Oxnard Film Society Screens “Pain and Glory” on Monday, December 2, 2019

Monday Night Foreign Film Series

Two Screenings – 3:30pm and 6:30pm

“A surprise in all ways except its surpassing quality, “Pain and Glory” reveals master Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar forging dazzling new paths while being completely himself.”

– Kenneth Turan , Los Angeles Times

December 2 – Pain and Glory

(Dolor y gloria)

2019 Spain 1hr 52min

Drama Rated R (for drug use, some graphic nudity and language)

In Spanish with English Subtitles

Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation..

“Pain and Glory,” all about healing rifts and rejoining life, is personal and universal. It’s also simple in a way that’s incandescent – suffused by a strange and beautiful gentleness of spirit.”

– Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Pain and Glory Trailer

SCREENING – PLAZA CINEMAS 14, 255 WEST 5TH STREET, OXNARD, CA 93030

Dec 16 Linda Ronstadt:

The Sound of My Voice

(Holiday Party 5pm -6::30pm)

2019 USA 1hr 35min

Documentary Rated PG-13 (for brief strong language and drug material)

In English

LINDA RONSTADT: The Sound of My Voice is a musical biography of one of the most successful and versatile female singers of the 20th century — and one of the most successful recording artists of all time. At the height of unprecedented success, Ronstadt, a restless and adventurous artist, turned away from pop music to explore an astonishing variety of musical styles, from American standards to country to classical operetta before circling back to her family roots with traditional Mexican canciones. Withstanding constant pressure from a risk-averse industry, Linda insisted on following her musical instincts. Today Ronstadt has Parkinson’s disease and her magnificent singing voice has been silenced. But rather than letting that voice be lost to history, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice tells Linda’s story through her own words and music, and by such professional colleagues as Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Aaron Neville among many others.

“She shows herself to be one of its indispensable interpreters, as a vocalist and also as a thinker – covering a sprawling landscape with elegance, passion and insight.”

– A.O. Scott, New York Times

“A beautiful, deeply moving and well-deserved tribute to this utterly singular woman and her talent.”

– Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service