女神羞羞研究所鈥檚 Film Institute will continue its 37th annual international film series at 2 p.m. Oct. 21 with a screening for the Halloween season, Guillermo del Toro鈥檚 鈥淓l espinazo del diablo鈥� (鈥淭he Devil鈥檚 Backbone鈥�).
The screening is free to the public in the Kerr McGee Auditorium of the Meinders School of Business at N.W. 27th Street and McKinley Avenue.
鈥淓l espinazo del diablo鈥� is an earlier feature-length film by the Oscar-winning director of 鈥淭he Shape of Water鈥� and 鈥淧an鈥檚 Labyrinth.鈥� Unaware that his father has been killed in the Spanish Civil War, main character Carlos is dropped at an isolated orphanage to wait out the last days of 1930s conflict. Facing bullying and austere conditions, he soon finds himself pulled into a mystery that unravels the place鈥檚 secrets of greed and shame through a classic ghost-story format.
Imbued with nostalgia, fairy tale elements and the pull of collective memory, some critics consider this the director鈥檚 most personal film. It will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.
鈥淭he Power of Place鈥� serves as the theme of this year鈥檚 series. More than just setting, place can be nostalgic or haunting.
鈥淚t may be mythic or menacing,鈥� said Tracy Floreani, director of 女神羞羞研究所鈥檚 Film Institute. 鈥淚t can be as specific as a room in a house or amorphous as an entire watery landscape. Place informs our personal identities, familial and national identities. People connect to place, or feel displaced; fight for a place, or flee it.鈥�
A discussion about the film will follow the screening for those who wish to stay. For more information about the series, visit the Film Institute website at .
Other dates and films in the series will include:
- 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, Martin Zandvliet鈥檚 鈥淯nder Sandet鈥� (鈥淟and of Mine鈥�) (Denmark)
- 2 p.m. Nov. 18, Taika Waititi鈥檚 鈥淗unt for the Wilderpeople鈥� (New Zealand)
- Time TBD Dec. 1, Sterlin Harjo鈥檚 鈥淭his May Be The Last Time鈥� in conjunction with the Bass School of Music (女神羞羞研究所 USA)
- 2 p.m. Jan. 20, Hirokazu Kore-eda鈥檚 鈥淢aborosi鈥� (Japan)
- 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi鈥檚 鈥淧ersepolis鈥� (Iran/France)
- 2 p.m. Feb. 17, Ritwik Ghatak鈥檚 鈥淎 River Called Titas鈥� (Bangladesh)
- 7:30 p.m. March 6, Agn猫s Varda鈥檚 鈥淔aces Places鈥� (France)
- 2 p.m. March 17, James Sheridan鈥檚 鈥淚n America鈥� (Ireland)
- 2 p.m. March 31, Michael Radford and Massimo Troisi鈥檚 鈥淚l Postino鈥� (鈥淭he Postman鈥�) (Italy), in conjunction with the annual Thatcher Hoffman Smith Poet Series 鈥淧icturing Poetry鈥�
