Mon, Jul 23, 2007
July 23 - 27, 2007
MEMORIAL STADIUM, JULY 25
UNL Hosts Cornhusker Summer Music Games
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Band Program will host the Cornhusker Summer Music Games Drum Corps International competition July 25 at Memorial Stadium.
Drum Corps International is a nonprofit youth organization serving junior drum and bugle corps around the globe. From modest beginnings in 1972, DCI has developed into a powerful youth activity with artistic and organizational influence on the world's drum and bugle corps, marching bands, and related activities. more...
LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THURS 9PM
Movies On The Green Features M*A*S*H
The stars will shine again on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus when the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and University Program Council unspool the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green series. The series continues this Thursday evening with Robert Altman's M*A*S*H starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould.
Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.). Popcorn and soda are sold at the screenings. Film commentary written by Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection donor Jerry Jensen will be distributed free of charge. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
La Vie En Rose, Disappearances Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents La Vie En Rose and Disappearances. La Vie En Rose will play through July 26, while Disappearances will show through August 2.
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars 2005 Cesar Award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Born into abject poverty, surrounded by street performers, hookers, and pimps, Piaf's magical voice made her a star on both sides of the Atlantic.
Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances stars legendary actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson as schemer and dreamer Quebec Bill Bonhomme -- in a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage (Charlie McDermott). Quebec Bill, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered cattle herd through a long winter, resorts to whiskey smuggling, a traditional family occupation. He takes his son, Wild Bill, on an unforgettable trip that will long remain etched in the viewer's mind: a journey through vast reaches of the Canadian wilderness and into a haunted and elusive past. What they find is the stuff of genuine legend.
More information is available at the Ross website.
