Join us for the 4th screening of the semester on Thursday, October 18, at 7pm in Miller 105. Gate of Flesh (Nikutai No Mo) was directed by Seijun Suzuki in 1964. To read more about this film and the Japanese Cinema film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.
Join us for the 5th screening of the semester on Thursday, November 1, at 7pm in Miller 105. House (Hausu) was directed by Nobuhiko Ohbayashi in 1977. To read more about this film and the Japanese Cinema film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.
Join us for the final screening of the semester on Thursday, November 15, at 7pm in Miller 105. Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite shingun) was directed by Kazuo Hara in 1987. To read more about this film and the Japanese Cinema film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.
Join us for a screening of Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) on Thursday, February 2, at 7pm in Miller 105. Of Rome, Open City, Rossellini says, "Back then it was inconceivable to film in a real location, to shoot in a passageway, to bring cameras into stairwells. Shooting in the streets was unheard of. ROMA, CITTA APERTA represents something new because I tried to make a film the way it should be done, accessible to everyone, outside the control of the big studio system and all the slavery that entails."
Join us for a screening of de Sica's Two Women, starring Sophia Loren, on Thursday, February 9, at 7pm in Miller 105. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, "Two Women (La ciociara) stands apart from other neorealist films through its emphasis on women protagonists and provincial Italians, and also through its relative absence of children as a driving motif." To read more about this film and the Italian Cinema film series, check out Jim Bunnelle's write-ups on the Watzek Screens blog.
Join us for a screening of Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966) on Thursday, February 23, at 7pm in Miller 105. According to resident film expert, Jim Bunnelle, The Battle of Algiers, "stands, along with Costa Gavras's Z, as one of the few truly essential political films to come out of Europe in the 1960s."
Join us for a screening of Fellini's fractured approach to narrative, and the merger of plausible and impossible in 8 1/2 (1963), March 8, at 7pm in Miller 105.
Join us for Antonioni's work of art, Red Desert (1964) on Thursday, March 22, at 7pm in Miller 105.
Join us for the final screening of the semester on Thursday, April 5, at 7pm in Miller 105. Fists in the Pocket was directed by Bellocchio in 1965. To read more about this film and the Italian Cinema film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.
Join us for the first screening of the semester on Thursday, September 1, at 7pm in Miller 105. This silent film was directed by Robert Wiene in 1920. To read more about this film and the Weimar Germany film series, check out the Watzek Screens blog.You are currently browsing the Library News from Watzek weblog archives for the Film category.
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