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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

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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)