From newsletter-admin at sarai.net Tue Oct 16 17:37:26 2001 From: newsletter-admin at sarai.net (newsletter-admin at sarai.net) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:37:26 +0530 Subject: Films at Sarai Message-ID: Curated Film Series III: Restless Days Curated by St. Stephen's College Cine Club St. Stephens College Cine Club is curating a festival of films from October 17th to 19th 2001. A total of five films will be screened, two each on the 17th and the 18th of October, and one on the 19th of October. Put together under the broad theme of Restless Days, the series revolves around the youth, anger and urban struggles. There will be a discussion after the screening on Friday, the 19th, coordinated by Ravi Vasudevan. The screenings will be held at the Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54. Clarification: Wages of Fear, which was earlier scheduled for October 19th, 2001 will not be screened, and Hate, which was earlier scheduled for the October 26th, 2001 has been preponed to October 19th, as part of the St. Stephen's Film Festival. There will be no screening on October 26th 2001, on account of the Dusshera holiday. The Films in the order of screening are listed below. Please note that not all the films are screened at the usual time of 4:30 pm. 1. October 17, 2001 i)Time: 2:00 pm War Games, 1983, 116 minutes Director: John Badham ii)Time: 4:30 pm La Chinoise, 1967, 15 minutes Director: Jean-Luc Godard 2. October 18th, 2001 i)Time: 2:00 pm The 400 Blows, 1959, 95 minutes Director: Francois Truffaut ii)Time: 4:30 pm Trainspotting, 1995, 94 minutes Director: Danny Boyle 3. October 19th, 2001 Time: 4:30 pm Hate, 1995, 95 minutes Director: Mathieu Kassovitz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From newsletter-admin at sarai.net Mon Oct 29 16:29:20 2001 From: newsletter-admin at sarai.net (newsletter-admin at sarai.net) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:59:20 GMT Subject: Films@Sarai Message-ID: <20011029.10592000@saumya.sarai.kit> Focus on the Documentary Film This month we devote attention to the documentary film. Each screening will be introduced by the film-maker, and followed by a discussion in the Sarai café. Please await announcements about the rest of the series, presently scheduled for 15, 16, 22 and 23 October. Friday, 2 November 2001, 4:30 pm House of Memory video; 79 min; 2001 Director: Christopher Mitchell House of Memory is a feature-length documentary about the Lebanese civil war. The film focuses on living through the civil war in Lebanon and what happens when war ends and people struggle to rebuild their shattered lives. The film uses the Barakat building as a metaphor for Lebanon's gracious past, its troubled present and its uncertain future Christopher Mitchell is a writer, producer and director of documentaries. He is currently Head of Documentary at the production company ORTV. As a director he has made documentaries for BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4, for such series as Inside Story, Panorama, Omnibus, and Dispatches, in the fields of culture, history, politics and current affairs. Since 1988 he has worked as an independent TV producer/director, with a particular interest in the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Mr. Mitchell will be present to introduce and discuss House of Memory. Yasmeen Arif, who has been working on the reconstruction of Beirut for her doctoral dissertation at the Delhi School of Economics, will initiate a discussion of the film. ----------------------------------- A Cinema of Anxiety As part of our continuing focus on a cinema of anxiety, Sarai will screen Clouzot's Wages of Fear, earlier scheduled for October 26. Friday, 9 November 2001, 4:30pm The Wages of Fear France, 1953, 145 minutes Director: Henri Georges Clouzot Four men undertake a suicide mission to earn $2,000 apiece by driving two trucks loaded with dangerously unstable nitroglycerine 300 miles across the rugged terrain of South America to the site of a ferocious oil-well fire. The movie's first hour, before the perilous nitro trek even begins, unfolds like Apocalypse Now in reverse. Clouzot filmed The Wages of Fear entirely in France, primarily on sets he convincingly constructed to resemble the squalid South American town of the initial setting. The stultifying rhythms of impoverishment and casual cruelty pervades the day to day life of these lower depths. A stench of hopelessness and economic deprivation seems bred into the dirt of the streets. The townspeople live in the shadow of an exploitative U.S. oil company that employs its own strong-arm security force to patrol the company's miles of snaking pipeline. In addition to oppressed natives and arrogant oil workers, the town is comprised of outcasts and fugitives - thieves, confidence men, murderers, ex-Nazis. No one in this assortment of losers has arrived in town by choice. And none of them is looking to stay. It is from this cesspool of humanity that the story's four protagonists emerge to seek a fast fortune as nitro haulers. Clouzot was a few years ahead of his time in combining the excitement of a genre film with philosophical exegesis, a style that would come to fruition with the next generation of New Wave filmmakers like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. All screenings at 4:30pm, in the Seminar Room, new building, Centre for Studies of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54