"Japanese Film Festival - The Prince of Tennis" Friday, February 9, 2007 Living/Learning Center, 315 Commons, 5:30-7:30 PM The Prince of Tennis A live-action adaption of a popular anime/maga about the crazy, crazy world of tennis! Sponsored by the Japanese House in Global Village. Refreshments to be served upon arrival.

"Japanese Film Festival - Nausicaa" Friday, February 16, 2007 Living/Learning Center, 315 Commons, 5:30-7:30 PM Nausicaa The world's ecosystem is in ruins and war seems inevitable when two nations can't agree about what to do... Sponsored by the Japanese House in Global Village. Refreshments to be served upon arrival.

"Nuovo Cinema Italiano: LAMERICA" Italian Movie Series Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Commons 216, Living/Learning Center, 7:30 PM A couple of Italian con men travel to economically ravaged Albania after the collapse of Communism there, hoping to cash in by setting up a bogus corporation with a senile old man as its CEO. But the plot fails when the elderly chairman wanders away from the orphanage where he’d been stashed, leading one of the cons on an eye-opening quest through the slums of Albania. Sponsored by Casa Italiana.

"Nuovo Cinema Italiano: La Vita E Bella" Italian Movie Series Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Commons 216, Living/Learning Center, 7:30 PM In this poignant tragic comedy, a clever Jewish-Italian waiter named Guido (Roberto Benigni, who won an Oscar for his role) is sent to a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, along with his wife (Nicoletta Braschi) and their young son (Giorgio Cantarini). Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son’s innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank. Sponsored by Casa Italiana.

"Nuovo Cinema Italiano: La Stanza Del Figlio" Italian Movie Series Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Commons 216, Living/Learning Center, 7:30 PM A successful psychoanalyst (Nanni Moretti, who also directed) enjoys a placid, loving family life with a beautiful wife (Laura Morante) and two intelligent, attractive teenagers. But when the son drowns in a dicing accident, the family’s tight emotional bond is put to the test – especially for Moretti, who tortures himself with second-guesses regarding what he might have down to prevent his son’s death. Sponsored by Casa Italiana.