SPRING 2008

FRENCH & ITALIAN - SPECIAL EVENTS

FRENCH CLUB - WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

ITALIAN CLUB - WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

FRENCH FILM SCHEDULE

ITALIAN FILM SCHEDULE

SPECIAL EVENTS SPRING 2008 (FRENCH AND ITALIAN)

Monday 5 May: "Italian Thin-Crust Pizza show!" Moore Hall courtyard, from 10:30am; sponsored by Gamma Kappa Alpha, the new Italian honor society. (flyer)

 

Thursday 8 May: Pi Delta Phi - French Honor Society Initiation Banquet, 5:30-8:30pm

Ka’ikena

Kap’iolani Community College

Ohelo Building, Ka’ikena Room

4303 Diamond Head Road

 
Please contact Pi Delta Phi for further information (956-4188).

CLUB FRANÇAIS / FRENCH CLUB WEEKLY ACTIVITIES FOR SPRING 2008

Mondays, Table Française I (at Paradise Palms) 11:30-12:20pm; look for the French flag!

Mondays, Tutoring for French101-102 (Moore 433 or 451) 8:30-9:20

Mondays, Tutoring for French 101-202 (Moore 434) 11:30-12:20

Mondays, Tutoring for French 101 (Moore 434) 12:30-1:20

Mondays, Tutoring for French 101-202 (Moore 434) 1:30-2:20

Tuesdays, Tutoring for French 101 (Moore 433 or 451) 9:00-9:50

Wednesdays, Table Française II (at Paradise Palms) 12:30-1:20pm; look for the French flag!

Wednesdays, Tutoring for French 101-102 (Moore 433/Moore 451) 10:30-11:20

Wednesdays, Tutoring for French 101-202 (Moore 434) 12:30-1:20

Wednesdays, Tutoring for 101-102 (Moore 452) 1:30-2:20

Thursdays, Tutoring for French 101 (Moore 483) 12:30-1:20

Fridays, Table Française III (at Paradise Palms) 1:30-2:20pm; look for the French flag!

Fridays, Tutoring for French 101-102 (Moore 483) 1:30-2:20

Fridays, Tutoring for French 101 (Moore 483) 2:30-3:20

Fridays, Film Français (Moore 155A) 2:30 SEE PROGRAM BELOW

 

ITALIAN CLUB WEEKLY ACTIVITIES FOR SPRING 2008

Fridays: Film italiano, 3:00pm (in St. John 11) (selected Thursdays, beginning 7 February – Guido Carlo Pigliasco at guido@hawaii.edu. SEE PROGRAM BELOW

 

Notizie dall' Italia (News from Italy): First Mondays with Giuseppe Mottola. Discussion groups on Italian news. 10/01 -11/5 -12/03, from 10:30am to 12:00pm at Paradise Palms Cafe.

RAI (Italian television) programming now available on ‘Olelo channel 56 (Monday-Friday, 11pm to 1am). Can be recorded to DVD or VCR..

SPRING 2008 FRENCH FILM SCHEDULE

All Movies are in French with English subtitles; Moore 155a at 2:30 Wednesdays, beginning 13 February.
"Please be advised that most films are geared towards mature audiences and may/will contain images related to drugs, sex, and violence." (films may change without notice)

February 13 Noirs et Blancs en couleur (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1976):  A dark comedy, this film won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set in a French-African colony during WWI, the French settlers try to raise an army from the local population and invade a neighboring German colony.

 

February 20 Diva(Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981):  In this slick thriller, borrowing from the French New Wave, a young postman named Jules makes an illegal recording of a diva’s live performance. But the tape gets switched with another one containing information of interest to the police. Jules runs from the police with a young girl named Alba and a slick French version of James Bond, who seems equally concerned with the right way to butter a baguette.

 

February 27 La vie est belle(Mweze Ngangura and Benoit Lamy, 1987):  This comedy follows the ascension of a musician in Zaire (Congo) and stars the real-life Soukous musician Papa Wemba. His character emerges from the countryside to make fame and fortune in the capital city of Kinshasha.

 

March 5 Le Retour de Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne, 1982):  In the 16th Century, a man leaves his town in Southern France only to return eight years later. When his identity is challenged, issues of authority and identity itself are raised. Stars Gérard Depardieu. Remade in the U.S. as Somersby.

