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Jan 08 2020
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Week 1: Preview of Winter 2020

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Welcome to another semester of “From the Booth” the podcast of BYU’s International Cinema. This week we are giving an preview of the films and series making up our Winter 2020 line up. Co-hosts Chip Oscarson and Marc Yamada are joined today by Greg Stallings (Spanish) and IC assistant director Marie-Laure Oscarson to talk about the films and make some recommendations. Download the semester poster here.

02:17 Upstairs Downstairs
10:04 The Films of Satoshi Kon
12:07 Women in Cinema
18:44 Anthropocene Cinema
21:20 Recommendations for the semester

Jan 05 2020
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International Cinema Class: ICS 290R

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Did you know that you can get credit for going to International Cinema? Add ICS 290R to your schedule and you will get credit for going to IC’s great films and lectures. Meets every Wednesday at 4pm in 250 KMBL. For questions, contact Prof. Chip Oscarson (oscarson@byu.edu).

Jan 05 2020
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International Cinema Kick-Off Week Jan. 10-11

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Mothers’ Instinct (Alice Brunelle)

Join us as we kick-off the new semester with two of our most popular films from last semester: The Farewell (Lulu Wang, Mandarin/English 2019) and Mothers’ Instinct (Olivier Masset-Depasse, French 2019). For each of the screenings on Friday there will be drawings for prizes (t-shirts and totes) and food! Be sure to check out the schedule for the new semester full of great films from all around the world.

Dec 16 2019
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Fall 2019 Episode 14: Political Horror and The Legacy of Bruce Lee

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This week Marc Yamada and Chip Oscarson are joined by Greg Stallings (Spanish and Portuguese) to discuss the last week of films for fall 2019 that combined horror, anime, and films by/about the legendary Bruce Lee. They also reflect back on the semester and their favorite films.

01:06 The Orphanage (J.A. Bayona, Spanish, 2007)
09:30 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese, 2006)
17:47 Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, English/Cantonese, 1972) and I Am Bruce Lee (Pete McKormack, English, 2012)
28:45 Reflection on semester series
36:23 Favorite films from the semester

Dec 04 2019
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Fall 2019 Episode 13: Global Cinema

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The week before Thanksgiving was an eclectic and diverse feast at International Cinema with films from Africa, America, the Middle East and Scandinavia. We discuss the commonalities and differences:

Discussion of Past Films:
05:02 Supa Modo (Likarion Walnalna, Kikuyu/Swahili/English, 2018)
27:16 Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, Arabic/Amharic, 2018)
30:35 The Bridge (Charlotte Sieling, Swedish/Danish, 2011)
23:53 Free Solo (Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, English, 2018)

Previews:
24:55 The Orphanage (J.A. Bayona, Spanish, 2007)
26:58 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese, 2006)
29:30 Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, English/Cantonese, 1972) and I Am Bruce Lee (Pete McKormack, English, 2012)

Nov 20 2019
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Fall 2019 Episode 12: Representing Blackness

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This week on “From the Booth” IC co-directors Marc Yamada and Chip Oscarson discuss the challenge of representing race and the experience of being black, in contemporary film. The discussion takes its lead from Prof. Kristin Matthew’s provocative lecture this last week at IC that challenged viewers to think more deeply about the way blackness and whiteness is portrayed in film.

00:00 Intro
01:48 Dr. Kristin Matthews’s Lecture excerpt
06:15 Discussion of Green Book (Peter Farrelly, English, 2018), If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, English, 2018), and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, English, 2019)
17:58 Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, French, 2014)

Previews
22:32 Supa Modo (Likarion Walnalna, Kikuyu/Swahili/English, 2018)
23:53 Free Solo (Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, English, 2018)
27:16 Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, Arabic/Amharic, 2018)
30:35 The Bridge (Charlotte Sieling, Swedish/Danish, 2011)

Nov 14 2019
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Fall 2019 Episode 11: Walls

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In this episode IC co-directors Marc Yamada and Chip Oscarson talk about the visit of filmmaker Emelie Mahdavian and the film she produced, Midnight Traveler (2019). Prof. Rob McFarland (German) joins them for a discussion of the three Berlin-Wall themed films for last week, and then they preview the films for 13-16 November that all deal with representing race on film.

00:50 Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili, Dari, 2019)
08:07 Balloon (Michael Herbig, German, 2018)
12:08 Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, German, 2003)
17:34 Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, German, 1987)

Previews:
26:18 Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, English, 2019)
28:12 Green Book (Peter Farrelly, English, 2018)
31:43 If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, English, 2018)
34:53 Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, French, 2014)