Keble Arts Week 2011
Every night of the week KAW has teamed up with hall to give you an excellent dining and film experience. Each night you will be able to try some of the best signature dishes from countries around the world, and then go on to the Pusey Room to watch a film from the same place. All films will start at 8pm in the Pusey Room.
Menus will be up soon, but for now we can give you a sneak peak at the filmic offerings:
Monday 14th – GERMAN NIGHT
MENU: German lentil Soup
Bratwurst
v. Vegetarian wurst
Warm potato salad
Sauerkraut
Black forest gateau or fresh fruit
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006), Direction: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ~ Winner of a number of awards, including the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 2007.
At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress), were huge intellectual stars in (former) East Germany. The Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more. While conducting surveillance on the writer and his lover, he finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/2a4kb5a
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
Tuesday 15th - INDIAN NIGHT
MENU: Tamatar ka shorba Soup
Dhansak
v. Chana Dal With Pumpkin
Lemon rice
Garlic and coriander naan bread
Rosewater pudding or fresh fruit
A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN (2003),
Direction: Manish Jha
Over a basin of milk used ceremoniously to drown a newborn girl, a narrator says, "Thousands of baby girls are either aborted or drowned at birth every day in India.
Dowry is the cause. Where will this crime lead us to?" In an imagined near future where there are virtually no women, a high-caste village man pays dearly for a wife for his five adult sons. It's the first wedding in the village in 15 years. The bride is Kalki, who puts her faith in the youngest son (the only family member who is not a brute), then in her father, and then in a servant lad. Her desperation worsens as family and village turn against her. Caste tensions rise. Is there any hope for her?
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrubhoomi
Wednesday 16th- SPANISH NIGHT
MENU: Acorn squash Soup
Chicken basque
v. sweet pepper piperade
Patata bravas
Zarangollo
Mousse de chocolate or fresh fruit
BROKEN EMBRACES (2009), Direction: Pedro Almodóvar
Passion, obsession, wealth, jealousy, family, guilt, and creativity. A blind screenwriter (Lluìs Homar) used to be a film director working under the name Mateo. How did he lose his sight? Flash back 14 years to the '90s. Mateo is hired to direct a film and immediately falls in love with Lena (Penélope Cruz), the film's star who is also the mistress of the producer, an aging millionaire. As Mateo and Lena embark on a passionate affair, the producer hires his son to spy on them.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/6kudj3l
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Embraces
Thursday 17th - JAPANESE NIGHT
MENU: Miso Soup
Teriyaki salmon
v. Treiyaki tofu
Japanese style rice
Baby corn and mange tout
Manju - Steamed Cake or fresh fruit
NOBODY KNOWS (2004), Direction: Hirokazu Koreeda
Based on a true story, this film is about four siblings living happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/6fqulkq
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_%282004_film%29
Friday 18th - GREEK NIGHT
MENU: Fasolada Soup
Lamb moussaka
v. vegetarian moussaka
Mixed salad with feta
Pistachio and honey syllabub or fresh fruit
DOGTOOTH (2009), Direction: Giorgos Lanthimos
The film won the Prix un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s (2011) Oscar awards.
Dogtooth is a darkly humorous insight into a bonkers and surreal world of parental control gone mad. A mother and father so desperate to preserve their children’s innocence create a self styled utopia within their secluded compound walls. Completely shut off from the outside world the now grown up children have their own vocabulary and believe cats to be man eating predators. When their father decides to invite a woman in to service his son’s sexual urges, the domestic balance is irrevocably disturbed. It is only a matter of time before the walls of their superficially constructed world of childhood innocence and fantasy come tumbling down.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/38t9sz5
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth_%28film%29
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/38t9sz5
Menus will be up soon, but for now we can give you a sneak peak at the filmic offerings:
Monday 14th – GERMAN NIGHT
MENU: German lentil Soup
Bratwurst
v. Vegetarian wurst
Warm potato salad
Sauerkraut
Black forest gateau or fresh fruit
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006), Direction: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ~ Winner of a number of awards, including the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 2007.
At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress), were huge intellectual stars in (former) East Germany. The Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more. While conducting surveillance on the writer and his lover, he finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/2a4kb5a
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
Tuesday 15th - INDIAN NIGHT
MENU: Tamatar ka shorba Soup
Dhansak
v. Chana Dal With Pumpkin
Lemon rice
Garlic and coriander naan bread
Rosewater pudding or fresh fruit
A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN (2003),
Direction: Manish Jha
Over a basin of milk used ceremoniously to drown a newborn girl, a narrator says, "Thousands of baby girls are either aborted or drowned at birth every day in India.
Dowry is the cause. Where will this crime lead us to?" In an imagined near future where there are virtually no women, a high-caste village man pays dearly for a wife for his five adult sons. It's the first wedding in the village in 15 years. The bride is Kalki, who puts her faith in the youngest son (the only family member who is not a brute), then in her father, and then in a servant lad. Her desperation worsens as family and village turn against her. Caste tensions rise. Is there any hope for her?
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrubhoomi
Wednesday 16th- SPANISH NIGHT
MENU: Acorn squash Soup
Chicken basque
v. sweet pepper piperade
Patata bravas
Zarangollo
Mousse de chocolate or fresh fruit
BROKEN EMBRACES (2009), Direction: Pedro Almodóvar
Passion, obsession, wealth, jealousy, family, guilt, and creativity. A blind screenwriter (Lluìs Homar) used to be a film director working under the name Mateo. How did he lose his sight? Flash back 14 years to the '90s. Mateo is hired to direct a film and immediately falls in love with Lena (Penélope Cruz), the film's star who is also the mistress of the producer, an aging millionaire. As Mateo and Lena embark on a passionate affair, the producer hires his son to spy on them.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/6kudj3l
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Embraces
Thursday 17th - JAPANESE NIGHT
MENU: Miso Soup
Teriyaki salmon
v. Treiyaki tofu
Japanese style rice
Baby corn and mange tout
Manju - Steamed Cake or fresh fruit
NOBODY KNOWS (2004), Direction: Hirokazu Koreeda
Based on a true story, this film is about four siblings living happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/6fqulkq
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_%282004_film%29
Friday 18th - GREEK NIGHT
MENU: Fasolada Soup
Lamb moussaka
v. vegetarian moussaka
Mixed salad with feta
Pistachio and honey syllabub or fresh fruit
DOGTOOTH (2009), Direction: Giorgos Lanthimos
The film won the Prix un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s (2011) Oscar awards.
Dogtooth is a darkly humorous insight into a bonkers and surreal world of parental control gone mad. A mother and father so desperate to preserve their children’s innocence create a self styled utopia within their secluded compound walls. Completely shut off from the outside world the now grown up children have their own vocabulary and believe cats to be man eating predators. When their father decides to invite a woman in to service his son’s sexual urges, the domestic balance is irrevocably disturbed. It is only a matter of time before the walls of their superficially constructed world of childhood innocence and fantasy come tumbling down.
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/38t9sz5
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth_%28film%29
Watch the trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/38t9sz5
