[Sarai Newsletter] September- 2008

[The Sarai Programme]

*Newsletter- September 2008*

*[[CONTENTS]]*

*Films at Sarai
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SPELLBOUND*
*Directed by Alfred Hitchcock*
*Curarted by Anita Cherian*

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*NOTES ON A SCANDAL*
*Directed by Richard Eyre*

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Dear Readers,
This month we have a lighter schedule with a couple of film screenings. 
The first one is a continuation and the third of Anita Cherian's curated 
films on Noir Trends.  The second screening later this month is a 
psychological thriller depicting two women of different temperaments, 
how they become friends and how certain events bring intense emotions as 
loneliness, loyalty, envy and love, to the fore.

Hope you will access the particulars announced and make yourself 
available for the events.
Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net
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*Films @ Sarai *

*SPELLBOUND, 1945*
*Director: Alfred Hitchcock*
*Curated by Anita Cherian*
*Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, 
Rhonda Fleming*
*Length: 111 mins*
*Language: English*
*Date: 5th September, 2008*
*Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS*
*Time: 4:30 pm*

Drawing on psychoanalysis to frame a transcendent love story, Alfred 
Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND is a mind-bending study of just how far people 
might go to escape trauma or to pursue passion. The head of the Green 
Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. 
Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately 
attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it 
soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac 
impostor. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his 
condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.
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*NOTES ON A SCANDAL, *
*Director: Richard Eyre*
*Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson*
*Length: 98 mins*
*Language: English*
*Date: 26th September, 2008*
*Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS*
*Time: 4:30 pm*

The twists and turns of the story in this film, are noted in the acerbic 
diary of Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench), a domineering and solitary 
teacher who rules with an iron fist over her classroom at a decaying 
state-run secondary school in London. Save for her cat, Portia, Barbara 
lives alone, without friends or confidantes - but her world changes when 
she meets the school's new art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett). 
Sheba appears to be the kindred spirit and loyal friend Barbara has 
always been seeking. But when she discovers that Sheba is having an 
incendiary affair with one of her young students (Andrew Simpson), their 
budding relationship takes an ominous turn. Now, as Barbara threatens to 
expose Sheba's terrible secret to both her husband (Bill Nighy) and the 
world, Barbara's own secrets and dark obsessions come tumbling to the 
fore, exposing the deceptions at the core of each of the women's lives.
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