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Feb 23 2020
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Week 9 Preview: Ága, Arctic, The Gold Rush, and Genesis 2.0

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The directors of International Cinema, Marie-Laure Oscarson, Marc Yamada, and Chip Oscarson preview the films coming up during week 8 Winter 2020 at International Cinema. The films include:

  • Ága (1:08), a film in the Siberian language Yakut directed by Milko Lazarov from 2018
  • Arctic (04:23)from 2018, a Robinsinade directed by Joe Penna about a man played by Mads Mikkelsen stranded and fighting for survival in the Arctic
  • The Gold Rush (08:06), Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterpiece from 1925 that he re-released in 1942 (we will talk about that);
  • And our documentary this week, Genesis 2.0 (10:53), directed by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev from 2018 about climate change, bringing back extinct species, and the ethics of cloning.
Feb 21 2020
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Week 7 Review: Jojo Rabbit, Broken Hill Blues, War and Peace, and Banksy Does New York

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“From the Booth” hosts Chip Oscarson, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Marc Yamada discuss the films from week 7 at International Cinema. The films include:

  • The 2019 award-winning comedy-drama from Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit (1:09);
  • the next installment in our Anthropocene Cinema series, Broken Hill Blues (7:36) by Swedish director Sofia Norlin;
  • the next installment of Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation of War & Peace: 1812 (13:53)
  • and the documentary Banksy Does New York (15:17) by Chris Moukarbel from 2014.
Feb 16 2020
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Week 8 Preview: The Wave, Millennium Actress, War and Peace, and And They Came for Us

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This week IC directors Chip Oscarson, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Marc Yamada are joined by special guest Jojo Hegstrom-Pratt to preview the films coming 19-22 February. The films include:

  •  The Wave (01:11), a Norwegian disaster film directed by Roar Uthaug from 2015, the next in our Anthropocene Cinema series
  • Millennium Actress (04:44) a Japanese animé film from 2001written and directed by Satoshi Kon;
  • The last installment, Pierre Bezukhov, of Sergei Bondarchuk 1966 adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace (09:24);
  • And finally, a documentary about the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII directed by Abby Ginzberg from 2017 And Then They Came for Us (11:07).
Feb 14 2020
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Week 5 Review: Jinpa, War and Peace, Still Life, and Of Fathers and Sons

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In this episode host Chip Oscarson welcomes special guests to talk about the films that were screened between 5-8 February at International Cinema.

  • With Jojo Hegström-Pratt (student from Theater and Media Arts) he discusses Jinpa (1:09), a Tibetan film directed by Pema Tseden from 2018;
  • and the second installment of War & Peace: Natasha Rostova (7:55) from 1966, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk;
  • then with Steve Riep (Chinese) he talks about Still Life (15:42), a 2006 feature in Mandarin by Jia Zhangke set against the backdrop of the construction of the Three Gorges dam in China;
  • and finally together with podcast regular Marie-Laure Oscarson (IC Assistant Director) they discuss this week’s documentary, Of Fathers and Sons (30:21), an intimate look at life in a jihadist family in Syria, in Arabic and directed by Talal Derki from 2017.
Feb 14 2020
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Could It Happen Again? Geological Perspectives on Imprisonment at Utah’s Topaz Internment Camp

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On Wednesday 19 February at 5pm in 250 KMBL Prof. Brian Roberts (English) will be lecturing on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. His lecture is in connection with the subsequent screening of the documentary And Then They Came for Us (Abby Ginzberg 2017). The title of his lecture is: “Could It Happen Again? Geological Perspectives on Imprisonment at Utah’s Topaz Internment Camp.”

Feb 09 2020
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Week 7 Preview: Jojo Rabbit, Broken Hill Blues, Banksy Does New York, and War & Peace

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Marie-Laure Oscarson, Marc Yamada, and Chip Oscarson preview the films for Week 6 (12-15 Feb.) at International Cinema. The films for Week 6 include:

  • The 2019 award-winning comedy-drama from Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit (1:00);

  • the next installment in our Anthropocene Cinema series, Broken Hill Blues (4:59) by Swedish director Sofia Norlin;

  • the documentary Banksy Does New York (7:58) by Chris Moukarbel from 2014;

  • and the next installment of Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation of War & Peace: 1812 (10:34)

Feb 07 2020
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Week 6: The Baker’s Wife, In the Aisles, War & Peace, and El Río

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Special guests join IC co-director Chip Oscarson for discussions about the films from 29 January to 1 February.

To discuss Pagnol’s 1938 classic The Baker’s Wife (1:02), Prof. Bob Hudson (French) cames to the booth; then Prof. Rob McFarland (German) was in to talk  about the German comedy of modern life In the Aisles (11:21); Prof. Mac Wilson (Spanish) explored the film El Río (22:27) with me; and finally grad student Dewey Walter (Comparative Studies) and I discuss the first part of the epic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace (30:31) from 1966 by director Sergei Bondarchuk.