Events 2012-2013

Events 2012-2013

September 7, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101 

6:00pm - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's THE STATION MASTER'S WIFE (1977) 
7:40pm -  Bernardo Bertolucci's THE TRAGEDY OF A RIDICULOUS MAN (1981).


September 12, 2012
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents
INTERIORS 
Curated by Seth Watter
9:30 PM, $5
Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St., Providence, RI


 

September 14, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101  

6:00pm for Stephen Frears's MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) 
7:40pm for Gus Van Sant's MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991).

Screenings are always free and always presented in 16mm film. Both prints are in great condition. See attachment for stills and synopses.


 

September 19, 2012
Documentary Film Screening "A Divided Community"
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Watson CIT, Room 165 

A new documentary by Momo Yashima, "A Divided Community" tells the stories of three Japanese Americans who challenged the US decision to draft them to fight in WWII while they were being held in internment camps.

Followed by a panel discussion with the director, along with Prof Eric Muller and Prof Michelle Cho, Cogut Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013) in the Departments of East Asian Studies and Modern Culture and Media.
 
Free pizza! Open to the public!

Part of a 2-day series on Japanese Internment sponsored by the Dept of American Studies. More Info

September 21, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101  

6:00 PM
Jean-Marie Straub's INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG'S ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATIC SCENE (1973)

6:20 PM
Axel Corti's YOUNG DR. FREUD (1976) 

8:10 PM
Derek Jarman's WITTGENSTEIN (1993). 


 

September 25, 2012 (MCM co-sponsored event)
The Quebec Students Strike Back! 
7:00 PM
Salomon Hall 001

Last Spring the largest student movement in Canadian history was born in the province of Quebec. Led by the student union named CLASSE, three quarters of all of the students in Quebec went on strike against a tuition hike of over 75% and a government law, Bill 78, essentially outlawing their protest. Their movement won great victories, securing an end to the tuition hike and the repeal Bill 78. But it is far from over - many students want to press on, demanding their right to free public higher education for all!

Hear from Guillaume Legault a leader of CLASSE, about this historic strike, its prospects for the future and its relevance to higher education in the United States.

Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, Student Labor Alliance, Students for a Democratic Society, Brown for Financial Aid, Coalition to Defend Public Education, Teachers for a Democratic Union, and the History, Modern Culture and Media and French departments. 


September 28, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101  

6:00pm
Andrew L. Stone's THE NIGHT HOLDS TERROR (1955)

7:40pm
Roman Polanski's CUL-DE-SAC (1966).

Screenings are always free and always presented in 16mm. You can find the complete fall semester screening schedule here.


September 26 & October 1, 2012 (MCM co-sponsored event)

Film Theory and National Publics in Divided Korea

Sponsored by The Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Departments of East Asian Studies and Modern Culture and Media, and The Watson Institute

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 6-10 pm

Film Screening: Two post-war classics from opposing sides of the DMZ.
Granoff Center · Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street · Providence, RI 02906
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Monday, October 1, 2012, 1-5 pm 
Colloquium: Film Theory and National Publics in Divided Korea
Pembroke Hall 305 
172 Meeting Street 
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October 3, 2012 (MCM co-sponsored event)
Contemporary Independent  Chinese Cinema
 Film Screening | Falling from the Sky | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
7:00pm
List Art Center Auditorium 
David Winton Bell Gallery will host a special screening of Chinese documentary filmmaker Zhang Zanbo's "Falling from the Sky" (2009). The screening will be introduced by Prof. Joshua Neves of Brown University's Department of Modern Culture and Media and followed by a question and answer session with Prof. Neves and gallery curator Ian Alden Russell. 


October 5, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101 

6:00pm  Jerzy Kawalerowicz's MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS (1961)
7:50pm  Ion Popescu-Gopo's STEPS TO THE MOON (1963).


October 12, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101 

We will be screening Akira Kurosawa's renown film IKIRU (1952), which was released in Japan exactly 60 years ago today.

 


 

October 17, 2012
Contemporary Independent  Chinese Cinema
6:00 pm
Sidney Frank Hall
Nathan Marcuvitz Auditorium, Room 220
185 meeting Street
(Q&A after screening with directors)

Film Screening | Satiated Village | directed by Zou Xueping
88 min. | 2011

Film Screening | Treatment | directed by Wu Wenguang
80 min. | 2010


 

October 18, 2012
Contemporary Independent  Chinese Cinema
12:00 pm
Salomon 203, Main Green

Film Screening | Self-Portrait with Three Women | directed by Zhang Mengqi
70 min. | 2010


 

October 25-27, 2012
Terror and the Inhuman Conference
Keynote Lectures to be delivered by:
Adriana Cavarero (University of Verona)
Jared Sexton (University of California, Irvine)
Schedule 
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October 26, 2012
MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101 

We're playing it straight for this year's "Halloween screening". We'll be showing three classic horror films from the early 1930s. Come to Production 101 in 135 Thayer Street (enter from Benevolent Street) this Friday, October 26th at 6:00pm for Rouben Mamoulian's DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931), at 7:40pm for Erle C. Kenton's ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932), and at 8:50pm for James Whale's THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933). Screenings are always free and always presented on 16mm film. 


 

October 28, 2012
Contemporary Independent  Chinese Cinema
5:00 pm- 8:00 pm
Smith-Buonanno 201
95 Cushing Street

Double-Feature Film Screening OXHIDE and OXHIDE II
directed by Jiayin Liu

OXHIDE | 110 min. | 2005
OXHIDE II |132 min. | 2009


 

October 29, 2012
Contemporary Independent  Chinese Cinema
Writer-Director Jiayin Liu’s talk
4:00 pm
Watson Institute Joukowsky Forum
111 Thayer Street


 

November 12, 2012
Time Migrants: Contemporary Art and the Future of Humanities
a lecture by Jennifer González 
5:30 pm
Granoff Center, Stuido 1
154 Angell Street
Reception to follow


 

November 29, 2012
The MCM DUG presents  
The Hunger Games
Screning & Brief Discussion with Professor Wendy Chun
6:00 pm
List 120, 64 College Street
Free Food 
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November 30, 2012
 MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101 
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Disney screening a couple weeks ago! Hope you all had a nice holiday break this past week.

Just two Cinémathèque screenings remain this semester! I am very excited for this week's screening of Volker Schlöndorff's THE TIN DRUM (1979).
Come to Production 101 in 135 Thayer Street (enter from Benevolent Street) this Friday, November 30th at 6:00pm.


December 5, 2012
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents
THE SPORTS SHOW
Curated by Richard Manning
Wednesday, December 5th // 9:30 PM
Cable Car Cinema // Providence, RI
Admission $5


 

December 7, 2012
 MCM Cinémathèque
6:00 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 101  

 


 

Spring 2013

March 21-23, 2016
Habitis of Living: Networked Affects, Global Effects
Workshops/Art/Panels
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts