10 Mondays, September 23 to November 25, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Instructor: Andrew J. Douglas, Ph.D., Deputy Director, BMFI and Jacob Mazer, Director of Programming and Education, BMFI
Join us for a series of discussions charting a course through the post-World War II history of motion pictures. We will take a chronological tour of international cinema, including stops in France, India, Hungary, New Zealand, and Iran. Films scheduled to be discussed are:
Sept 23: Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA, 1945)
Sept 30: Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, France/West Germany, 1955)
Oct 7: Something Wild (Jack Garfein, USA, 1961)
Oct 14: The Hero (Satyajit Ray, India, 1966)
Oct 21: Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, USA, 1971)
Oct 28: Confidence (István Szabó, Hungary, 1980)
Nov 4: A Dry White Season (Euzhan Palcy, USA, 1989)
Nov 11: The Piano (Jane Campion, New Zealand, 1993)
Nov 18: The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, USA, 1998)
Nov 25: About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2009)
$200 for members, $265 for non-members; no "a la carte" enrollment.
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