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young girl comes to believe that she is the incarnation of Princess Moanna, daughter of the king of the underworld. MAR. 22 Hope and Glory (UK, 1987) 113 minutes. Directed by John Boorman. Introduced by Jason Nice, History. l Based on Boorman’s own childhood experiences during World War II, Hope and Glory follows young Billy Rohan as he grows up in London during the Blitz, with food ra- tioning and almost nightly Luftwaffe airstrikes. Boorman “is not concerned in this film about the tragedy of war, or the meaning of war, but only with the specific experience of war for a grade-school boy” (Roger Ebert). MAR. 29 Decasia (USA, 2002) 67 minutes. Directed by Bill Morrison. Introduced by Corey Sparks, English and Humanities.l Decasia is a found-footage film by Bill Morrison with an original score by Michael Gordon. Early nitrate film footage, prone to rotting, is turned into a rumination on the nature of filmmaking and what we value versus what we abandon and allow to decay. In 2013, Decasia was selected for preserva- tion by the National Film Registry, the first twenty-first-century film to be selected. FEB. 2 The Playhouse (USA, 1921) 22 minutes, and Sherlock, Jr. (USA, 1924) 56 minutes. Directed by Buster Keaton. Introduced by Sarah Pike, Compara- tive Religion. l The Playhouse is a silent short film, writ- ten, directed, and starring Buster Keaton. Playing with camera tricks and doubling, things are rarely what they appear to be. The longer Sherlock, Jr., also directed by and starring Keaton, follows a film projection- ist (Keaton) who is in love with a girl (Kathryn McGuire) who is also being pursued by a “local sheik” (Ward Crane). FEB. 9 Heavenly Creatures (New Zealand, 1994) 99 minutes. Directed by Peter Jackson. Introduced by Laura Nice, Humanities. l Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Heavenly Creatures is based on the infamous 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand. Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey make their film both authentic and ambitious, a classic that is as adept at telling individual stories as it is in drawing larger parallels from them” (Kenneth Turan). MAR. 1 Miller’s Crossing (France- (USA, 1990) 115 minutes. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Introduced by Troy Jollimore, Philosophy. l The Coen Brothers’ final collaboration with cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld (who went on to direct films including Men in Black and Get Shorty) is a dark, brooding, and immensely stylish “neo-noir black comedy gangster film” whose inscrutable anti-hero, the Irish mobster Tom Regan (Gabriel Byrne), tries to navigate a complex landscape of conflicting loyalties and deadly betrayals in an unnamed Prohibition-era American city. MAR. 8 Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico/ Spain, 2006) 119 minutes. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Introduced by Hannah Burdette, International Languages, Literatures and Cultures. l Set in Spain in 1944, shortly after the Spanish Civil War and during the Francoist period, Pan’s Labyrinth tells the story of Ofelia, cleverly weaving the real world with the magical creatures of a mythical world found through an ancient labyrinth. While Ofelia’s cruel stepfather hunts down rebels and her pregnant mother grows sick, the TALKS, EVENTS Humanities Center / Gallery Trinity 100, 126, and Hallway, 898-5352 www.csuchico.edu/humanitiescenter For more information please contact Sarah Pike, Director of the Humanities Center, at 898-6341 or [email protected]. UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES Tuesdays at 7:30 PM in the Little Theatre (Ayres 106) screen debuts playing teenage girls Pauline (Lynskey) and Juliet (Winslet), who develop an intense friendship, create an elaborate fantasy world called Borovnia, and when it appears that they will be separated, plot to remove their biggest obstacle. FEB. 16 Les Vacances de M. Hulot (France, 1953) 114 minutes. Directed by Jacques Tati. Introduced by Sarah Pike, Com- parative Religion. l A French comedy centered on the character of Monsieur Hulot, a hapless but loveable bachelor who inadvertently causes chaos during a seaside vacation. Tati stars as Hulot and directs and “composes this movie with a perfect eye and ear for the comic possibilities in everything…this is a superior work that ranks among all-time classic comedies” (Tom Keogh). FEB. 23 Rocco and His Brothers (Italy, 1960) 177 minutes. