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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

EPLFC Announcement

We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Ernakulam Public Library on 30^th January, 2011(Sunday). Join us if you are interested.

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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

EPLFC Announcement

We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Gold Souk on 1^st January, 2011(Saturday). Join us if you are interested.

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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be publicly screening Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane on 23^rd December, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. She is thrilled when a former student, Nandita Roy, looks her up and also brings her boyfriend, Samaresh Moitra, to her flat. Samaresh is an author and likes the solitude of Violet’s flat, and would like to write his new novel there, to which Violet readily agrees to. He likes her antique record-player and she gives it to him as a gift. She hopes she has become part of a family again. It is Christmas time and Violet would like to bake a cake and visit Nandita and Samaresh to surprise them. But is a surprise that awaits her when she reaches her destination.

Details for 36 Chowringhee Lane

• Title: 36 Chowringhee Lane
• Director: Aparna Sen
• Rating: 7.3
• Year: 1981
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Color: Color

EPLFC Announcement

We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Lokah Restaurant, Vytilla on 12^th December, 2010(Sunday). Join us if you are interested.

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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be screening David Lean’s Brief Encounter on 25^th November, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

On a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although she is already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday on the small cafe, although they know that their love is impossible.

Details for Brief Encounter

• Title: Brief Encounter
• Director: David Lean
• Rating: 8.2
• Year: 1945
• Tagline: A story of the most precious moments in woman’s life!
• Genre: Romance, Drama
• Color: Black and White

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