French Film Festival opens Jan. 29
The French Film Festival is back for the sixth year in a row, made possible by UGA Cinematic Arts and the department of theatre and film studies. On Monday nights beginning Jan. 29, the Tate Student Center Theater will screen award-winning French films of the past few years.

Tickets will be available at the door for $1 for students and $2 for all others. The films are subtitled and projected in 35mm. Each film, which will be screened at 8 p.m., will be introduced briefly by Richard Neupert, Wheatley Professor of Film Studies. This year’s five films are:
• Jan. 29: Nathalie, written and directed by Anne Fontaine, featuring Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart in a bizarre love triangle.
• Feb. 5: L’Enfant, winner of the 2005 Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, directed by the brothers Dardenne, in which a young father tries to sell his child to improve his own situation.
• Feb. 12: Quand la mer monte (When the Sea Rises) with actress and co-director Yolande Moreau as a traveling one-woman show who meets up with an eccentric vagabond fan.
• Feb.19: Comme une image (Look at Me) won the best script at Cannes. Directed by the team of Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui, this comedy centers on the misfit Lolita, who struggles to be noticed in the glitzy world of her celebrity father, Etienne.
• Feb. 26: Caché (Hidden) Winner of both best director and Jury Prize at Cannes for writer-director Michael Haneke, Caché features Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as a seemingly normal couple who begin to receive anonymous videotapes of their own home.

The Georgia Review hosts poetry reading
Arthur Sze, award-winning poet and current director of the creative writing program at the Institute for American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 at Tasty World on the corner of Broad and Jackson streets. The doors will open at 7 p.m. for this event, which is open to the public.

Sze’s visit is sponsored by the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a consortium of schools that has brought some 75 nationally known poets to the state over the past 22 years. The Georgia Review, the University of Georgia’s quarterly journal of arts and letters—now in its 60th year of continuous publication—has been the UGA coordinator since the Poetry Circuit's inception.

A second-generation Chinese American, Sze was born in New York City in 1950. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and he has published numerous poetry collections, including Quipa (2005), Silk Dragon (2001), The Redshifting Web: New and Selected Poems (1998), Archipelago (1995) and Dazzled (1982).

Warnell School will hold career panel
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the UGA Career Center will host a “Careers in Natural Resources” discussion panel Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. in room 150 of the Student Learning Center. Students from across the UGA community are invited to come and learn how to plan for a future career in natural resource science and/or management.

Several natural resource professionals, who are also graduate students of the Warnell School, will participate in the panel to discuss their jobs and what students should do if they are interested in a career in natural resources management and science. Panelists will include Amanda Newman, a graduate student in the wildlife program, and Adam Speir, a graduate student in the water and soil resources program. Newman has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as Parsons Engineering. Speir has worked for the Georgia Water and Planning Policy Center, Georgia State Soil and Water Conservation Commission and F&W Forestry.