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Global Connections - Events September 2008, CSU, Chico
Activities Calendar - December 2009
Tuesday, December 1
International Forum: Cuban Literature
Presented by Mirta Yanez and Dr. Sara Cooper, Department of Foreign Languages. The International Forum features a guest speaker on an international topic each week. All are welcome to attend. 5-5:50pm, Tehama 108.
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University Film Series: Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) (1959, France/Brazil/Italy) 100 min. Directed by Marcel Camus.
Based on the play Orfeu da Conceicao by Vinicius de Moraes, an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice and set in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. The film is particularly renowned for its soundtrack by bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, featuring songs such as “Manha de Carnaval” (written by Luiz Bonfa) and “A felicidade ” that were to become bossa nova classics. Black Orpheus won the Palme d’Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1960 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. 7:30pm, Ayres 106.
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Tuesday, December 8
International Forum
The International Forum features a guest speaker on an international topic each week. All are welcome to attend. 5-5:50pm, Tehama 108.
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University Film Series: Facing Windows (La finestra di fronte)
(2003, Italy) 102 min. Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek. Sponsored by the Italian Club and introduced by Fulvio Orsitto, Foreign Languages and Literatures. Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno ) and her husband Filippo (Filippo Nigro ) have settled into life with jobs that make them unhappy. They argue about money, sex, time and work. There is a sense that this is a marriage whose love is dwindling fast. But one morning, the two of them cross paths with an elderly man suffering from transient global amnesia, remembering nothing about himself and his current situation, although recalling random episodes from his remote past. 7:30pm, Ayres 106.
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