A
number of films will be shown as part of OccFest 2002. You will get a chance to
vote on the night to decide which ones you would like to see. The choices
are as follows:
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Six unemployed steel workers
from Sheffield, England, with nothing left to lose, try losing their
clothing for fun and profit in this international hit comedy. Staring
Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Addy.
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In this acclaimed satire from Australia, a tow-truck
driver and his family live on a runway at Melbourne's airport, but find
their home threatened when the airport plans to expand. The father, fed up
with little guys getting pushed around, takes on the government and the
airport in a series of increasingly ridiculous legal battles. With Michael
Caton, Anne Tenney.
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A movie by the Irish filmmaker Peter Ormrod which creates its own special
mood of dampened exhilaration. Set in an economically depressed area of
Ireland, it's a lyrical, atmospheric movie about ordinary people. Starring
Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morrisey, Catherine Byrne and Niall Tobin
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A sleepy Southwest coffee shop is turned upside-down
by the arrival of a feisty German woman who leaves her husband and decides
to make the cafe her home. Offbeat comedy from writer/director Percy Adlon
reunites him with "Sugarbaby" star Marianne Sagebrecht; with CCH
Pounder and Jack Palance as an eccentric desert dweller. 91 min.
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Technology and its dehumanizing effects are
Charlie's targets in this hilarious spoof. The film is silent except for a
gibberish song sung by Chaplin. Paulette Goddard co-stars as a waif he
befriends. 89 min. Silent with music score.
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Absorbing, true-life drama about Josh Waitzkin, a
7-year-old chess prodigy whose incredible abilities cause problems for his
parents struggling to decide what's best for their son. With hopes of
winning a championship, Josh seeks help from two mentors, a former
world-class player and a streetwise speed-chess wizard. With Joe Mantegna,
Max Pomeranc, Laurence Fishburne, Ben Kingsley. 111 min.
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A powerful look at men fighting to maintain hope in
the most hopeless of circumstances, this adaptation of a Stephen King
story stars Tim Robbins as a convicted murderer who is tutored in the
brutal realities of life in New England's Shawshank Prison by hardened
fellow inmate Morgan Freeman. James Whitmore, William Sadler co-star. 142
min.
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Johnny Depp was nominated for
a Golden Globe for his astonishing performance in Benny & Joon,
though the entire cast is equally impressive. Benny (Aidan Quinn) runs a
small car repair shop. He must also take care of his mentally ill sister
Juniper, better known as Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). After losing a bet,
Benny is forced to bring another eccentric into his house: Sam (Johnny
Depp), the cousin of a friend. Not inclined to conversation, Sam expresses
himself by performing Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton routines (and
brilliantly!) Not surprisingly, he immediately hits it off with Joon. As
Sam and Joon fall deeper in love, Benny for the first time in life
experiences the pangs of jealousy.
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An out-of-work theatre director signs on to help the
patients of a mental hospital put on a production of Mozart's opera "Cosi
Fan Tutte," but the rigors of staging the show will test director and
cast alike and reveal more than anyone could have imagined in this
comedy/drama from Australia. Ben Mendelsohn, Toni Collette, Barry Otto and
Rachel Griffiths star.
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This poignant autobiographical tale from director
Franco Zeffirelli is set in Florence, Italy, and covers the years 1935 to
1945 in the life of a boy named Luca who is sent by his father to live
with Englishwoman Joan Plowright. As Mussolini rises to power, Luca
encounters Plowright's eccentric acquaintances Maggie Smith, Cher and Lily
Tomlin. With Charlie Lucas. 117 min.
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All the films from which the programme choices will be made are on the
required reading (or rather, viewing) list for the Occupation Knowledge
Stream. Films watched in this Knowledge Stream are all general release,
popular 'movies', that is, non-documentary films. They complement the
understandings gained from the fictional and non-fictional written
resources also used.
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Registration
If you have received an invitation to Occfest, print out a
registration form and send it into us. (You will need Adobe
Acrobat to read this)
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