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Summer Palace
Call Number: Media Collection 0357
"'I want to live more intensely,' writes college freshman Yu Hong as she leaves her country village to study at Beijing University. It is the fall of 1987, and Yu Hong is about to get her wish in Lou Ye's towering masterpiece, the most important mainland Chinese film this decade and the only one, so far as I am aware, to directly address the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989." (Variety) Director Lou Ye was banned from working in mainland China for five years because of this film.
September 11
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"In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were given was that no one film could exceed 11 minutes, nine seconds, and one frame." (All Movie Guide)
Adanggaman
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"This beautifully filmed, but extremely painful examination of the African slave trade takes a difficult position: Rather than focusing on the white European superstructure, Ivory Coast director Roger Gnoan M'bala focuses on African complicity in the capture and selling of African people. Tragically, the circumstances of this brave film are rooted in well-documented fact; the story, however, set in 17th-century West Africa, is fictional." (TV Guide)
The Holy Girl
Call Number: Media Collection 0089
"Amalia, a radiantly beautiful teen-ager growing up in a family-run hotel in a small Argentine city, is pulled between traditional religious teachings that insist on a saintlike career for women and sexual longings that are just as fierce as a teen-age boy’s. [...] Lucrecia Martel’s gently comic movie is not about perversion; it’s about the varieties of intimacy—between mothers and daughters, teen-age girls, doctors and patients." (The New Yorker)
Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
Call Number: Media Collection 0206
"[Austrian] Michael Haneke's richly complex and intellectually rewarding film - his first French language feature - is a characteristically inquisitive and philosophical look at questions of communication, xenophobia, victimisation and the abject coldness of contemporary consumer society. Haneke [...] also calls into question the illusive, deceptive nature of narrative cinema (and degrees of reality) and the collusive, voyeuristic position of the spectator." (BBC)
Fireworks
Call Number: Media Collection 0105
"[Director] Kitano infects the lyrical, meditative beauty of classical Japanese cinema with the jarring, low-down savagery of Western genre pictures. What emerges is more than the sum of its parts, an original and profound statement on mortality, how rich human life can be, and how quickly it can be taken away." (The Onion)