Features
Library Film Series
Fall Semester 2009
Admission: Free
Time: 7:00pm
Location: - North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library
Thursday, October 29 - American Dream(1990, US, 102 minutes)
Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Presented by: John Beck, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, and cosponsored by Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Academy Award(R) Winner for Best Documentary, 1990, this acclaimed motion picture captures the stark reality of working men and women making impossibly tough choices about survival during a time of extreme economic crisis. When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair.
Thursday, November 12 - Twelfth Night(1996, UK, 134 minutes)
Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Presented by: Sandra Logan, Department of English, and cosponsored by the Department of English and the Early Modern Studies group.
This engaging Shakespearean comedy follows the adventures of Viola and Sebastian, twins separated in a shipwreck and washed up on the shores of a foreign land. The siblings are caught up in a series of romantic misadventures involving unrequited love, deception, cross-dressing, mistaken identity, drunken revelries, and comedic vengeance, while the perceptive fool's bittersweet songs remind us of "the fragility and vulnerability of . . . happiness" (Peter Holland). Imogene Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorn, Ben Kingsley.