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   from the issue of July 14, 2005

     
 
Ross hosts Kontroll, Nina's Tragedies

Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Academy Awards, writer-director Nimrod Antal's debut, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on July 22, Kontroll is a wild ride through the subway system in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.

Sandor Csanyi stars as Bulcsu, the leader of a small crew that patrols the underground making sure that passengers have purchased a ticket. However, the men actually have little power themselves, so many people they stop humiliate them through physical and verbal abuse before they easily run away. Within this small world, Bulcsu and his gang, which includes the older Professor, the narcoleptic Muki, the diminutive Lecso, and the young and innocent Tibi, battle Gonzo and his far more successful group of ticket checkers. In one of the film's most exciting scenes, Bulcsu and Gonzo go railing racing down the tracks between two moving trains. The more the story focuses on Bulcsu, who lives in the subway and always seems to be bleeding, the more powerful the film becomes.

Kontroll is showing at the Ross from July 22 through Aug. 4. Kontroll is rated R, for language, some violence and brief sexuality.

The award winning Nina's Tragedies opens at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on July 22.

In the topsy-turvy world of Nina's Tragedies, writer/director Savi Gabizon takes a serio-comic look at an Israeli teenager's coming-of-age and his attraction to his beautiful but emotionally fragile Aunt Nina.

Winner of 11 Israeli Academy prizes (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay) as well as Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Nina's Tragedies takes place over an intensely emotional six months in the life of 14 year-old Nadav. The film unfolds through a series of funny and touching journal entries in which Nadav reminisces about this turbulent period in his family's history - from his high-strung Uncle Haimon's untimely death to the passing of his estranged, deeply religious father, Amnon.

The sensitive Nadav eventually finds his way, forced to mature quickly and irrevocably, as the fallible, often disappointing adults around him go through their own "growing pains."

Nina's Tragedies is not rated. The film is showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center from July 22 through Aug. 4.

Show times are available at or by calling the MRRMAC film information line at 472-5353.


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ARTS HEADLINES FOR JULY 14

Androcles and the Lion continues at the Rep
American Life in Poetry
'Movies on the Green' features classics for free
Ross hosts Kontroll, Nina's Tragedies
Sheldon Hosts Photo Exhibit

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