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This week IC directors Chip Oscarson and Marc Yamada are joined by former IC director Greg Stallings to discuss the films from 22-25 January including The Godfather (01:34) from 1972 directed by Ford Francis Coppola, Ritesh Batra’s 2019 romantic comedy/drama Photograph (09:31),  Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (16:24) a 2019 documentary directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier based on the photography by Edward Burtynsky, and Everybody knows (19:24) from 2018 by acclaimed director Asghar Farhadi.

Chip Oscarson and Marie-Laure Oscarson then preview the films for 29 January-1 February including The Baker’s Wife (30:31) from 1938, the epic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace (35:35) from 1966 by director Sergei Bondarchuk, the German comedy of modern life In the Aisles (39:14) from 2018, and El Río (42:10) by poet and anthropologist Juan Carlos Galeano from 2019.

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This week IC directors Chip Oscarson and Marc Yamada discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s classic The Godfather (0:56) as well as Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light (09:25) a Sundance hit from 2019, and Tel Aviv on Fire (15:09) a comedy set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sameh Zoabi from 2018. Prof. George Handley (Comparative Arts & Letters) joins them for a discussion of the documentary, The Cordillera of Dreams (18:54) by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán from 2019. Following the discussion of last week’s films, they preview the films for 22-25 January including the second half of The Godfather (33:05), Photograph (33:52) directed by Ritesh Batrah , the psychological thriller Everybody Knows (35:46) directed by the great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, and the documentary Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (37:10) based on the photography of Edward Burtynsky.

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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It was Halloween week at IC, and on this week’s podcast, Marie-Laure Oscarson and Chip Oscarson discuss with Marc Yamada and Doug Weatherford the films from 30 October-2 November 2019 and then preview the films for 6 November-9 November.

00:57 The Farewell (Lulu Wang, Mandarin/English, 2019)
06:10 A Tale of Two Sisters (Kee-woon Kim, Korean, 2003) with Marc Yamada (IC co-director)
10:47 Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & André Singer, German/Russian, Polish, English, 2018)
14:12 Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, Spanish, 1960) with Doug Weatherford (Spanish and Portuguese)

Previews:
27:58 Introducing the films about the Berlin Wall
29:49 Balloon (Michael Herbig, German, 2018)
31:05 Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, German, 1987)
34:31 Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, German, 2003)
37:41 Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili, Dari, 2019)