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Screening Hong gao liang on 20th Jan(Thu), 6:00 PM

January 19th, 2011

EPLFC will be screening Yimou Zhang’s Hong gao liang (Red Sorghum) on 20^th January, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business.

Details

Title: Hong gao liang
English Title: Red Sorghum
Director: Yimou Zhang
Rating: 7.6
Year: 1987
Tagline
Genre: Drama, War
Time: 91 mins
Color: Color
(Eastmancolor)

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Screening The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on 13th Jan(Thu), 6:00 PM

January 13th, 2011

EPLFC will be screening Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) on 13^th January, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.

Details

Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
English Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Director: Mark Herman
Rating: 7.8
Year: 2008
Tagline: A story of innocence in a world of ignorance
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Time: 94 min
Color: Color

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Screening 36 Chowringhee Lane on 23rd Dec(Thu), 6:00 PM

December 22nd, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane on 23^rd December, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. She is thrilled when a former student, Nandita Roy, looks her up and also brings her boyfriend, Samaresh Moitra, to her flat. Samaresh is an author and likes the solitude of Violet’s flat, and would like to write his new novel there, to which Violet readily agrees to. He likes her antique record-player and she gives it to him as a gift. She hopes she has become part of a family again. It is Christmas time and Violet would like to bake a cake and visit Nandita and Samaresh to surprise them. But is a surprise that awaits her when she reaches her destination.

Details

Title: 36 Chowringhee Lane
Director: Aparna Sen
Rating: 7.3
Year: 1981
Tagline
Genre: Drama, Romance
Time: 122 mins
Color: Color

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Screening Brief Encounter on 25th Nov(Thu), 6:00 PM

November 24th, 2010

EPLFC will be screening David Lean’s Brief Encounter (Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter) on 25^th November, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: On a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although she is already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday on the small cafe, although they know that their love is impossible.

Details

Title: Brief Encounter
English Title: Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter
Director: David Lean
Rating: 8.2
Year: 1945
Tagline: A story of the most precious moments in woman’s life!
Genre: Romance, Drama
Time: 86 mins
Color: Black and White

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Screening Sans toit ni loi on 11th Nov(Thu), 6:00 PM

November 10th, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Agnes Varda’s Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) on 11^th November, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She’s unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meets an agronomist trying to save plane trees, gets tipsy with an old woman, and has an offer to appear in porn films.

Details

Title: Sans toit ni loi
English Title: Vagabond
Director: Agnes Varda
Rating: 7.7
Year: 1985
Tagline
Genre: Drama
Time: 105 mins
Color: Color

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Screening Hong ying tao on 4th Nov(Thu), 6:00 PM

November 3rd, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Daying Ye’s Hong ying tao (Red Cherry) on 4^th November, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao’s base after the Long March; Chuchu had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang. The youngsters fit in well and learn to speak Russian… A large group of students, including Chuchu, leave for summer camp in Byelorussia accompanied by their teacher, Miss Vera. Xiaoman remains behind… The Nazis invade the Soviet Union. Moscow remains unoccupied. Xiaoman takes a job delivering condolence letters to soldiers’ families. At one apartment, he finds a mother has died. Her very young daughter, Nadia, has not realized it… The summer camp is occupied by Germans. Miss Vera is murdered. One of the Russian boys, Carl, is half-German, and helps the others to escape. They are quickly recaptured. Chuchu and several other students are sent by Gen…

Details

Title: Hong ying tao
English Title: Red Cherry
Director: Daying Ye
Rating: 7.5
Year: 1995
Tagline
Genre: Drama, War
Time: mins
Color

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Screening Ikiru on 24th Oct(Sun), 10:00 AM

October 23rd, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (Doomed) on 24^th October, 2010(Sunday) at 10:00 AM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him unfulfilled. He next spends time with a young woman from his office, but finally decides he can make a difference through his job… After Watanabe’s death, co-workers at his funeral discuss his behavior over the last several months and debate why he suddenly became assertive in his job to promote a city park, and resolve to be more like Watanabe.

Details

Title: Ikiru
English Title: Doomed
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Rating: 8.2
Year: 1952
Tagline
Genre: Drama
Time: 143 min
Color: Black and White

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Screening Tini zabutykh predkiv on 21st Oct(Thu), 6:00 PM

October 20th, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Sergei Parajanov’s Tini zabutykh predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) on 21^st October, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father’s killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature’s beauty give proportion to Ivan’s tragedy.

Details

Title: Tini zabutykh predkiv
English Title: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Director: Sergei Parajanov
Rating: 8.0
Year: 1964
Tagline
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Time: 97 mins
Color: Color
(Sovcolor)

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Screening Duo luo tian shi on 7th Oct(Thu), 6:00 PM

October 5th, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Kar Wai Wong’s Duo luo tian shi on 7^th October, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: A disillusioned killer embarks on his last hit but first he has to overcome his affections for his cool…

Details

Title: Duo luo tian shi
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Rating: 7.3
Year: 1995
Tagline
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Time: 90 mins
Color: Black and White | Color

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Screening The Girl Cut in Two on 3rd Oct(Sun), 10:00 AM

October 2nd, 2010

EPLFC will be screening Claude Chabrol’s The Girl Cut in Two on 3^rd October, 2010(Sunday) at 10:00 AM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.