EPLFC(Ernakulam Public Library Film Club) will be showing Andrzej Wajda’s Popiól i diament on 21^st April, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II. Though killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow his orders.

Details for Popiól i diament

• Title: Popiól i diament
• Director: Andrzej Wajda
• Rating: 7.9
• Year: 1985
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, War
• Color: Black and White

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EPLFC(Ernakulam Public Library Film Club) will be publicly screening Woody Allen’s Sleeper on 31^st March, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Health food store owner and wannabe jazz clarinetist Miles Monroe is involuntarily cryogenically frozen in 1973 after a mishap while in minor surgery. His still frozen body is found in 2173, and unfrozen by scientists Drs. Melik and Orva. In unfreezing Miles, the doctors have committed an illegal act in what is now a totalitarian police state, where records of the past have been destroyed and the resulting history unknown. The society is filled primarily of conformists who look to the state’s “leader” for guidance. The doctors, working with an underground group of revolutionaries based in what is called the Western District, ask Miles to help the revolutionaries infiltrate the state’s secret and highly important Aires project. Their rationale is that Miles does not exist in the eyes of the state and thus if captured cannot provide any information to them. In Miles’ reluctant journey to the Western District, he co-opts the initially unwilling assistance of one of the conformists, poet Luna Schlosser, in trying both to reach the Western District and avoid capture by the police. As a non-political person who believes that all leaders are self-interested, Miles, even when learning the nature of the Aires project, has the primary goals of staying alive and getting the girl, as he is starting to fall in love with Luna, who may have her own thoughts about love and life in this society.

Details for Sleeper

• Title: Sleeper
• Director: Woody Allen
• Rating: 7.3
• Year: 1973
• Tagline: A love story about two people who hate each other. 200 years in the future.
• Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
• Color: Color

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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be publicly screening Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Salaam Cinema on 17^th March, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Details for Salaam Cinema

• Title: Salaam Cinema
• Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Rating: 7.4
• Year: 1995
• Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama

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EPLFC(Ernakulam Public Library Film Club) will be screening Miklos Jancso’s Még kér a nép on 3^rd March, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Details for Még kér a nép

• Title: Még kér a nép
• Director: Miklos Jancso
• Rating: 7.1
• Year: 1972
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, Musical, War
• Color: Color

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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be screening Luis Bu�uel’s La voie lactée on 17^th February, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Details for La voie lactée

• Title: La voie lactée
• Director: Luis Bu�uel
• Rating: 7.6
• Year: 1969
• Tagline:
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Color: Color
  (Eastmancolor)

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EPLFC or Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be doing a public screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle on 10^th February, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

Details for À bout de souffle

• Title: À bout de souffle
• Director: Jean-Luc Godard
• Rating: 8.0
• Year: 1960
• Tagline: The film that was banned for 4 years. Why..? (original Finnish poster tagline)
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
• Color: Black and White

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EPLFC(Ernakulam Public Library Film Club) will be publicly screening Akira Kurosawa’s Tsubaki Sanjûrô on 3^rd February, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

In Japan circa Eighteenth Century, nine young men decide to present an accusation of corruption in their clan to the local superintendent. However, the group is betrayed, but the ronin Sanjuru Tsubaki (Toshiru Mifune) saves them from the superintendent’s men. The uncle of the leader of the rebel clansmen, the Chamberlain Mutsuta (Yonosuke Itu), is kidnapped, and his wife and daughter are detained and made prisoner of the superintendent, and he tries to force Mutsuta to write a fake confession letter declaring being corrupt. Sanjuru helps the group to rescue the Chamberlain and his family.

Details for Tsubaki Sanjûrô

• Title: Tsubaki Sanjûrô
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Rating: 8.1
• Year: 1962
• Tagline:
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Color: Black and White

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EPLFC(Ernakulam Public Library Film Club) will be showing Werner Herzog’s Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle on 27^th January, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Herzog’s film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.

Details for Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

• Title: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
• Director: Werner Herzog
• Rating: 8.0
• Year: 1974
• Tagline:
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Color: Color
  (Eastmancolor)

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EPLFC or Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be doing a public screening of Yimou Zhang’s Hong gao liang on 20^th January, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu’er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Details for Hong gao liang

• Title: Hong gao liang
• Director: Yimou Zhang
• Rating: 7.6
• Year: 1987
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, War
• Color: Color
  (Eastmancolor)

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EPLFC or Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be publicly screening Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on 13^th January, 2011(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.

Details for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

• Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Director: Mark Herman
• Rating: 7.8
• Year: 2008
• Tagline: A story of innocence in a world of ignorance
• Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
• Color: Color

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