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published on 10/28/05
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Chicago screens Spanish cinema
The Spanish Filmmakers Movie Series began this past Tuesday with a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s 1999 film All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre). Complicated human relationships in All About My Mother recur throughout other films in the series.
The next three films slated to be screened include Fernando Trueba’s Belle Epoque, Alejandro Amenabar’s Mar Adentro, and Julio Medem’s Los amantes del Circulo Polar. Belle Epoque takes place in 1931 and tells of Fernando, an army deserter who falls in love with each of the four daughters of the man who has taken him in. Mar Adentro describes a man’s struggle with his own impending euthanasia, and Los amantes del Circulo Polar tells a chance love story.
The films will be shown in Chicago Hall 143, and the series concludes on Nov. 15 at 8 p.m.
—Marcella Veneziale, Arts Editor
Shiva doors open for Hysteria
The first Philatheis play of the semester, Hysteria, runs this weekend at the Shiva. According to director Jess Kibblewhite ’07 Hysteria, the play, which opens Thursday night, “is a spectacle, a farce, a drama. Provocative and witty, it cleverly brings alive a fictionalized account of the night before Sigmund Freud's death when morphine injections cause him wild hallucinations and the materialization of his subconscious while Salvador Dali pays a visit.”
Maybe you’ve seem a Dali painting, or read some Freud, or perhaps taken a class with Molly Nesbit and done both. Either way, the fine student acting, directing, and set design, are enough reason to attend. It’s almost Halloween, but why not celebrtate the weekend by taking in cerebral, student-produced black-box theater?
Hysteria will be performed at the Shiva on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Oct. 27-29 at 8 p.m. Make reservations at the Info Desk.
—Freddy Deknatel, Arts Editor
Friday, Oct. 28
Vassar:
Ferry Residence Art Night (FRAN)
Tarantella play at the residence’s Halloween-themed art night. Ferry House Living Room, 7 p.m.
Rhinebeck:
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Three actors perform 37 Shakespeare plays in under two hours. Center for Performing Arts, $15
Saturday, Oct. 29
Vassar:
Improv! The comedy group presents their Halloween show. Rocky 300,
9 p.m.
Tivoli:
Black and White Show Graphite, pen and ink, oil and collage art works presented. Tivoli Artists’ Co-op, 60 Broadway
Sunday, Oct. 30
New York City:
Naruse: The Unknown Japanese Master Mikio Naruse was one of the first Japanese directors to achieve high critical acclaim in the United States. Tonight, the series screens Flowing, which portrays a group of geishas after World War II. Film Forum, 209 W. Houston, $10
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