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YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROMHERE: THE JOURNEY HOME
Beginning on the heels of Non Pensarci, don’t miss this trio of films that explore some of the best “home” movies you’ve never seen. Kings considers the unrealized dreams of Irish immigrants who hope to make it big in England; Canadian director Guy Maddin forges a singular cinematic style in contemporary filmmaking in his docu-fantasia of Winnipeg; On a gentler note, The Grocer’s Son is a lighthearted French tale of a surly prodigal son who returns to his rural roots. All three films will have viewers defining what home means to them.
Hawaii Premier: KINGS
Director: Tom Collins
Ireland/UK, 2007, 90 mins.
In English and Gaelic with English subtitles
See the trailer.
You know it’s going to be a good Irish story when Colm Meaney (The Commitments, The Snapper) is in the cast. An adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, this film was an official selection at the Toronto Film Festival and swept five awards at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards. The moving, involving narrative is burnished with outstanding performances. In 1977, six Irish lads sail from the Bay of Dublin for England, vowing to find their fortune and return home the conquering heroes. The reality: low-level construction work and a home in the immigrant neighborhood of Kilburn. Decades later, when five of them reunite in middle age for the wake of their youngest friend Jackie, they mourn not only him but the slow death of their dreams. As the truth about Jackie’s death emerges, and long-held secrets are laid bare, the men discover that home is closer than they realize. A heartbreaking story of a lost generation, Kings is a tale for all immigrants in today’s changing world.
•Wednesday, October 1, Thursday, October 2, Friday, October 3, Saturday, October 4, Sunday, October 5 at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Hawaii Premiere: MY WINNIPEG
Director: Guy Maddin
Canada, 2007, 80 mins.
See the New York Times "Movie Minutes" video about My Winnipeg.
Guy Maddin is lauded for being one of the most adventurous filmmakers in contemporary cinema. His award-winning homage to his Canadian hometown is part documentary, part fantasy, and part psychodrama. “If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin,” writes film critic Roger Ebert. “If you have never heard of him, I am not surprised. Now you have. A new Maddin movie doesn't play in every multiplex, city or state. If you hear of one opening, seize the day. ... You will be plunged into the mind of a man who thinks in the images of old silent films, disreputable documentaries, movies that never were, from eras beyond comprehension. His imagination frees the lurid possibilities of the banal. He rewrites history; when that fails, he creates it.” New York Times film critic A. O. Scott asserts that My Winnepeg “is as real as any work of art can be.”
Not suitable for viewers under 18.
•Tuesday, October 7, Wednesday, October 8, Thursday, October 9 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
•Friday, October 10 at 1:00 p.m.
Hawaii Premiere: THE GROCER’S SON
Director: Eric Guirado
France, 2007, 96 mins.
See the trailer.
It is summer, and 30-year-old Antoine reluctantly leaves the big city to return to his family in his rural hometown in Provence, a vacation dream spot for some, but the last place Antoine wants to be. With his father downed by a heart attack, Antoine must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery van from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to isolated inhabitants. Claire, a friend visiting from Paris, shows curiosity and affection for the elderly clientele and eventually charms these gruff, disgruntled customers. It is only then that Antoine begins to soften. “Mr. Cazale’s subtle performance makes his transformation entirely believable and prevents this upbeat movie from curdling into a sentimental advertisement for the simple life,” writes New York Times critic Stephen Holden of this surprise box office hit in France.
•Sunday, October 12, Tuesday, October 14,Wednesday, October 15, Thursday, October 16at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
ASIAN ADOPTEE FILM FESTIVAL
The Asian Adoptee Film Festival, hosted by the nonprofit Korean Adoptees of Hawai‘i, is the first to exclusively showcase the artistry and expression of adult Asian adoptee filmmakers. The original films will challenge viewers’ perceptions of family, nationality, race, and belonging. The Asian Adoptee Film Festival will be presented from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, October 11, in conjunction with the Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering in Honolulu, October 10-13.
For additional information: www.KAHawaii.org/mini08 • info@KAHawaii.org • 808-371-0644
•SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
SEARCHING FOR GO-HYANG
Directed by Tammy Chu
31 mins.
JAGADAMBA: MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE
Directed by Amber Field
10 mins.
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER
Directed by Jette Hye Jin Mortensen
7 mins.
MISSING
Directed by Kate Hers
7 mins.
TRACING TRADES
Directed by Jane Jin Kaisen and Tobias Hubinette
31 mins.
•SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
RESILIENCE (Trailer)
Directed by Tammy Chu
OPERATION BABYLIFT (Trailer)
Directed by Tammy Nguyen Lee
FEATURE FILM: ADOPTED: THE NEW AMERICAN FAMILY (Rough cut)
Directed by Barb Lee
80 mins.
