[CU-Movies] Another Free Film Schedule -- IPRH

[David L. Noreen]

     Appended below is the schedule of free film screenings at
Krannert Art Museum by the Illinois Program for Research in
the Humanities. 
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IPRH Film Series – BELIEF

All screenings will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 62, Krannert
Art Museum.
Please note that all film screenings will be on Thursday this
semester.
The IPRH Film Series is free and open to the public.

 

January 26                      Paris Is Burning
     1990, dir. Jennie Livingston; documentary (71 min.)
This award-winning film documents Harlem drag balls where
participants compete in categories such as “realness” and
“executive wear” – transforming themselves into roles that
typically exclude the mostly poor, gay, African American and
Hispanic men at the heart of the film. Following the
screening, there will be a gallery conversation with Judith
Hoos Fox (Visiting Curator, Krannert Art Museum) and Nicole
Faurant (Theatre Department), moderated by Christine
Catanzarite. Co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Krannert Art
Museum, in conjunction with the exhibit “Pattern Language:
Clothing as Communicator.”
 
February 2                      Being John Malkovich
     1999, dir. Spike Jonze; starring John Cusack, Cameron
Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich (112 min.)
A street puppeteer (Cusack) discovers a mysterious portal that
leads directly into the brain of actor Malkovich (playing
himself, sort of) – and soon finds himself sharing the
experience with his frumpy wife (Diaz), his seductive
co-worker (Keener), and others willing to pay for the
experience of fifteen minutes inside the mind of a famous
person. This film marked the first collaboration between
director Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman, who followed it
with Adaptation; Kaufman later won an Oscar for his screenplay
for The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

February 23                     Inherit the Wind
     1960, dir. Stanley Kramer; starring Spencer Tracy,
Fredric March, Gene Kelly (128 min.)
Kramer was known for directing socially conscious “message”
films (including High Noon, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, and
The Defiant Ones), and this film takes on a debate that
remains in the news, and in the courts, today. The film is set
during a steamy Tennessee summer in 1925, when a high school
teacher was brought to trial for teaching evolution in his
classroom in violation of state law, in this partially
fictionalized account of the Scopes “Monkey Trial.”

March 9                         The Manchurian Candidate
      1962, dir. John Frankenheimer; starring Laurence Harvey,
Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh (126 min.)
A group of Korean War veterans, including Ben Marco (Sinatra),
are haunted by chilling nightmares of wartime experiences that
couldn’t possibly have happened. . .because Raymond Shaw
(Harvey), the monster at the center of the nightmares, is
really the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human
being they have ever known in their lives. Frankenheimer’s
dark, paranoid Cold War thriller has lost none of its power
since its controversial release.

April 13                        All of Me
      1984, dir. Carl Reiner; starring Steve Martin, Lily
Tomlin, Victoria Tennant (93 min.)
A reclusive millionaire (Tomlin) and an unhappy lawyer
(Martin) find themselves unwillingly sharing space within the
lawyer’s body when a kooky soul-transmigration plan goes awry.
This silly premise nonetheless produced one of the great comic
performances in film history from Martin, who won numerous
critics’ awards for his brilliant work but was famously
ignored by the Academy at Oscar time.


For more information, contact the Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities
at 244-3344, or contact film series organizer Christine
Catanzarite at catanzar at uiuc.edu.