Welcome to the College of Southern Idaho & Twin Cinema 12 Theatre Foreign/Art Film Series... We are thrilled to be bringing you the latest, most-talked about current releases in art house films! Each of the films, which will be screened in the Twin Cinema 12 Theatre in Twin Falls, will be followed by an informal off-site gathering in an atmosphere designed to discuss the film with others and to participate in facilitated cinematic dialogue.
Tickets to the CSI Film Series are $9 each or $40 for the entire series package. Individual film tickets can be purchased at Twin Cinema 12 Theatre or at the CSI Box Office. Series packages can be purchased at Twin Cinema 12 Theatre, at the CSI Box office, by calling 732-6288, or by going online to http://tickets.csi.edu.
For more information, call the College of Southern Idaho at 732-6290.
Films
Week #1: Take Shelter
Thursday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 22 at 1:00 p.m.
Rated R
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. Take Shelter is a difficult film classify. Part thriller, part drama and part social commentary, it is certainly a film that will have you thinking. It also features beautiful cinematography and strong performances with a few twists thrown in for good measure. Curtis (Michael Shannon) is a blue-collar worker in a small town, where he lives with his wife (Jessica Chastain) and their deaf daughter, Hannah. He begins to have violent dreams and hallucinations which convince him that an apocalyptic storm is approaching. As his fear and paranoia increases, he becomes withdrawn from his family, and becomes obsessed with completing a storm shelter in his backyard to protect them.
Week #2: The Skin I Live In
Thursday, January 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 29 at 1:00 p.m.
Rated R
A Pedro Almodovar film. In honor of his late wife who died in a flaming car accident, scientist Dr. Robert Ledgard, is trying to synthesize the perfect skin which can withstand burns, cuts or any other kind of damage. As he gets closer to perfecting this skin on his flawless patient, the scientific community starts growing skeptical and his past is revealed that shows how his patient is closely linked to tragic events he would like to forget.
Week #3: Martha, Macy, May, Marlene
Thursday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 5 at 1:00 p.m.
Rated R
Martha has run away from an abusive hippie-like cult where she was living as Marcy May for two years. She turns to her sister and brother-in-law who take her in and want to help her. The problem is Martha is having a hard time separating dreams from reality and when haunting memories of her past keep resurfacing, she may need more help than anyone is able to give her.
Week #4: My Week with Marilyn
Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 12 at 1:00 p.m.
Rated R
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn - this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Week #5: The Way
Thursday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 22 at 1:00 p.m.
Rated R
"The Way" is a powerful and inspirational story about family,
friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this
ever-changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays
Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port,
France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by
Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while
walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of
Saint James. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark
on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him and his "California Bubble Life". Â Inexperienced as a trekker, Tom soon discovers that he will not be alone on this journey. On his journey, Tom meets other pilgrims from around the world, each with their own issues and looking for greater meaning in their lives: a Dutchman (Yorick van Wageningen), a Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger), and an Irish writer ('James Nesbitt' ), who is suffering from a bout of writer's block. From the unexpected and, oftentimes, amusing experiences along the way, this unlikely quartet of misfits creates an everlasting bond and Tom begins to learn what it means to be a citizen of the world again. Through Tom's unresolved relationship with his son, he discovers the difference between "the life we live and the life we choose".
Film Contest
Local film-makers - here's your chance to show your stuff! The College of Southern Idaho will be holding an amateur short film contest in conjunction with the film series. The top five entries, as determined by a juried process, will receive a public screening of their films as well as two free tickets to the film of their choice in the series. Prizes will be awarded. For a complete list of rules and entry procedures, please go to www.csi.edu/communityed or call 732-6290. All submissions must be post-marked by December 1, 2011.
2011 Film Competition Winners:
1st Place
This is Twin by Jake Schumacher, Scott Whipple,
Heath Kemper & Jedidiah Hurt
2nd Place
Solved II by Carlos Arenz