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Ilens film: Blackbird

Presented by: VU LAMBDA Student Organization. USA (2014) Dir: Patrik-Ian Polk. Adapted from a book by Larry Duplechan of the same title, Blackbird tells the coming-of-age story of a gay black teen grappling with his sexuality while submerged in one of the most conservative environments imaginable — a religious family in the deep South. The…

Posted by on March 30, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Searching for Sugar Man

Tuesday, March 31 Presented by: Gregory Barz, Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), and Faculty Head of North House. Sweden, UK (2012) Dir: Malik Bendjelloul. Though he faded into obscurity in the U.S., an early 70s musician known as Rodriguez became a huge hit in South Africa and was widely rumored to have died. Two obsessed…

Posted by on March 19, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film:Lumumba

Presented by: Kristin Michelitch, Assistant Professor of Political Science. France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti (2000) Dir: Raoul Peck. The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Lumumba emerges as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed…

Posted by on March 19, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: The Chess Players

Presented by: Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History, Asian Studies and Islamic Studies. India (1977) Dir: Satyajit Ray. Based on a story by Munshi Premchand, this satirical film is set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company has observed that the monarch of Lucknow seems to be completely uninterested…

Posted by on March 13, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Rescheduled Ilens film: The New Black

Presented by: Dr. Frank Dobson, Director of the Black Cultural Center, and Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator in the Office of LGBTQI Life. USA (2013) Dir: Yoruba Richen. A documentary that shows activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar –…

Posted by on March 12, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens: Patema Inverted

Presented by: Gerald Figal, Professor, Department of History and Asian Studies. Japan (2013) Dir: Yasuhiro Yoshiura. Inventive and heartwarming anime fantasy, Patema lives in an underground world of tunnels, the abandoned ruins of a giant industrial complex. While exploring in a forbidden zone, she tumbles headlong into a place with reversed physics, where if she…

Posted by on March 12, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: MOVED

Presented by Sam Girgus, Professor of English. USA (2013) Dir: Julie Sharbutt. Filmed in one take, MOVED is a dark breakup comedy about a woman seeking closure as she moves out of a shared apartment. A beautiful, funny, sad and sweaty film about sexy young people moving on and figuring out what they owe the…

Posted by on February 26, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Hell and Back Again

Presented by: Kenneth MacLeish, Assistant Professor, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. USA, UK, Afghanistan (2011) Dir: Danfung Dennis. Follows 25-year-old Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris on his most difficult mission: coming home after being seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Embedded with Harris’s unit during their assault on a Taliban stronghold, Dennis toggles between the intense experience…

Posted by on February 26, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens Film: The Other Son

Presented by: Joshua Barton, Assistant Director, Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life. France (2012) Dir: Loraine Levy. The moving and provocative tale of two young men – one Israeli, the other Palestinian – who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families. French, English, Arabic, and…

Posted by on February 26, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Juan of the Dead

Presented by: James McFarland, Assistant Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies. Spain, Cuba (2011) Dir: Alejandro Brugues. A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government. This satirical comedy of life in Cuba under Castro kills and keeps…

Posted by on February 18, 2015 in Activities Everyone

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