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Every year for the past several, Eckerd College’s “International Cinema” series has been offering up exciting and innovative films from around the world to anyone who wants to show up, most Fridays (7pm) during the regular school year.

Mind Game (plays THIS Friday, Feb. 6, 7pm)

Maybe this is shameless self-promotion, since I run the program, but it is free and open to the public and there are usually some empty seats in the Miller Auditorium that are nearly as comfortable as the couch you’ll need to vacate in order to make it down to south Saint Pete and check out what we have to offer. For the past few weeks, my students and I have been bragging about the great time we were having in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival, so now we’re giving you a chance to see some of the cool things that tend not to play in the local multiplexes. Nearly everything we screen is from a 35mm print (the real thing!), and our theater is very nice – no sticky floors and loud teenagers (unobnoxious teens are of course welcome)!

This week’s film (Fri, Feb. 6, 7pm) is a strange one: a mind-bending and innovative Japanese animation focusing on Nishi, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend, on a psychedelic journey to heaven and back, chased by Yakuza. Mind Game is definitely not for children!

For most of the rest of our lineup this Spring, check out our website. Here’s a tantalizing glimpse:

Ashes of Time Redux: A showdown that can't end well

Feb. 13 – Asian Hit Men Double Feature!
7pm – Ashes of Time Redux, dir. by Wong Kar-Wai
9pm – Postman Blues, dir. by Hiroyuki Tanaka (sponsored by the Japan Foundation)

Feb. 19 (Thursday!) – 7pm – When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (sponsored by the Japan Foundation)

Feb. 20 – 7pm – Silent Light, dir. by Carlos Reygadas

Feb. 21-28 – “Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature” Environmental Film Festival!!!

Feb. 27 (in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival):
7pm – Tulpan, dir. by Sergey Dvortsevoy

Mar. 5 (Thursday!) – Cure, dir. by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (sponsored by the Japan Foundation)

Mar. 6 – in collaboration with the Women’s Resource Center
7pm – Who Does She Think She Is?, dir. by Pamela Tanner Boll and Nancy Kennedy

March 13& 20 – no films due to Spring Break

Mar. 27 – Let the Right One In, dir. by Tomas Alfredson

A Christmas Tale

Apr. 3 – A Christmas Tale, dir. by Arnaud Desplechin

(and more…)

Mark your calendars, invite your friends, and enjoy!!

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All films in the series are free and open to the public, and screen in the Miller Auditorium of Eckerd College (4200 54th Ave. So., St. Petersburg). Tickets and reservations are not required.

For more information on the International Cinema Series, and to see upcoming films, go to www.eckerd.edu/ic

Questions? Contact the Eckerd College Office of Communications at 727-864-7979 or events@eckerd.edu.

The International Cinema Series is coordinated by Nathan Andersen, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College.

Voted “Best Local Film Series” by Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay 2007

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