CARNIVAL OF SOULS

Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 in Darwin 103

Another great ghost story, Herk Hervey’s low-budget cult classic is a combination of Alfred Hitchcock, Roger Corman and The Twilight Zone. A pre-credit drag race ends in tragedy, but one woman stumbles away with no recollection of what happened. Enroute to Salt Lake City, where she taking a job as a church organist, she is haunted by a ghoulish man who stares at her through the windshield, and lures her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion. (1962, 85 min.)



FOG CITY MAVERICKS

Friday, May 2 at 7:00 in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall
Sunday, May 4 at 4:00 in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall

FOG CITY MAVERICKS explores and applauds the extraordinary cinematic achievements of San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers, with notable attention to the way in which their lives and work mirror the spirit of invention and independence that makes the Bay Area such a unique cultural and artistic community. A few of the awe-inspiring iconoclastic filmmakers featured in the documentary include Bruce Conner, Carroll Ballard, Chris Columbus, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, John Korty, John Lasseter, Phil Kaufman, Walter Murch, Sofia Coppola and Saul Zaentz. (2007, 119 min.)

ORPHEUS

Thursday, May 8 at 7:00 in Darwin 103
Friday, May 9 at 7:00 in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall

"The masterpiece of magical filmmaking. Though a narrative treatment of the legend of Orpheus in a modern Parisian setting, it is as inventive and enigmatic as a dream." - Pauline Kael. Directed by Jean Cocteau. (1949, 86 min., in French w/English subtitles)

ORFEU

Thursday, May 15 at 7:00 in Darwin 103
Friday, May 16 at 7:00 in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall

"Veteran Cinema Novo director Carlos Diegues (BYE, BYE BRAZIL, QUILOMBO) brings a new polish to the classic film Black Orpheus, here presenting an Orpheus who composes samba ballads on his laptop, a Death figure who's a local drug lord, a Eurydice who arrives via jet plane, and a vibrant buzz of contemporary Brazilian hip-hop on the soundtrack. A color-drenched fantasy pitting love against tragedy, and music against silence, Orfeu is further inspired by famed composer Caetano Veloso's score and by its richly saturated cinematography of Rio." - Jason Sanders, PFA (1999, 112 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles)