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Week 15 Preview: Too Late to Die Young, Funan, Tokyo Godfathers, and Honeyland

By | Event, Podcast

This week we preview the last week of films for the Winter 2020 schedule including:

  • Funan (2:02) an animated film in French from 2018 by Denis Do set in 1975 Cambodia;
  • Tokyo Godfathers (4:04) a Japanese animé from 2003, by Satoshi Kon;
  • Too Late to Die Young (8:54) from 2018, the third feature from Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor Castillo;
  • And lastly the academy award nominated documentary from 2019, Honeyland (12:33) in Macedonian and Turkish by directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov about the close connection between nature and humanity, the last in our semester-long series: Anthropocene Cinema.

Week 13 in Review, Part 2: The Exterminating Angel

By | Event, Podcast

This week Chip Oscarson hosts special guests to analyze the films playing at BYU’s IC during the week 25-28 March including:

Part 2:

  • The Exterminating Angel   a surrealist biting social commentary from 1962 by the great Luis Buñuel (with Prof. Greg Stallings from Spanish).

Week 13 in Review, Part 1: Varda by Agnès and Prince Achmed

By | Event, Podcast

This week Chip Oscarson hosts special guests to analyze the films playing at BYU’s IC during the week 25-28 March including:

Part 1:

  • Varda by Agnès (1:20), a documentary by and about the great French filmmaker Agnès Varda (with Prof. Daryl Lee from French and Italian) and;
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed (14:39) from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, by avant garde filmmaker Lotte Reiniger (with Prof. Rob McFarland from German and Global Women’s Studies)

Week 14 Preview: Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Shadow, and Ramen Heads

By | Event, Podcast

The IC directors Marc Yamada, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Chip Oscarson preview the films to be coming to International Cinema 1-4 April. These films include:

  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople (1:38) a 2016 New Zealand comedy by hit director Taika Waititi;
  • Shadow (6:14) the latest martial arts film from acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou;
  • and Ramen Heads (10:35) a documentary by Shigeno Koki about high-end ramen in Japan.

Week 12 in Review, Part 2: Morgen

By | Event, Podcast

In this episode we take a deeper look at the films that played during Week 12 at International Cinema. The discussion is in two parts.

In Part One:

  • Chip Oscarson talks with Marie-Laure Oscarson (IC Assistant Director) about Sofia (01:07), a 2018 film by director Meryem Benm’Barek-Aloisi about human rights, class, and women’s freedom in Morocco and;
  • We invite special guest Prof. Dan Paul (Italian Dept.) to discuss A Special Day (11:33), an Italian film from 2012 directed by Francesca Comencini that helps to pre-figure the #MeToo movement.

In Part Two:

  • Prof. Anca Sprenger joins us to discuss the Romanian New Wave and Morgen (part 2, 0:00) a slow-burn comedy set on the Romanian-Hungarian border directed by Marian Crisan and Anca Puiu from 2010.

Week 12 in Review, Part 1: Sofia and A Special Day

By | Event, Podcast

In this episode we take a deeper look at the films that played during Week 12 at International Cinema. The discussion is in two parts.

In Part One:

  • Chip Oscarson talks with Marie-Laure Oscarson (IC Assistant Director) about Sofia (01:07), a 2018 film by director Meryem Benm’Barek-Aloisi about human rights, class, and women’s freedom in Morocco and;
  • We invite special guest Prof. Dan Paul (Italian Dept.) to discuss A Special Day (11:33), an Italian film from 2012 directed by Francesca Comencini that helps to pre-figure the #MeToo movement.

In Part Two:

  • Prof. Anca Sprenger joins us to discuss the Romanian New Wave and Morgen (part 2, 0:00) a slow-burn comedy set on the Romanian-Hungarian border directed by Marian Crisan and Anca Puiu from 2010.

Week 13 Preview: Varda by Agnès, Adventures of Prince Achmed, Exterminating Angel

By | Event, Podcast

In this episode we preview the IC films for 25-28 March including:

  • Varda by Agnès (1:55) the last film written and directed by the great French filmmaker Agnès Varda before she passed away in 2019. Fittingly it is a documentary about her own work.
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed(07:19) the oldest surviving feature-length animated film by Lotte Reininger from 1926.
  • And lastly, The Exterminating Angel (12:12) by the great Luis Bunuel from 1962.

Week 11 in Review, Part 2: Sullivan’s Travels and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

By | Event, Podcast

This week IC directors Marie-Laure and Chip Oscarson discuss the films from the virus-shorted week 11 at IC (10-14 March) including:

In Part 1,

  • Woman at War (01:00) directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, a 2018 Icelandic film about Halla, a 50-year-old woman leading a double life as a passionate, environmental guerrilla activist;
  • And the documentary from Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from 2018: The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman (12:57)

Then in Part 2, Prof. Kerry Soper (Interdisciplinary Humanities) joins Chip Oscarson to discuss at pair of related comedies:

Week 11 in Review, Part 1: Woman at War and The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman

By | Event, Podcast

This week IC directors Marie-Laure and Chip Oscarson discuss the films from the virus-shorted week 11 at IC (10-14 March) including:

In Part 1,

  • Woman at War (01:00) directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, a 2018 Icelandic film about Halla, a 50-year-old woman leading a double life as a passionate, environmental guerrilla activist;
  • And the documentary from Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from 2018: The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman (12:57)

Then in Part 2, Prof. Kerry Soper (Interdisciplinary Humanities) joins Chip Oscarson to discuss at pair of related comedies:

International Cinema Goes Virtual!

By | Lectures

One of the best things about International Cinema is the chance to see a film together with an audience. In the age of social distancing, however, we all need to do our part and in-person screenings in 250 KMBL have been suspended until further notice. This shutdown doesn’t mean, however, that you have to do without great international films! International Cinema will continue its programing but without in-person screenings!

We are moving to a somewhat truncated virtual-program in which all those with a current BYU netid can stream featured films during a limited time. This is what you need to do to get access to IC virtual program:

  1. Enter your BYU net id into this form. Registration of your net id can take up to several hours as we have to register you manually once you fill out the form. Unfortunately, because of licensing agreements, this option is only available to current BYU students, faculty, and staff.
  2. Once you are in the IC system, you will then have access to the week’s featured films through the streaming site hummedia.byu.edu.

Watch the website for updates on what films will be available each week. They will only be available Wednesday through Saturday of the week indicated. You can also get information through our weekly email (sign up here for email updates!).

Additionally, our podcast “From the Booth” will continue with previews and analysis of the films we are featuring.

Stay safe and healthy and watch great films!