 

March 12 Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992):  A young boy in Montreal, Léolo, creates elaborate fantasies to try to escape from his chaotic existence and dysfunctional family. Eventually, Léolo favors his fantasy world over reality and refuses to live in the “real” world.

 

March 19 Sans toit ni loi [Vagabond] (Agnès Varda, 1985):  In the winter, in the south of France, a young homeless woman is found frozen in a ditch.  Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks, as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women.  Known as an arresting film for its depiction of abject aloneness.

 

April 2 Ça twiste à Poponguine (Moussa Sene Absa, 1993):  Set in Senegal in 1964, this is the story of rival rock bands and culture clash. One group, “The Kings,” is composed of fishermen who are inspired by R&B; the other group has co-opted the names of French pop stars and call themselves the “Inseparables.” The “Kings” have the record player, but the “Ins” have the girls.

 

April 9 Rouge (Krysztof Kieslowski, 1994):  The third of Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy, though you don’t have to see the other two to understand this. Valentine is a young model living in Geneva who meets a cynical retired judge who spies of his neighbors’ phone calls. The film probes their relationship as well as others’ and its metafictional aspects about art and simulacra achieve brilliance.

 

April 16 Monsieur Ibrahim(François Dupeyron, 2003):  Set in 1960s Paris, a young Jewish boy named Momo raises himself as his father spends his time working and brooding. Momo befriends the local prostitutes, as well as the grocer, played by Omar Sharif. The two soon build a father-son bond and take off an adventure together.

 

April 23 Les Rivières pourpres(Mathieu Kassovitz, 2000):  Two French policemen are brought together to investigate as series of particularly brutal murders at a remote mountain college town filled with strange characters. Known for its horrific imagery, this is not a film for everyone.

 

April 30 Les invasions barbares(Denys Arcand, 2003):  Academy Award winner in 2004 for Best Foreign Language Film, this is the sequel to the Canadian director’s celebrated film Le déclin de l’empire américain. A son comes home from London to help his hospitalized father in Montreal and disrupts the healthcare system wherever possible.

 

May 7 Le grand voyage(Ismael Ferroukhi, 2004):  Modern college student, Reda, drives his traditional Muslim father across Europe to make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Reda and his father cut through their differences as they cut through the European continent.

 

 

SPRING 2008 ITALIAN FILM SCHEDULE

Circumventing social criticism and commedia all’italiana, five films talk about
ageless friendship bonds Italian style: love, illusions, bittersweet laughters and idle
pranks in a continuous strife to prolong childhood during the adult life.

All Movies are in Italian with English subtitles; St. John 11 at 3:00 selected Thursdays, beginning 7 February.

Thursday February 7, 3:00pm
I Vitelloni (1953, 104min)
Dir. by Federico Fellini
Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Rimini postpone adulthood by idling in
their home town. Fellini’s elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through
the characters of the likeable boys, one of whom depends on his sister while another
is a careless womanizer.

 

Thursday February 28, 3:00pm
I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958, 106min)
Dir. by Mario Monicelli

A classic account of the misadventures of a group of amateurish crooks. Its title
translates as “the usual unknown persons”, a bureaucratic phrase for unidentified
criminals. A collection of small time hoods gather to rob a pawn shop. Along the
way, everything that could go wrong does so in pretty hilarious fashion.

 

 

Thursday March 13, 3:00pm
I Soliti Ignoti Vent’anni Dopo (Big Deal on Madonna Street Twenty Years Later 1987, 99min)
Dir. by Amanzio Todini

Twenty years after their first "big deal" landed them in jail, the original gang is back in action. Peppe "The Panther" (Gassman) has a new job lined up to make them rich but his pal Tiberio (Mastroianni) is determined not have anything to do with it. In a series of bad breaks and mishaps, they get a run of luck that just about puts them in the clear to enjoy the lives they have only dreamed about.

