Source: Cinema Center
Wednesday 6/11 - "Big Eden" 6:15 (Last Show for Big Eden!), "Bend It Like Beckham" 8:30
Thursday 6/12 - "Sex, Lies & Videotape"
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Fort Wayne Cinema Center Movies for 6/13-6/19
--City of God, Bend It Like Beckham, Slacker, and Manny & Lo
City of God
"Four Stars!"--Roger Ebert “A Powerhouse! It moves with whiplash
velocity. Sometimes a movie comes along and just floors you, its images
burn so deeply. ‘City of God’ has the scent of a classic.” -Peter
Travers, Rolling Stone. "Scorching and powerful! 'City of God' shares
the same attitude and fondness for tall-sounding tales as 'GoodFellas.'
Filled with frenetic visual rhythms, its mood swings synchronize with
the zany, adrenaline-fueled impulsiveness of its lost youth on a
rampage. Experience this devastating movie." -Stephen Holden, NY Times
136 min., Rated R for strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content
and language.
Friday at 8:30PM, Saturday at 7PM, Sunday at 4:15PM,
Monday at 6PM, Wednesday at 9PM
Bend It Like Beckham
"Pure exuberant fun! Makes you feel good and laugh out loud.." Roger
Ebert "One of this year's brightest, funniest, and most refreshing
films. 'Bend it Like Beckham' scores."--Time.
112min., Rated PG-13.
Friday at 6:15PM, Saturday at 2PM & 4:15PM, Sunday at 2PM,
Monday at 8:30PM, Wednesday at 7PM
Cinema Center & IPFW present “Indie Wave Films”
Films are on Tuesday s and Thursday s and begin at 7:30pm. General
Admission for these films is $4.00. Tickets are $2.00 for Students,
Seniors & Cinema Center Members. Some of the movies will be presented
as a video projection and will be free to all.
The course continues on Tuesday, June 17th with Slacker and
Manny & Lo on Thursday, June 19th.
Slacker Tuesday, June 17th
Written and Directed by Richard Linklater. Weird, unique satire about
various contemporary drop-outs in Austin, Texas, who—like the beatniks
of the ‘50’s and hippies of the ‘60’s—have formed their own subculture.
They’re loaded with thoughts and ideas, none of which they seem
capable of acting upon. Shot in a free-form style, and featuring a
large cast of nonprofessional actors. (This will be presented as a
video projection and is free.) 1991, 97 min., Rated R.
Manny and Lo Thursday, June 19th
Wise, warm comedy-drama is fresh and unexpected: a notable debut for
writer-director Lisa Krueger. Orphaned 11-year-old Manny (Scarlet
Johansson) and her more naïve 16-year-old sister Lo (Aleksa Palladino)
sleep in model homes and drive about in an old station wagon, until
it’s obvious Lo is pregnant, so they kidnap a prissy woman (Mary Kay
Place) to help with the delivery while hiding out in a woodsy cabin.
Family values delightfully but authentically turned upside down.
1996, 97 min., Rated R.
City of God
Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Paulo Lins, "City of
God" is a thrilling drama about the rise and fall of gangsters and drug
dealers in Rio de Janeiro's slums. That many of them are children,
ranging in age from nine to 14, is just one of the many shocking
aspects of this movie, which, like "The Sopranos," manages to strike
notes of black comedy amidst the horror. Turning on a dime from drama
to humor is never easy, and rare in the movies, but director Fernando
Meirelles displays so much technical control that he pulls off
virtually anything he sets his mind to. Divided into chapters and
spanning two decades from the '60s to the '80s, the film has a nominal
"hero," the honest Rocket (Alexandro Rodrigues), a budding
photojournalist who's avoided the criminal life but is connected, in
various ways, to many of the hoodlums who reside, like him, in the slum
known sarcastically as the City of God. He's the link between the
movie's opening and closing but, if there's a stand-out character in
"City of God," it's the 14-year-old killer Little Ze (Leandro Firmino
de Hora). A vicious murderer who hates almost everyone, this
frightening killing machine, as rendered in de Hora's intense
personification, is the stuff that nightmares are made of.
Uncompromising in its realism--many of the actors were
non-professionals, recruited from Rio's slums--and offering no quarter
to anyone, including the cops, who are all depicted as uncaring and
corrupt, "City of God" is, nonetheless, exhilarating movie-making. It's
in love with life even as so many of its protagonists die. The film
eventually runs out of steam--with so much energy expended on screen,
how could it not?--but it never fails to impress. It's a remarkable
achievement. Portuguese-language; subtitled. Running time: 136 min
Rated R for strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content and
language.
Bend it Like Beckham
Anyone who has ever battled conventional wisdom and struggled in the
face of adversity to fulfill their dreams will find solace and
validation in "Bend it Like Beckham," a rare picture that endeavors to
commune with the human spirit rather than exploit it. Nothing speaks
more to the triumph of writer/director Gurinder Chadha's (writer
director of the wonderful "What's Cooking") than the fact that one need
not be English, Indian, female or even a soccer fan to appreciate its
messages. Cryptic though it may be to many Americans, a movie title
like Bend it Like Beckham is as good as gold in the UK. A rough
American facsimile might be something on the order of "Dunk it Like
Shaq." But cultural unfamiliarity with things pertaining to English
soccer should in no way dissuade American moviegoers from treating
themselves to what is arguably one of the best sports films in years as
well as one of the year's most refreshing surprises--an exhilarating
tale of individual triumph that skillfully blends comedy, romance,
drama and pointed social commentary. The focus of "Bend it Like
Beckham" isn't the famed English soccer star of its title, nor his
legendary ability to "bend" a kicked ball, but rather a pair of
18-year-old soccer-playing girls--one English, the other
English-Indian--who bond over the inability of their respective
families to appreciate their passion for the sport, only to later
discover that they are both falling for their coach. But their coach,
Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), sees them not only for who they are but for
who they want to be, a confidence that inevitably invites deeper
feeling from them both. Though it might appear that "Bend it Like
Beckham" is falling back on a time-tested melodramatic love triangle
cliché, the narrative texture is actually far richer than it appears.
Though the Indian portions of the story echo many of the same issues
already voiced in movies like "East is East" and "Monsoon Wedding,"
there is something in the athletic quest that gives "Bend it Like
Beckham" the feel of a female "Rocky," an oft-abused comparison which
nonetheless has relevance here. "Pure exuberant fun! Makes you feel
good and laugh out loud.." Roger Ebert "One of this year's
brightest, funniest, and most refreshing films. 'Bend it Like Beckham'
scores."--Time. 112 min., Rated PG-13.
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Source: Cinema Center