Cinema Studies
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THE LAST DAYS OF WINTER2016 Criminal & Law Middle Eastern Studies Cinema Studies Psychology & Psychiatry Family Relations Anthropology Children & Young Adult Alcohol & Drug Abuse Islamic Studies
Following his harrowing documentary, It's Always Late for Freedom, director Mehrdad Oskouei continues his exploration of a male juvenile detention facility near Tehran. Last Days of Winter follows these young men in the days leading up to the Iranian New Year, as they take stock of their lives.
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HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEXCinema Studies Women's Studies 2016 Cultural Studies American Studies Media Studies American History Directed by Women
Here Come the Videofreex tells the enthralling story of a pioneering collective of video journalists known as the Videofreex who in the 60s and 70s became the forerunners of public access television and the modern internet news era as they deployed the first handheld video cameras to report and observe the world around them.
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JOURNEY TO THE WEST2015 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Religion & Spirituality
An immersive and transporting experience directed by Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang (Stray Dogs), Journey to the West focuses on the figure of the Walker, a character loosely based on the life of Xuanzang, a seventh-century Buddhist monk who painstakingly traversed Asia for seventeen years in search of "the void."
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FROM IRAN: A SEPARATION2015 Cinema Studies Middle Eastern Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women
A gripping and moving story that illustrates the impact cosmopolitan recognition has on an isolated population, From Iran: A Separation details the reception of the speech Asghar Farhadi (About Elly) gave when his film A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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COUNTING2015 Cinema Studies New York City Russia Urban Studies
In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to
Istanbul, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create
a vivid portrait of contemporary life.
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PRINCESS OF FRANCE (narrative)2015 Narrative Films Cinema Studies Spanish Language
Victor returns to Buenos Aires after his father’s death and a stay in Mexico to prepare a radio
production of "Love’s Labour’s Lost." Reuniting with his repertory, he finds himself sorting out
complicated entanglements with girlfriend Paula, sometime lover Ana, and departed actress
Natalia, as well as his muddled relations with the constellation of friends involved with the
project.
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HORSE MONEY (narrative)2015 Narrative Films Cinema Studies Europe
A visionary masterwork from the renowned director of Colossal Youth, Pedro Costa’s Horse Money is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon.
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ABOUT ELLY (narrative)2015 Narrative Films Middle Eastern Studies Cinema Studies
With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals (two married couples and a brother and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on to the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad.
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JAUJA (narrative)2015 Narrative Films Cinema Studies
Jauja is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.
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LETTERS TO MAXPolitical Science Cinema Studies Russia Eastern Europe 2015
What is the job of a diplomat for a country that does not exist? With this question, acclaimed filmmaker Eric Baudelaire initiates a wide-ranging correspondence with his friend Maxim Gvinjia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Abkhazia, a country with physical borders, a government, and its own flag, but has not been recognized as a nation.
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JEALOUSYCinema Studies 2014 Narrative Films
An enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal, directed by major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel and starring his son, actor Louis Garrel. Shot in lustrous, widescreen black and white by the great Willy Kurant (Masculin Feminin, Under Satan’s Sun).
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SOKUROV: EARLY MASTERWORKSLiterature Russia Cinema Studies Eastern Europe
A deluxe collector"s set featuring three early masterworks by visionary Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Alexandra) in newly translated and restored director"s cuts: Whispering Pages (70 min), a brooding, beautiful film inspired by nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky"s "Crime and Punishment"; Stone (79 min), a mysterious fable about a young night watchman"s encounter with the ghost of Chekhov; and Save and Protect (133 min), a visually sumptuous adaptation of Flaubert"s "Madame Bovary".
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STRAY DOGSCinema Studies Asian Studies 2015 Narrative Films
A haunting masterpiece and possibly the last film from the great Tsai Ming-liang, Stray Dogs is a visually powerful work about a single father and his two young children trying to survive on the streets of Taipei. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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ACTRESSWomen's Studies Sociology Family Relations Cinema Studies 2015
The roles women are expected to play in today's society, and the difficulties in balancing career and family, are the central issues deftly explored in Robert Greene's acclaimed documentary Actress. Using elements of melodrama and cinema verit", the film follows the travails of a former actress-turned-housewife as she prepares to make a comeback.
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NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY (narrative)2014 Southeast Asian Studies Narrative Films Cinema Studies
In Norte, the End of History, one of the world"s most uncompromising cinematic visionaries, Filipino director Lav Diaz delivers an extraordinary reimagining of Dostoevsky"s "Crime and Punishment" that is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil.
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MAIDAN2015 Russia Eastern Europe Political Science Sociology Cinema Studies
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, Maidan chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and has since developed into an international crisis. Filmed in stunning long takes, sans commentary, Maidan is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, cultural and philosophical phenomenon.
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LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELFUrban Studies Sociology Media Studies Latino Studies Cinema Studies Chicano Studies Architecture 2014
Never before available, Thom Andersen's landmark documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown – as seen entirely though the films themselves.Newly remastered, this kaleidoscopic tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, from the silent era to modern times, is an extraordinary achievement, unlike any documentary that has come before or since.
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RED HOLLYWOOD2014 Labor Studies Cinema Studies American History
A revelatory documentary by Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself) and film critic Noel Burch, Red Hollywood, which has been remastered and re-edited, examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically difference perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.
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EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER2014 Photography Cinema Studies Art History
A fascinating investigation into the work of photographer and cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, Thom Andersen’s (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood, Reconversao) much-lauded documentary incorporates a biographical overview of its subject with a re-animation of his historic sequential photographs as well as concise and innovative analysis.
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RECONVERSÃO2014 Urban Studies Architecture Environmental Studies Cinema Studies
A master of the essay film, Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood) surveys the work of Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura - winner of his profession's highest honor, the Pritzker Prize - whose astonishing, often-controversial projects embrace decay, the passage of time, local history, and nature.
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