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A sharply crafted family thriller, CHILD’S POSE pivots on a riveting performance by Gheorghiu (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, BEYOND THE HILLS) as a steely, upper-class Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European bourgeoisie twists into a brilliantly ambiguous study of obsessive motherly love. It marks the third feature directed by Calin Peter Netzer and yet another impressive, witty screenplay by Razvan Radulescu, who co-wrote Cristi Puiu’s THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU and STUFF AND DOUGH, as well as TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS, THE PAPER WILL BE BLUE and other landmarks of the Romanian New Wave.

“Child’s Pose” sounds like something simple and easy, but don’t be fooled.”-Keith Turan, Los Angeles Times

Sponsored by Arts for Ohio, Film Division, Center for Entrepreneurship and Create Space

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Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his PRISONERS director, Academy Award Nominee Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, provoking empathy as well as disapproval while embodying two distinct personas. With masterfully controlled attention to detail, Villeneuve takes us on an enigmatic and gripping journey through a world that is both familiar and strange – and hard to shake off long after its final, unnerving image. ENEMY, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s 2004 novel The Double, is about the power of the subconscious. In the end, only one man can survive.

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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University is pleased to announce a screening of Still I Strive. Join us for a screening of this poignant film followed by a question and answer session with Mr. Adam Pfleghaar, writer, director and cinematographer.

Still I Strive is a story of transcendence through compassion, unity and hope.

At one orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the performing arts are the path to healing and transformation. Guided by their matriarch Peng Phan, a renowned actress in her own right, the children aspire to achieve one of the highest honors in Cambodian society, to perform in front of Princess Bopha Devi as a symbol of their culture and heritage.

Interspersed throughout the documentary are narrative film sequences featuring the children as actors. With an epic battle at the opening, a chase scene through the forest, horror sequences, and melodrama, the narrative parallels the documentary of the children’s tragic back stories. By weaving facts with fiction, reality with dreams, the film reveals where these lines ultimately merge by its conclusion.

The journey mirrors the travails of the nation as it struggles to leave behind the unprecedented destruction of human dignity, the tragic legacy of the Khmer Rouge era. Together, they learn to overcome the past and pave the way to the future by being faithful to the present.

Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Arts for Ohio and Film Division as part of the Sixth Annual Khmer Studies Forum.

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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University is pleased to announce the one night screening of Rice Field of Dreams, a film by Daron Ker. The screening will be followed by comments by Dr. Michael Pfahl, Assistant Professor of Sports Administration, and Q & A with Daron Ker, the film’s Executive Producer, Director and Cinematographer.

Follow the journey of Cambodia’s First National Baseball Team.

Twenty-two Cambodian Baseball players are assembled to compete for their country as the first Cambodian National Team. With the support of Major League Baseball and American coaching staff behind them, can they bring home a medal to honor their beloved country?

Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Arts for Ohio and the Film Division as part of the Sixth Annual Khmer (Cambodian) Studies Forum

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Investigating a gold magnate’s smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

Goldfinger is being shown in conjunction with MOGA 2014 (Midwest Open Geocaching Adventure). A video short for MOGA will be shown prior to the film.

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In THE WIND RISES, Jiro (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni (Stanley Tucci). Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko (Emily Blunt), and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo (John Krasinski).

Writer and director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.

“To see “The Wind Rises” is to simultaneously marvel at the work of a master and regret that this film is likely his last.”-Kenneth Turan

“Perhaps the greatest animated film ever made.”-David Elrich, Film.com

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Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, Her follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet “Samantha,” a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.

“Johansson’s vocal tour de force is award-worthy. So is the movie. Jonze is a visionary whose lyrical, soulful meditation on relationships of the future cuts to the heart of the way we live now.”-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Acerbic, emotional, provocative, it’s a risky high dive off the big board with a plot that sounds like a gimmick but ends up haunting, odd and a bit wonderful.”–Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

“For those who appreciate fiery dialogue delivered by fine actors, “August: Osage County” is heaven-sent.”-Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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The makers of THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA return with THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of ideology – the dreams that shape our collective beliefs and practices.

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