Thursday April 10, 3:00pm
C’eravamo Tanto Amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much, 1974, 124min)
Dir. by Ettore Scola

The film follows the progress of a generation, personified in three wartime buddies who drift apart and then briefly converge again. There is failure, heartbreak, regret, but the message seems to be that love -and friendship- conquer all. A careful insight into the affective world of three idealist friends, the changes produced by life, and their useless efforts trying ‘to freeze’ the time

SOME FRENCH FILMS YOU MAY ENJOY:

• Au revoir les enfants is about a Jewish boy who is hidden in a Catholic boy's school during the occupation in World War II. He develops a friendship with Julien Quentin and both come face to face with the Gestapo. Drama Video 3264
  
• Cyrano de Bergerac (the 1990 version starring Gérard Depardieu) is secretly in love with his cousin Roxane but believes himself too ugly to win her hand. He helps Christian woo her. They marry but Christian is soon killed. Many years later, Roxane learns the truth. Video 6486
  
• Diva - a young man obsessed with a beautiful, talented opera singer gets mixed up in the French underworld and meets odd, interesting people. DramaVideo 1942
  
• Germinal Video 10868
  
• Indochine is about the owner (Catherine Deneuve) of a rubber plantation in French Indochina. When her adopted Indochinese daughter falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, trouble brews. Drama Video 9704
  
• Jean de Florette is a hunchback who foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. His neighbor, César Soubeyran, and his nephew, Ugolin, conspire to ruin Jean. The search for water becomes critical to the story. Drama Video 2053
  
• La cérémonie An eccentric housekeeper for a wealthy French family and her boisterous postal worker friend unleash a vicious rampage against the bourgeois family. Mystery Video 18810
  
• La Gloire de mon père is the story of Marcel (this is an autobiography of Marcel Pagnol) who is in Provence for a special summer with his family. He falls in love with the hills, makes new friends, and strengthens the unique bond he has with his father. Biography/comedy Video 17205
  
• La Haine Saïd is an Arab, Hubert is black, Vinz is a Jew. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. Drama Video 14977
  
• La vie rêvée des anges Drama DVD 166
  
• Le battement d’ailes du papillon A coincidental romance about six complete strangers affected by chance encounters during the course of one day. Comedy DVD 1398
  
• Le Château de ma mère is the continuation of La Gloire de mon père. Marcel returns to Provence for Christmas and on weekends. Here his relationship with his mother develops. Biography/comedy Video 9144
  
• Le Dîner de cons Pierre and his snobbish friends compete each week to see who can bring the biggest idiot to dinner. Comedy DVD 510
  
• Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. Amélie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. She has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. One day, she decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out. Comedy DVD 1417
  
• Le placard François Pignon is about to be fired. His neighbor has a solution for him: he has to pretend he is gay so that the management will be scared to be sued for sexual discrimination Comedy DVD1389
  
• Le Retour de Martin Guerre is a medieval mystery about the identity of a man who has disappeared as a young husband and resumes his marriage years later. Is he Guerre or an imposter?
  
• Les 400 coups Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school. Drama DVD 4
  
• Les amants criminels Alice and Luc find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and they cannot find their way back out. Horror DVD 0893
  
• Les Misérables (1995) takes Hugo's novel and relocates it in 1940's France. A man hears the story of Les Misérables and discovers that his life parallels Jean Valjean's. Video 9204
  
• Les ripoux A veteran police detective teaches his new by-the-book partner the finer points of graft and the good life. Comedy Video 3390
  
• Les rivières pourpres In a remote university town hidden in the coldness of the French Alps, a killer is sending a message. When France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. Horror/thriller DVD 1175
  
• Les Visiteurs is a hilarious, somewhat earthy tale of two "visitors" from Medieval France and their experiences in the 20th century. Comedy DVD1009
  
• Ma vie en rose is a fun, light-hearted movie which tells the story of a young boy convinced that he is a girl. Comedy Video 17947
  
• Manon des sources is the continuation of Jean de Florette. Jean's beautiful daughter, Manon, takes revenge on the Soubeyran family. Ugolin falls in love with Manon but is rejected. We learn the shattering truth about everyone's ultimate relationship. Drama Video 2054
  
• Métisse is a light yet subtle comedy about a pregnant young woman who deals with the 2 potential fathers of her baby. Comedy Video 13197
  
