Kalamazoo Film Society Selections

The Kalamazoo Film Society has been showing films at Western Michigan University since 1988. The KFS has made the Little Theatre its permanent home since its grand renovation in 1997. Independent cinema, foreign films, and restored classics are staples of the KFS's monthly offerings.

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2008 Selections

City Lights: 1931; The 'Little Tramp' falls in love with a blind flower seller. A series of accidents allows him to get the money for a sight restoring surgery.
The Lady Eve: 1941; In this National Film Registry selection, two con artists are preying on a wealthy beer tycoon, but one of them falls in love with him.
The Visitor: 2008; An economics professor in Connecticut finds his life changed forever after a trip to his apartment in New York City, where he finds an illegal immigrant couple living in it.
Young @ Heart: 2007; To prepare for a show in their hometown that is only weeks away, a group of senior citizens must learn a slate of new songs ranging from James Brown to Coldplay. The tireless musical director leads the chorus through a series of chaotic rehearsals.
The Band's Visit: 2007; An Egyptian orchestra arrives in Israel to play an important cultural event only to find themselves in the wrong town, where they learn about themselves and each other as they spend the night interacting with the locals.
Taxi to the Dark Side: 2007; Investigating the torture and killing of an innocent Afghani taxi driver in a gripping probe into reckless abuses of government power, this stunningly crafted narrative demonstrates how one man's life and death symbolizes the erosion of our civil rights.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days: 2007; A young woman and her friend make their way to a black market doctor and face the choice as to whether or not one of them should have an illegal abortion.
Persepolis: 2007; This Academy Award-nominated film follows the Islamic Revolution through the eyes of a precocious 9-year-old girl trying to find her own place in the world amidst bombs, veils, racism, and tragedy.
Lars and the Real Girl: 2007; Lars is a sweet but quirky guy who thinks he's found the girl of his dreams in a life-sized doll named Bianca. He is content with his artificial girlfiend until he develops feelings for Margo, an attractive co-worker, and becomes lost in a love triangle.
Starting out in the Evening: 2007; An intimate and poignant film about a man, Leonard Schiller, who must redefine his work and perceptions in the twilight of his life as an ambitious grad student convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world.
Lust, Caution: 2007; A young woman is caught up in a plot to assassinate a powerful political figure in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II.

Past Selections

Howl's Moving Castle: 2005; Sophie, who helps out at her late father's hat shop, is transformed one day by a witch into an old woman. Sophie seeks out the help of the wizard Howl, who has an amazing moving castle which is fueled by a fire demon named Calcifer.
The Virgin Suicides: 2000; In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street in the middle of 1970s America lived the five beautiful dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them.
Buena Vista Social Club: 1999; Filmed in Havana, this groundbreaking documentary of Cuban musicians, inspired by the best-selling and Grammy Award-winning album Buena Vista Social Club, includes appearances by legendary performers Ruben Gonzales, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ry Cooder, and more.
Smoke Signals: 1998; An unlikely pair set off a comic adventure where they discover the ties that bind them and learn the importance of friendship.
The Eel: 1997; Acclaimed story about a newly released murderer forming a relationship with a suicidal woman.

Kalamazoo Film Society Selections

2008 Selections

Past Selections

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