[Chat] FW: Cinema Sundays 2/8, "Beaufort" With Guest Speaker Identity!

[Christine Gray]

Mark Seiner 

 

  _____  

From: The Charles Theatre Mailing List [mailto:news at cinemasundays.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 5:24 PM
To: The Charles Theatre Mailing List
Subject: Cinema Sundays 2/8, "Beaufort" With Guest Speaker Identity!

 

Ladies and Gentlemen.I am delighted to report that our speaker for
tomorrow's screening of Beaufort is Mark Steiner from WEAA. It's a pleasure
to welcome him back to Cinema Sundays. In case you missed the previous
Beaufort letter here is the information once again..


Cinema Sundays Winter 2009 Series 44!

Sunday February 8, 2009


Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its 44th series on February 8th with
Beaufort. Directed by Joseph Cedar. Written by Joseph Cedar and Ron Leshem.
Starring Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman. 


2008 Israel. Running time 131 minutes.


Synopsis

Lebanon War veteran Joseph Cedar (CAMPFIRE) directs a harrowing, often
haunting account of Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon and the Beaufort
mountain fortress. Built by Crusaders in the 12th century, the fort was
captured by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in 1982 at the start of the
Lebanon War. Eighteen years later, increasing criticism at home and abroad
has led to Israel's decision to withdraw completely from Lebanon. Charged
with managing the fort's defense and its evacuation is 22-year-old commander
Liraz Liberti (Oshri Cohen). Eager to lead but emotionally untested, Liraz
must maintain his bare-bones troop's discipline between bouts of
claustrophobic tedium and increasing harassment by Hezbollah mortar attacks.
That tenuous balance threatens to unravel with the arrival of bomb-disposal
specialist Ziv (Ohad Knoller), as well as an unexpectedly sophisticated
Hezbollah strike that reveals the limits of Liraz's abilities. Director
Cedar and co-screenwriter Ron Leshem (on whose novel the film is based)
eschew political statements and side-taking to instead examine the
complexities of individuals bound by duty to a seemingly lost cause. 

Click on the following for official site and trailer.

http://www.kino.com/beaufort/index.html


Cinema Sundays continues its 44th series with Beaufort. Nominated for Best
foreign film, winner of Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival and winner
of numerous Israeli awards, This meditative and thoughtful document on war
(88% positive on RottenTomatos.com) should be a welcome addition to Cinema
Sundays. Screened to great success at the Baltimore Jewish Film Festival I
have w anted to bring Beaufort to Cinema Sundays for quite a while and I am
delighted that we have the opportunity. Needless to say current events make
this story from almost three decades ago ever more poignant.

Right now our fabulous guest speaker is TBA but I am hard at work to find
the perfect Beaufort speaker. I want to thank Mike Giuliano for sitting in
for me last week and also Max Weiss for speaking. 

And now some important bagel news for CSC members and guests. Sadly our
bagel provider went out of business a couple of weeks ago and we have
switched to a new baker! If by chance your favorite bagel isn't present this
Sunday we are working to fix the problem. Bear with us during these
difficult times. 

Looking forward to a fascinating morning at the Charles on February 8, hope
you can make it.

Jonathan Palevsky
Jpalevsky at aol.com


If you've never been to Cinema Sundays before, see below for our
stimulating, updated, yet official description.


Precisely at 9:45 on a given Sunday morning, while birds chirp in the most
musical manner, the doors at the Charles Theatre swing open to reveal a
lobby replete with tasty bagels, hot coffee and friendly volunteers ready to
serve them to you. All of our volunteers have been pre-tested for a complete
lack of morning grouchiness and provide the nicest service. 

Guarded carefully by the enormous lobby penguin (which desperately needs a
name) bagels, coffee and scintillating yet improvised conversation continues
until 10:30. At precisely 10:30:07 some brief opening remarks by yours truly
will be followed by a few remarks from our guest speaker who will never do
either of two things. First he or she will never ever give away the plot of
the film and second the speaker will not go on too long.especially if the
film is one of those 2.5 hour Soviet era documentaries on the Romance of the
Seven Tractor Drivers. 

Following a brief admonition not to talk during the film and a
recommendation to sublet your cell phone to a starving student from the
third world the screening will take place. Upon completion of the screening
a robust question and answer session featuring our guest speaker will
include your fascinating observations upon the recently screened movie.

This flowery description barely describes the sublime joy and excitement
which is Cinema Sundays. If there is a better way to spend Sunday mornings
it simply hasn't occurred to me..yet!

Jonathan Palevsky
Host of Cinema Sundays and completely reachable at JPalevsky at aol.com



Please feel free to visit us at. Http://www.cinemasundays.com


Tickets: $15 at the door.
Or buy a mini-membership.
1711 N. Charles St.
410-727-3464
info: Karen at cinemasundays.com




To unsubscribe from The Charles Theatre Mailing List visit: 
http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/


To unsubscribe from The Charles Theatre Mailing List visit:
<http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/> 
http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://charlesvillage.info/pipermail/chat_charlesvillage.info/attachments/20090208/97f2a0d2/attachment.html>