Back to the Sixties/The Sixties Are Back : The New Wave March 27, 2008

EVENT: Back to the Sixties/The Sixties Are Back :
The New Wave. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

DATE :March 27, 2008

LOCATION: GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY GC C101-102-103-104

TIME: 12:00-8:00

TOPIC: Projection of three movies followed by discussion, presentations and a panel on the ways French films in the Sixties and after foreshadowed or reflected the events of 1968.

SCHEDULE:
12.00-2.30 pm: projection. Le Diable probablement by Robert Bresson. (1978) Followed by a presentation on post-68 disillusionment by Ivone Margulies, Associate Professor in the Film and Media Studies department at Hunter College and member of the Ph.D. program in Theatre at the Graduate Center
3.00-5.00 pm : opening sections of La Maman et la Putain (1973) by Jean Eustache
Followed by a presentation of the movie and its connection to the aftermath of May ‘68 by Sam Di Iorio, Associate Professor of French at Hunter College of CUNY

5.15-6.45 pm : projection Pierrot le Fou (1965) by Jean Luc Godard
Followed by a discussion and presentation on the premises of a cultural revolution in Godard’s masterpiece by Royal S. Brown, Chair of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College, and Professor of French, Film, and Music, at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY.

7.00- 8.00 pm Panel discussion with faculty and doctoral students on film and the Sixties

Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program and French with support from the Service Culturel of the French Embassy

The Graduate Center is located at 365 5th Avenue, at the corner of 34th Street
For information call 212 817-8365

Official Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/French/events/index.html