Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category

November 11 — The Komediant (2000)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The glory days of the Yiddish Vaudeville stage and beyond are brought to life in this documentary chronicling the bittersweet saga of a legendary theatrical family: the Bursteins. (more…)

October 28 — Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Selma (Björk), is a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness. She works to pay for an operation that will cure her son of the same disease and loses herself in fantasies that her life is a musical. (more…)

October 7 — Talk to Her (Spain, 2002)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

After a chance encounter, two men meet at a private clinic. Each is tending to a woman in a coma—one a bullfighter, one a ballerina. The lives of the four characters cross in all directions, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (more…)

September 16 — Bread & Tulips (Italy, 2000)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Rosalba is abandoned at a rest stop during a family trip. She decides to hitch her way toward Venice, where she finds herself making a new group of friends, getting a job, and beginning to care for an oddly appealing—and suicidal—waiter. (more…)

September 2 — The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons, 1998)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Pierre and friends enjoy hosting dinner parties and seeing who can bring the most idiotic guest. Tables turn in this French film when Pierre is trapped for a weekend. (more…)

August 5 — “The Princess & The Warrior”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

From the Director of Run, Lola Run comes this ethereal modern-day fairy tale. Bodo and Sissi come together under strange circumstances: Bodo saves Sissi’s life after she is run over by a truck. Unable to pick up her life again, she seeks out Bodo and tries to befriend him. (more…)

August 19 — The Chorus/Les Choristes (France, 2004)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Set in 1940s rural France at a school for orphaned and delinquent boys, a dedicated teacher founds a small choir, allowing the young men to rise above their cruel headmaster and dream of a better life. (more…)

October 15 — Hear from Michael Kraig of the Stanley Foundation what Rising Powers mean for the US and the New Global Order

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The emergence of India, China, Brazil, Egypt, and others on the world stage as increasingly more powerful actors is causing a major transformation of the global political system. What does it mean for the United States … and for Indiana. (more…)

September 24 — Hang out with the corporate elite to hear a lecture by John Lechleiter, CEO of Eli Lilly

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Hear about the outlook for Eli Lilly, courtesy of the Economic Club. (more…)

October 27 — Hear about American politics from William Kristol

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Who’s funnier, the comedian Billy Crystal or the neocon pundit Bill Kristol? Depends on how you like your humor. (more…)