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Introduced by Brunella Windsor, International Languages, Literatures and Cultures. l Rocco, one of five sons from a poor rural southern Italian family, moves to the industrial north to try to start over after the death of his father. A story of murder, rape, and disillusionment, “Rocco and His Brothers is a $3 donation appreciated • 898-6341 • www.csuchico.edu/humanitiescenter/events/film-series CALENDAR FEB – MAR 2016 FEB. 25 “Playing with Religion and Video Games” Professor Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Thursday, Feb- ruary 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity 100, reception to follow. l Gregory Price Grieve is an associate profes- sor and head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He researches and teaches at the intersection of digital media, Buddhism, and the theories and methods for the study of religion. The author of numerous monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters, Grieve’s work investigates the role that popular forms of religion play in what it means to be human in the digital age. FEB. 11 Humanities Center Reading Group Thursday, February 11 at 5 p.m. in Trinity 126. l Selected readings from Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens and Roger Caillois’ Man, Play and Games, facilitated by Laird Easton, History. For copies of the readings, contact Sarah Pike, [email protected]. MAR. 3 “Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet” Professor James Karman, Humanities (Emeritus). Thursday, March 3 at 5 p.m. in Trinity 126. l This tertulia will celebrate Karman’s recent publication of The Collected Letters of Rob- inson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers, Volume 3: 1940–1962 (2015) and Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet (2015), the latest in his series of books on Jeffers published with Stanford University Press. MAR. 23 “Playing Indian: Europe- ans, First Peoples, and Struggles for Hegemony in Early North America” Professor William Campbell (University of Memphis). Wednesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity 100, reception to follow. l Professor Campbell is an assistant professor of History at the University of Memphis and will discuss how both Europeans and Native Americans employed a variety of strategies in their quests to extend influence over people and resources in colonial North America. l The Humanities Center’s theme for this year is “Play.”
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young girl comes to believe that she is the incarnation of Princess Moanna, daughter of the king of the underworld.
MAR. 22 Hope and Glory (UK, 1987) 113 minutes. Directed by John Boorman. Introduced by Jason Nice, History. l
Based on Boorman’s own childhood experiences during World War II, Hope and Glory follows young Billy Rohan as he grows up in London during the Blitz, with food ra-tioning and almost nightly Luftwaffe airstrikes. Boorman “is not concerned in this film about the tragedy of war, or the meaning of war, but only with the specific experience of war for a grade-school boy” (Roger Ebert).
MAR. 29 Decasia (USA, 2002) 67 minutes. Directed by Bill Morrison. Introduced by Corey Sparks, English and Humanities.l
Decasia is a found-footage film by Bill Morrison with an original score by Michael Gordon. Early nitrate film footage, prone to rotting, is turned into a rumination on the nature of filmmaking and what we value versus what we abandon and allow to decay. In 2013, Decasia was selected for preserva-tion by the National Film Registry, the first twenty-first-century film to be selected.
FEB. 2 The Playhouse (USA, 1921) 22 minutes, and Sherlock, Jr. (USA, 1924) 56 minutes. Directed by Buster
Keaton. Introduced by Sarah Pike, Compara-tive Religion. l
The Playhouse is a silent short film, writ-ten, directed, and starring Buster Keaton. Playing with camera tricks and doubling, things are rarely what they appear to be. The longer Sherlock, Jr., also directed by and starring Keaton, follows a film projection-ist (Keaton) who is in love with a girl (Kathryn McGuire) who is also being pursued by a
“local sheik” (Ward Crane). FEB. 9 Heavenly Creatures
(New Zealand, 1994) 99 minutes. Directed by Peter Jackson. Introduced by Laura Nice, Humanities. l
Nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Original Screenplay, Heavenly Creatures is based on the infamous 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand. Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey make their
film both authentic and ambitious, a classic that is as adept at telling individual stories as it is in drawing larger parallels from them” (Kenneth Turan).
