UCCCA is proud to announce the lineup for the Fall FilmFest, Tuesdays 7 PM, the Oneonta Theater, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Tickets: $6; UCCCA members, students: $5. Screenings are sometimes followed by discussions at UCCCA, 11 Ford Ave. COFFEE AND CIGARETTES SEPTEMBER 7 Jim Jarmusch, US, 96 min., R: tobacco, strong language Nicotine, caffeine, and great music from Mahler to the Skatalites alter the perceptions of an eclectic gang of actors and musicians (Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, among others) who play themselves‹more or less‹in wry, surprising comic vignettes. Beauty and meaning in odd places at unlikely, idle moments flicker through this lovely, semi-improvised film filled with complex characterizations. OSAMA SEPTEMBER 14 Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan/Japan/Ireland, 83 min., PG13 There are four scenes in this life-changing film you will never forget, one of which is hilariously perverse. "The first film made in post-Taliban Afghanistan, this is a gripping small story with big implications about what happens when a desperate family commits the unthinkable crime‹sending a daughter out in boy's clothing to earn a living. It is an Ockham's razor of narrative and image which reaches out from the screen and cuts the viewer; more than the heart bleeds as the twelve-year old protagonist negotiates her impossible world." Pakistan Times. Best Foreign Language Film: 61st Golden Globes 2004; Best Foreign Language Oscar Nominee 2004; Special Mention: Cannes Film Festival 2003; Best First Feature: London Film Festival 2003; NY Times Critic¹s Pick. FESTIVAL EXPRESS SEPTEMBER 21 Bob Smeaton, Canada, 1 hr. 30 min., R: language, adult situations Okay, Boomers have now become geezers! "lntimate geezerfest and rock-doc holy grail presents long-lost footage (hidden for years by legal wrangling) of a forgotten Woodstock on wheels‹the 1970 bacchanal in which a pair of 22-year-old entrepreneurs contrived to place the Grateful Dead, the Band, Janis Joplin (two months before her death), and a half-dozen other acts (Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Brothers, Sha-Na-Na ) on a chartered train across Canada. The 20 counterculture bands on the roster ate, slept, partied‹and, most wonderfully, jammed together‹aboard a special train that ferried them from Toronto to Winnipeg. ŒWe achieved lift-off,¹ recalls the Dead's Bob Weir. You will, too." Megan Lehmann, New York Post SUPER SIZE ME SEPTEMBER 28 Morgan Spurlock, U.S., 96 min., NR Affable and horrifying at the same time, this is Greek character and morality drama masquerading as jaunty documentary. The film "turns on the question of responsibility: Does it rest with those of us who eat, drink and inhale the products that clog our arteries and corrode our livers and lungs, or with the companies who sell and advertise them? The director¹s conclusion is that it's us or them, that we should kill McDonald's before McDonald's kills us." A. O. Scott, N. Y. Times. Directing Award, Sundance. INTIMATE STRANGERS OCTOBER 5 Patrice Leconte, France, 1 hr. 44 min., R:frank sexual talk A sleek, Hitchcock blond bares her private life to an analyst...who turns out to be not an analyst, but an accountant. Beguiled by her erotic secrets, he then can¹t admit who he really is. A therapy session gone seductively astray, a voyeuristic fantasy, darkish-light, this French film stars the beautiful, seriously talented actress Sandrine Bonnaire. THE CORPORATION OCTOBER 12 Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, US., 2 hrs. 25 min., NR THIS FILM BEGINS AT 6:30 PM! "Since a corporation is legally defined as a person, it makes some sense to ask what kind of person a corporation might be. The answer offered by this smart, brooding documentary, is: not a very nice one. A psychiatrist who has advised the F.B.I. declares that the corporation has Œall the characteristics of a prototypical psychopath¹.'' A.O. Scott, N.Y Times. Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore, Ray Anderson, Jane Akre, Steve Wilson, and Mark Barry appear. THIS FILM BEGINS AT 6:30 PM! MARIA FULL OF GRACE OCTOBER 19 Joshua Marston, Spain, in Spanish with English subtitles, 101 min., R: drug trafficking, violence "Treacherous territory: a young woman with a hopeless future in Colombia, seduced by suave, sweet-talking recruiters, can earn a large sum by smuggling heroin into the U. S. Any hope of success as a smuggler requires that Maria lie with a straight face under extreme stress. Her journey from Bogotá to New York in a plane with three other smugglers is one of the tensest flights ever filmed. In a performance that feels lived in rather than acted, Catalina Sandino Moreno's Maria is an attractive, smart, spirited young woman who faces the challenge of fending for herself with a fierce determination and an ingenuity that compromises but never undermines her essential decency and morality." Stephen Holden, N.Y. Times. Winner Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award. SEDUCING DR. LEWIS OCTOBER 26 Jean-François Pouliot, Canada, 109 min, NR "La Grande Séduction," the film¹s French title, says it best. Residents of an impoverished fishing village need to trick a doctor into staying with them. This sweet, gentle, funny story was best French feature at the Montreal Film Festival and a Sundance Audience Award Winner. SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... NOVEMBER 2 Kim Ki-Duk, S. Korea, in Korean with English subtitles, 102 min., NR: strong sexuality Not only dazzlingly beautiful, lush, and painterly, (set on Jusan Pond, a Korean national natural treasure), but also earthy, insightful, active, sharply humorous, spirit-fillling, and magical. "The symbolic framework is Buddhist, but the feelings are universal and this film about a Buddhist master and his student casts its own rhapsodic spell. We see life whole--with all its violence, desire and savagery--and all its beauty, compassion and delight as well. It's a wonderful film." Metromix. "This beautifully composed canvas is the sort of film one falls into, resurfacing at the end with great reluctance." E.W., The Daily News. Critic's Pick: N.Y. Times KITCHEN STORIES NOVEMBER 9 Bent Hamer, Norway, in Swedish and Norwegian with English subtitles, 92 min., PG This may well be the oddest, nuttiest film you¹ll ever see. "This wry, uninflected, deadpan social comedy points as straight and true as a compass fixed on magnetic north. It has the tingly, dry shock of a snootful of sub-zero air. The material, a comic melodrama about conformity (a documentary of a home efficiency expert pretending to be invisible as he sits on an umpire¹s stool, watching a bachelor in the kitchen), displays streaks of subdued peculiarity raining down at unexpected moments. The stoic freakishness, the stinging brilliance of the colors, and Mr. Hamer's skill and discipline grow out of a hilariously demented brand of obsessive-compulsive disorder." Elvis Mitchell, N.Y. Times. It is "so funny and so emotionally precise. Once you've adapted to its rhythms, the humor is like contagion." Newsday. Toronto International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival. DOOR IN THE FLOOR NOVEMBER 16 Tod Williams, U.S., 111 min., R: nudity, obscenity and sexuality "A beautifully acted examination of the bedeviling and perversely inspiring legacy of family tragedy, this is one of the most sophisticated American films of the year. But what really sends it over the top is the acting (Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger), certain to be remembered at awards season. Ted Cole may be the most complex husband and father, not to mention artist (he writes children¹s books), to grace an American movie. In a richly nuanced, often both literally and figuratively naked performance, Bridges makes this monster, if not lovable, at least undeniably human. Basinger, too, has never been better or more radiant. She transforms Marion's morbid depression and withdrawal into a form of ravenous sexual longing for a much younger man." James Vernie, Boston Herald. TOUCHING THE VOID NOVEMBER 23 Kevin Macdonald, U. S., 102 min., NR. "A very challenging day out" is how phlegmatic British climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates perceived their 1985 bid to climb 21,000-foot-high Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Halfway down, Simpson fell, atomized his left leg and had to be lowered by Yates on a 300-foot rope. Unbeknownst to a blizzard-blinded Yates, Simpson ended up dangling over a sheer precipice with no way to climb back up. Unable to hold on, Yates was forced into the climber¹s worst existential dilemma: to cut or not to cut the rope; to save himself or not to save himself, by letting his friend die. He cut it. This hugely stirring, appropriately vertiginous hybrid of documentary and docudrama mixes the participants¹ accounts with frostbitten, snow-lashed re-creations of their ordeal: Simpson feared he would die alone, and with a horrible Boney M song stuck in his head, even as Yates was tormented by guilt. Breathtaking stuff." John Patterson, LA Weekly. 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