Program Information Date:  Friday, February 8, 2008 Time:  7:30 pm Place:  Cinema Price:  $8 ($6 Walker members) View all associated images View this program in the Walker Calendar
		Image: California Dreamin'

You can’t help but draw connections to present-day American foreign policy through the tale unfolding in California Dreamin’, winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and “one of the best films about how America is perceived abroad ever made” (Washington Post).

In this true story from the 1990s, a Romanian bureaucrat delays an American NATO train on its way to Kosovo as a way to avenge the arrogance and neglect he feels the United States displayed toward Romanians after World War II. The film was in postproduction in August 2006 when the director, Cristian Nemescu, and his sound editor were killed in a car accident. 2007, 35mm, in Romanian and English with English subtitles, 155 minutes.

Purchase a ticket to this film and register for a free prescreening tour of the Brave New Worlds exhibition focusing on the work of the Romanian artists at 6:30 pm. This tour is limited to 25 people, so sign up early.

Have you seen the Romanian movie? http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/01/22/romanian-movie/ Walker blogs, Film / Video: Coming soon

There Will Be Blood (and Spit and Sweat and) http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/01/23/blood-spit-sweat/ Walker blogs, Film / Video: Walker Film