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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)

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“From the Booth” Fall 2019, episode 9 in which IC co-directors Marc Yamada and Chip Oscarson discuss the films from 23-26 October including:

02:21 29:53 Ash is Purest White (Zhangke Jia, Mandarin, 2018)
09:35 The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, Hindi/English, 2013)
15:23 Manta Ray (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Thai, 2018)
20:14 Gaza (Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell, Arabic, 2019)

Previews:
25:01 A Tale of Two Sisters (Kee-woon Kim, Korean, 2003)
26:45 Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, Spanish, 1960)
29:14 The Farewell (Lulu Wang, Mandarin/English, 2019)
31:40 Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & André Singer, German/Russian, Polish, English, 2018)

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On this week’s episode, IC co-directors Chip Oscarson and Marc Yamada discuss the films of Oct. 9-12 that all explored the challenges of dealing with the lasting memories of war. They then preview the films for Oct. 16-19.

Analysis:
1:46 Wings (Larisa Shepitko, Russian, 1966)
04:48 The Load (Ognjen Glavonic, Serbian, 2018)
09:03 The Unknown Soldier (Aku Louhimies, Finnish, 2017)
13:41 They shall not grow old (Peter Jackson, English, 2018)

Previews:
18:44 Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, Spanish/German/Various S. American langs., 2015)
22:57 High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, Japanese, 1963)
25:22 The Other Story (Avi Nesher, Hebrew/Arabic, 2018)
27:42 Human Flow (Weiwei Ai, Eng./numerous lang., 2017)

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This week Marc Yamada and Chip Oscarson discuss the films from 2-4 October at International Cinema including:
01:39 Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese, 2012)
06:37 Panique (Julien Duvivier, French, 1946)
11:49 América  (Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside, Spanish, 2018)

They also preview the films for the coming week of 9-12 October that make us the series “Memories of War” (16:33). These films include:
17:12 Wings (Larisa Shepitko, Russian, 1966)
19:43 The Load (Ognjen Glavonic, Serbian, 2018)
20:40 The Unknown Soldier (Aku Louhimies, Finnish, 2017)
24:28 They shall not grow old (Peter Jackson, English, 2018)

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This week Chip and Marie-Laure Oscarson analyze the films from 25-28 September that were part of our week’s theme “Complex Mothers” dealing with multilayered characters embodying different aspects of maternal love. Marc Yamada then joins Chip to preview the coming week’s films.

00:55 Loveling(Gustavo Pizzi, Portuguese, 2018)
6:15 Mother’s Instinct (Olivier Masset-Depasse, French, 2018)
9:34 Disappearance of My Mother (Benjamin Barrese, Italian, 2019)
15:33 Mildred Pierce(Michael Curtiz, English, 1945)

Previews:
20:34 Panique (Julien Duvivier, French, 1946)
23:36 Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese, 2012)
26:59 América  (Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside, Spanish, 2018)

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This week IC directors Marc Yamada and Chip Oscarson discuss the roaring success of the film Icebox at IC and some of the discussions it generated along with the other films of week 2. Marie-Laure Oscarson joins them for the preview of the films for week three all about complex mother figures. Here are the time codes for the discussions if you are worried about spoilers:

0:49 Icebox (Daniel Sawka, Spanish/Eng., 2018)
5:15 M (Fritz Lang, German, 1931)
11:38 Columbus (Kogonada, English, 2017)
15:07 Bauhaus Spirit (Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch, German/English/Spanish, 2018)

16:44 Previews for week 3 at IC including:
17:18 Mother’s Instinct (Olivier Masset-Depasse, French, 2018)
19:32 Loveling(Gustavo Pizzi, Portuguese, 2018)
21:48 Mildred Pierce(Michael Curtiz, English, 1945)
24:25 Disappearance of My Mother (Benjamin Barrese, Italian, 2019)

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This week we preview the films for IC’s first full week of the fall semester including Jon Chu’s smash hit Crazy Rich Asians (English/Mandarin, 2018), the 2018 Palme d’Or winner at Canne Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japanese, 2018), the classic film noir Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, English, 1944), and the documentary Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, English, 2019). For those wanting to hear a discussion of last week’s films they can find them on the episodes from last semester including Transit (W19 episode 11) and Mirai (in W19 episode 13).