Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

February 08, Monday

Events

ADMISSION:

Evening

$9.00 General Admission

$7.50 Students/Children

$7.50 Military

$6.50 Seniors

$6.00 Members

Matinee

$6.50 General Admission

$6.00 Students/Children

$6.00 Military

$6.00 Seniors

$5.50 Members

Children are 12 and under, Seniors are 60 and older

Students and Military must show a valid ID to receive discount

We accept cash, check, NCard, Visa, and Mastercard

Box Office Opens 30 Minutes Before Showtimes

LOCATION:

313 N. 13 STREET
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

FEATURED SPONSOR:

The Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency, has supported the programs of this organization through its matching grants program funded by the Nebraska Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. Visit www.nebraskaartscouncil.org for information on how the Nebraska Arts Council can assist your organization, or how you can support the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

MOVIE TALK: YELLA<BR>WITH PROFESSOR MARCO ABEL

MOVIE TALK: YELLA
WITH PROFESSOR MARCO ABEL

Sunday, March 1 at 2:45 p.m. (following the 1:00 p.m. screening.)

Admission to the Movie Talk is open to the public and free. Admission to the screening is a regular Ross prices.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

The gifted German filmmaker Christian Petzold (Wolfsburg, The State I Am In) wrote and directed this tightly controlled metaphysical horror movie, which begins with an upwardly mobile corporate accountant and her if-I-can't-have-you-nobody-can ex-husband careening off a bridge and plunging into the icy waters of the Elbe. Miraculously, Yella (played by the excellent Petzold regular Nina Hoss) manages to extract herself from the wreckage and skip town, just in time to start her new job in Hanover, where — in between embezzlement schemes and hostile takeovers — she finds herself stalked by the specter of her possibly dead ex. In Hollywood, these would doubtless be the makings of a cookie-cutter woman-in-distress shocker — a supernatural Sleeping With the Enemy. But Petzold, whose avowed inspiration was Herk Harvey's Lawrence, Kansas–lensed cult classic Carnival of Souls, is less interested in ectoplasmic apparitions than in the equally disembodied eeriness of poker-faced power brokering and glass-and-steel boardrooms. (Hardly accidental is Yella's journey from the former East Germany to the new West.) Like Laurent Cantet's Time Out and Nicolas Klotz's recent Heartbeat Detector, it's a corporate ghost story in which the undead are scarcely — and scarily — indistinguishable from the living.—Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly

MARCO ABEL
Born in Köln, Germany, Marco Abel is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches film theory and film history. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique After Representation (University of Nebraska Press), as well as essays on contemporary American literature and film published in journals such as PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Angelaki and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is currently working towards a book-length study of post-wall German cinema.

SPECIAL EVENTS COMING SOON

THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2009-10 SEASON
October 2009 - May 2010

INTO TEMPTATION
WITH DIRECTOR PATRICK COYLE
Friday, February 12 - 7:30 p.m.

MOVIE TALK: THE WHITE RIBBON
WITH H. PETER REINKORDT
Sunday, February 28 at 3:30 p.m. (following the 1:00 p.m. screening)

NT LIVE: LONDON NATIONAL THEATRE
THE HABIT OF ART
April 22, 2010 (Time and Encore date TBA)

MATINEE PRICED EVENINGS
Tuesdays & Wednesdays