The Culture Commission of the Jagiellonian University’s PhD Student Association invites you to choose the film we will watch during the next edition of the Doctoral Students’ Film Club, which will take place on Tuesday June 20th.
You can vote up through Sunday June 4th using the following link:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=6yYO676_0keekOvSQm286wxTh_JU6N1Il-DkI3-NpP1UMVdUWlNCM0tUSkc1QkZORDJEUVExRVg2Vi4u
This time, you can vote for the following films. All their descriptions come from their distributors.
Asteroid City, United States 2023, dir. Wes Anderson. In Polish with English subtitles.
The screenplay for Asteroid City was written by Anderson on the basis of a story co-written with Roman Coppola.
The film’s plot is set in a fictional American desert town around 1955 to which students and parents from across the country flock to take part in a convention. However, the convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
In Asteroid City, we will see many stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophie Lillis, Ethan Lee, Jeff Goldblum, and Rita Wilson.
This film is directed and produced by Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom).
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, United States 2023, dir. Laura Poitras.
Nan Goldin the activist and Nan Goldin the artist are inextricably tied together. Director Laura Poitras (who won an Oscar® for Citizenfour, which was screened at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival in 2015) presents Goldin's life and work from her own perspective.
It also depicts creative protests organized by her unique protagonist. As an artist, Goldin left home at a young age and gained fame as a photographer thanks to (The Ballad of Sexual Dependency), a series of exhilarating, colorful, intimate pictures presenting the gay subculture, herself, her family, and her friends. Currently, she devotes all her energy to the activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), of which she is a founder, and which defends persons addicted to painkillers and battles against the drug’s producer, the Sackler family.
Through Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers have earned billions of dollars by selling OxyContin, leading to the opioid crisis in the United States. Goldin was prescribed this drug after knee surgery; she became immediately addicted. Until that point, she had known the Sacklers solely as philanthropists who sponsored leading museums that exhibited her art. Today, she leads a group struggling to hold accountable those responsible for this crisis, which has led to the deaths of half a million Americans. Their protests culminate in pro bono lawsuits by the best attorneys in the United States. The film's title refers to the opinions of psychiatrists about Goldin's sister Barbara, who committed suicide at a psychiatric hospital. One sentence from a report about her is repeated: she sees the future, all its beauty and bloodshed.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, United States, 2023, dir.: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic. In Polish with English subtitles.
For the first time, Illumination and Nintendo have teamed up to bring the Super Mario Bros. Movie. This new big-screen adventure stars the two greatest pop culture plumbers of the past four decades.
Based on the Super Mario video game series created by Nintendo, the film invites audiences to a vibrant new universe unlike any other.
When fixing a pipe, Brooklyn plumbers Mario (the voice of Chris Pratt) and his brother Luigi (Charlie Day) are transported to a magical world. Unfortunately, the brothers are separated, and Mario must enter an adventure-filled odyssey to find Luigi. With the aid of Toad (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key) and Princess Peach (Anya Taylor), Mario gains his own powers.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie also features the voice talent of Jack Black (the Jumanji series) as Bowser, Seth Rogen (The Fabelmans) as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike. We will also hear the voice of Charles Martinet, who for more than thirty years provided the voice of Mario and Luigi in in the Super Mario video games.
The film was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (who collaborated on films from the Teen Titans Go! to the Movies) series and written by Matthew Fogel (Minions: The Rise of Gru).