ANNIE ONG: LOST AND FOUND
Directed by Jeannette Loakman
45 mins.
$10 general admission
$8 for students/seniors/military with ID
$6 for Academy or KAHI members with ID
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
Marriage and, conversely, divorce is depicted in these films in the form of farce, blasphemous satire, and intricate drama from three different cultures and time periods.
VIVA
Director: Anna Biller
USA, 2007, 120 mins.
Not suitable for viewers under 18.
See the trailer.
Hawai‘i-born and raised Anna Biller has emerged as a strikingly individual talent in the realm of art cinema, making movies that revel in kitsch, while simultaneously commenting on it. Mix the camp of John Waters, the erotic excess of Russ Meyer, the satirical blasphemy of Luis Buñuel, and the deliberately awful performances found in the films of George Kuchar, and you have an idea of what Biller is after. Her first feature, Viva, follows Barbi (played by Biller), a suburban housewife in 1972. Abandoned by her race-car-driving husband, Barbi finds herself at the center of the swinging sexual revolution, and is introduced to the joys of bisexuality, nudist colonies, pornographic modeling, and prostitution. This send-up of the vintage sexploitation movie also explores contemporary issues of sexuality. (Synopses adapted from Film Curator Jim Healy, George Eastman House). Another Oahu son, Jared Sanford co-produced and stars.
Anna Biller will introduce Viva at Friends of Film Friday on Friday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Seats are reserved for Friends of Film Friday members.
However, the theater welcomes walk-ins. For information about walk-in tickets, go to www.friendsoffilmfriday.com
•Saturday, October 25, Sunday, October 26 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
TUYA’S MARRIAGE
Director: Wang Quan An
China, 2006, 96 mins.
In Mandarin with English subtitles
Hardworking, hardheaded Tuya is a Mongolian desert herder who refuses to settle in a town in accordance with the new industrialization policy. She is busy with two kids, a disabled husband and 100 sheep, when she hurts her back. How to survive? She will divorce her husband on paper and look for a new spouse who can support the whole family. Suitors line up, but it's not easy to find a man who fits the bill. New York Times critic Stephen Holden says “the movie finds an austere beauty in this landscape of scrub and grassland ringed by forbidding slate-blue mountains. The camera frequently draws back to take in the spectacle of people dwarfed by nature in a harsher Asian answer to the North American plains. Lest you think that [the film] is an ethnographic curiosity, Mr. Wang and his screenwriting collaborator, Lu Wei (Farewell My Concubine), portray a world that, apart from its hardship, is thoroughly recognizable in its human complexity.” The film won the top prize at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival and is a New York Times Critics’ Pick.
•Friday, October 17 at 1:00 p.m.
•Monday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m.
•Sunday, October 19, Tuesday, October 21 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
(DIVORZIO ALL’ITALIANA)
Director: Pietro Germi
Italy, 1961, 104 mins.
See a clip from the film.
Newly restored, this classic comedy is a must see. Ferdinando Cefalú (Marcello Mastroianni), part of Sicily’s seedy aristocracy, is revolted by his wife’s false affections and besotted with his gorgeous teenage cousin. Unfortunately for Ferdinando, divorce in Sicily is forbidden. But if Signora Cefalú had an affair, who would blame her husband for murdering her? Germi’s searing, hilarious comedy “slices through Sicilian culture like a razor through carpaccio! Few films have balanced sly social satire and broad, mugging caricatures with such grace,” writes Time Out New York’s David Frear.
•Wednesday, October 22, Thursday, October 23 at 1:00 and 7:30 p.m.
•Friday, October 24 at 1:00 p.m.
Coming in November: Living Yoga: The Life and Teachings of Sri Swami Satchidananda, Takva, America, The Beautiful
General information: The Doris Duke Theatre opens its doors on Kinau Street one half-hour before each showing.
Tickets for films may be purchased at the theater door on the day of screening, beginning one half-hour before each showing.
Admission: $7 adults; $6 seniors, students and military; $5 Academy members.
Parking: For weekday matinees, theater patrons may park in the lot behind the Academy Art Center at Linekona (entrance on makai side of Beretania) for $3 with theater validation. For evening screenings, you can park free at the Academy's lot at 1035 Kinau St., Diamond Head of Victoria Street. Handicapped parking is available in the small Luce Pavilion lot on Victoria Street. Patrons using handicapped stalls should proceed to the main entrance on Kinau Street.
For the hearing impaired: The Doris Duke Theatre is equipped with the Easy Listener Hearing Assistance System. You can pick up a receiver at the ticket counter.
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