5 min. Edit by Dolce Films
Director: Bruno Barreto
Sonia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonio Cantafora
Sexy Sonia Braga + outstanding Marcello Mastroianni as her Syrian immigrant husband in the setting of a small Brazilian coastal town show the joys of Brazilian humanity.
Food menu:
Bossa Nova fusion
Wed. 5/21
Yesterday Once More
Akane Asaoka
2000, 4 min.
Directer:Sofia Coppola
James woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst
This is a beautiful story about mysterious five sisters in an affluent American suburb in the '70s, told through the neighborhood boys who worshiped them.
Food menu:
Authentic American Cuisine
Wed. 5/28
Bird Bath etc...
John Bjerklie
1999
Directer:Michelangelo Antonioni
Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal
Exploring human disaffection, this is the quintessential film from Antonioni's vintage period. Vitti displays minimal emotion to realize the character and Delon never looked more beautiful.
Food menu:
Fresh Pasta Basta!!
Wed. 6/4
Hazlo por Cuba
Stephen O'Dell / David Ellsworth
2002
13 min.
Women on the
Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988, Spain (90 min)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano
Witty, quirky, truthful and dramatic movie of actress who gets dumped
by her playboy lover and how she responds to the mess of surrounding people.
Full of wacky characters!
Psychedelic Sexy Paella
Wed. 6/11
Hideki Nakazawa
Directer:Yoshimitsu Morita
Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami,
Saori Yuki
One of the major concerns of most Japanese families today is the school entrance examination. A tutor who is hired to get a boy into high school proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
Food menu:
Japanese Homey Curry
Wed. 6/18
Director: Federico Fellini
Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford,
In1914 a luxury liner leaves Italy. The captain has to save a large number of Serbian refugees from the sea. A pure film with endless mediocrity, which is the hardest thing to achieve when trying to integrate as many elements as Fellini tries for.
Food menu:
il cenacolo