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Director: S. S. Rajamouli Run Time: 187 min. Release Year: 2022 Language: Telugu w/ English subtitles Starring: Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ray Stevenson This film is part of FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, an on-going series featuring some of the best films of the year you may have missed during their initial runs in cinemas. Synopsis: Back on the big screen where it belongs for an #encoRRRe, RRR is an exhilarating, action-packed spectacular mythologizing two real-life freedom fighters who helped lead India’s fight for independence from the British Raj: Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan). Set in the 1920s before their fight for India’s independence began, RRR imagines a fictional meeting between the two, set into motion when a young Gond girl is stolen from her village by British soldiers. With a powerful message, staggeringly choreographed action sequences, and an all-timer (or three) of a musical number, RRR is sheer big-screen joy from start to finish, and audiences have one last chance to see it big and loud as intended. Critic Quotes: “To call this the best blockbuster of 2022 is only partially accurate; it’s really several of the best blockbusters, plural, you’re apt to catch this year.” – Rolling Stone “RRR is maximum cinema, the kind of in-your-face, colorful, fiery, loud, awe-inspiring experience you really can only get from the movies.” – Slate “The thrill of RRR is not the density of its storytelling, though — it’s the exuberance of it.” – The Atlantic “You won’t be bored for a nanosecond” – Hollywood Reporter Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Director: Charlotte Wells Run Time: 102 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022 Starring: Ayşe Parlak, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal, Sally Messham Director: Charlotte Wells | Runtime: 98 minutes | Year: 2022 | Rating: R | Country: UK | Language: English | Fiction Genre: Drama Synopsis: At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heart rending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film. Critic Quotes: “An ode to cinema as a machine for remembering.” – Little White Lies “A work of masterful and almost unbearable melancholy.” – Vulture “A beautifully sculpted and quietly shattering first feature from the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells.” – Los Angeles Times “The power of the film comes from its embrace of the basic and universal fact of loss.” – The New York Times Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Director: Rian Johnson Run Time: 110 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2006 Starring: Emilie de Ravin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Nora Zehetner Tagline: Before KNIVES OUT, STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, and LOOPER, Rian Johnson’s captivating debut film, BRICK, re-defined the noir genre for a new generation. In this stylish mystery, an intelligent high school loner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) infiltrates various cliques to figure out the truth behind his ex-girlfriend’s disappearance. Critic Quotes: “Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there’s no arguing that its brand of deadpan cool is precisely unique.” – Slate “Brick is a dazzling slab of hard noir storytelling.” – The Hollywood Reporter

Director: Todd Field Run Time: 158 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022 Starring: Allan Corduner, Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Sophie Kauer Synopsis: From producer-writer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár. TÁR examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world. Critic Quotes: “A tightly wound masterpiece that slices through class anxiety and power.” – Vox “It’s a total knockout, both austere and dryly hilarious, and its quality is impossible to consider separately from its colossal lead performance.” – Vulture “Tár has intellectual heft, and watching her deploy it is breathtaking. Blanchett pours equal parts charisma and intimidation into her career-best performance.” – The Atlantic “TÁR is that rarest of items: a prestige awards contender that’s also a genuine art film.” – RogerEbert.com “One of the boldest and most exciting new American movies I’ve seen in years.” – IndieWire

Better known as Yermo within the numerous communities where he works, Guillermo Aranda is a multimedia artist who was born and raised in San Diego within a family of artists, craftspeople, and musicians. With close to one hundred murals to his name located throughout the state of California, Yermo will reflect aUSD lecnd speak to his creative and intellectual contributions to the Chicano Art Mural movement that has yet to be fully documented. Cosponsored by the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. For more information on parking, visit www.sandiego.edu/parking/parking-information/guests.php

Tiffany Lethabo King is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor King’s work is animated by abolitionist and decolonial traditions within Black Studies and Native/Indigenous Studies. In her Knapp Chair Lecture, Dr. King will discuss themes from her forthcoming book, "Red and Black Alchemies of Flesh: Conjuring a Decolonial and Abolitionist Now", in which she invokes both Black and Native queer feminist thought to link to the power of the erotic, to think beyond the carceral and casual violence of the state, and to imagine a bold and beautiful future of inclusion and belonging. For information on parking, visit https://www.sandiego.edu/parking/parking-information/guests.php

The Tenth Annual Borrego Springs Film Festival will take place January 12 – 16, 2023, in Borrego Springs, California - a small town located in the northern end of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, in San Diego County. The five-day festival presents screenings of selected short films, features, documentaries, animated shorts, and Hispanic/Latin films, submitted by filmmakers from around the world, which are shown in Blocks at the Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center. Festival passes and tickets for individual screening Blocks can be purchased at borregospringsfilmfestival.org, and a full schedule of the Screening Blocks can be found there. Tickets and Festival Passes go on sale on December 15. For more information, go to borregospringsfilmfestival.org.

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Working Title: A group installation and concert Doors open at 6:00 p.m., music performances begin at 7:00 p.m. Project [BLANK]’s annual group art show returns after a pandemic-induced hiatus! WORKING TITLE is a three-day, community-based exhibition of new works by painters, sculptors, sound artists, video artists, performance artists, composers, and musicians from throughout the greater San Diego area and Tijuana. Transforming the public spaces of the historic St. Paul's Cathedral in Bankers Hill into a living, breathing Sistine Chapel, these local artists will present works that dialogue respectfully and reverently with this beautiful space, while interrogating ideas of ritual, sacredness, and religious belief. Is it an art exhibit? Is it a concert? YES TO BOTH! For the full artist and performer list, plus bios of each, click here. Related links: Project [BLANK] on Instagram Project [BLANK] on Facebook