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January 20, 2010-April 21, 2010--Emory Cinematheque Spring 2010 Film Series
Feb. 4, 11, 18--Deepa Mehta's "Elements" Trilogy
Emory
Cinematheque
Spring 2010
Film Series
(all in WH 205 at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted)
Wednesday, January 20, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
Bicycle Thieves (“Ladri di bicyclette,”1948, Vittorio de Sica, Italy, black and white, 93 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles).
One of the most influential and acclaimed films in international cinema history, De Sica's film about an out of work Roman searching for his stolen bicycle with his hopeful son by his side in a Rome recovering from World War II was innovative in its approach, story construction and its use of completely non-professional actors. More than 60 years after its initial release, its portrait of the struggle to survive is searing and its closing moments are heartbreaking.
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Wednesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich, U.S.A., black and white, 106 min.).
Robert Aldrich's breakthrough adaptation of a Mike Hammer story represents the pinnacle of late classical film noir. With a completely unsympathetic performance from Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer, surrounded by an array of talented character actors, this film grabs you from its opening moments showing Cloris Leachman alone on a highway naked under a rain coat. Its fast paced, long take-one scene aesthetic is a marvel of economy.
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Wednesday, February 3, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
Stray Dog (“Nora Inu”; 1949, Akira Kurosawa, Japan, black and white, 122 min., in Japanese with English subtitles).
Toshiro Mifune plays Murakami, a rookie detective whose gun is stolen by a thief while both ride a crowded city bus during a blazing hot summer day. His search for the "stray dog" takes him on a documentary-like tour of a broken-down post-war Tokyo, stressing the similarities between police office and thief. Critic Terrence Rafferty called it a “neo-realist cop film.” It is certainly the pinnacle of Kurosawa’s 1940s cinema and anticipates the 1963 masterpiece High and Low.
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Wednesday, February 10, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
Cairo Station (“Bab El Hadid,” 1958, Youssef Chahine, black and white, 76 min., in Egyptian with English subtitles).***Georgia Premiere.
A classic film from one of Egypt’s leading directors, Cairo Station focuses on the lower depths of workers at this locale, using it as a microcosm of Egyptian society. Chahine himself portrays the crippled newspaper dealer obsessed with a lemonade seller. The film represented a breakthrough for Egyptian cinema on the world scene, even as it was banned by the authorities for several years after its release.
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Wednesday, February 17, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
A Hard Day’s Night (1964, Richard Lester, Great Britain, black and white, 87 min.).
This smash hit, directed by the widely underrated Richard Lester and starring the Beatles, helped cement the band’s playful personas and features a marvelous array of early hits. But the film also brings French New Wave aesthetics into the English language cinema. A minimal journey plot, improvisation, jump cuts, and other discontinuities allowed audiences to experience the Beatles’ offbeat sensibility in a uniquely cinematic way.
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Wednesday, February 24, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
The 400 Blows (“Les Quatre Cents Coups,” 1959, Francois Truffaut, France, black and white, 99 min., in French with English subtitles).
François Truffaut’s highly autobiographical first feature treats the life of a teenager misunderstood by his parents and teachers, and follows his forays into minor crimes and boarding school. Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) would portray Truffaut across five films by the 1980s. Notable for its unsentimental and yet whimsical tone and visual style, The 400 Blows is a signature landmark film of the French New Wave and the auteurist film movement, as well as remaining one of the most searing, compassionate portraits of children ever committed to celluloid.
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Wednesday, March 3, 8pm, White Hall 205
Cranes Are Flying (“Letyat Zhuravali”; 1957, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957, black and white, 95 min., in Russian with English subtitles).
Achingly nostalgic, exquisitely shot by ace cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky, Kalatozov's drama about a young muscovite couple torn apart by war and longing helped to usher in a new era of international prominence for Soviet cinema at arthouses and film festivals around the world.
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Wednesday, March 10: NO FILM: SPRING BREAK
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Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
The Job (“Il Posto,” 1961, Emmano Olmi, Italy, black & white, 93 min., Italian with English subtitles).
Less well known and less formally flashy than the films of Antonioni and Pasolini, this beguiling, bittersweet satire on adolescent alienation, middle class anxiety and corporate drudgery should be counted among the classics of Italy’s mid-century cinematic Renaissance.
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Wednesday, March 24, 8p.m., White Hall 205
Wings of Desire (“Der Himmel über Berlin”, 1987, Wim Wenders, Germany, black & white and color, 128 min., German and others with English subtitles).
A wayward and world-weary angel gives up his wings to experience mortal passion and mortal pain in this surprisingly wistful and romantic fantasy by one the angry young men of Germany’s “New Cinema” movement. Sort of like Nora Efron’s Michael but, y’know, really good.
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Wednesday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorcese, United States, color, 112 min.).
Scorcese's breakout arthouse feature after making Boxcar Bertha for exploitation king Roger Corman, this low-budget, edgy ensemble gangster pic about a group of small-time New York hoods was also the director's first outing with long-time collaborator Robert De Niro. It is also strikingly consistent with the later work of this quintessential American auteur.
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Wednesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205--TBA
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Wednesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
City of Sadness (“Bei Qing Cheng Shi, 1989, Hou Hsaio-Hsien, color, 157 minutes, in Taiwanese with English subtitles).
In many ways the magnum opus of one of the masters of modern cinema, this elegantly austere, beautifully paced film follows the fates of an ordinary family caught in the tumults of Taiwanese history. Hou's work has been compared to that of Ozu Yasujiro, Robert Bresson, and Tien Zhuang-Zhuang, and his distinctive style is abundantly evident here.
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Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., White Hall 205
District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp, South Africa, color, 112 minutes, in English, Nyanja and Afrikaans, with English subtitles).
This clever South African space-opera turned slum-opera about a drab bureaucrat working in a refugee camp inhabited by sentient, really jumbo shrimps stranded on Earth when their spaceship malfunctions may be the year's biggest surprise. One part COPs, one part Aliens, and one part The Office injected with a healthy dose of gross-out gore, this genre-jumping satire fuses state-of-the-art CGI effects with ragged, hand-held camcorder realism to make a mix deeply felt and thoughtful enough for art-house audiences and still far enough over the top for horror and sci-fi fans.
Emory Cinematheque—a collaboration between Emory College and the Department of Film Studies, showing a series of outstanding films from world cinema. All films will be shown in 35mm unless otherwise noted.
The Wednesday night Fall series is curated by Dr. Eddy Von Mueller, Lecturer in Film Studies. Dr. Mueller will introduce all screenings beginning Sept. 24. Special thanks to James Steffen, Ph.D., and Alfredo Villar in the Emory Heilbrun Music and Media Library.
Please visit the “Calendar” page at www.filmstudies.emory.edu for additional information on screenings and special lectures by visiting scholars, as well as new additions to our schedule.
All films will be shown in at 7:30 pm in White Hall 205 at:
208 Dowman Drive
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Directions can be found at:
http://www.emory.edu/home/about/visiting/directions.html
Parking is FREE. A parking map can be found at:
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Department of Film Studies
404-727-6761
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