V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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grab bag shorts [Total running time for all six short films: 87 mins.]<br />
Remember the excitement of picking a bag with unknown contents and shivering with anticipation as you<br />
opened it up to reveal the contents? This is like that…only different. You know the contents and the quality,<br />
but the anticipation still remains. No theme prevails, no subject matter providing a cohesive tie-in, just a<br />
bag full of good films.<br />
THuRS NOV 6 5:00 PM-6:35 PM SPONSORED BY: SNEAKING SuSPICIONS<br />
FRI NOV 7 8:50 PM-10:20 PM<br />
SAT NOV 8 10:20 AM-11:55 AM<br />
SuN NOV 9 2:50 PM-4:25 PM<br />
the hunter<br />
Based on the Tobias Wolff short story, “Hunters in<br />
the Snow,” the film is a throwback. Anti-hip, anticontemporary,<br />
it is a story told in the classical tradition,<br />
on classical 35mm black and white film with precise<br />
and understated humor. Each winter, Tub hunts with<br />
childhood friends Frank and Kenny. Approaching middle<br />
age and still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to<br />
be different. And it is: deep inside a snow-covered forest,<br />
his long-buried aggression comes raging to the surface.<br />
[Dir. Benjamin Gray, 2007, US, 35mm, 20 mins.]<br />
manon of the asphalt<br />
(manon sur le bItume)<br />
Manon’s dress is just a spot on the pavement, the<br />
wheel of her bike turning over and over in the air.<br />
While everyone bustles around her, Manon’s thoughts<br />
wander to those who loved her and those who will not<br />
get the chance do so...it looks like it’s easy to die in<br />
the springtime.<br />
[Dir. Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont, 2007, France,<br />
35mm, 15 mins. in French with English subtitles]<br />
the last farm<br />
In a remote corner of Iceland, winter is coming on. An aging<br />
farmer named Hrafn is doing his last chores before leaving<br />
with his wife Gróa for a retirement home in the city. Their<br />
daughter Lilja will be coming after the weekend to pick them<br />
up. She calls her parents, interrupting her dad’s lunch. Her<br />
mother is napping. The stoic Hrafn wants to make sure she<br />
won’t come before Monday. What are these last chores?<br />
[Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2004, iceland, 35mm, 17 mins. in<br />
icelandic with English subtitles]<br />
waItIng (a espera)<br />
An 80-year-old man spends his day at his isolated house<br />
with his only companion, his hunting dog. His daily life is<br />
limited to small things: a solo game of chess, crossword<br />
puzzles and reading a book. Time goes by slowly to the<br />
regular rhythm of the blades of a ceiling fan. The passing<br />
of time measures the endlessness of life, each day exactly<br />
the same. The repetition means safety. But there is no safe<br />
place for those who feel like strangers to their own bodies.<br />
[Dir. Fernanda Teixeira, 20<strong>08</strong>, Brazil, 35mm, 15 mins. no<br />
Dialogue]<br />
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shorT films