International Lens Film Series
The Witches
Monday, Oct. 26 @ 7:30 pm
Presented by: Andrea Mirabile, Associate Professor of Italian and Cinema & Media Arts.
Italy/France (1967) Dir: Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi,  Luchino Visconti. Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A  superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from  men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his  son seek a new wife and mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman-€™s honor. A bored  housewife tries to explain to her husband that he-€™s not as romantic as he used to be.  Italian with English subtitles. Unrated. 105 minutes. DVD. Partial funding provided by the Department of French & Italian.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Wednesday, Oct. 28 @ 7:30 pm
Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway òòò½Ö±²¥ Professor of German and Cinema  and Media Arts and Leslie Reed, Ph.D. candidate in German.
Germany (1974) Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An almost accidental romance is kindled  between a lonely German cleaning woman in her mid-sixties and an equally lonely Moroccan  mechanic around twenty-five years younger. They  abruptly decide to marry,  appalling everyone around them. Fassbinder directed, produced, scripted the film, and  designed the sets. It won the international critic-€™s prize at the Cannes Film Festival.  German and Arabic with English subtitles. Unrated. 94 minutes. Blu-ray. Partial Funding provided the Department of German & Slavic Languages.