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The IC directors Chip Oscarson, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Marc Yamada talk about the films that screened 26-29 February including:

• Ága (01:13), a film in the Siberian language Yakut directed by Milko Lazarov from 2018;
• Arctic (05:30) from 2018, a modern-day Robinsonade directed by Joe Penna about a man (Mads Mikkelsen) stranded and fighting for survival in the Arctic;
• The Gold Rush (10:13), Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterpiece from 1925 that he re-released in 1942 filmed on a Hollywood set standing in for the Yukon;
• and our documentary this week, Genesis 2.0 (14:49), directed by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev from 2018 about climate change, bringing back extinct species, and the ethics of synthetic biology.

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This week Chip Oscarson and Marie-Laure Oscarson are joined by Jojo Hegström-Pratt (student, TMA) and Prof. Mark Purves (Russian) to discuss the films at IC from week 7 including:

• Millennium Actress (01:23) a Japanese animé film from 2001 written and directed by Satoshi Kon;
• The Wave (11:22), a Norwegian disaster film directed by Roar Uthaug from 2015, the next in our Anthropocene Cinema series;
• the documentary about the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII directed by Abby Ginzberg from 2017 And Then They Came for Us (18:30);
• The last installment, Pierre Bezukhov, of Sergei Bondarchuk 1966 adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace (22:39).

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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)

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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.

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To get the preview portion of our podcast out earlier each week, we will be changing the format of “From the Booth” going forward. What was previously a single, weekly episode with previews and analysis of the last week’s films will now be divided up into two shorter episodes: one in which we preview the coming week’s films and a second in which we discuss the film from the previous week. For the preview episodes we promise no spoilers, but when we do the week in review, we will talk about the films in more detail and presume that you have seen them (or at least are not worried about spoilers). So this is the first of our preview shows. In this episode, Chip Oscarson, Marc Yamada, and Marie-Laure Oscarson preview:

• Jinpa (1:46), a Tibetan film directed by Pema Tseden from 2018;
• Still Life (4:50), a 2006 feature in Mandarin by Jia Zhangke set against the backdrop of the construction of the Three Gorges dam in China;
• The second installment of War & Peace (10:47) from 1966, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk;
• and the documentary this week, Of Fathers and Sons (11:33), an intimate look at life in ISIS families in Syria, in Arabic and directed by Talal Derki from 2017