ECU's 8th Annual Foreign Film Festival begins on Friday, February 2nd with Neruda, a Spanish-language film from Chile about a determined police inspector (Gael García Bernal) who is hunting Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) after he goes into hiding in 1948.
The film will be introduced by the director of ECU’s Spanish Language program, Dr. Errol King, who will be taking a group of ECU students to Mexico in March.
The screening will be held in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center. Admission is free and open to the public.
After each screening, audience members will be given door prizes in the form of books, DVDs, food and works of art associated with the culture of the films featured in the festival. Additional door prizes have also been generously donated this year by several local businesses, including Amber’s Sweet Shoppe, Brown’s Pharmacy and Gifts, Cinemark Ada, Delicias Mexican Restaurant, Hampton Inn Ada, Hot Shots Coffee House, Mojo’s Coffee Bar and Cafe, and Scraptopia.
Neruda is rated “R” for sexuality/nudity and is for mature audiences.
All films will be screened in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center (near the corner of E. 13th Street and South Francis) on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
Tickets are available at the door for $10 per person or $5 for students (with ID) unless otherwise noted.
Saturday, January 20 at 6:30 p.m.
YERMA
By Simon Stone, after Federico Garcia Lorca
Recorded live on stage at the Young Vic Theatre in London.
$10 General admission; free for ECU students.
The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role.
A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate
desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly
powerful masterpiece. The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young
Vic and critics call it "an extraordinary theatrical triumph" (The Times) and "stunning, searing, unmissable" (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper’s lead
performance is described as "spellbinding" (The Evening Standard), "astonishing" (iNews) and "devastatingly powerful" (The Daily Telegraph).
Set in contemporary London, Piper’s portrayal of a woman in
her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering,
shocking, climax.
For mature audiences. Please note that this performance of Yerma includes
strobe lighting and includes strong language.
Friday, February 2 at 4:00 p.m.
NERUDA
Directed by Pablo Larrain.
In Spanish, with English subtitles
Free and open to the public..
A determined police inspector (Gael García Bernal) searches for Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) after he goes into hiding in 1948.
Friday, February 9 at 4:00 p.m.
THE BLACK MONK
Directed by Kama Ginkas, based on the short story by Anton Chekhov
In Russian, with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public.
A philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationsship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.
Friday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m.
NISE
Directed by Robert Berliner
In Portuguese, with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public.
Come to the Estep at 3:00 p.m. for a panel discussion and Q&A with ECU faculty on the subject of art therapy.
A Brazilian psychiatrist in the 1950s rejects electroshock therapy to treat schizophrenia and encourages her patients to create art. Based on a true story.
Wednesday, February 21 at 6:30 p.m.
YOUNG MARX
By Richard Bean and Clive Coleman
Recorded live on stage at the Bridge Theatre in London.
$10 General admission; free for ECU Students.
Come to the Estep at 9:30 and 11:00 on Tuesday, February 20th for "The Spectre of Marx: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Marxism, Its Origins, and Its Ghostly Presence in Our Contemporary World." Free and open to the public.
Rory Kinnear (Penny Dreadful) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.
Recorded live atThe Bridge Theatre, London, the
production is directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team
behind Broadway and West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors.
1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean
Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary
is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit,
and child-like emotional illiteracy.
Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and
prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His
writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted
genius, his only hope is a job on the railway.
But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a
better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.
Saturday, April 28 at 7:00 p.m.
FOLLIES
Book by James Goldman; Music and Lyrics by Steven Sondheim
Recorded live at the Olivier Theatre in London.
$10 General admission; $5 for ECU students.
Come at 6:00 p.m. for dinner with ECU Showtime's Singing Waiters! $25 dinner reservations include tickets to the production. All profits to benefit ECU Showtime.
Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first
time at the National Theatre.
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann
Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after
their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a
few songs and lie about themselves.
Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the
magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and
an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke. Previous work by Academy-, Olivier-, Tony-, and Grammy-award winner Steven Sondheim includes Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods.
Please note that this performance of Follies includes
strobe lighting.
Friday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
By Edward Albee
Recorded live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.
$10 general admission; $5 for ECU students.
Sonia Friedman Productions present Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera
Drake, the Harry Potter films); Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, The
Producers); Luke Treadaway (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Imogen Poots (Jane Eyre) in James
Macdonald’s new production of Edward Albee’s landmark play, broadcast live to
cinemas from the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.
In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an
American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited
the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As
the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George
and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of
devastating truth-telling.
