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This week in review episode is in two parts. Chip Oscarson, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Marc Yamada talk about the films that screened at IC from 4-7 March including the films from the  Upstairs/Downstairs series about class on film. In the second part, Prof. Doug Weatherford (Spanish) and Prof. Rex Nielson (Portuguese) are guests.  The films include:

Part 1: go to previous installment

• the documentary, Maiden  from 2018, directed by Alex Holmes about the first all-woman crew to compete in the Whitbred Round the World Race in 1989;
• Parasite , the Oscar winning Best Film from 2019, the first ever non-English language film to win the award. Directed by Bong Joon-ho from 2019;

Part 2:

• (with Prof. Doug Weatherford) The Chambermaid (00:00) a look at the oft-times invisible work of a young woman working in a luxurious Mexico City hotel. Directed by Lila Avilés from 2018;
• and (with Prof. Rex Nielson) Hard Labor (12:35), a Brazilian film about work and the decaying social fabric of the 21^st century by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas from 2011.

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This week in review episode is in two parts. Chip Oscarson, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Marc Yamada talk about the films that screened at IC from 4-7 March including the films from the  Upstairs/Downstairs series about class on film. In the second part, Prof. Doug Weatherford (Spanish) and Prof. Rex Nielson (Portuguese) are guests.  The films include:

Part 1:

• the documentary, Maiden (1:29) from 2018, directed by Alex Holmes about the first all-woman crew to compete in the Whitbred Round the World Race in 1989;
• Parasite (07:24), the Oscar winning Best Film from 2019, the first ever non-English language film to win the award. Directed by Bong Joon-ho from 2019;

Part 2: go to next installment

• (with Prof. Doug Weatherford) The Chambermaid a look at the oft-times invisible work of a young woman working in a luxurious Mexico City hotel. Directed by Lila Avilés from 2018;
• and (with Prof. Rex Nielson) Hard Labor , a Brazilian film about work and the decaying social fabric of the 21^st century by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas from 2011.

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IC directors Marc Yamada, Marie-Laure Oscarson, and Chip Oscarson preview the films for Week 11 (11-14 March) at International Cinema including:

• Woman at War (02:45) directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, a 2018 Icelandic film about Halla, a 50-year-old woman leading a double life as a passionate, environmental guerrilla activist;
• A pair of related films in: Preston Sturges’s classic 1941 comedy Sullivan’s Travels (05:52) as well as..
• Joel and Ethan Coen’s comedy adaptation of the Odyssey from 2000, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (10:40);
• And then lastly, our documentary from Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam from 2018: The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman (13:17)

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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.