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CANCELED! Brazilian Film Presentation: Bacurau
CANCELED! Brazilian Film Presentation: Bacurau
CANCELED! Brazilian Film Presentation: Bacurau
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the screening of the award-winning Brazilian film Bacurau on July 30th is canceled and will be rescheduled for a future date. We apologize for the inconvenience.
SPECIAL BRAZILIAN FILM PRESENTATION: "BACURAU"
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6
Screening at 7
Free admission, donations welcome
The Varsity is pleased to partner with Geoff Young, a professor in the Center for English as a Second Language program at SIU, for a special presentation of a Brazilian movie, “Bacurau.” A special Q&A session with Brazilian students in the program will follow the screening, and students also will share their thoughts and cultural insights about the film.
The screening takes place Wednesday, July 30 at 7. Doors and Varsity Bar open at 6. Admission to the screening is free, and donations will be accepted.
“Bacurau” was released in 2019 and is presented in Portuguese and English with English subtitles. The film was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was an Official Selection at the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
The movie takes place a few years from now, as Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them actress Sônia Braga) notice their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.
The film is “a genre-busting entertainment that is at once a portrait of a community, a horror thriller and a timely piece of political filmmaking … where you're never quite sure which way it's heading," reports John Powers of NPR.
Chinatown
CANCELED! Brazilian Film Presentation: Bacurau
CANCELED! Brazilian Film Presentation: Bacurau
7 p.m. Friday, Aug 1
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6
Tickets: $8 at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show
Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson star in Chinatown, Roman Polanski’s riff on film noir about a private investigator who falls into a case that leads him to discover new depths of deceit and corruption.
See it Friday, Aug. 1 at 7. The bar opens at 6, so come early for special cocktails.
Community Sponsors:
Pinch Penny Liquors
Plaza Records
WSIL TV
Castle Perilous
The Iron Whisk
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Midsommar
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6
Tickets: $8 at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show
Ari Aster’s second film, Midsommar, takes us to the far reaches of rural Sweden where Dani, played by Florence Pugh, confronts her traumas amid the midsummer ceremonies of a bizarre commune.
See it Friday, Aug. 8 at 7. The bar opens at 6, so come early for special cocktails.
Community Sponsors:
Pinch Penny Liquors
Plaza Records
WSIL TV
Castle Perilous
The Iron Whisk
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22
Doors and Varsity Bar at 6
Tickets: $8 at Eventbrite (see link) or at the door night of show
We close our summer series with one of the best films of the 21st century. Set against the stunning backdrops of western Texas, No Country for Old Men is the Coen Brothers’ spin on the classic western tale of good versus evil.
See it Friday, Aug. 22 at 7. The bar opens at 6, so come early for special cocktails.
Community Sponsors:
Pinch Penny Liquors
Plaza Records
WSIL TV
Castle Perilous
The Iron Whisk
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