Going global locally, part 3

When I started this blog almost two weeks ago, I had the idea of blogging every day. That obviously didn't happen this last week since it has been a week since I have written anything. It is not that there was nothing to share. I have lots to share, but it was a very busy week. Hopefully I'll be a little more regular with my blogging, but I bet there still will be some times when I disappear for a while.

With this evening's blog I want to give another example of how students at SNU can take advantage of what's available in the Oklahoma City area to go global locally. I received an e-mail about a Spanish film being shown at Oklahoma City University Sunday afternoon. I have not seen the film, but according to the blurb in the e-mail, it is one of the best, if not the best, Spanish films ever made. The details are in the following paragraph. If you get a chance, take advantage of what OKC offers and take in a Spanish film this Sunday afternoon.

The seventh film in the 27th Annual Oklahoma City University Film Series, This Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2 PM
Kerr McGee Auditorium, Meinders School of Business, Free and Open to the Public
Renowned as the Greatest Spanish Film
Victor Erices The Spirit of the Beehive, Spain, 1974, 95 min.
In a remote Castilian village after the Spanish Civil War, seven-year-old Ana emerges from a screening of Boris Karloffs Frankenstein full of dreams and fantasies. All the mystery and yearning of adult existence is distilled in the vision of this lovely, introverted child. Director Erice dissolves the barrier between reality and hallucination, investing everyday signs with a significance that resonates long after the film is over. Released in the final days of General Francos forty-year dictatorship, Beehive has established itself as the consummate masterpiece of Spanish cinema. One of the two most requested films on last years evaluation form.

-The Spirit of the Beehive is the best Spanish movie ever made and one of the two or three most haunting films about children ever made. NY Times

-Beehive is a graceful and potent lyric on children's vulnerable hunger, but it's also a sublime study on cinema's poetic capacity to reflect and hypercharge reality. Village Voice

-Ana Torrent gives perhaps the greatest child performance of all time. Andrew Sarris, New York Observer