Spring
2008
The NCSU Film Studies Program and Union Activities Board Films Committee are proud to present "...european directors in transit..." These 35mm screenings of films made by European directors from Greece, Italy, Finland, and Germany will be free and open to the public. The films will screen at Witherspoon Campus Cinema on Wednedays at 7:00pm:
...european directors in transit...
march 12 / THE PASSENGER (1973)
dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a journalist in North Africa. Bored with his work, his marriage and his life, he assumes the identity of a mysterious and recently deceased stranger lodging at the same hotel. Shot on location, the film traces Locke’s journey (psychological as well as geographical) through Africa, Spain, Germany, and England. NCSU Film Studies Director Marsha Orgeron will introduce.
march 19 / ARIEL (1988)
dir. Aki Kaurismäki
Taisto Kasurinen (Turo Pajala) is a Finnish coal miner adrift (in a white convertible Cadillac no less!) after a series of mishaps and misfortunes send him searching. Bitterly ironic and painfully funny, Taisto’s journey is also a broken and considerably chillier revision of Dorothy’s journey in The Wizard of Oz. Rainbows, however, are difficult to come by in the Finnish Laplands. NCSU Film Studies Professor Devin Orgeron will introduce.
march 26 / PARIS TEXAS (1984)
dir. Wim Wenders
First glimpsed wandering through the Texas desert, Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) has been absent (in every sense of the word) for four years. His journey brings him to Los Angeles and the fractured familial elements he had left behind, elements which he struggles to understand and, if possible, reassemble. A modern day Ethan Edwards (John Ford’s The Searchers), Travis’s odyssey brings him back full circle, and out again. NCSU Film Studies Professor Andrea Mensch will introduce.
april 2 / THE WEEPING MEADOW (2004)
dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
Greek director Angelopoulos’s long-take aesthetic is here trained on his nation’s own troubled migratory history. In 1919, a band of Greek refugees calling Odessa home are forced to return to their homeland following the Russian Revolution. The film focuses on the forbidden romance between Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and Alexis (Nikos Poursadinis) who run away together and join a band of traveling musicians, pursuing their own lost children and attempting to stay a step ahead of their “father,” Spyros (Vassilis Kolovos), who has different intentions for Eleni. NCSU Film Studies founder and professor Joe Gomez will introduce.
Organized by Devin Orgeron and Joe Gomez of the NCSU Film Studies Program. Contact Devin Orgeron for more information.
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