Spain's Film Masters: Beyond Bunuel and Almodovar
The Hunt with Introduction and Q&A by Paul Julian Smith
Friday 30 March, 2012
7 - 10pm, $0
New School, Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue, Kellen Auditorium
This film series showcases masterpieces directed by four of Spain’s most internationally acclaimed filmmakers. The films won top awards in prestigious film festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, San Sebastián) and have become classics.
With a yearly output of around 200 features, Spain today is one of the top ten film-producing countries in the world. But from the 1950s to 1975 (the year of Franco’s death), cinema suffered from the repressive political and social conditions that prevailed in Spain. Defying and circumventing censorship, Spanish filmmakers of the period managed to create work of astonishing quality. Their work planted the seeds for the creative explosion in Spanish film from the late 1970s until now.
Screenings are free and open to the public. Each includes a brief introduction and discussion with a prominent scholar.
Friday, March 30
The Hunt (La caza) (Carlos Saura, 1966)
Introduction and Q&A with Paul Julian Smith, FBA, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, The Hunt explores class relations, generational conflicts, war, brutality, and power through the metaphor of the hunt.
Future screenings:
Friday, April 6
The Spirit of the Beehive (El espÃritu de la colmena) (VÃctor Erice, 1973). Introduction and Q&A with Linda Ehrlich, associate professor, Case Western Reserve University
The Spirit of the Beehive addresses internal exile, intellectual sterility, emotional isolation, and family relationships through the eyes of a child. It is a poetic movie of spellbinding power that established Erice as one of the most sensitive filmmakers in Europe.
This series is organized and curated by film scholar Helio San Miguel.
With a yearly output of around 200 features, Spain today is one of the top ten film-producing countries in the world. But from the 1950s to 1975 (the year of Franco’s death), cinema suffered from the repressive political and social conditions that prevailed in Spain. Defying and circumventing censorship, Spanish filmmakers of the period managed to create work of astonishing quality. Their work planted the seeds for the creative explosion in Spanish film from the late 1970s until now.
Screenings are free and open to the public. Each includes a brief introduction and discussion with a prominent scholar.
Friday, March 30
The Hunt (La caza) (Carlos Saura, 1966)
Introduction and Q&A with Paul Julian Smith, FBA, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, The Hunt explores class relations, generational conflicts, war, brutality, and power through the metaphor of the hunt.
Future screenings:
Friday, April 6
The Spirit of the Beehive (El espÃritu de la colmena) (VÃctor Erice, 1973). Introduction and Q&A with Linda Ehrlich, associate professor, Case Western Reserve University
The Spirit of the Beehive addresses internal exile, intellectual sterility, emotional isolation, and family relationships through the eyes of a child. It is a poetic movie of spellbinding power that established Erice as one of the most sensitive filmmakers in Europe.
This series is organized and curated by film scholar Helio San Miguel.