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Cinema Studies at The Bridge: Talking Films Series, Second Edition
"FIRST FEATURES FILMS " January 25: Amores Perros - Alejandro González Inárritu - 2000 February 8: The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi - 1983 February 15: Blood Simple - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - 1985 February 22: Say Anything... - Cameron Crowe - 1989 March 1: Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino - 1992 March 22: Clerks - Kevin Smith - 1994 March 29: Bottle Rocket - Wes Anderson - 1996 April 5: Garden State - Zach Braff - 2004 All movies will be screened on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm The Bridge Cinema de Lux Corner of 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public February 1 - March 4 A Spike Lee-Terence Blanchard Film Festival at the Annenberg Center Beginning on Jan. 26th, the Center for Africana Studies will be conducting a retrospective on the film and career of filmmaker, Spike Lee. The Retrospective will culminate with a keynote address by Mr. Lee on Feb. 2nd in Zellerbach Theatre at the Annenberg Center (admission is free, but audience members must reserve a ticket for admission which can be picked up prior to the talk and presented for admission) and a panel discussion on Feb. 3rd involving noted film scholars and cultural critics, Manthia Diawara, Valerie Smith, Clyde Taylor, Louis Massiah, Coco Fusco, and Michael Eric Dyson who will discuss Mr. Lee's impact on American cinema. In conjunction with Terence Blanchard's March 4 performance and the Center for Africana Studies presentation of Spike Lee on February 2, Cinema Studies invites you to "A Spike Lee-Terence Blanchard Film Festival" featuring pre-show lectures presented by a roster of noted film scholars and musicians. Admission free to all movies, Mr. Spike Lee's prsentation on February 2, and panel discussion on February 3. All films being shown on the Studio Theatre's large screen of the Annenberg Center Tuesday, February 1: Wednesday, March 2: Thursday, March 3: Friday, February 4 History of Art Colloquium: Crash Aesthetics: "Amores Perros" and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility Karen Beckman, Cinema Studies and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania 3:00 pm Jaffe Building Rich Seminar Room (201) University of Pennsylvania Free and open to the public Sunday, February 13 Two Films by Amar Kanwar Night of Prophecy and Season Outside Director Amar Kanwar in person 1:00 pm International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Night of Prophecy Amar Kanwar, India, 2002, Beta SP, 77 mins, color, w/ English subtitles Filmed in several diverse territories of India (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Kashmir), A Night Prophecy features the music and poetry of tragedy and protest performed by regional artists. The sources of anger and sorrow vary from inescapable, caste-bound poverty to the loss of loved ones as a result of tribal and religious fighting. The footage is a stunning glimpse of India’s diverse ethnic groups and topography from the rural mountains to its crowded urban centers. Season Outside Amar Kanwar, India, 1998, Beta SP, 30 mins, color An urgent, poetic treatise on the deep divisions between India and Pakistan, Season Outside is Amar Kanwar’s personal and philosophical journey through the shadows of past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time zones. Combining lyrical imagery and the timely words of Mahatma Gandhi, the film is a poignant meditation on the source of violence in the region. Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 16 Penn Cinema Studies Colloquium: Cinema, Philosophy, and Dance: The Case of Fellini's "Saraghina" Millicent Marcus, Italian, University of Pennsylvania 6:00 pm Vance Hall - B1 University of Pennsylvania Free and open to the public Friday, February 25 "The Shock of the New:" Electrification, Illumination, Urbanization and the Cinema Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh 5:00 pm Film Studies Room (Rm. 425) Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania In conjunction with this lecture there will be screenings of Electric House (1922, E. F. Kline and B. Keaton) and Sunrise (1927, F. W. Murnau) on Thursday, February 24, 6:30 - 9:00 pm in the Film Studies Room (Rm. 425) Van Pelt Library. Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 2 Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Action Cinema in "The Matrix" (1999) Peter X. Feng, University of Delaware 5:30 pm Film Studies Room (Rm. 425) Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania Free and open to the public Peter X. Feng is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, where he teaches film history, Asian American Studies, and cultural studies. An expert on Asian Americans and the media, he has authored Identities in Motion: Asian American Film & Video (Duke University Press), edited Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press), and co-edited a special issue of Journal of Asian American Studies on Asian American Cultural Production. His articles on Asian Americans in film and popular culture have appeared in Cineaste, Jump Cut, Amerasia Journal, and Cinema Journal, as well as in Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism (ed. Darrell Hamamoto and Sandra Liu) and Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction (ed. Zia Sardar and Sean Cubitt). Tuesday, March 15 Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities The Penn Cinema Studies Program, Penn Humanities Forum, and The Bridge: Cinema de Lux present Cutting Cinematic Dreams Mary Sweeney Writer, editor, and producer, Mary Sweeney works regularly with filmmaker David Lynch, having produced and edited Mulholland Drive (2001) and Lost Highway (1999), and written, produced, and edited The Straight Story (1999). Her other film credits include Nadja (1994),Wild at Heart (1990), Blue Velvet (1986), and Tender Mercies (1983). 5:00 pm Room B1 - Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street (SW Corner, 34th & Walnut) University of Pennsylvania Join us following her lecture for a free special screening of The Straight Story and Q&A with Mary Sweeney 7:00 pm The Bridge Cinema de Lux Corner of 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 16 Penn Cinema Studies Colloquium: On Kenji Mizoguchi's "Utamaro" Julie Davis, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania 6:00 pm Vance Hall - B1 University of Pennsylvania Free and open to the public Friday, March 18 Spiegel Symposium: A Cinema of Resistance David James, University of Southern California with Timothy Corrigan and Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies Faculty A panel discussion on the motif of cinematic "resistance" through film history, suggesting how it has evolved as a central, but changing strategy through the 20th century. 1:30 pm Annenberg Center - Room 110 3680 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania In conjuction with this event, the movies The Battle of Algiers and A Zed & Two Noughts will be screened in DVD format on Thursday, March 17th at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm in Harrison College House. Free and open to the public Tuesday, March 22 Friday, March 25 Film and Pedagogy II: A Workshop Jennifer Horne, Bryn Mawr College Jonathan Kahana, Bryn Mawr College 3:00 - 6:00 pm Stiteler Hall - Room B26 208 S. 37th Street University of Pennsylvania Free and open to the public Wednesday, April 6 Screening of The World War II Memorial: A Testament To Freedom The one hour documentary interviews designers, officials, critics, and artisans as it visually depicts the conception, competition, controversies, construction and completion of this last major monument in the nation's capitol, interlaced with the history of the war through the moving testimony of those memorialized - combat veterans and homefront civilians during the seminal event of the 20th century. The documentary will be introduced and discussed by its producer and writer Glenn Marcus 6:00 - 8:00 pm Class of '55 Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania Free and open to the public April 7 - 20 Penn Cinema Studies at the PFF - PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL CINE CAFES... lively conversations about cinema... Friday, April 1: Music in Film Friday, April 8: Business of Film Tuesday, April 12: Women in Film Thursday, April 14: Hollyworld? National and International Film Monday, April 18: Film and Our Culture Free and open to the public |
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