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Showtimes:
2/19, 7 pm WH
2/21, 9:15 pm GU
2/22, 7 pm BW
2/24, 3 pm WH
Visiting
Artist:
The
Festival is honored to welcome distinguished director KRZYSZTOF
ZANUSSI, (In Full Gallop, Camouflage) from Poland. He
will be present at both screenings of his newest film Life is A Fatally
Transmitted Disease.
ENCORE
SCREENINGS!
Last
chance to see these favorites, not likely
to
return to Portland soon.
Sunday the 25th
1
GU Festival Shorts
Your
last chance to see some of the most spirited, beautiful and accomplished
short films the world has to offer.
1
WH Marshall Tito's Spirit (Croatia)
When
reports begin to circulate that the ghost of Marshal Tito (who ruled Yugoslavia
for 40 years) has shown up, tourists begin to flood in, soldiers dust off
their uniforms while the mayor, eager for fame, organizes Tito tours.
(97 mins.) (Oscar Submission)
3
GU Endurance (US)
George
Butler tells one of the great true-to-life survival stories of the century.
In October 1914 the Endurance sailed from Buenos Aires under the leadership
of veteran British Explorer Ernest Shackleton. The goal: a journey to the
South Pole. But before reaching the continent, the Endurance was trapped
in a heavy ice pack, locked for more than nine months and slowly crushed.
That was just the beginning of an incredible two-year, 850-mile ordeal
in an open boat for Shackleton and his crew, all 27 of whom amazingly returned
alive. (100 mins.)
5:15
WH A Paradise Under the Stars (Cuba)
Combining
exuberant musical numbers, bedroom farce and some light-hearted satiric
jabs at Cuban machismo and the National Guard, A Paradise Under the Stars
won the Audience Award at the Havana Film Festival. (90 mins.)
5:30
GU A Place Nearby (Denmark)
In
this intensely nerve-shredding psychological drama a single mother fights
to protect her autistic son from a crime she is not sure he has committed,
but is afraid to ask. (Oscar Submission)
7:30
WH You're The One (Spain)
Set
in 1947, Garci’s new film is a sumptuously produced, “old-fashioned” period
piece. Julia (Lydia Bosch), is a platinum-blond rich girl. Depressed by
the imprisonment of her boyfriend for his political activities, she abandons
her comfortable life in Madrid and heads off to the northern province of
Asturias to be among “real people.” Cultured, well educated, but disillusioned,
perhaps a return to where she spent the summers of her childhood will be
the tonic. (111 mins.)
7:45
GU The Mission (Hong Kong)
Taut
and atmospheric, Johnnie To’s instant Hong Kong neo-noir classic won him
the Best Director Prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards. A respected Triad
crime boss is marked for death. Five bodyguards are recruited to protect
him and his family. A simple “mission” but in Hong Kong—with mixed loyalties
and misplaced passions—the path is not so straight. As the bodyguards protect
their boss from bold plotting, they must also unravel the mystery of who
has ordered the hit. Constructed with flawless cool, blazing guns and balletic
action, The Mission is both a minimalist study of heroic codes of brotherhood
and loyalty and an artistically accomplished action picture of the first
order. (87 mins.)
The annual Festival features nearly 100 films from over30 countries in just over two weeks.
Gift Certificates are available now! at the Guild Theatre box office (prior to screenings) or the Northwest Film Center' Office, 1219 SW Park Avenue.
Gift Certificates will be redeemable at advance ticket beginning February 1.
Advance Tickets
will go on sale Friday, February 1, 2001 at the Portland Art Museum, North
Wing Lobby. Phone Orders may be placed beginning Friday, February 1, 2001.
There is a $3 handling charge added to each order.
Presented by THE OREGONIAN, REGAL CINEMAS & HOLLYWOOD VIDEO
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