Screenings of “For Us and June” and “Taxi Driver”
Fri 28 Jun 2013, 8 pm: screening of “For us and June”
Sat 29 Jun 2013, 2 pm: discussion about actor Robert De Niro & screening of “Taxi Driver”
TPD
From TPD:
You are invited to the two film screenings at TPD this week. On Friday, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of “For us and June” (director Nguyen Huu Tuan) and on Saturday, TPD Center will host a discussion about actor Robert De Niro, together with the screening of “Taxi Driver” (1976).
About For us and June!
Year: 2012
Director: Tuan Nguyen Huu
Cast: Trung Do Quoc, Tu Tran Thien, Huynh Anh
Genre: Romance / Sport
Runtime: 81 min
Synopsis: A group of close friends – Kien, Hoang and Minh – shares the passion for basketball. However, they are about to miss their biggest game of high-school time when Kien quit and left after Minh has rejected his love. Hoang, his best friend, decides to search for him, accompanied by Minh. Can they eventually make it to the game?
About Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. Then in 1974, he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese began with 1973’s Mean Streets, and later earned De Niro an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He would also earn nominations for Taxi Driver in 1976 and Cape Fear in 1991. De Niro received additional Academy Award nominations for Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978), Penny Marshall’s Awakenings (1990), and David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook (2012). His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorsese’s Goodfellas earned him a BAFTA nomination in 1990.
De Niro has received accolades for his career, including the AFI Life Achievement Award (2003) and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2010).
(Source: Wikipedia)
Tickets/ Fee
Screening on Friday: Different from other non-profit screenings on Saturday afternoon, the program Friday with Vietnam Cinema is a fundraising event. In this program, we are calling out for audiences’ contribution to continue the operation of TPD Center in the future. Suggested Donation 50,000 VND.
Screening on Saturday: The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.
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