SEMESTER 2 2008
Tuesdays, 6 pm to 7.30 pm |
MELBOURNE IRISH STUDIES SEMINARS (MISS)
An Inter-University Forum for Irish and Irish-Australian Studies
Convenors:
Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne); Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University); Philip Bull (La Trobe University). |
@ THE ORATORY, NEWMAN COLLEGE
(When entering from Swanston Street, turn right into the main College building and up the stairs on the right of the corridor). Pre-seminar drinks will be at 6 p.m. and the paper will commence at 6.15 pm.
When the speaker is available to join the group, the seminars are followed with dinner at a Carlton restaurant. |
(Web page: http://www.isaanz.org/MISS.htm
TUES. 11 November 2008
DR VAL NOONE (University of Melbourne)
The Nicholas O'Donnell Collection in Newman College's Gerry Higgins Irish Library
TUES. 25 November 2008
PROFESSOR TIM MURRAY (La Trobe University)
Building an Archaeology of 19th-Century Irish Migration to Australia
These are free public seminars. For further details, ring (03) 8344 3924 or (03) 9479 2440 or email P.J.Bull@latrobe.edu.au OR e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au OR frang@deakin.edu.au |
| 17 Sept to 23 November |
Italian Film Festival |
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra
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www.ambcanberra.esteri.it |
Canberra – Friday 6th – Sunday 15th Feb 2009
Sydney Opera Quays Friday 13th – Sunday 22nd Feb 2009
Brisbane Portside Friday 20th – Sunday 1 March 2009 |
EU Film Festival |
Canberra – Friday 6th – Sunday 15th Feb 2009
Sydney Opera Quays Friday 13th – Sunday 22nd Feb 2009
Brisbane Portside Friday 20th – Sunday 1 March 2009 |
SYNOPSIS OF MOVIES FOR 2009 EU FILM FESTIVAL
Suden Arvoitus (Mystery of the Wolf) (Finland ) 2006
95 minutes - adventure/family drama
A thought provoking family drama exploring the themes of family and belonging, Mystery of the Wolf follows 12 year-old Salla who rescues a pair of wolf cubs from poachers. To protect the animals she must learn to trust those around her including her long-lost mother
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0801011/awards
Hände weg von Mississippi (Hands off Mississippi ) ( Germany ) 2007
98 minutes – comedy/drama/romance
A delightful children's film about Emma a young girl from the city sent to spend time with her grandmother in the country and a horse called Mississippi. The tale of Albert, a greedy land owner and the campaign Emma undertakes to foil Albert's plans, and save Mississippi and the local shopkeepers from the clutches of the unscrupulous businessman. This story sparkles with warmth and lightness, a spunky heroine, and a lovingly nostalgic feeling. This film develops into a broad comedy where all is not what it appears
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0943232/awards
Rating: TBC
Mistério da Estrada de Sintra, (The Mystery of Sintra) ( Portugal ) 2007
104 minutes – adventure
In the late 19th century, two writers imagine and publish a mystery serial that turns out to be closer to a true-life case than they thought possible.
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0826110/awards
Any way the wind blows ( Belgium ) 2003
122 minutes – drama/comedy
Antwerp . On a sweltering Friday afternoon in June, eight people dream of a different life. There's music and wind, police and paranoia, hints and allegations. There's an ancient virus, a wandering frisbee, a dead horse, and, drifting through town, an enigmatic phenomenon called Windman who feels the pain of everybody else but can't seem to help himself. All this culminates when, with little in common; these people end up in the same place for a party that evening.
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331175/awards
Fehér Tenyér (White Palms) ( Hungary ) 2006
100 minutes – drama/sport
Scarred by his abusive training as a youth in Communist Hungary, gymnastics coach Dongo struggles to prepare an overconfident athlete for the 2001 Calgary Olympics. In the course of guiding his student through a gruelling physical regimen, Dongo fears he may be inflicting some of the horrors he endured as a child, and fights to reconcile his past with his present.
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464955/awards
Klimt ( Austria ) 2006
97 minutes – drama
Starring John Malkovich Klimt is a biopic of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt and unfolds in the artist's troubled mind as he lies dying of syphilis in a Viennese hospital in 1918. The subject is erotic love and death and much of the film turns upon Klimt's relationship with an exotic dancer, Lea de Castro to whom he's introduced by the film pioneer Georges Melies at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/awards
Logodnicii din America (American Fiancées) ( Romania ) 2007
80 minutes - drama
This is a tale of love, friendship and betrayal. A story about seven people who, after 18 years are getting together for the first time to spend a seemingly quite weekend together to relive old times, however, one woman's husband is the other woman's former fiancée and 18 years hides secrets and secrets hide betrayals and betrayals hide wounds. Over a span of just a few hours, everything becomes dramatically clear to all concerned.
Awards: nil
Tajnosti (Little Girl Blue) ( Czech Republic ) 2007
93 minutes – drama
In this moving story of a day that changes her life forever, Juliet is 45 and has everything. A prospering, handsome husband, a healthy and clever daughter of seventeen, an undemanding job as a translator, a devoted young lover and now a new, big, modern house where the whole family just moved. She is also two months pregnant. And it is high time to decide what she is going to do about it. Especially since she hasn't slept with her husband for several months, doesn't really love her lover and fears loosing the rest of the fragile connection she has with her teenage daughter. The simple task of finding, buying and bringing home a second hand instrument becomes a vessel that carries her through the waterfall of major changes that she must undertake in order to regain control of her own life.
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0977666/awards |
