UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 22, Page 4
March 4, 1993
International film series set on Sunday nights in Smith Hall

     Recent films from China, France, Finland, Great Britain, Burkina Faso
and the United States will be featured in the University of Delaware's
spring international film series.
     The free public screenings are held at 7:30 p.m., Sundays, in Room 140
of Smith Hall.
     March films include:

       * Raise the Red Lantern, from China, the story of a young woman sold
         into marriage, who finds herself in a power struggle with her
         husband's other wives, which Time magazine called "one of the
         year's 10 best," March 7;
       * A Tale of Springtime, Eric Rohmer's new French film about a
         philosophy teacher who moves in with a teenager, which Andrew
         Sarris called "subtle, sophisticated and civilized
         entertainment," March 14; and
       * One False Move, a U.S. film starring Bill Paxton as an Arkansas
         sheriff awaiting the arrival of three killers on the run from Los
         Angeles, which critic Roger Ebert called "an emotional payoff of
         amazing power....a great film," March 21.

     To be shown in April are

       * Swoon, a stunning U.S. film about the Leopold/Loeb murder case,
         which Janet Maslin of The New York Times called "wildly
         audacious, unnerving, dazzlingly well realized," April 11;
       * The Match Factory Girl, from the Finnish director of Ariel, the
         tale of a young woman who rebels against her mundane, sterile
         life, about which David Denby of New York Magazine said, "just
         about perfect...horribly funny and satisfying" April 18; and
       * A Brief History of Time, a documentary by Errol Morris on physicist
         Stephen Hawking, which Time magazine called "one of the year's 10
         best," April 25.

     Concluding the series on May 2 will be Tilai, the Special Jury
Prize-winner at the Cannes Film Festival. This film from Burkina Faso is
the story of a man who returns to his village to find that his fiancee has
married his father.
     The international film series is sponsored by the University's Faculty
Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events, the University
Honors Program and the Department of English's film program.