OXNARD FILM SOCIETY
The Oxnard Film Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) ARTS organization (#20-5734347).
presents
THE monday night foreign film series
Celebrating Our 17th Year
All dialog in films from non-English speaking countries will be presented in its original language accompanied by English subtitles
All dialog in films from non-English speaking countries will be presented in its original language accompanied by English subtitles
April features two excellent films: Wim Wenders' PERFECT DAYS, a NYTimes critics pick and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film and THE PROMISED LAND, Denmark's submission to the Academy Awards starring Mads Mikkelsen.
Our Foreign Film Series usually screens two films each month, the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14. We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community along with supporting local filmmakers Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
Our Foreign Film Series usually screens two films each month, the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14. We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community along with supporting local filmmakers Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director
Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 West 5th Street, Oxnard CA 93030
General Admission: $11.75/ General Admission Matinee: $9.25
Seniors/Children/Military: $8.50
General Admission: $11.75/ General Admission Matinee: $9.25
Seniors/Children/Military: $8.50
We'd like to thank the Port of Hueneme for becoming
a 2023-2024 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
a 2023-2024 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.
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Monday, April 1 at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
PERFECT DAYS
2023 Japan 2hr 5minutes
Drama Rated PG
In Japanese with English subtitles
NOMINATED for Academy Award for Best International Film.
NYTimes Critic' Pick
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
Film Sponsor: Japanese Toilet Company
2023 Japan 2hr 5minutes
Drama Rated PG
In Japanese with English subtitles
NOMINATED for Academy Award for Best International Film.
NYTimes Critic' Pick
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
Film Sponsor: Japanese Toilet Company
"A beautifully observed paean to caretaking — both physical and philosophical — the movie is led, with sublime joy, by the great Japanese actor Koji Yakusho." - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
"Without Yakusho, it would still be the German filmmaker’s strongest narrative feature in 30 years... With him, this small, unassuming tale turns into the kind of earthshaking character study that reminds us why we go to the movies in the first place." - David Fear, Rolling Stone "Perfect Days is a poem of extraordinary subtlety and beauty." - Alissa Wilkinson, Vox |
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Monday, April 15 at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
THE PROMISED LAND
2023 Denmark 2hr 7minutes
History/Drama Rated R R (Some Sexuality|Bloody Violence|Language|Brief Nudity)
In Danish with English subtitles
Denmark's Submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Film.
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) – a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain a noble title for himself. This beautiful but forbidding area also happens to be under the rule of the merciless Frederik De Schinkel, a preening nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power. Struggling against the elements and local brigands, Kahlen is joined by a couple who have fled the clutches of the rapacious De Schinkel. As this group of misfits begins to build a small community in this inhospitable place, De Schinkel swears vengeance, and the confrontation between him and Kahlen promises to be as violent and intense as these two men.
2023 Denmark 2hr 7minutes
History/Drama Rated R R (Some Sexuality|Bloody Violence|Language|Brief Nudity)
In Danish with English subtitles
Denmark's Submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Film.
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) – a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain a noble title for himself. This beautiful but forbidding area also happens to be under the rule of the merciless Frederik De Schinkel, a preening nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power. Struggling against the elements and local brigands, Kahlen is joined by a couple who have fled the clutches of the rapacious De Schinkel. As this group of misfits begins to build a small community in this inhospitable place, De Schinkel swears vengeance, and the confrontation between him and Kahlen promises to be as violent and intense as these two men.
."As a portrait of human will, the engulfing depredations of nature, and sheer terror and retribution, The Promised Land stakes its claim with admirable gravitas and visual finesse." - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"Arcel has created a film that is big, bold and over-the-top, but it has the right guy at its center to hold everything together." - Steve Pond, TheWrap "The kind of ravishing, rousing epic we don’t really get much of anymore." - Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture |
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Monday, May 6th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
IO CAPITANO
2023 Italy 2hr 2minutes
Drama NR
In Wolof and French with English subtitles
NOMINATED for Academy Award for Best International Film.
In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Garrone presents a “reverse shot” of the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.
2023 Italy 2hr 2minutes
Drama NR
In Wolof and French with English subtitles
NOMINATED for Academy Award for Best International Film.
In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Garrone presents a “reverse shot” of the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.
"Hopefulness and disillusionment, the paradoxes of a journey that always keeps us moving." - Paula Vázquez Prieto, La Nación (Argentina)
"Garrone’s film has a three-dimensional and devastatingly realized human soul at its core. The world could do with paying attention to Seydou’s story and the millions of other real ones like it." - Leila Latif, indieWire "In his Oscar-nominated, migrant-themed “Io Capitano,” he unites those varied impulses, fashioning a hero's journey that feels utterly of the moment: inspired by the true stories of African immigrants, but told in a way that features episodes of both harrowing verisimilitude and hallucinatory magic realism." - Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post |
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Monday, May 20th at 3:30pm and 6:30pm
THE MONK AND THE GUN
2023 Bhutan 1hr 47minutes
Drama/Comedy PG-13
In Dzongkha and English with English subtitles
Bhutan's Submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Film.
The Monk And The Gun captures the wonder and disruption as Bhutan becomes one of the world's youngest democracies. Known throughout the world for its extraordinary beauty and its emphasis on Gross National Happiness, the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan was the last nation to connect to the internet and television. And if that weren't enough change, the King announced shortly afterwards that he would cede his power to the people via their vote and a new form of government: Democracy.
Celebrating out 18th Anniversary.
2023 Bhutan 1hr 47minutes
Drama/Comedy PG-13
In Dzongkha and English with English subtitles
Bhutan's Submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Film.
The Monk And The Gun captures the wonder and disruption as Bhutan becomes one of the world's youngest democracies. Known throughout the world for its extraordinary beauty and its emphasis on Gross National Happiness, the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan was the last nation to connect to the internet and television. And if that weren't enough change, the King announced shortly afterwards that he would cede his power to the people via their vote and a new form of government: Democracy.
Celebrating out 18th Anniversary.
"A droll, shrewdly satirical fable, in which Western values crash against a seemingly intransigent (but potentially more enlightened) South Asian culture." - Peter Debruge, Variety
"The film pulls off something truly bold: taking what are perhaps the most emotionally and symbolically loaded items in existence and subverting their meaning completely to end on a note of peace, joy, and hope for the future." - Ross McIndoe, Slant Magazine "An unexpectedly suspenseful shaggy dog story, as well as a pretty funny one, with subtly pointed barbs about American politics." - Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post |
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The Oxnard Film Society is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization. Your contribution is tax deductible. Thank you. (#20-5734347)
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LOCATION
Plaza Cinemas 14 255 West 5th Street Oxnard, CA 93030 |
ADMISSION
Seniors/Students/Military $8.50 General Admission Matinee $9.25 General Admission Evening $11.75 |
Executive Director: George J. Sandoval Info at: geosand47@gmail.com - 805.798.0830
See you at the movies! |