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Cinema Now opens Jan. 19 with 'Kansas City'
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Cinema Now film series for Purdue University faculty, staff
and students will offer five films this semester. Series tickets are $15 for faculty/staff
and $12 for Purdue students at campus box offices, (765) 494-3933.
All screenings begin at 7:30 p.m. in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. The schedule:
- Sunday, Jan. 19. "Kansas City." This Robert Altman film set in Kansas City during
the Depression weaves together the worlds of mobsters and jazz artists.
- Friday, Feb. 14. "Rendezvous in Paris." This Eric Rohmer film tells three separate
tales of love set in the city of Paris.
- Sunday, Feb. 23. "Shanghai Triad." This is a Zhang Yimou film that recreates the
1930s Shanghai underworld as seen through the eyes of a servant boy employed by a
gangster's haughty mistress.
- Sunday, April 6. "Secrets and Lies." Director Mike Leigh's comedy, set in London,
is about a struggling white English woman who is reunited with the half-black daughter
she gave away 27 years ago.
- Friday, April 18. "Antonia's Line." This Academy Award winner from Marleen Goris
looks at modern history from the vantage point of five generations of independent
Dutch women.
The series is sponsored by Purdue Convocations.
CONTACT: Jeff Langford, Convocations publicist, (765) 494-5045; e-mail, jilangford@convos.purdue.edu
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