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UWM Union Theatre7pm ** FREE **Michael Collins (Neil Jordan, 133 min., 1996)Please note: presentation starts at 6:30
Irish revolutionary Michael Collins courageously fought to free Ireland from the clutches of British rule. Prior to the screening Ms. Cat Murphy will present historical contextualization for this film and lead discussion afterwards. Co-sponsored with Phi Alpha Theta, (History Honors Society). "Romance, passion and excitement. Neil Jordan's extremely cinematic, beautifully made David Lean-type epic is powerful and provocative." - Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
UWM Union Theatre
Experimental Tuesday: “The Animal Eclectic”7pm ** FREE **A collection of experimental short films and videos exploring animal imagery. Includes work by Ben Coonley, Jennet Thomas, Alexander Kluge, Jim Finn, and Carl Stevenson.
CAMERA OBSCURA – Ethan Jackson at KenilworthGallery hours: noon-5pmArtist in attendance.Visiting Artist Ethan Jackson converts Inova / Kenilworth into a camera obscura. Please note: there is a classroom visit from 11-1pm.
CAMERA OBSCURA – Ethan Jackson at KenilworthGallery hours: noon-5pmVisiting Artist Ethan Jackson converts Inova / Kenilworth into a camera obscura. Camera obscura in operation; artist not in attendance.
UWM Union Theatre: World Cinema7pmRoad (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)* * Director Leslie McCleave present * *
Winner – Outstanding Performances for Catherine Kellner and Ebon Moss-Bachrach – Los Angelos Film Festival 2005Two ex-lovers set out on a road trip when Margaret, a freelance photographer, gets her first big assignment to survey environmental clean-up sites. Joined by Jay, her unemployed ex-boyfriend, they travel into a landscape filled with one abandoned environmental disaster after another, while painful memories of their troubled relationship begin to emerge. Suddenly, back roads lead to nowhere, equipment fails, and Margaret and Jay inexplicably encounter the same foreboding characters again and again. The couple circles through what looks and feels like a hell on earth as they try to navigate the roads between toxic waste sites and damaged love. With its stylized narrative, compelling performances, and supernatural backdrop, Road brings us to the heart of a disturbing social issue in an evocative story for our times.9pm ** FREE **Police Beat (Robinson Devor, US, in Eng. & Wolof w/ Eng. St., 80 mins., 35mm, 2005)
Police Beat presents a unique protagonist in the post-9/11 world: a morally upright, Republican Muslim police officer. The film follows African-born Seattle bicycle cop, Z on his beat for seven days and six nights, covering crimes, all of which are based on actual Seattle police reports. Z is so preoccupied with his possibly unfaithful girlfriend that he never once acknowledges the criminal world that swirls around him. The crimes Z encounters become mirrors of his turbulent inner state, allowing him to philosophize about his unstable romantic relationship as well as his own development as an emotional being. While Z's regular interactions are in English, his thoughts, narrating the film, are in his native Wolof, the primary language of West Africa. Police Beat is an unusual portrait of an immigrant new to the United States that focuses less on the protagonist's socioeconomic difficulties than on his emotional responses to American life.
UWM Union Theatre: World Cinema5pmRoad (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)7pm ** FREE **Police Beat (Robinson Devor, US, in Eng. & Wolof w/ Eng. St., 80 mins., 35mm, 2005)9pmRoad (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)
UWM Union Theatre: World Cinema5pm ** FREE **Police Beat (Robinson Devor, US, in Eng. & Wolof w/ Eng. St., 80 mins., 35mm, 2005)7pmRoad (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)
