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About the East Lansing Film Society Series

The East Lansing Film Society Film Series was created in the fall of 1998 when the closing of the only art house movie theater in Greater Lansing, The Odeon, closed.

The ELFS Film Series gives you the chance to see intelligent, creative independent films that are offered in major cities but do not have a venue in this area.

The East Lansing Film Series is brought to you by the East Lansing Film Festival a non-profit organization that holds a world-class film festival each March for four days in Wells Hall.

Come enjoy films that stimulate, enthrall, amuse and enlighten!

Wednesday
Feb222012

THE SKIN I LIVE IN (La Piel Que Habito)

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

114 minutes   Rated R

In Spanish with English subtitles

"There are several genres nimbly folded into The Skin I Live In, which might also be described as an existential mystery, a m elodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza. In other words, it's an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent w it."  - Manohla Dargis, New York Times
 
A brilliant plast ic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any  kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. Starring Antonio Banderas.

 

 

NO SHOWING ON Thursday, February 23
Friday, Saturday, Sunday  February  24, 25, 26
7pm & 9:15pm
Wells Hall, Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 28 & 29

7:30pm
EL Hannah Community Center
819 Abbot Road, EL
Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3
Tuesday
Feb142012

UNCLE BOONMEE WHO RECALLS HIS PAST LIVES

Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

114 minutes 

In Thai with English subtitles
     

"It's a film that will linger in your thoughts and dreams for a long time after waking from its intoxicating slumber."

Winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme D'Or, Uncle Boonmee who Recalls His  Past Lives is a highly original meditation on reincarnation and past lives.  Uncle Boonmee, suffering from a fatal kidney disorder, has opted to spend his last days in the jungle of Thailand with his loved ones. As death approaches, he comes face to face with the incarnations of his past lives. At first, the non-linear plot and slow patches may be disconcerting but its moments of profundity will affect you for a lifetime.

This film has won numerous awards, is a critic favorite and is directed by a master Thai filmmaker. I am taking a chance bringing this unfamiliar film but I wanted to present something out of the ordinary and a film that you might never have a chance to see.

WATCH THE TRAILER:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-EoUb0nvg 

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday  February 9, 10, 11, 12
7pm & 9:15pm
Wells Hall

Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

 

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14, 15

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road

East Lansing  

 

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

 

Wednesday
Jan252012

Midnight in Paris

Directed by Woody Allen
94 minutes   PG-13
 
If you haven't seen this film yet or if you want to see it one more time on the big screen, here is your chance. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, this romantic comedy immerses you in  Paris as never before. Gil (Owen Wilson) is a successful Hollywood screenwriter and a frustrated first-time novelist. He is visiting Paris with his fiance but wishes it was the 1920's, The Golden Age, when the City of Lights was teeming with writers, poets and artists. A midnight stroll brings that wish even closer.
 
Considered Woody Allen's best film since Annie Hall, this delightful movie is romantic, fanciful and extremely enjoyable.
 

 

Tuesday, January 31 & Wednesday, February 1

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3


Thursday, February 2

7:30pm ONLY

Friday, Saturday & Sunday February  3, 4 & 5

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall

Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

Tuesday
Jan172012

Nostalgia for the Light

Directed by Patricio Guzman
99 minutes, Rated PG
  
"NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is not only Guzmán's masterpiece; it is one of the most beautiful cinematographic efforts we have seen for a long time. Its complex canvas is woven with the greatest simplicity."
Director Patricio Guzmán travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe.The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973.
So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, women, surviving relatives of "los desaparecidos", search for the bodies that were dumped there over twenty-five years ago. They want find their loved ones' remains to reclaim their families' histories.
Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey that combines astronomy, archaeology and human rights in an amazingly profound way.

Winner, Best 2011Documentary, International Documentary Association
Nominated, Best 2011Documentary Screenplay, Writers Guild of America
Winner, 2011 best Documentary, Toronto Film Critics Association and European Film Awards.
"Stunningly beautiful. I don't know how you can put more into a film, or make one that's more deeply moving." -Stuart Klawans, The Nation

WATCH THE TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7f4MLL-Hk
 

Thursday, Friday & Saturday, January  19 - 21
7pm & 9:15pm
Sunday, January 22
7pm only
Wells Hall
(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)
Red Cedar Road
MSU campus, East Lansing
 
Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3
 
THIS FILM WILL NOT BE SHOWN AT THE EL HANNAH COMMUNITY CENTER

Monday
Sep192011

Poetry

Poetry

Directed by Chang-Dong Lee

In Korean with English subtitles  139 minutes 
 
Sixty-year old Mija takes up writing poems as a means of coping with her difficult grandson and the onset of Alzheimer's -- a description that conveys little hint of the subtle intelligence at work in Lee Chang-dong's quietly haunting new picture. Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival.
  
Wednesday and Thursday, October 5 & 6
7:30pm
EL Hannah Community Center
819 Abbot Road, EL
  
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, October 7-9
7pm ONLY

Wells Hall

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Red Cedar Road

MSU campus, East Lansing

Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3



 

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