OXNARD FILM SOCIETY
The Oxnard Film Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) ARTS organization (#20-5734347).
presents
THE monday night foreign film series
Celebrating Our 16th Year
All dialog in films from non-English speaking countries will be presented in its original language accompanied by English subtitles
All dialog in films from non-English speaking countries will be presented in its original language accompanied by English subtitles
Our February 6 screening is Academy Award Nominee and Winner of New York Times Critics and Los Angeles Times Critic Association for Best Documentary, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOOD, directed by Oscar Winner LAURA POITRAS.
This film is dedicated to friend of OxFS, ROZ McGRATH, who passed away in December. She was a feminist, activist and a leader in women's issues for many years in Ventura County and beyond. We celebrate her life, her fighting spirit and compassion to uplift those who are less fortunate.
Our Monday Night Foreign Film Series usually screens two films each month, the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14. We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to film lovers on Mondays in downtown Oxnard along with supporting local filmmakers Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
This film is dedicated to friend of OxFS, ROZ McGRATH, who passed away in December. She was a feminist, activist and a leader in women's issues for many years in Ventura County and beyond. We celebrate her life, her fighting spirit and compassion to uplift those who are less fortunate.
Our Monday Night Foreign Film Series usually screens two films each month, the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14. We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to film lovers on Mondays in downtown Oxnard along with supporting local filmmakers Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 West 5th Street, Oxnard CA 93030
General Admission: $11.25
Seniors/Children: $8
General Admission: $11.25
Seniors/Children: $8
We'd like to thank the Port of Hueneme for becoming
a 2022-2023 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
a 2022-2023 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
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Monday, February 6th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOOD
2022 USA 1hr 57minutes
Documentary/Biography Rated R (Some Sexual Content|Language)
In English
Winner of the NYTimes Critics Circle Award and LA Film Critics Award for Best Documentary of 2022. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground- breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition, “Witness: Against Our Vanishing.”
Film Sponsor: Patti Channer
This film is dedicated to feminist/activist ROZ McGRATH of Camarillo, who passed away on Dec. 2, 2022.
2022 USA 1hr 57minutes
Documentary/Biography Rated R (Some Sexual Content|Language)
In English
Winner of the NYTimes Critics Circle Award and LA Film Critics Award for Best Documentary of 2022. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground- breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition, “Witness: Against Our Vanishing.”
Film Sponsor: Patti Channer
This film is dedicated to feminist/activist ROZ McGRATH of Camarillo, who passed away on Dec. 2, 2022.
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"Ferociously Powerful. A Reminder of what can be achieved by those who take pain and turn it into Truth."
- Financial Times "Poitras hasn’t embraced the usual journalistic norms in directing this documentary. She has a point of view, she has passion, she has politics, and there never was any danger of her both-siding this raw, emotionally ferocious story... " - Manohla Dargis, New York Times "I can’t shake the feeling of being shook by it. I can’t wait to see it again." - David Fear, Rolling Stone "An Epic Documentary about Nan Goldin and her Activism against the Sackler Family.' - The Guardian |
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Monday, February 20th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
CORSAGE
2022 Austria 1hr 53minutes
Drama NR
In German with English subtitles
Austria's official submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, 'Sissi' celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elizabeth's role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elizabeth rebels against the hyperbolized image of herself and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
Film Sponsor: Jane and Denny Dwire
2022 Austria 1hr 53minutes
Drama NR
In German with English subtitles
Austria's official submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, 'Sissi' celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elizabeth's role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elizabeth rebels against the hyperbolized image of herself and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
Film Sponsor: Jane and Denny Dwire
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"It’s riveting stuff, aided by Vicky Krieps’s bold and brilliant turn." - Anna Smith,
Time Out "In many ways this is a study in anger, and it is an austere and angular picture. Krieps gives an exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance." - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian |
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Monday, March 6th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
LIVING
2022 United Kingdom 1hr 42minutes
Drama Rated PG-13 for morbidity and scenes of drunken revelry.
In English
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
2022 United Kingdom 1hr 42minutes
Drama Rated PG-13 for morbidity and scenes of drunken revelry.
In English
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
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"Within emotional parameters that other actors might have found gloomily constricting, Nighy coaxes forth a tour de force of understatement, suffused with an almost musical melancholy." - Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"National treasure Bill Nighy finally gets his shot at Oscars glory as a repressed civil servant in this immaculate British drama, penned by Sir Kazuo Ishiguro." - Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro Newspaper (UK) "Like the best of novels — one of Ishiguro’s, for example — it creates a tiny world to get lost in, one whose faces and shadows and sunlight linger with you, ever after you’ve returned to your own." - Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times |
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Monday, March 20th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
SAINT OMER
2022 France 2hr 2minutes
Drama PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Some Thematic Elements)
In French with English Subtitles
France's official submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama's convictions and call into question our own judgement.
NYTimes Critic's Pick
2022 France 2hr 2minutes
Drama PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Some Thematic Elements)
In French with English Subtitles
France's official submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama's convictions and call into question our own judgement.
NYTimes Critic's Pick
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"A powerful and perplexing film" - Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
"What makes the movie unforgettable are the scenes in the courtroom, every moment of them gripping." - John Powers, NPR "A film of vast reach and great complexity." - Richard Brody New Yorker "Saint Omer is no small feat. It is riveting and uncompromising cinema of the highest order." - Josh Kupecki, Austin Chronicle |
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Monday, March 27th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
CHILDREN OF LAS BRISAS
2022 Venezuela 1hr 22minutes
Documentary NR
In Spanish with English subtitles
Special Screening with Local Filmmaker
Q/A with Director: Marianela Maldonado & Robin Todd -- DP & Associate Producer
Children of Las Brisas is a story of resistance, resilience and perseverance that explores the power of discipline and classical music as tools for survival. The documentary follows three Venezuelan children from the impoverished Las Brisas neighborhood, in their quest to become professional musicians within the ranks of "El Sistema" music program. Throughout a decade, Edixon, Dissandra and Wuilly try to achieve a better future as they face the great challenges of the country's dire situation. The Venezuelan crisis makes it impossible for them to accomplish their dreams and in their struggle, they represent a society taken over by an autocratic regime.
2022 Venezuela 1hr 22minutes
Documentary NR
In Spanish with English subtitles
Special Screening with Local Filmmaker
Q/A with Director: Marianela Maldonado & Robin Todd -- DP & Associate Producer
Children of Las Brisas is a story of resistance, resilience and perseverance that explores the power of discipline and classical music as tools for survival. The documentary follows three Venezuelan children from the impoverished Las Brisas neighborhood, in their quest to become professional musicians within the ranks of "El Sistema" music program. Throughout a decade, Edixon, Dissandra and Wuilly try to achieve a better future as they face the great challenges of the country's dire situation. The Venezuelan crisis makes it impossible for them to accomplish their dreams and in their struggle, they represent a society taken over by an autocratic regime.
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"Children of Las Brisas is a mesmerizing look into the lives of a group of young talented musicians making their way in Venezuela that will remain in your mind for a long time. By following her protagonists for more than nine years, first-time director Marianela Maldonado was able to construct an unforgettable portrait of a generation."
- RAUL NIÑO ZAMBRANO, HEAD OF FILM PROGRAMMES, SHEFFIELD DOC FEST "Children of Las Brisas is a great tribute to those who fight day by day for a better future and who use art as an expression of resistance, wherever they lie on the political spectrum. Edixon, Dissandra, and Wuilly carry the feelings of a nation through the sound of their violins." - LATIN AMERICA BUREAU, LAB.ORG.UK |
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The Oxnard Film Society is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization. Your contribution is tax deductible. Thank you. (#20-5734347)
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LOCATION
Plaza Cinemas 14 255 West 5th Street Oxnard, CA 93030 |
ADMISSION
Seniors/Students/Military $8.50 Matinee $9.25 General Admission Evening $11.75 |
Executive Director: George J. Sandoval Info at: geosand47@gmail.com - 805.798.0830
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