Upcoming Events
All events, unless otherwise noted, are free and open to the public and do not require advance registration.
International Film Series
Please join us for our annual International Film Series. All films are free, open to the public, and will be followed by brief discussions and receptions.
Screenings will be held in Tawes Hall. Graduate students have selected the titles for the fall portion of this series.
The series is sponsored by the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Center for Literature and Comparative Studies, the Department of English, and the Institute for International Programs.
Our schedule is as follows:
George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls
Friday, February 3, 2012, 5:00 PM, Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes 1121)
1913 / 88 minutes / Silent with English Intertitles / USA
Even though the United States is the land of opportunity and offers many immigrants options for a better life, many people are unaware of the dangers that can befall them as they enter the country. Such is the case for many immigrant girls who are whisked away by William Trubus and his International Purity and Reform League. In reality, the girls are sold to brothel owners to support the sex trade in New York. When the league snatches the American sister of Mary Barton, girlfriend of suspicious cop Officer Burke, they have messed with the wrong people. With the law on their said, can Officer Burke and Mary finally bring justice to the operators of the sex trade?
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Friday, April 13, 2012, 5:00 PM, Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes 1121)
Jean Renoir's The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Friday, April 20, 2012, 5:00 PM, Tawes 1100
1936 / 80 minutes / French with English Subtitles / France
Little known stateside but long esteemed in Europe, The Crime of Monsieur Lange is simply one of the very greatest films directed by Jean Renoir. René Lefèvre (Le Million) takes the title role of a nebbish who clerks for a penny-press publisher by day, and by night writes feverish potboilers about a Western hero named "Arizona Jim." Lange's encyclopedically venal boss (Jules Berry) discovers his secret and immediately starts exploiting it, as he exploits everybody and everything within range. Life sublimely imitates pulp fiction and vice versa in the brilliant screenplay by Jacques Prévert.
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Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter
Friday, November 11, 5:00 PM, Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes 1121)
1955 / 93 minutes / USA
The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.
Terry Gilliam's Tideland
Friday, December 2, 5:00 PM,Tawes 1100
2005 / 121 minutes / USA
A young girl (Jodelle Ferland) lives in a terrifying and gruesome world. When her father (Jeff Bridges) takes her away to a rural farmhouse, she finds herself in a bizarre fantasy world where only her dolls’ heads keep her company. When she meets a mentally damaged man and a tall ghost-like woman, the line between her imagination and reality quickly disappears. Tideland is a spine-chilling tale from the visionary mind of acclaimed director Terry Gilliam.
Past Events
Works-in-Progress Series: Post-Colonial or Transnational Cinema?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Associate Professor Caroline Eades of the Department of French and Italian presented research from her upcoming book on French post-colonial cinema.
Symposium on Film and History
Friday, April 29, 2011, all day.
Please click the link above for more information.
Alloy Orchestra accompanies Man with a Movie Camera
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Hoff Theater
This event was arranged with the generous support of the Hoff Funding Board and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
2010 - 2011 International Film Series Events
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players
Friday, September 24 - 5:00 PM
Location: Tawes 1100
This film satirizes the inaction of the Indian elite as British colonialists extended their control over the country.
1977 / Urdu & English with English Subtitles / 129 minutes.
Jaromil Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Friday, October 22 at 4:00 PM
Location: Tawes 1100
This Czech film combines horror and fantasy to tell a surreal, modern fairytale.
1970 / Czech with English Subtitles / 77 minutes.
Silent Comedy Shorts
Friday, November 12 at 5:00 PM
Location: Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes 1121)
Please join us for a selection of silent comedy short films featuring live piano accompaniment by Dr. Andrew Simpson of the Catholic University of America.
Various years / Silent with English Intertitles / Approximately 90 minutes.
Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues
Friday, December 3 at 5:00 PM
Location: Tawes 1100
Director Nina Paley uses animation and music to retell the story of Sita, the Hindu goddess from the epic "The Ramayana," while also recounting the story of her own relationship with her husband.
2008 / English / 82 minutes.
Claude Miller's The Accompanist
Friday, February 4, 4:00 PM
Location: Tawes 1100
A young woman discovers the betrayals and compromises being made in upper-class, Nazi occupied Paris when she becomes a concert accompanist.
1992 / French with English Subtitles / 112 minutes.
Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert
Friday, March 11, 5:30 PM
Location: Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes 1121)
1964 / Italian with English Subtitles / 120 minutes.