Jung at the Movies

May 24: After Life

Date: 
May 24 2009 - 2:00pm - 4:45pm

A group of the recently deceased spend a week deciding which memory they most want to take with them to their next life.  The staff is there to help if you can't decide - poignant, thought provoking and dear. (Japanese, 1999)

at the NW Library Branch, NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman in Portland

May 3: Away from Her

Date: 
May 3 2009 - 2:00pm - 4:45pm

A man copes with the last days living with his wife before he must institutionalize her due to Alzheimer's disease. Julie Christie illuminates the screen with her haunting performance of a woman losing herself.   (UK, 2006)

at the NW Library Branch, NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman in Portland

March 22: Crimes and Misdemeanors

Date: 
Mar 22 2009 - 2:00pm - 4:45pm

Is murder ever justified...even in extreme circumstances? This film explores how a respected ophthalmologist copes with the moral, spiritual and social consequences of his mid-life choices.  (American, 1989)

 

at the NW Library Branch, NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman in Portland

March 1: The Widow of St. Pierre

Date: 
Mar 1 2009 - 2:00pm - 4:45pm

In a small French colonial outpost, while a guillotine is awaited to perform an execution, the marriage of the colonel in charge and his wife hold moral integrity and ethical standards heretofore unknown in the area.  (French, 2001)

at the NW Library Branch, NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman in Portland

January 25: White

Date: 
Jan 25 2009 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Krzysztof Kieslowski's brilliant film about the price of passion and equality.  The courtship of a husband for the return of his wife mirrors the courtship of love, wealth, power, and Communism.   (Polish, 1994)

at the NW Library Branch, NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman in Portland

September 28: Ponette

Date: 
Sep 28 2008 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Plunged into grief by the death of her mother, Ponette tries everything her four year old head and heart can imagine to reconnect with her mother An incredible performance that breathtakingly illuminates childhood. (French, 1996)

At the NW Library, corner of Thurman and NW 23rd Avenue in Portland.

 

November 2: The Squid and the Whale

Date: 
Nov 2 2008 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Set in Brooklyn in the 1980’s, two young boys deal with their parents sudden divorce in their own unique ways. The realistic approach toward their maturation during adolescence cracks open layers of illusion. (American Indie, 2005)

at the NW Library Branch on Thurman and NW 23rd Avenue in Portland

November 23: American Grafitti

Date: 
Nov 23 2008 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Widely known for both its cast and iconic American setting-small town America in the 1950's - a variety of young people navigate the last evening of summer and cross their respective thresholds into adulthood. (American, 1973)

at the NW Branch Library, NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman in Portland.

 

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