• Tatie Danielle is a mean-spirited woman who torments everyone. She moves in with her great nephew and his family and makes their life miserable. "You haven't met her yet, but she hates you already." Comedy Video 7992
  
• Toto le héros tells the story of man who believes his neighbor stole his life when they were little boys. Comedy Video 13770
  
• Venus Beauté Institut Angèle, a forty something woman, works in a Parisian spa, her life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stand until someone truly falls in love with her. Romantic comedy DVD727
   
   
  Crêpe Recipe
  2 cups flour, 3 cups milk, 4 large eggs, and 1 Tbl. melted butter (plus, optional: some grated orange peel or 1 Tbl Calvados, Cointreau, or Grand-Marnier)
  Mix the ingredients together in a large bowl. (It's easiest to put them in a blender and blend on high for a couple of minutes, however if you don't have a blender you can mix them by hand).
  Get a teflon-coated frying pan, if possible. If you have a normal pan, have some melted butter in a cup near you and each time before putting the batter in the pan, butter the pan with a paper towel dipped in the melted butter.
  When you are ready to make the crêpes, heat the pan to a medium high temperature. Then, with a ladle, dip into the batter and fill the ladle about 1/2 to 2/3 full (you'll be able to judge after making your first one). Pour the batter slowly into the hot pan with your right hand. With your left hand, while pouring, move the pan so that the batter travels evenly in order to cover the bottom of the pan producing a THIN coat. It can go up the sides of the pan slightly. One the batter is in, leave it on to cook until you see some bubbling and the sides start detaching from the edge of the pan (not always though, use your own judgement). With a spatula, slightly try to detach the edges of the crêpe from the pan using the spatula all around. To make sure the crêpe is not sticking, shake the pan to see if the crêpe moves. Then, very delicately turn the crêpe over. Let the other side cook (1 to 2 minutes). Then, place the cooked crêpe on a piece of waxed paper on a plate and put another sheet of waxed paper on top. Repeat the process for each crêpe. There should be a sheet of waxed paper in between each crêpe so that they won't stick together. When finished, cover the stack with a large piece of aluminum foil, folding it under the plate. Don't put the crêpes in the refrigerator: the crêpes will harden!
  You can fill the crêpes with any combination of sliced fruit, jam, whipped cream, powered sugar, Nutella or other chocolate gooey stuff. Bon appétit!
  

 Pétanque:
Pétanque is an outdoor bowling game, originated in France and evolved from ancient Greek and Roman games. It is played on any small area of bare ground.
The game starts when the first player tosses a small wooden target ball a distance of 6 to 10 meters. He then follows up by throwing a "boule" to come as close as he can to the target ball. The "boule" is about the size of a baseball and weights about a pound and a half.
The other side (team or individual) then has a chance to try to come closer, throwing from the same point. The round ends when all players have thrown all their "boules" (2 or 3 per player, the rule being no more than 12 boules total in the game). Thewinner of the round gets one point for every ball that he, or his team, have gotten closer to the target than any balls of the opponent.
Play continues in suddessive rounds until one side accumulates the prearranged game score, most usually 13. It is legal to puch or shoot an opponent's bould that is in your way by hitting it with one of your own ("tirer" in French).
The starting team is decided by the toss of a coin. One member of the first team chooses the starting place and draws a circle on the ground about 15-20 inches in diameter in which to stand. Both feet of the thrower MUST remain inside the circle UNTIL THE BOULE LANDS.
The first player throws the jack ("cochonnet", a wooden ball 1-1/4" in diameter) between 18 and 35 feet away and not nearer than 20 inches from any obstacle (wall, tree, etc.) He then throws his first bould, trying to place it as near as possible to the jack. A player on ther other team then comes into the circle and tries to throw his boule nearer to the jack.
Then it is up to a player in the team not leading to throw until his team gets a leading boule by placing it closer or hitting away the bould which "keeps the mark". He may also remove the jack in the same way, but the jack must remain visible from the circle--unless it lies behind a boule.
When a team has no more boules, the players of the other team(s) throw theirs and try to place them as close as possible to the jack. When all the teams have no more boules, the points are counted until game is reached by one of the teams.
A player of the winning team throws the jack from where it is, and the game starts again until one team reaches the 13 points again. ETC.