[1135] in peace2
movie night out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aram Harrow)
Thu Oct 18 00:15:36 2001
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From: "Aram Harrow" <aram@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:15:30 -0400
I suggest going out to a movie at the MFA this Friday instead of the
usual video in MIT classroom deal. As in, I've already bought
tickets, and perhaps other people will want to do the same, possibly
meeting for dinner beforehand, etc...
The movie is "ABC Africa," and it's by Kiarostami, who did "Taste of
Cherry" and "The Wind Will Carry Us," both of which were quite nice.
He's often pretty light on plot, though, should that be an issue for
you.
As far as I know this movie has only been at places like Cannes so
far, and it is only playing at the MFA for one night, so there is a
good chance it will sell out well in advance. If you're planning on
going, I recommend buying tickets immediately. Also, you can't buy
them over the phone less than 24 hours in advance. To order tickets,
the number is 369-3306. The box office number is 369-3770.
here's the description:
ABC Africa
Fri., Oct. 19, at 8:15 pm
by Abbas Kiarostami ( 2001, 83 min.).
ABC Africa begins as The United Nations' Intl. Fund for Agricultural
Development proposes that Kiarostami (who was the 1997 recipient of
the U.N.'s Fellini medal for his humanitarian filmmaking) travel to
Africa to document the efforts of the Uganda Women's Effort to Save
Orphans (UWESO), a volunteer organization that provides care for the
nation's estimated 1.6 million orphans. Kiarostami accepts and, in the
process, discovers as much about himself and humanity as he does about
the chosen locale. While the expected heartbreaking images of death
and destruction are present in Kiarostami's first fully nonfiction
work since 1989 (its also his first film to be shot outside of Iran
and his first work shot entirely on digital video), the director is
more likely to turn his attention to a gaggle of Ugandan children
erupting into joyous song on a muddied city street. For him, this is
the true essence of the situation: Despite the devastation of years of
bloody civil war and disease, an entire generation here seems suffused
with an irrepressible, unsentimental hopefulness and optimism. This
adaptability, Kiarostami suggests, may be the most marvelous and
beguiling of all human virtues.
It's part of an Iranian film festival the MFA is doing:
http://www.mfa.org/film/iran/default.htm
There's some other stuff here that should be good too.
Julia and I saw a movie made by an assistant to Kierostami last Friday
and it was fairly solid.
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