International Lens Film Series
The Witches
Monday, Oct. 26 @ 7:30 pm
Presented by: Andrea Mirabile, Associate Professor of Italian and Cinema & Media Arts.
Italy/France (1967) Dir: Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, 聽 Luchino Visconti. Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A 聽 superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from 聽 men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his 聽 son seek a new wife and mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman-聙聶s honor. A bored 聽 housewife tries to explain to her husband that he-聙聶s not as romantic as he used to be. 聽Italian with English subtitles. Unrated. 105 minutes. DVD. Partial funding provided by the Department of French & Italian.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Wednesday, Oct. 28 @ 7:30 pm
Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway 国产传媒 Professor of German and Cinema 聽 and Media Arts and Leslie Reed, Ph.D. candidate in German.
Germany (1974) Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An almost accidental romance is kindled 聽 between a lonely German cleaning woman in her mid-sixties and an equally lonely Moroccan 聽 mechanic around twenty-five years younger. They 聽 abruptly decide to marry, 聽 appalling everyone around them. Fassbinder directed, produced, scripted the film, and 聽 designed the sets. It won the international critic-聙聶s prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 聽German and Arabic with English subtitles. Unrated. 94 minutes. Blu-ray. Partial Funding provided the Department of German & Slavic Languages.