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BSFI Free Summer Movies Stay Cool at BSPAC

 

Last updated 8/8/2024 at 3:49pm



No question, it’s been a hot summer, but we’re staying cool in the air-conditioned Performing Arts Center theater every other Wednesday, with free movies presented by the Borrego Springs Film Institute. The screenings have been well attended with audiences enjoying an eclectic variety of films. On August 14, we screen Unforgiven, the 1992 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The bi-weekly screenings will run from through December of 2024. The schedule of screenings is updated and posted regularly on the BSFI website: http://www.borregospringsfilminstitute.org.

Here’s what’s up next on our calendar:

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 7pm – Quinceañera – 2006 – R – 1h 30m

Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Quinceañera is a dramatic comedy set in Echo Park, Los Angeles, that tells the story of two young Mexican American cousins who become estranged from their families – Magdalena (Emily Rios) for her unwed teenage pregnancy and Carlos (Jesse Garcia) because of his homosexuality. The film was produced on a shoe-string budget with mostly nonprofessional actors, but premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Critics have praised the film, with Variety calling it “a fresh, spirited drama, charming and unpretentious” and “a small gem of a movie with a stirring soul.” In English and Spanish.

Wedneday, September 11, 2024 at 7pm – Tampopo – 1985 – Not Rated – 1h 54m

A Japanese comedy from 1985, Tampopo is written and directed by Juzo Itami, and stars Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe in his breakthrough role. Calling itself the first “Ramen Western,” the film references stereotypical American movie themes in a genre-bending satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges – our appetites. The film is a sweet, sexy, and surreal paean to the sensual joys of life and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film. Critic Hal Hinson of the Washington Post wrote, it’s “perhaps the funniest movie about the connection between food and sex ever made.” In Japanese with subtitles.

 
 
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