What You Need To Know
- All seats: $8.50.
- You can also buy tickets by calling the Manship Theatre box office at 866-451-2787
- Tickets will not be mailed after January 12, 2013, but will be held for pick up at the theater.
- Same day tickets will also be sold at the Manship Theatre, space permitting, one hour prior to the screening.
Complete Listing
All movies to be shown at the Manship Theatre, Shaw Center, Baton Rouge (except where noted).
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Comedy Night
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:00 PM
Circumcise Me(Israel, 2006, Color, English, 43 mins.) Is it hot in here, or am I the only one dressed for Poland in the 17th century? Yisrael Campbell looks more like a rabbi than a comedian, but don’t be fooled by the big black hat, frock coat and Hasidic side-curls. Born Chris Campbell, the son of an ex-nun and a Catholic schoolteacher, he converted to Judaism not once, but three times – Reform, Conservative and Orhodox. His spiritual journey began as a drug-drenched teenager in Philadelphia and ended in Jerusalem among the suicide bombs of the Palestinian intifada. So what’s to laugh about? it’s the way he tells it. Circumcise Me is a hilarious, seraching and moving sotry of one man’s quest for spiritual enlightenment against the bewildering backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Directed by David Blumenfeld & Mathew Kalman) |
Advice and Dissent(USA, 2002, Color, English, 21 mins.) Goldman, a frustrated businessman, tries to end his marriage by asking his Rabbi to place a curse on his wife. The Rabbi refuses, but gives Goldman peculiar advice on how to do away with her, setting into motion a series of unexpected events. A romantic comedy starring Eli Wallach, Rebecca Pidgeon and John Pankow. (Directed by Leib Cohen) |
The Orthodox Way(Israel, 2003, Color, Hebrew w/English subtitles, 25 mins.) Eli, a single religious guy, is forced to go out on a blind date. He picks up the wrong girl, and the two of them spend a bizarre evening driving around the streets of Jerusalem. A romantic comedy about dating the orthodox way. (Directed by Ilan Eshkoli) First Prize for Short Film, Israel Film Festival in New York and Los Angeles 2004
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Academy Award Night
Thursday, January 22, 2009, 7:00 PM
The Counterfeiters
(Germany, 2007, Color, German w/English subtitles, 98 mins.)
Based on the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested and then being sent to a German concentration camp in 1944, Sal is forced to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to flood and destroy the Allied economies. “Operation Bernhard” was born. It became the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times.
As the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiter’s workshop.
The prisoners had a choice: if they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive, as first-class prisoners in a “golden cage” with enough to eat and a bed to sleep in. If they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them. For the counterfeiters, it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well. (Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky)
2008 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
Official Selection 2007 Telluride Film Festival
Official Selection 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Speaker: Kenneth Hoffman, Director of Education, National World War II Museum, New Orleans