10 Mondays, October 2 to December 4, 2023, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Instructor: Andrew J. Douglas, Ph.D., Deputy Director, BMFI and Jacob Mazer, Director of Programs 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 Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Israel. Films scheduled to be discussed are:
October 2: Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, USA, 1945)
October 9: Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1951)
October 16: Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1957)
October 23: Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, France, 1966)
October 30: Marjoe (Howard Smith & Sarah Kernochan, USA, 1972)
November 6: Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, UK, 1983)
November 13: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, USA, 1989)
November 20: After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 1998)
November 27: Adaptation (Spike Jonze, USA, 2002)
December 4: Footnote (Joseph Cedar, Israel, 2011)
$200 for members, $265 for non-members; no "a la carte" enrollment.
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