MAR. 1 Miller’s Crossing (France-(USA, 1990) 115 minutes. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Introduced by Troy Jollimore, Philosophy. l
The Coen Brothers’ final collaboration with cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld (who went on to direct films including Men in Black and Get Shorty) is a dark, brooding, and immensely stylish “neo-noir black comedy gangster film” whose inscrutable anti-hero, the Irish mobster Tom Regan (Gabriel Byrne), tries to navigate a complex landscape of conflicting loyalties and deadly betrayals in an unnamed Prohibition-era American city.
MAR. 8 Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico/Spain, 2006) 119 minutes. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Introduced by Hannah Burdette, International Languages, Literatures and Cultures. l
Set in Spain in 1944, shortly after the Spanish Civil War and during the Francoist period, Pan’s Labyrinth tells the story of Ofelia, cleverly weaving the real world with the magical creatures of a mythical world found through an ancient labyrinth. While Ofelia’s cruel stepfather hunts down rebels and her pregnant mother grows sick, the
TALKS, EVENTSHumanities Center / Gallery
Trinity 100, 126, and Hallway, 898-5352
www.csuchico.edu/humanitiescenter
For more information please contact
Sarah Pike, Director of the Humanities Center,
at 898-6341 or [email protected].
UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES Tuesdays at 7:30 pm in the Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
screen debuts playing teenage girls Pauline (Lynskey) and Juliet (Winslet), who develop an intense friendship, create an elaborate fantasy world called Borovnia, and when it appears that they will be separated, plot to remove their biggest obstacle.
FEB. 16 Les Vacances de M. Hulot (France, 1953) 114 minutes. Directed by Jacques Tati. Introduced by Sarah Pike, Com-parative Religion. l
A French comedy centered on the character of Monsieur Hulot, a hapless but loveable bachelor who inadvertently causes chaos during a seaside vacation. Tati stars as Hulot and directs and “composes this movie with a perfect eye and ear for the comic possibilities in everything…this is a superior work that ranks among all-time classic comedies” (Tom Keogh).
FEB. 23 Rocco and His Brothers (Italy, 1960) 177 minutes. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Introduced by Brunella Windsor, International Languages, Literatures and Cultures. l
Rocco, one of five sons from a poor rural southern Italian family, moves to the industrial north to try to start over after the death of his father. A story of murder, rape, and disillusionment, “Rocco and His Brothers is a
$3 donation appreciated • 898-6341 • www.csuchico.edu/humanitiescenter/events/film-series
CALENDAR
FEB – MAR 2016
FEB. 25 “Playing with Religion and Video Games”
Professor Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Thursday, Feb-ruary 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity 100, reception to follow. l
Gregory Price Grieve is an associate profes-sor and head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He researches and teaches at the intersection of digital media, Buddhism, and the theories and methods for the study of religion. The author of numerous monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters, Grieve’s work investigates the role that popular forms of religion play in what it means to be human in the digital age.
FEB. 11 Humanities Center Reading Group
Thursday, February 11 at 5 p.m. in Trinity 126. l
Selected readings from Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens and Roger Caillois’ Man, Play and Games, facilitated by Laird Easton, History. For copies of the readings, contact Sarah Pike, [email protected].
MAR. 3 “Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet”
Professor James Karman, Humanities (Emeritus). Thursday, March 3 at 5 p.m. in Trinity 126. l
This tertulia will celebrate Karman’s recent publication of The Collected Letters of Rob-inson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers, Volume 3: 1940–1962 (2015) and Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet (2015), the latest in his series of books on Jeffers published with Stanford University Press.
MAR. 23 “Playing Indian: Europe-ans, First Peoples, and Struggles for Hegemony in Early North America”
Professor William Campbell (University of Memphis). Wednesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity 100, reception to follow. l
Professor Campbell is an assistant professor of History at the University of Memphis and will discuss how both Europeans and Native Americans employed a variety of strategies in their quests to extend influence over people and resources in colonial North America.
l The Humanities Center’s theme for this year is “Play.”
