Sheridan Student Animations
January 15 “Dilemma” by Marco Rivera
January 29 None
Feb.
12 -- DEATH BY CHOCOLATE, Aashay Meshram
Feb.
26 – DINNER, Mengya Zhang
Mar.
5 – INSOMNIA, Yuke Xie
Mar.
19 – PRICK CLICK BANG, Sophia Fesel
Apr.
9 – TIME TO SHINE, Bing Yi Lin
April 23 – TODAY’S SPECIAL, Mani Zhang
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January 15 Lucky
Director: John Carroll Lynch
Cast:: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston
Year: 2017
Runtime: 88 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: 14A
"Lucky" follows the spiritual journey of a 90 year old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment.
Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut, "Lucky", is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.
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===================January 29 The Divine Order
Director: Petra Volpe
Cast:: Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig
Year: 2016
Runtime: 96 min
Country: Sweden
Language: Swiss German
Rating: 14A
1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
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1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
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February 12 The Other Side of Hope
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast:: Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Janne Hyytiäinen
Year: 2017
Runtime: 98 min
Country: Finland, Germany
Language: Finnish, English, Arabic
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast:: Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Janne Hyytiäinen
Year: 2017
Runtime: 98 min
Country: Finland, Germany
Language: Finnish, English, Arabic
Rating: PG
February 26 Graduation
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The film consists of two stories that by chance intersect at the forty-minute mark. The first one is about Khaled, a young Syrian refugee who has lost virtually all of his family. Almost by accident, he drifts to Helsinki as a stowaway passenger on a collier to seek asylum without great hopes for his future life.
Wikström, the other protagonist, is a travelling salesman of about fifty (representing mainly men's shirts and ties). In the beginning of the film he leaves his alcoholic wife and his profession and turns momentarily into a poker shark. With the small amount of money he thus gains he then buys an unprofitable restaurant at the far end of an inner court along a back street in Helsinki.
When the authorities decide to return Khaled to the ruins of Aleppo he, just like many others, decides to stay illegally in the country and disappears into the streets of Helsinki. There he meets, besides various types of racism, also pure kindness. Finally Wikström finds our fellow sleeping in the inner yard of his restaurant. Perhaps he sees something of himself in the battered man because he hires Khaled as a cleaner and a dishwasher.
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===============================February 26 Graduation
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast:: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar
Year: 2016
Runtime: 127 min
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Language: Romanian
A fascinating and fastidiously complex study of one man’s moral choices at a crucial juncture in his life, Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” is a thoroughgoing masterpiece which offers proof that Romania’s cinematic upsurge remains the most vital and important national film movement of the current century.
Cast:: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar
Year: 2016
Runtime: 127 min
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Language: Romanian
A fascinating and fastidiously complex study of one man’s moral choices at a crucial juncture in his life, Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” is a thoroughgoing masterpiece which offers proof that Romania’s cinematic upsurge remains the most vital and important national film movement of the current century.
Like other Romanian masterpieces, the film seems to reflect an ongoing concern with the nation’s fate since the collapse of Soviet Communism and the Ceausescu regime in 1989. While that historic turning point freed Romania from one form of oppression, these films probe the sense that ghosts of the old regime still haunt its successors and that elements of corruption have been internalized to the point that they’re not just social but individual as well.
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March 5 Faces Places
Director: JR, Agnès Varda
With:: JR, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard
Year: 2017
Runtime: 89 min
Country: France
Language: French
Rating:
In Faces Places, 88-year-old nouvelle vague legend Agnès Varda teams up with 33-year-old French photographer and muralist JR to create an enchanting travelogue/road movie. Sharing a lifelong passion for images and the means by which they are created, displayed and shared, the duo hits the road to travel through France’s small villages, meeting locals, learning their stories, and producing epic-size portraits of them on houses, barns, storefronts and trains.
Faces Places documents these heartwarming encounters, as well as the unlikely, tender friendship Varda and JR formed along the way.
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Director: JR, Agnès Varda
With:: JR, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard
Year: 2017
Runtime: 89 min
Country: France
Language: French
Rating:
In Faces Places, 88-year-old nouvelle vague legend Agnès Varda teams up with 33-year-old French photographer and muralist JR to create an enchanting travelogue/road movie. Sharing a lifelong passion for images and the means by which they are created, displayed and shared, the duo hits the road to travel through France’s small villages, meeting locals, learning their stories, and producing epic-size portraits of them on houses, barns, storefronts and trains.
Faces Places documents these heartwarming encounters, as well as the unlikely, tender friendship Varda and JR formed along the way.
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March 19 C'est La Vie
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Cast:: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Suzanne Clément, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche
Year: 2017
Runtime: 117 min
Country: France | Canada | Belgium
Language: French
Rating:
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Cast:: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Suzanne Clément, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche
Year: 2017
Runtime: 117 min
Country: France | Canada | Belgium
Language: French
Rating:
This effervescent comedy from celebrated French directing duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables) invites us to an opulent château to attend a très extravagant wedding, where the groom is an obnoxious tyrant, the band is at war with the organizers, and the chief planner is looking for the exit.
Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible.
But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette (Xavier Dolan regular Suzanne Clément), seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.
An Altmanesque ensemble work brimming with offbeat, lovable characters, and hilarious set pieces, C'est la vie! is a fiendishly smart, sprawling comedy as only the French do it. You will be laughing all the way down the aisle.
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April 9 Sweet Virginia
Director: Jamie M. Dagg
Cast:: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots
Year: 2017
Runtime: 105 min
Country: USA, Canada
Language: English
A mysterious stranger sends shockwaves through a close-knit community in this nerve-jangling slice of raw suspense. In the wake of a triple murder that leaves the residents of a remote Alaskan outpost on edge, tightly wound drifter Elwood (Christopher Abbott) checks into a motel run by Sam (Jon Bernthal), a former rodeo champion whose imposing physical presence conceals a troubled soul. Bound together by their outsider status, the two men strike up an uneasy friendship - a dangerous association that will set off a new wave of violence and unleash Sam's darkest demons. “One of the Year's Best Thrillers” – Variety
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April 9 Sweet Virginia
Director: Jamie M. Dagg
Cast:: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots
Year: 2017
Runtime: 105 min
Country: USA, Canada
Language: English
A mysterious stranger sends shockwaves through a close-knit community in this nerve-jangling slice of raw suspense. In the wake of a triple murder that leaves the residents of a remote Alaskan outpost on edge, tightly wound drifter Elwood (Christopher Abbott) checks into a motel run by Sam (Jon Bernthal), a former rodeo champion whose imposing physical presence conceals a troubled soul. Bound together by their outsider status, the two men strike up an uneasy friendship - a dangerous association that will set off a new wave of violence and unleash Sam's darkest demons. “One of the Year's Best Thrillers” – Variety
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April 23 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Director: Paul McGuigan
Cast:: Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave
Year: 2017
Runtime: 105 min
Country: UK
Language: English
Rating:
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
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Director: Paul McGuigan
Cast:: Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave
Year: 2017
Runtime: 105 min
Country: UK
Language: English
Rating:
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
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