Film Forum, "the circle"

JCAS presents “The Circle” (2010) June 12, 7.30 - 10.30

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2000 Venice International Film Festival, 'The Circle' by Jafar Panahi is a politically controversial and critically acclaimed addition to Iran's New Wave movement of the past decade. 'The Circle' questions current restrictions on women's freedoms in Iran by depicting three female characters on the day of their release from prison encountering significant obstacles... in moving forward without being re-arrested.

Director Jafar Panahi has been serving a 6-year jail sentence since Dec. 20, 2010, on charges of propaganda for his body of films. The Iranian goverment has also issued him a 20-year ban from making any more movies, screenplays, or giving interviews to domestic and foreign media. The campaign for Panahi's release from prison has been undertaken by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Film starts at 7:30, discussion to follow.
FREE admission; $5 donation suggested.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.

Country: Iran
Language: Persian
Runtime: 90 min

Sunday night film forum: Water

Jersey City Arts school  presents “Water” (2005)   sun jan 30, 7.30 pm

Set in India in 1938, director Deepa Mehta’s “Water” follows 8-year-old Chuyia, a former child wife who must spend the rest of her life in a temple for Hindu widows. Exposed to the hardships of the women in the commune, Chuyia waits in the hope her mother will take her home. But it's through the trials of another widow, a beautiful prostitute named Kalyani who's courted by a follower of Gandhism from ...a higher caste, that Chuyia learns the true restrictions of widowhood.

The third film in a trilogy of stories of forbidden love, “Water” was completed after Mehta relocated to Canada from her native India, to escape death threats over her previous films. As a filmmaker who regularly questions political, religious, and social norms in her homeland, Deepa Mehta’s body of films have incited riots, protests, and the burning of cinemas by her detractors. Come see what makes this director’s work so stirring and controversial.

Film starts at 7:30, discussion to follow.
FREE admission; $5 donation suggested.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.

Country: Canada
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 117 min

sunday film forum, JC Art school

JCAS Presents: La Dolce Vita   subnday aug 15, 7.30 pm
byob, and bring a donation

326 5th street


Italian for “the sweet life,” La Dolce Vita (1960) is Federico Fellini’s lush and intoxicating masterpiece on life, love, decadence and excess. Marcello Mastroianni plays a tabloid journalist who spends a week in Rome chasing an elusive starlet played by Anita Ekberg, while being easily distracted by women in his own life.

Subject to widespread censorship, the film was condemned by the Vatican newspape...r L’Osservatore in 1960, and banned in Spain until 1975 after the death of Franco.

Film starts at 7:30, discussion to follow
FREE admission; donations appreciated.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.

Runtime: 167 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian,  subtitles..

Sunday Film Forum: Tillie's Punctured Romance

As a Father's Day treat, Jersey City Art School has acquired an 8mm print of the first feature-length comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" from 1914. Directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops.

Film at 7:30, discussion to follow
FREE admission; donations appreciated.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.
Runtime: 74 mins, Country: USA, Language: English, Silent

Jersey City Art School
326 5th Street
http://www.jcartschool.com/

JCAS Presents: A Screening of "Waltz with Bashir"

 

Directed by Ari Folman, "Waltz with Bashir" (2008) is an award-winning animated documentary that depicts Folman's search for lost memories from the time he was a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War. Predominately depicted in animation, the film is a fascinating amalgam of music from different genres, realistic graphics, and surrealistic imagery. This forum will focus on discussing why Folman decided to tell a tumultuous period in his life using animation over live action--and in turn how this may have helped him constructively regain a memory.
 

Runtime: 90 min
Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew | Arabic | German | English

Film starts at 7:30, discussion to follow
FREE admission; donations appreciated.
Beverages will be available, but please leave food at the door.

Jersey City Art School, 326 5th Street, Ground Floor

www.jcartschool.com