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Experimental Film Club presents THE CONNECTION

Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): Committee on Cinema & Media Studies, Experimental Film Club. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A dancer and choreographer turned filmmaker, Shirley Clarke's first feature-length film established her as a major figure in the burgeoning New American Cinema that also included John Cassavetes' Shadows and Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy. An adaptation of Jack Gelber's acclaimed Beat play about junkies, musicians and other assorted figures waiting for a fix, The Connection uses cinema verité methods to perfectly capture a subculture. Unfortunately neglected in film history, Clarke's film is… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 12, 2010, 7:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 S. Ellis. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

The Last Happy Day: An Evening with Filmmaker Lynne Sachs

Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): Departments of Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Rhetoric and Poetics, and Jewish Studies. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs presents THE LAST HAPPY DAY, an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and Sachs' distant cousin. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones— small and large — of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of Winni… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, March 13, 2010, 7:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 S. Ellis. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

Hacks and Authors: Ben Hecht, the politique des auteurs and scriptwriting in classical Hollywood – Lunch discussion with Giaime Alonge

Building/Room: Cobb 310. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Cinema & Media Studies. Presenter(s): Giaime Alonge. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Introduction by Professor Rebecca West, Depts of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies The politique des auteurs, in its worshipping of the director as a solitary genius, was intrinsically anti-screenwriter. So, it is no accident that when some film critics and scholars (Pauline Kael, Raising Kane, 1971; Richard Corliss, Talking Pictures, 1974), in the early 1970s, started to focus on the role of the screenwriter, they took a strong anti-auteurist stance. The paradox is that in m… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 12:30 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 S. Ellis. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.