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Professors Heather Belnap, Julie Lefgren and Rebecca DeSchweinitz focus their remarks on Antigone (Sophie Deraspe, 2019), Leftover Women (Hilla Medalia & Shosh Shlam, 2019) and All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950).
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In part one of this week’s podcast about Women’s Voices Aline Longstaff, Kif Augustine Adams, and Jacob Hickman discuss Yalda a Night for Forgiveness (Massoud Bakhshi, 2019), Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez, 2020), and The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung, 2000)
The International Cinema Studies class held a Q&A with Marianna Yarovskaya and Paul Gregory, director and producer, respectively, of Women of the Gulag (2018). In this Q&A they discuss the film’s placement on the Academy Awards shortlist and the lessons we can learn from the gulags’ history and erasure.
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IC co-director Marc Yamada and professor Greg Stallings discuss Amazing Grace, a concert film on the recording of an album of gospel music by Aretha Franklin in 1972 that is just now being released.
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This week’s discussion centers on Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984). Professor in the ANEL department and former IC co-director Steve Riep talks about Yellow Earth in the context of the post Chinese Revolution. This podcast explores the changes that a new generation of Chinese filmmakers brought to the cinema of the 80s, the role of music and the lyrics used in the film, the status of peasants and women in Northern China, and the role of Communism in 1939 Chinese society.
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IC co-director Doug Weatherford speaks with Ozan Mermer, director of Yib (2019), a documentary in Spanish and Chuj-Maya that follows a bi-national youth choir whose members belong to a community artificially divided by the Mexico-Guatemala border. The film’s title alludes to the idea of “roots”, and, in this podcast, the German-born director with a multi-national background discusses his personal connection to the story and his decision to attend film school in Mexico.
Dr. Daryl Lee outlines the history of French colonization and the aesthetics of orientalism that built to the war of independence recreated in The Battle of Algiers. This innovative film used a documentary style to depict recent events, even casting actual participants as themselves, and presents a visceral engagement with the goals and methods of both parties.
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IC co-director Marc Yamada and Comparative Studies graduate student Dewey Walter use Denise Ho: Becoming the Song to talk about the history of protest in Hong Kong, the intentions of director Sue Williams, and the limits on documentary film to capture the present.
Italian director Federico Fellini’s unique outlook on comedy, dream, and autobiography is on full display in 8 ½ (1963). Dr. Marie Orton uses relatable stories and references to illustrate Fellini’s filmmaking philosophy of infusing his own personal life into his work and the relentless torment of creativity in life.
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IC assistant-director Marie-Laure Oscarson is joined by Professors Jane Hinckley and Dennis Cutchins. In this episode, we discuss the latest adaptation of Emma in the context of the changes in the socio-economic realities of the English 19th-century society. The professors explain why this novel is still popular today, define how adaptations differ from remakes, and underline what this 2020 adaptation achieves.
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