CHICAGO FESTIVAL OF BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN FILM Review

Jelena Z. has reviewed our festival from last weekend. Here's what she had to say:



I have some bad news: You're going to have to wait until 2011 to attend the annual Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film. The silver lining of this cloud is that I went, I watched, and I remembered. For all of you! Well, my intentions weren't entirely alturistic... I went for me, too.

The organization, comprised entirely of professional volunteers, strives to satiate the growing appetite for world cinema (specifically, Bosnia-Herzegovinian film) in Chicago. Through the festival, new and emerging directors are highlighted, classics are revived, the culture is celebrated and further exploratory discourse is prompted. As in, actual face-to-face intellectual conversation. Something most of us could use a dose of, no?

My take on the films? It's not often tha the mind is courted by smarts yet accosted by sentiment... ah yes, those are what we call heartstrings, right? The political climate in teh Balkans is different than most Americans have experienced, and subsequently, you sense a recurring theme of hopelessness vs. hope (no surprise there) and how these proud and strong people resolve these conflicted feelings through shared love of music, traditions, food and celebration. And conversely, through deep bouts of angst. There's a real raw quality to this cinema and onscreen, it cuts like a revelatory knife at times. However, there's astounding beauty as well -- we're talking deep, punched-in-the-gut sorrowful beauty. And maybe you too will find yourself shedding a tear.

So -- go and be moved. And experience something opposite or ordinary... these films depict a life that may not be your reality, but you'd be hard-pressed not to find commonality. And that's what I call humanity.

Keep up the great work, organizers -- many thanks for bringing these films to mainstream light!

"Let the Right One In" Screening

This Thursday at 8:00 pm in Galvin Auditorium in the Sullivan Center, LUCine is screening the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In.

The movie is about a bullied boy who befriends a young girl new to the neighborhood. Needless to say, she has a dark secret, and there will be blood!

So, quick! See it for the American remake comes out this fall!

"Death at a Funeral" Passes

Exciting news! LUCine has passes for the most recent remake of Death at a Funeral!

Directed by Neil LaBute, Death at a Funeral is a hilarious day in the life of an American family that has come together to put a beloved husband and father to rest. As mourners gather at the family home, shocking revelations, festering resentments, ugly threats, blackmail and a misdirected corpse unleash lethal and riotous mayhem. The film stars Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, and Peter Dinklage.

The American comedy comes out April 16, 2010.

More information pending.

"Hollywood's Arabs and Muslims: Problem and Prospects"

Apologies to all of our followers for the lack of updates for the past few months.

But, the silence has been broken to bring wonderful news!

LUCine along with co-sponsors SAF and MESA present "HOLLYWOOD'S ARABS AND MUSLIMS: PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS", a presentation by DR. JACK SHAHEEN, author of Reel Bad Arabs. Dr. Shaheen will be discussing the representations of Arabs and Muslims in American films.

So, come see this exciting and insightful lecture which will be take place on TUESDAY, MARCH 2 at 6:30 pm in GALVIN AUDITORIUM.

Happy October!

NEXT MEETING WILL BE THURSDAY, OCT. 8TH DUE TO FALL BREAK

SAME TIME AND PLACE- 5:00 P.M. DAMEN 437

Be there or be lame because we will be voting on the movies for the Horror Film Festival and for Film Screenings.

Campus MovieFest on Facebook

RSVP to the event and invite your Loyolan friends!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159124354807&index=1

MEETING MINUTES (9/29)

Chicago International Film Festival - Ashley Hoban
Ways to get tickets:
-call & order w/ credit card
-ticket master
-office on Adams
-AMC
Casting call for advanced film studies

Ann Arbor Touring Festival coming to Loyola
-Nov. 11 Gavin, 7 p.m.
Horror Film Festival
-list exists
-couple days leading up to Holloween (3 days)
-Gavin Auditorium
Bi-Weekly Film Screening
-no list
-5 this semester
Minutes courtesy of your very own secretary, Frank Agnoli

Midwest Independent Film Festival

Check this out! Possible idea for a LUCine trip?

The first Tuesday of every month the Midwest Independent Film Festival takes place at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema in Chicago.

General Admission only $10!

Check out the website http://www.midwestfilm.com/pages/home/1.php and let me know what you think!

A Woman Under The Influence

Check this out!

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

975, John Cassavetes, USA, 155 min.
With Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk

"Perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes' films."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Under the influence of the man she loves (Falk), Mabel Longhetti (Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance) is driven in circles by the irascible demands and well-meaning emotional violence of her husband, three children, and testy mother-in-law. Cassavetes’s amazing insight into family life rips into conventional ideas of what constitutes “madness” versus what constitutes “sanity.”

Playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center

This Saturday (9/19) at 3 p.m.

http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/node/356