OXNARD FILM SOCIETY
The Oxnard Film Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) ARTS organization (#20-5734347).
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THE monday night foreign film series
VIRTUAL CINEMA
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
This week we feature a Comedy/Drama from Brazil starring the legendary Regina Case in "Three Summers" along with 9 critically acclaimed films. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oxnard Film Society has created a Virtual Cinema which provides an opportunity for our patrons to stream films to your iphone, ipad or computer to your Big Screen. Films range from $6.99/$12 per film with unlimited viewing for 2 to 7 days. Your rental ticket supports the film society in continuing its mission of providing critically acclaimed foreign and independent films from around the world to our community.
SAVE THE DATE: on Monday, December 7th at 6pm we will CELEBRATE our ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY VIRTUALLY!! More info to follow. Happy Thanksgiving to all our patrons. Thanks and stay safe. George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
SAVE THE DATE: on Monday, December 7th at 6pm we will CELEBRATE our ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY VIRTUALLY!! More info to follow. Happy Thanksgiving to all our patrons. Thanks and stay safe. George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
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Three Summers
(Tres Veroes)
2020 Brazil 1hr 34min
Comedy/Drama NR
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums (Regina Casé) relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way, in Sandra Kogut’s (Campo Grande) humorous and inventive episodic feature.
Showcasing the rare talents of Brazilian acting legend Regina Casé, Three Summers is a brilliant comedy about gross class disparity and the infinite resourcefulness of those who can never take anything for granted.
Casé plays Madá, the fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beachside condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family. Unfolding over the course of three consecutive summers — 2015 to 2017 — the film follows Madá as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk while tending to the every need of her condescending employers, becomes a bystander in a major money-laundering scandal, and eventually launches a whole new career. With every dizzying new turn of events, Madá manages to retain her high spirits, her sense of loyalty to those who deserve it — and her eagle eye for opportunity.
Buoyed by masterful comic timing and striking an irresistible balance of naïveté and ceaseless cleverness, Madá is one of the charimatic Casé’s most endearing characters, a beacon of tenacious optimism and vivacity in a time when affluent malfeasance seems ubiquitous.
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Three Summers
(Tres Veroes)
2020 Brazil 1hr 34min
Comedy/Drama NR
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums (Regina Casé) relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way, in Sandra Kogut’s (Campo Grande) humorous and inventive episodic feature.
Showcasing the rare talents of Brazilian acting legend Regina Casé, Three Summers is a brilliant comedy about gross class disparity and the infinite resourcefulness of those who can never take anything for granted.
Casé plays Madá, the fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beachside condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family. Unfolding over the course of three consecutive summers — 2015 to 2017 — the film follows Madá as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk while tending to the every need of her condescending employers, becomes a bystander in a major money-laundering scandal, and eventually launches a whole new career. With every dizzying new turn of events, Madá manages to retain her high spirits, her sense of loyalty to those who deserve it — and her eagle eye for opportunity.
Buoyed by masterful comic timing and striking an irresistible balance of naïveté and ceaseless cleverness, Madá is one of the charimatic Casé’s most endearing characters, a beacon of tenacious optimism and vivacity in a time when affluent malfeasance seems ubiquitous.
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Reviews
'Cleverly written and staged. Marks another occasion for Brazilian actress Regina Casé to shine in the role of a housekeeper trying to overcome stiff social barriers and find her own slice of happiness." – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - Kevin Crust, |
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Oliver Sacks:
2020 USA 1hr 54min
Documentary NR
In English
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues and patients, and archival material from every point in his life, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.
Click on Link: https://kinomarquee.com/film/oliver-sacks-his-own-life/5f331d779759290001908a00/oxnard-film-society
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"Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" is a moving portrait of a man taking deep stock of his life with great satisfaction and verve." - Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times "A PORTRAIT AT ONCE TENDER AND THRILLING, a movie that presents us with a man who led an eccentrically defiant, at times reckless existence that was the furthest thing from cunningly planned. He was a wanderer in the body of a clinician, like Jack Kerouac crossed with Jonas Salk. He was that rare if not unique thing, a scientific navigator of the soul." - Owen Gleiberman, VARIETY |
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Monsoon
2020 United Kingdom 1hr 26min
Drama NR
In English
Kit (Henry Golding, Crazy Rich Asians) returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. There he meets Lee, his estranged second cousin, Linh, a young Vietnamese student, and arranges an online date that turns into something more with Lewis (Parker Sawyers, Southside With You), an American clothing designer. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he’s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
Click on Link: https://watch.eventive.org/monsoon/play/5fad860549794c004bf55662
Monsoon
2020 United Kingdom 1hr 26min
Drama NR
In English
Kit (Henry Golding, Crazy Rich Asians) returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. There he meets Lee, his estranged second cousin, Linh, a young Vietnamese student, and arranges an online date that turns into something more with Lewis (Parker Sawyers, Southside With You), an American clothing designer. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he’s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
Click on Link: https://watch.eventive.org/monsoon/play/5fad860549794c004bf55662
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"A thoughtful, deeply felt movie of great sweetness, unfolding at an unhurried pace."
- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian "A delicate, observant, and rather too quiescent drama of coming home to a strange land, "Monsoon" is an interesting change of pace for star Henry Golding and another musing on diaspora by the Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou." - Ty Burr, Boston Globe |
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Citizens of the World
(Lontano Lontano)
2019 Italy 1hr 30min
Comedy NR
In Italian with English subtitles
Three retirees decide to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living in a country where their meagre pensions will go that much further. Planning for the trip sees the trio trawl the pubs and restaurants of a sun saturated Rome and discover that even at an old age they can still learn one or two lessons about themselves and life. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy’s laconic answer to Larry David, returns to the humanist comic territory of arthouse hits Mid-August Lunch and The Salt of Life with Citizens of the World, a warm and delightful reflection on life with characters you’ll want to spend many more hours with long after the credits roll.
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Citizens of the World
(Lontano Lontano)
2019 Italy 1hr 30min
Comedy NR
In Italian with English subtitles
Three retirees decide to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living in a country where their meagre pensions will go that much further. Planning for the trip sees the trio trawl the pubs and restaurants of a sun saturated Rome and discover that even at an old age they can still learn one or two lessons about themselves and life. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy’s laconic answer to Larry David, returns to the humanist comic territory of arthouse hits Mid-August Lunch and The Salt of Life with Citizens of the World, a warm and delightful reflection on life with characters you’ll want to spend many more hours with long after the credits roll.
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★★★★ “This is a gem.” – Empire Magazine
★★★★ “Amiable, Rome-set comedy” – Emma Simmonds, The List ★★★★ “A light, frisky Italian comedy” – David Jenkins, Little White Lies |
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Martin Eden
2019 Italy 2hr 3min
Drama/Romance NR
In Italian with English subtitles
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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https://kinomarquee.com/film/martineden/5f6cc6d35e8e250001bc197f/oxnard-film-society
Martin Eden
2019 Italy 2hr 3min
Drama/Romance NR
In Italian with English subtitles
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Click on Link:
https://kinomarquee.com/film/martineden/5f6cc6d35e8e250001bc197f/oxnard-film-society
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“An absolute blast. Includes documentary footage, wealthy decadence, left-wing politics, angry speeches (in Italian!), beautiful women, square-jawed men, quotations from Baudelaire and the heroic deployment of manual typewriters, hand-rolled cigarettes, ascots and Volvo sedans. Everything I love in movies, more or less." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times.
Read Manohla Dargis' rave review - NY Times Critic's Pick https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/movies/martin-eden-review.html |
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RBG
2018 USA 1hr 37min
Documentary PG (Some Thematic Elements|Language)
In English
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
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Film Sponsor: Jane and Denny Dwire
RBG
2018 USA 1hr 37min
Documentary PG (Some Thematic Elements|Language)
In English
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
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Film Sponsor: Jane and Denny Dwire
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"This woman is a force, and the great service this clear-eyed and admiring documentary provides is to emphasize not just Ginsburg's work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"A chronology of Ginsberg's subsequent victories shows how patiently and shrewdly she worked to establish the existence and pernicious effects of sex discrimination." - J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader |
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Loving Vincent
2017 UK 1hr 35min
Art, Biography, Drama, Animation
PG-13 (Sexual Material/Mature Thematic Elements/Some Violence
In English
Mystery surrounds the death of famed painter Vincent van Gogh in 1890 France.
LOVING VINCENT, the world's first fully painted feature film, brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story.
Click on Link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/oxnardlv
Film Sponsor: Margaret Cortese
Loving Vincent
2017 UK 1hr 35min
Art, Biography, Drama, Animation
PG-13 (Sexual Material/Mature Thematic Elements/Some Violence
In English
Mystery surrounds the death of famed painter Vincent van Gogh in 1890 France.
LOVING VINCENT, the world's first fully painted feature film, brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story.
Click on Link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/oxnardlv
Film Sponsor: Margaret Cortese
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"There's a lot here to love." - Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard
The roiling landscape scenes betray the redundance of animating images that already sizzle with energy, but the portraiture works beautifully, especially because the actors who supply the characters' voices and visages are first-rate. - J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader "Loving Vincent is gorgeous. It's a film of immersive beauty." - John Semley, Globe and Mail |
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The Tobacconist
2018 Germany 1hr 54min
Drama NR
In German with English Subtitles
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz, “Wings of Desire”, “Downfall”), a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis’ arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?
