Palomar College FILM SERIES Spring 2010

"True Colors"

Color symbolism is one of the powerful tools filmmakers use
to create fictions which reveal truths about our world.

2/9 THE BLUE HOUR

(USA, 2007)

A multi-ethnic set of strangers linked by chance and the Los Angeles River experience loss and hope in newcomer Eric Nazarian's first feature film. With Alyssa Milano, Clarence Williams III.
[Not Rated]

4/6
No Public Showing

2/16 THE RED BALLOON

(France, 1956)

Albert Lamorisse's classic about a young Parisian boy and a balloon with a personality of its own. In French (subtitled). [Not Rated]

AND

THE WHITE BALLOON

(Iran, 1995)

A girl loses the money her mother gave her to buy a goldfish in Jafar PanahiÕs deceptively simple film. In Persian (subtitled). [Unrated]

4/13
No Public Showing

2/23 THE BLACK BALLOON

(Austrailia/UK, 2008)

Toni Collette stars in writer/director Elissa Down's impressive debut feature about a military family in 1980s Australia coping with an autistic son and his conflicted teenaged brother.[Rated PG-13]

4/20 YELLOW MANGO

(Brazil, 2002)

A beautiful bar-owner, a gay cook, a decadent German, a philandering butcher, and the butcher's pious wife intersect in the poor districts of the port city of Recife. Directed by Claudio Assis. In Portuguese (subtitled). [Rated PG]
[Graphic Sex and Violence]

3/2 MY LIFE IN PINK

(France/Belgium/UK, 1997)

In Alain Berliner's pointed comedy, a 7-year-old boy is serenely certain that he's supposed to be a girl, to the consternation of his parents and the other adults in his world. In French (subtitled). [Rated R]

4/27 YELLOW SUBMARINE

(UK/USA, 1968)

Can the Beatles rescue Pepperland from the villainous Blue Meanies? This psychedelic cartoon features some of the band's greatest songs. With John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
[Rated G]

3/9 THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT

(UK, 1951)

In one of the great Ealing comedies, an inventor (Alec Guinness) creates a fabric that never gets dirty or wears out. With Joan Greenwood. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. [Not Rated]

5/4 CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

(China/Hong Kong, 2006)

Director Zhang Yimou and superstar Gong Li collaborated on some of China's greatest Technicolor epics such as Red Sorghum (1987) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991). Here they reunite for a lavish spectacle about intrigue and treachery in the Imperial Tang Dynasty. With Chow Yun Fat. In Mandarin (subtitled). [Rated R]

3/16 BLACK NARCISSUS

(UK, 1947)

It's flesh versus faith in this spectacular masterwork about a convent in the Himalayas by "The Archers" (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger). With Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, Sabu. [Not Rated]

5/11 THE RED SHOES

(UK, 1948)

In our second "Archers" feature, Powell and Pressburger place Hans Christian Anderson's fable about a magic pair of shoes in the modern world of ballet. A must-see classic: "[A] swirl of color and light and sound" (director Martin Scorcese); "voluptuous in its beauty and passionate in its storytelling" (critic Roger Ebert). With Moira Shearer. [Not Rated]

3/30
No Public Showing

Tuesday evenings

6:30 pm

San Marcos Campus

Room P-32