Enjoy a Friday Night at Seattle Language Academy watching a foreign film!
Admission is Free
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ITALIAN MOVIE NIGHT
with teacher Marc Mariani
PANE E CIOCCOLATA (Bread and Chocolate)
Directed by Franco Brusati
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:00PM
A hard-working Sicilian heads for Switzerland in search of a better life in this gentle, sweet-sour Italian comedy.
Despite the poor fellow's best efforts to fit in with his neighbors, he never quite seems to make it. Of course his
tragedy is the audience's delight. |
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SPANISH MOVIE NIGHT - HORROR SERIES!
with teacher Zach Bohnenkamp
Join us for a Spanish Wine Tasting at Cafe Babel before the film 5:00-7:00pm
El espinazo del diablo (2001)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (El laberinto del fauno // Pan’s Laberynth)
Friday, March 13th, 2009
A classic ghost story with a Spanish flare. It is 1939, toward the end of 3 years of civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos, the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a headmistress named Carmen and a kindly Professor Casares, both of whom are sympathetic to the Republican cause. The first thing Carlos finds upon entering the orphanage is a deactivated bomb in the main courtyard. Then he runs afoul of the caretaker Jacinto. Finally Carlos meets the resident ghost who warns him of eminent danger. The movie follows Carlos as he tries to discover who the ghost is and what he wants. Can Carlos unravel the mystery before its’ too late? Only one way to find out… |
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ITALIAN MOVIE NIGHT
with teacher Marc Mariani
L'oro di Napoli (1954)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Friday, March 6th 2009
Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral of a dead child ; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid ; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute ; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller". |
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FRENCH MOVIE NIGHT
with teacher Sabine Friedman
Ne le dis a personne (2006)
Directed by Guillaume Canet
Friday, February 27th, 2009
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. |
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SPANISH MOVIE NIGHT
with teacher Patrick Sweet
El Libro de Piedra (1968)
Friday, February 13th, 2009
This might be the best of the few Mexican horror films. The story revolves around a statue of a boy that is found in the forest near the main character's house. Legend says that the statue is not really what it seems to be. As with most horror films prior to the 70's, this movie lacks gore or flashy effects but compensates with solid acting from the cast and a very creepy, uneasy atmosphere. This film will leave you looking twice over your shoulder or more carefully at the shadows in the corners even after repeated viewings. |
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ITALIAN MOVIE NIGHT
Join us for an Italian Wine Tasting at Cafe Babel before the film 5:00-7:00pm
Pane e Tulipani (2000)
Written and directed by Silvio Soldini
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Bored with her life, dutiful housewife Rosalba takes a sudden opportunity for freedom when she's unexpectedly separated from everyone during a family vacation. After a tour bus leaves without her, her husband and children don't notice until it is too late. Virtually penniless, she finds a place to stay in a cheap, run-down hotel and makes friends with a waiter who serves her cold food. Deciding to stay, Rosalba finds work with an elderly florist and moves in with the waiter. The beauty of Venice, together with her new-found freedom, lead her to romance and self-discovery while her husband hires an amateur detective to track her down. |
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CHINESE MOVIE NIGHT
with teacher Frank Yang
Special pre-movie Falung Gong demonstration and Chinese New Year slideshow
Platform (2000)
Written and directed by Jia Zhangke
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Examining the transition in 1980s China away from Maoism and socialism and towards commercialism, Westernization, and popular culture, PLATFORM comes from director Jia Zhang Ke. The film follows a group of performing artists who change with the cultural and political changes in China, becoming less and less humble and more and more like Western rock stars. A film that creatively depicts an important chapter in Chinese history, PLATFORM has been compared to BOOGIE NIGHTS and BYE BYE BRAZIL. |
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Our Autumn 2008 Favorites!
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Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)
Friday, December 5th, 2008
César tells his story in prison from behind a mask to a psychiatrist. He is a rich orphan and a very handsome and a renowned womanizer. His best friend, Pelayo comes to one of César's parties with a beautiful woman named Sofía. Although she was supposed to be Pelayo's girlfriend, César spends that night at her home. But Nuria, with whom César had his last affair, is very jealous; she picks him up the next morning and crashes her car with both of them inside. César survives the crash, but his face is hideously disfigured. Doctors say they can’t help him. The morning after an awkward night with Pelayo and Sofía, his luck changes completely: Sofía tells him he is the one she really loves, and the doctors tell him that, with a revolutionary new technique, they can rebuild his face. César is happier than ever, but that's when strange and scary things start to happen... and César finds out that the real nightmare has only just begun.... |
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Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas (Don't worry, I'm fine)
Friday, November 7th, 2008
The unexpected disappearance of her troubled brother causes a nineteen year-old girl intense emotional distress as French filmmaker Philippe Lioret collaborates with author Oliver Adam to adapt Adam's popular novel for the screen. Upon returning from Barcelona after spending the summer with new friends Lea (Alissa Maiga) and Thomas (Julien Boisselier), Lily (Melanie Lauret) discoves that her twin brother Loic (Mickael Trodoux) has fled the family home following a particularly intense confrontation with family patriarch Paul (Kad Merad). When Loic fails to return Lily's increasingly desperate calls and her parents continual failure to explain the reasoning behind her brother's flight, the troubled girl lapses into an alarming emotional malaise. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide. |
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Our Summer 2008 Favorite!
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Hi, Dharma!
Friday, July 11th, 2008.
South Korean filmmaker Park Cheol-kwan makes his feature film debut with Darmaya Nolja (Hi, Dharma!), an action comedy drama about a group of Jopok gangsters hiding out with Buddhist monks. Criminal leader Jae-gyu (Park Shin-yang) and his fellow tough guys seek shelter in an out-of-the way monastery. The monks and the gangsters spend their time competing in various contests and learning a little bit about each other. Hi, Dharma! is one of the many Korean Jopok films released in 2001, along with Kick the Moon, Friend, and My Wife Is a Gangster. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide |
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