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HIGHER LEARNING

UP Film Institute ushers in the new school year this June 2007

June 4 Monday 2 & 7 p.m.

June 5 Tuesday 2 & 5 p.m.

June 6 Wednesday 2 & 7 p.m.

June 7 Thursday 2 & 5 p.m.

June 11 Monday 5 p.m.

June 12 Tuesday 7 p.m.

Notes on a Scandal

A 20th Century Fox Release through Warner Bros. Pictures

“Fatal Attraction…for the art house crowd.”—ReelViews

As an art teacher generates headlines after her affair with an underage student is disclosed, the role a female colleague plays in the event is slowly unearthed.

Winner of Teddy Audience Prize—2007 Berlin IFF; Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Music, Best Actress for Judi Dench, Best Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett—2007 Academy Awards among some 39 awards and distinctions including top acting honors for Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett

Direction: Richard Eyre. Screenplay from Zoe Heller’s novel: Patrick Marber. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Bill Nighy.

2006 92 minutes 35mm color

For mature viewing with language and aberrant sexual content

June 4 Monday 5 p.m.

June 5 Tuesday 7 p.m.

June 6 Wednesday 5 p.m.

June 7 Thursday 7 p.m.

John Tucker Must Die

A 20th Century Fox Release through Warner Bros. Pictures

When three popular girls from different cliques discover they've all been dating the school stud, they band together to seek revenge by coaxing a fourth girl into a plot to win his heart and break it.

Direction: Betty Thomas. Screenplay: Jeff Lowell. Cast: Jesse Metcalf, Sophia Bush, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Arielle Kebbel.

2006 89 minutes 35mm color

June 11 Monday 2 & 7 p.m.

June 12 Tuesday 2 & 5 p.m.

June 13 Wednesday 2/5/7 p.m.

The History Boys

A 20th Century Fox Release through Warner Bros. Pictures

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys at a grammar school in 1980s Britain gets to pursue sex, sport and higher education.

Official Selection—2006 AFI Film Festival; Official Selection—2006 Gijon IFF

Direction: Nicholas Hytner. Screenplay from his Tony award-winning play: Alan Bennett. Cast: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper.

2006 109 minutes 35mm color

For mature viewing with language and sexual content

June 18 Monday 2 & 5 p.m.

It’s a Boy Girl Thing

A Viva International Pictures Release

He’s the hottest jock. She’s the biggest nerd. They’re sworn enemies. And they’ve just switched bodies.

Two next-door neighbors and lifelong sworn enemies wake up one day to find themselves in each other's bodies. In their switched identities, each sets out to destroy the other's reputation.
Direction: Nick Hurran. Screenplay: Geoff Deane. Cast: Kevin Zegers, Samaire Armstrong, Sharon Osbourne, Maury Chaykin, Mpho Koaho.

2006 95 minutes 35mm color

June 18 Monday 7 p.m.

Co-Ed Scandal

A Digital Viva Production (2006, 82 minutes)

Co-ed students of barely legal age from a prestigious college are caught having sex on video.

Direction: Robert Quebral. Screenplay: Benedict Mique, Robert Quebral. Cast: Jennifer Lee, Avi Siaw, Ryan Eigenmann.

For mature viewing

June 19 Tuesday 2 & 7 p.m.

June 20 Wednesday 5 p.m.

June 21 Thursday 2 & 7 p.m.

Butterfly’s Tongue

(La lengua de las mariposas)

A Sky Films Release

An eight-year-old boy about to start school in Spain in the spring of 1936 finds himself growing up in a country growing apart. Forces of fear, violence and betrayal mar the pleasures of coming of age.

Official Selection for Golden Seashell—1999 San Sebastian International Film Festival; Best Film—2000 Cleveland International Film Festival; Best Adapted Screenplay—2000 Goya Awards among numerous international awards and distinctions

Direction: Jose Luis Cuerda. Screenplay: Jose Luis Cuerda, Rafael Azcona, Manuel Rivas. Cast: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Manuel Lozano

1999 96 minutes 35mm color Spanish with English subtitles

For mature viewing with a strong sex scene

June 19 Tuesday 5 p.m.

June 20 Wednesday 2 & 7 p.m.

June 21 Thursday 5 p.m.

The Emperor’s Club

A Sky Films Release

The life of a dedicated Classics professor at a boys’ prep school is inexorably altered by a troubled new student who grows up to be the powerful businessman the impassioned teacher would meet again 20 years later.

Official Selection for World Premiere—2002 Toronto International Film Festival; Austin FF; New Orleans FF; Fort Worth FF; Nominations for Best Family Feature Film-Drama, Best Supporting Young Actor for Emile Hirsch—2003 Young Artist Awards

Direction: Michael Hoffman. Screenplay from Ethan Canin’s short story, “The Palace Thief”: Neil Tolkin. Cast: Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Joel Gretsch, Embeth Davidtz, Rob Morrow, Harris Yulin.

2002 109 minutes 35mm color

June 25 Monday 2/5/7 p.m.

June 26 Tuesday 2/5/7 p.m.

June 27 Wednesday 2/5/7 p.m.

June 28 Thursday 2 & 7 p.m.

In Good Company

A Cine Star Films Release

A middle-aged ad executive is placed under a new boss—a business school prodigy half his age who happens to date his daughter.

