Science in the Cinema - Free Film Series
Date: Wed, July 9th 2008 - Wed, August 13th 2008Additional Time Info: 7:00 p.m.
External Link: Event Website
Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center
A free film festival designed to promote public understanding of science, health, and medicine. Films with a medical science theme are screened and an expert on the subject provides a commentary and leads an audience question and answer period.
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Sarah Polley directs this drama about a long-married but still very much in love couple whose lives are torn asunder when one of them must enter a rest home. Julie Christie (in an Oscar-nominated role) plays the wife, and Gordon Pinsent plays the husband desperate to ensure her comfort in the new setting while burdened with guilt over past behavior. Olympia Dukakis co-stars in this film inspired by an Alice Munro story. | |
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Starring: | Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Clare Coulter, Thomas Hauff, Alberta Watson, Grace Lynn Kung, Lili Francks, Andrew Moodie, Wendy Crewson, Judy Sinclair, Tom Harvey, Carolyn Hetherington |
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Genre: | Drama/Romance |
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Year: | 2006 |
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Run Time: | 1 hour, 50 minutes |
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Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some strong language. |
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NOTE: Filmed in French -- will be shown with English subtitles In 1995, author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke that put him in a coma; he awakened mute and completely paralyzed. Mathieu Amalric stars in this adaptation of Bauby's autobiography, which he dictated by blinking. Julian Schnabel was nominated for the 2008 Best Director Oscar and won the Golden Globe in the same category for his poignant film about the strength of the human spirit. |
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Starring: | Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankole, Emma de Caunes, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Gerard Watkins, Nicolas Le Riche |
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Genre: | Biography/Drama |
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Year: | 2007 |
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Run Time: | 1 hour, 52 minutes |
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Rating: | Rated Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexual content and some language. |
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When Mary's (Marcia Gay Harden) mental illness puts herself and her family in jeopardy, her husband (Joe Pantoliano) and son (Devon Gearhart) helplessly watch as she's torn from the family by the police. Forced to raise a boy on his own and cope with his wife's schizophrenia, father and son learn what it is to truly be a family. Inspired by a true story, Joseph Greco's drama is as full of hope and humor as it is heartbreaking performances. | |
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Starring: | Joe Pantoliano, Marcia Gay Harden, Devon Gearhart, Sophia Bairley, Marcus Johns, Antony Del Rio, Brandon Agan, Nicholas Alexander, Irene B. Colletti, Bill Erfurth, Matthew T. Gitkin, Paul Lasa, Emma Lockhart, Owen Miller, Sandra Milliner, Griffin Miner, Danny Rawley, Casey Travers, Julie Upton, Tim Ware |
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Genre: | Drama |
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Year: | 2006 |
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Run Time: | 1 hour, 41 minutes |
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Rating: | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements. |
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NOTE: Filmed in Japanese -- will be shown with English subtitles One of legendary director Akira Kurosawa's early works, this film follows the travails of Kyoji Fujisaki (Toshiro Mifune), a young doctor whose life is turned upside down when he contracts syphilis during a wartime surgery. Distancing himself from his fiancée, Fujisaki suffers in silence, shamed by what his life has become. When he encounters the man who infected him, the doctor forces him to take responsibility for the lives he's affected. |
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Starring: | Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku, Jyonosuke Miyazaki, Isamu Yamaguchi, Shigeru Matsumoto, Hiroko Machida, Kan Takami Kisao Tobita, Shigeyuki Miyajima, Tadashi Date, Etsuko Sudo |
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Genre: | Drama |
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Year: | 1949 |
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Run Time: | 1 hour, 35 minutes |
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Rating: | Not rated. |
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When Ana (Queen Latifah, in her first Emmy-nominated role) receives her HIV-positive diagnosis, she struggles to overcome her drug addiction and dedicates herself to the fight against HIV infection in the black community. But her bigger battle may be to repair her fractured family. This drama is based on the life of AIDS activist Andrea Williams, sister of writer-director Nelson George. Wendell Pierce and Anna Deavere Smith co-star. | |
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Starring: | Queen Latifah, Anna Deavere Smith, Vianca Mercedes, Wendell Pierce, Rachel Nicks, Evan Ross, Gloria Reuben, Tony Rock, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Limary Agosto, Carlo Alban, Sidne Anderson, Dorothea Golden, Chyna Layne |
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Genre: | Biography/Drama |
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Year: | 2007 |
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Run Time: | 1 hour, 30 minutes |
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Rating: | This HBO film has not been rated by the MPAA. |
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Consumed with grief after losing his family in the World Trade Center attacks, a widower (Adam Sandler) seeks help from his former college roommate (Don Cheadle), who's now a dentist. Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger) directs this thought-provoking look at friendship and post-Sept. 11 society in New York City, co-starring Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows and Jada Pinkett Smith. | |
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Starring: | Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donalid Sutherland, Robert Klein, Melinda Dillon, Mike Binder, Jonathan Banks, Rae Allen, Paula Newsome, John de Lancie, Paul Butler, Camille LaChe Smith |
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Genre: | Drama |
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Year: | 2007 |
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Run Time: | 2 hours, 4 minutes |
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Rating: | Rated R for language and some sexual references. |
Events in this Series:
- Science in the Cinema - Away from Her - July 9th
- Science in the Cinema - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - July 16th
- Science in the Cinema - Canvas - July 23rd
- Science in the Cinema - The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto) - July 30th
- Science in the Cinema - Life Support - August 6th
- Science in the Cinema - Reign Over Me - August 13th