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Screening Popiól i diament on 21st Apr(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:42:21 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Andrzej Wajda’s Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) on 21^st April, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II. Though killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow his orders.

Details

Title: Popiól i diament
English Title: Ashes and Diamonds
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Rating: 7.9
Year: 1985
Tagline
Genre: Drama, War
Time: 103 min
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West Germany: 95 min
(original: 108′) mins
Color: Black and White

Screening Baisers volés on 14th Apr(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:47:46 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Franois Truffaut’s Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses) on 14^th April, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon, the girl he was in love with before the beginning of the film, and his adventures in his jobs : first as a night watchman, then as a private investigator, especially during one investigation within Mr Tabard’s shoes-shop… Mme Tabard is so fascinating…

Details

Title: Baisers volés
English Title: Stolen Kisses
Director: Fran�ois Truffaut
Rating: 7.8
Year: 2003
Tagline
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Time: 90 mins
Color: Color
(Eastmancolor)

Screening Sleeper on 31st Mar(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:04:27 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Woody Allen’s Sleeper on 31^st March, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots.

Details

Title: Sleeper
Director: Woody Allen
Rating: 7.3
Year: 1973
Tagline: A love story about two people who hate each other. 200 years in the future.
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Time: 89 mins
Color: Color

Screening Salaam Cinema on 17th Mar(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:40:33 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Salaam Cinema on 17^th March, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Details

Title: Salaam Cinema
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Rating: 7.4
Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama

Screening Még kér a nép on 3rd Mar(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:37:13 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Miklos Jancso’s Még kér a nép (Red Psalm) on 3^rd March, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot:

Details

Title: Még kér a nép
English Title: Red Psalm
Director: Miklos Jancso
Rating: 7.1
Year: 1972
Tagline
Genre: Drama, Musical, War
Time: 87 mins
Color: Color
(Eastmancolor)

Screening La voie lactée on 17th Feb(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:33:07 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Luis Bu�uel’s La voie lactée (The Milky Way) on 17^th February, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Two tramps going on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, meet different christian heresies. They meet too the Marquis of Sade.

Details

Title: La voie lactée
English Title: The Milky Way
Director: Luis Bu�uel
Rating: 7.6
Year: 1969
Tagline
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Time: France: 98 min
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Germany: 101 min
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USA: 105 min mins
Color: Color
(Eastmancolor)

Screening À bout de souffle on 10th Feb(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:12 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless) on 10^th February, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

Details

Title: À bout de souffle
English Title: Breathless
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Rating: 8.0
Year: 1960
Tagline: The film that was banned for 4 years. Why..? (original Finnish poster tagline)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Time: 90 mins
Color: Black and White

Screening Tsubaki Sanjûrô on 3rd Feb(Thu), 6:00 PM

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:05:16 +0000

EPLFC will be screening Akira Kurosawa’s Tsubaki Sanjûrô (Sanjuro) on 3^rd February, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.

Details

Title: Tsubaki Sanjûrô
English Title: Sanjuro
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Rating: 8.1
Year: 1962
Tagline
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Time: 96 mins
Color: Black and White

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

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:08:09 +0000

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)

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

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:31:34 +0000

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