Official Selection for Golden Berlin Bear—2005 Berlin IFF; Best Breakthrough Performance for Topher Grace—2004 Annual Awards, National Board of Review

Direction and Screenplay: Paul Weitz. Cast: Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Scarlett Johansson.

2004 109 minutes 35mm color

June 28 Thursday 5 p.m.

Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

A Cine Star Films Release

Presented by Freshmen Orientation Program Committee

In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world that would instruct her more than much life lessons.

Oscar Winner for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Make-up; Nominations for Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Screenplay, Best Music—2007 Academy Awards; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Maribel Verdu—2007 Ariel Awards; Best Film not in the English Language—2007 Annual Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts; Best Picture—2007 Annual Awards, National Society of Film Critics; Best Screenplay, Best New Actress for Ivana Baquero—2007 Goya Awards; Official Selection for Golden Palm—2006 Festival de Cannes among over a hundred awards and distinctions worldwide

Direction and Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro. Cast: Maribel Verdu, Sergi Lopez, Ariadna Gil, Alex Angulo, Doug Jones, Ivana Baquero.

2006 120 minutes 35mm color

For mature viewing with graphic violence and some language

FRIDAYS OF JUNE

June 8, 15, 22, 29 - 2/5/7 p.m.

Ang Daan Patungong Kalimugtong (The Road to Kalimugtong)

Digital Feature from Sampay Bakod Productions (2005, 89 minutes)

Sibling kids in Benguet have to cross steep and slippery mountains and traverse long and winding roads each day to get to school far away from their home.

Special Mention for Best New Director—2006 San Sebastian Film Festival; Official Selection—2006 Amiens International Film Festival; Official Selection—2006 Rome Asiatica Film Mediale; Best Digital Picture—2006 Golden Screen Awards; Best Director—2006 Urian Awards; 2nd Best Picture—1st Digital Lokal Competition, 2005 Cinemanila International Film Festival among numerous awards and distinctions

Direction and Screenplay: Mes de Guzman. Cast: Analyn Bangsi-il, Rhenuel Ordoño, Hallen Sumingwa, Jay Bassig, Joey Almoete.

PROUD TO BE GAY PARADE

UP Film Institute presents Pink Saturdays

June 16 Saturday 2/5/7 p.m.

Gray Matters

A Viva International Pictures Release

A brother, a sister and the girl of their dreams

An inseparable sister and brother are so compatible that they wind up falling for the same woman.

Official Selection—2006 Hamptons International Film Festival; Official Selection—2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival

Direction and Screenplay: Sue Kramer. Cast: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh, Bridget Moynahan.

2006 96 minutes 35mm color

June 23/30 Saturday 2/5/7 p.m.

Tuli

A Digital Viva Production (2005, 113 minutes)

The daughter of the lone man who administers the circumcision of all the boys in a village thwarts plans for her fixed marriage and gets to alter her domestic fate and challenge conventions.

Winner of Netpac Award—2007 Berlin International Film Festival; Official Selection—2007 Sundance Film Festival; Official Selection—2007 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Digital Lokal Best Picture, Best Director—2005 Cinemanila International Film Festival

Direction: Auraeus Solito. Screenplay: Jimmy Flores. Cast: Desiree del Valle, Vanna Garcia, Carlo Aquino, Bembol Roco, Eugene Domingo.

Up Next for Pink Saturdays: Boys Don’t Cry, When Night Is Falling, In and Out, Jupit and more!

Free Short Films for the Month

June 14 Thursday 5 p.m. onwards

June 16 Saturday 4 p.m. onwards

June 23 Saturday 4 p.m. onwards

June 30 Saturdays 4 p.m. onwards

Featuring any or all of the following titles:

What’s Wrong (Jean-Baptiste de Laubier/France, 2004, 33 minutes)

Once upon a summer, nobody seems to know about the illness of a young man.

The Fall (JP Valkeapaa/Finland, 2003, 16 minutes)

One last day of summer appears to have no end.

62 Sleeps (Erin White/Australia, 2004, 11 minutes)

A seven-year-old girl can’t wait to take to school a precious letter that would end up misplaced.

K (Juan Simons/Spain, 2004, 12 minutes)

Two men lead asphyxiated lives in a city that oppresses peculiar personalities.

Melodrama (Filip Marczewski/Poland, 2004, 19 minutes)

A 14-year-old boy traverses the road to emotional and sexual maturity as he feels erotic fascination with an older sister, forges friendship with a girl in the courtyard and carries on a complicated relationship with the man his sister is engaged to marry.

Josh (Paul Gerretsen and Seth Menelson/Canada, 2004, 25 minutes)

A high school student encounters peer pressure and the strains of passage into manhood.

Meet French Film Director Lionel Bailliu

June 14 Thursday, UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)

On the occasion of French Spring in Manila 2007, visiting French filmmaker Lionel Bailliu comes to the premier state university for a lecture and interaction. Presented by the French Embassy in the Philippines.

Lecture-Discussion (1-5 p.m.)

Exclusive Screening of Award-Winning Short Films by Lionel Bailliu: Microsnake (2000); Squash (2002) - 5 p.m. onwards

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University of the Philippines Film Institute

(Member, CILECT/International Association of Film and Television Schools)

Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City

Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)

Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmena Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City

Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)

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