Spring Break
Broadcasting department hosts summer film series
Issue date: 6/10/09 Section: News
Western Illinois University's broadcasting department will host the annual Summer Film Series, "The Dead Filmmakers Society 2009," beginning today.
All screenings will begin at 7 p.m. in the University Union Sandburg Theatre. The films, hosted by WIU broadcasting Associate Professor Richard Ness, are from Ness' private collection. All films are open free to the public.
The series includes the following:
June 10 - "The Return of the Soldier" (Great Britain, 1981)
Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson and Ann-Margaret headline this beautifully filmed study of class conflict about a shell-shocked soldier (Alan Bates) who seems to be able to recall his relationship with a former working-class lover but not his aristocratic wife. The film features a haunting score by Richard Rodney Bennett.
June 17 - "The Shameless Old Lady" (France, 1965)
When her husband dies an elderly woman sets out to discover the life she never had in this adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht story, with a great performance by octogenarian Sylvie. In French with English subtitles.
June 24 - "Let There Be Light" (1946)/"The Quiet One" (1948)
These are two landmark studies of psychoanalysis from the 1940s. First, John Huston provides an uncompromising look at the treatment of disturbed returning soldiers that was kept out of circulation for decades by the War Department. Then an Oscar nominee for documentary tells the story of a troubled African American boy who gradually comes out of his shell at a detention center.
July 1 - "Ugetsu" (Japan, 1953)
The lives of a rural potter and his brother-in-law take different paths as they seek success in Kenji Mizoguchi's acclaimed study of ambition and class in 16th-century Japan in what is also one of the most beautiful and haunting ghost stories ever made. In Japanese with English subtitles.
July 8 - "Value For Money" (Great Britain, 1955)/"The Magic Christian" (Great Britain, 1969)
This double dose of British financial films begins with a Yorkshire man who heads to the big city after receiving an inheritance and falls under the spell of bombshell Diana Dors.
All screenings will begin at 7 p.m. in the University Union Sandburg Theatre. The films, hosted by WIU broadcasting Associate Professor Richard Ness, are from Ness' private collection. All films are open free to the public.
The series includes the following:
June 10 - "The Return of the Soldier" (Great Britain, 1981)
Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson and Ann-Margaret headline this beautifully filmed study of class conflict about a shell-shocked soldier (Alan Bates) who seems to be able to recall his relationship with a former working-class lover but not his aristocratic wife. The film features a haunting score by Richard Rodney Bennett.
June 17 - "The Shameless Old Lady" (France, 1965)
When her husband dies an elderly woman sets out to discover the life she never had in this adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht story, with a great performance by octogenarian Sylvie. In French with English subtitles.
June 24 - "Let There Be Light" (1946)/"The Quiet One" (1948)
These are two landmark studies of psychoanalysis from the 1940s. First, John Huston provides an uncompromising look at the treatment of disturbed returning soldiers that was kept out of circulation for decades by the War Department. Then an Oscar nominee for documentary tells the story of a troubled African American boy who gradually comes out of his shell at a detention center.
July 1 - "Ugetsu" (Japan, 1953)
The lives of a rural potter and his brother-in-law take different paths as they seek success in Kenji Mizoguchi's acclaimed study of ambition and class in 16th-century Japan in what is also one of the most beautiful and haunting ghost stories ever made. In Japanese with English subtitles.
July 8 - "Value For Money" (Great Britain, 1955)/"The Magic Christian" (Great Britain, 1969)
This double dose of British financial films begins with a Yorkshire man who heads to the big city after receiving an inheritance and falls under the spell of bombshell Diana Dors.
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