Click on Link: https://kinomarquee.com/film/the-tobacconist/5ef643fd4c1375000174a2d7/oxnard-film-society
The Tobacconist
2018 Germany 1hr 54min
Drama NR
In German with English Subtitles
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz, “Wings of Desire”, “Downfall”), a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis’ arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?
Click on Link: https://kinomarquee.com/film/the-tobacconist/5ef643fd4c1375000174a2d7/oxnard-film-society
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"Stunning! A vibrant coming-of-age story and an intriguing portrayal of Sigmund Freud, expertly portrayed by Bruno Ganz."
- Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter "An engaging coming-of-age story! Recreates a time and a place with exactitude. Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, Downfall) slips seamlessly into Sigmund Freud’s skin." - Sheldon Kirshner |
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John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 USA 1hr 36min
Documentary PG (for thematic material including some racial epithets/violence, and for smoking)
In English
Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 USA 1hr 36min
Documentary PG (for thematic material including some racial epithets/violence, and for smoking)
In English
Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
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"Lewis is such a towering figure in American history, and American politics, that any tribute to him is a worthy one."-
Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service "There's a lot to glean from the battleground Lewis has stood on for six decades while demanding fairness, a hope, and dream, of every American. Good Trouble is of importance now more than ever." - Priscilla Ward, Salon.com |
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A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps
2020 USA 1hr 46min
Documentary NR
In English
A Towering Task tells the remarkable story of the Peace Corps and takes viewers on a journey of what it means to be a global citizen.
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. Since then, more than 200,000 of them have traveled to more than 140 countries to carry out the organization's mission of international cooperation.
Directed by Alana DeJoseph and narrated by Annette Bening, the documentary features indelible interviews of current and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, current and former staff, scholars and journalists, community members and leaders around the world (including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf). Remarkable archival materials and stunning footage from around the globe by cinematographer Vanessa Carr bring to life an agency that represents to the world the American idea. By expertly weaving together personal volunteer experiences with the political machinations of the time, screenwriter Shana Kelly provides viewers with a visceral experience of Kennedy's words "what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Nearly 60 years later, Americans - young and old alike - still want to serve their country and understand their place in the world; current volunteers work at the forefront of some of the most pressing issues facing the global community.
Film Sponsor: Lauraine Effress
A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps
2020 USA 1hr 46min
Documentary NR
In English
A Towering Task tells the remarkable story of the Peace Corps and takes viewers on a journey of what it means to be a global citizen.
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. Since then, more than 200,000 of them have traveled to more than 140 countries to carry out the organization's mission of international cooperation.
Directed by Alana DeJoseph and narrated by Annette Bening, the documentary features indelible interviews of current and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, current and former staff, scholars and journalists, community members and leaders around the world (including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf). Remarkable archival materials and stunning footage from around the globe by cinematographer Vanessa Carr bring to life an agency that represents to the world the American idea. By expertly weaving together personal volunteer experiences with the political machinations of the time, screenwriter Shana Kelly provides viewers with a visceral experience of Kennedy's words "what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Nearly 60 years later, Americans - young and old alike - still want to serve their country and understand their place in the world; current volunteers work at the forefront of some of the most pressing issues facing the global community.
Film Sponsor: Lauraine Effress
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"Enlightening and uplifting. A Towering Task puts a human face on the Peace Corps - and makes sense of its history of idealism, improvisation, politics. It is a most coherent and satisfying documentary."
- Paul Theroux, Travel Writer & Novelist |
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The Audition (Das Vorspiel)
2020 Germany 1hr 39min
Drama NR
In German and French with English Subtitles
Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. Committed, she prepares him for the intermediate exam and neglects her family – her son Jonas, whom she brings into competition with her new student, and her husband Philippe. Her colleague Christian, with whom she has an affair, persuades her to join a quintet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts and she focuses all her attention on her student Alexander. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn.
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"A treat that becomes a chilling enthrallment, one of those closely observed dramas you love -- for its intimacy, calm authority and mystery -- even before you begin to get what it's really about."
- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal "Hoss's work is impeccable and illuminating, and the movie's foursquare, frank, brisk approach is salutary." Glenn Kenny, New York Times |
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Plaza Cinemas 14 255 West 5th Street Oxnard, CA 93030 |
ADMISSION
Seniors $7.50 Matinee $8.25 Evening $10.75 |
Executive Director: George J. Sandoval Info at: geosand47@gmail.com - 805.798.0830
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