NOVEMBER 9, 2004
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ROCOCO THEATER , THURS 9PM
Tommy Lee Performs Free 'Thank You' Concert
As filming draws to a close for the proposed
reality television series starring Tommy Lee, the Rococo Theater
will be host to a 'thank you' show for the UNL campus community on Thursday November 11. Lee will
be performing along with his band and the show will also feature
members of the UNL Marching Band as well as recording artist B.T. Tickets
for the show (while they last) are available inside the Nebraska Student Union.
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W183 NEBRASKA HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - 'Multiscale Modeling of Strengthening and Plastic Deformation Mechanisms in Aluminum-Based Amorphous Nanocomposites'
Lizhi Sun, Iowa State University
115 AVERY HALL, 3:45PM
Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium
Peter Varman, National Science Foundation
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'Pumping Iron: The Response to Iron Deficiency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae'
Dr. Caroline Philpott, NIDDK, NIH
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SHELDON AUDITORIUM, 5:30PM
Otterness to Speak on 'Public Art: Changing Meaning in a Changing World'
Even before they enter the
building, visitors to the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery are greeted by Fallen Dreamer,
the Tom Otterness sculpture on the east steps. Fallen Dreamer is
noteworthy not only as an outstanding contemporary work of art, but
also for the responses it evokes. A favorite of students, it identifies
the Sheldon for many; families often stop to photograph young children
standing by the gigantic head; and passers-by have also made analogies
between the fragmentary head and current events in the Middle East.
Sculptor Tom Otterness, who has created major public sculptures in cities throughout the United States and in Europe, will share his thoughts on Fallen Dreamer and its relationship to his work in a public talk at Sheldon.
The Wichita, Kansas, native whose tableau Dreamers Awake (which features a smaller-scale version of our sculpture) is installed outside the art museum there, is currently installing art work along Park Avenue in New York City. Otterness is well-known for such monumental projects, which feature figures that are at once playful and potentially ominous in complex narratives. These are on view from Los Angeles (The New World) to New York (The Real World), suggesting the relevance of Otterness’s sculptural programs to audiences today.
The talk is $5 for non-members, $3 for NAA members and students are free.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS FILM THEATER
Intimate Strangers Continues Theatrical Run
Patrice Leconte's 20th feature film Intimate
Strangers is playing its final week at the Mary Riepma Ross
film theater. The follow-up to his acclaimed Man on The Train is
a provocative love story masked in the guise of a suspense thriller.
A beautiful Parisian woman opens the wrong door and steps into a
dizzying psychological mystery that will forever change two lives.
It all begins when the troubled Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) makes a
mistake on her way to visit a psychiatrist. Accidentally choosing
the wrong office, she is greeted by William Faber (Fabrice Luchini)
who, unbeknownst to Anna, is actually a mild-mannered tax accountant.
Anna explains that she has arrived in a state of personal emergency,
and, before William can protest, begins to expose the most intimate
details of her marriage and sex life. Startled and secretly riveted,
William does not have the heart to tell this distraught woman his
true identity. Playing along with her misconception, he accepts another
appointment as her therapist.
On her second visit, William tries his best to level with Anna, but
gets nowhere. Desperate to undo his error, William even attempts
to hunt Anna down, asking his neighbor, the psychiatrist she was
supposed to see – Dr. Monnier (Michel Duchaussoy) – for her phone
number, which only leads to William momentarily becoming a patient
of the endlessly philosophical doctor. Disappearing into thin air,
Anna becomes William's obsession. Then comes a third visit in which
Anna, aware now of who William is, angrily confronts him with his
ruse, accusing him of violating her trust and very being.
And yet ... she returns again. Soon, Anna and William have resumed
their weekly appointments in spite of everything. Neither can resist
going forward with this most unusual, and seemingly fated, form of "therapy." William
is moved and drawn out of his shell by hearing Anna's strange, juicy
marital secrets – feeling he is at last privy to the things men almost
never hear. Meanwhile, the more Anna talks, the more her anxiety
begins to lift – as she realizes she has met a man who can listen
like no one else she has ever encountered.
Yet when their sessions probe deeper, William becomes suspicious.
Who is this woman who speaks of crippling accidents and controlling
husbands? Is she in danger? Is she dangerous? Is she lying? William's
own motivations are equally suspect. Does he think he can rescue
Anna? Is he simply getting a voyeuristic thrill from her? Or is he
on the verge of falling perilously in love?
In a winding game of psychological cat-and-mouse, Anna and William
chase each other into places neither one ever expected - and form
a bond of trust that will change one another, encounter by encounter,
into new people.
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RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER | INTIMATE
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