From Philomathean Society

Contact: (film@philomathean.org)

Phil Rocco, Chair (philipbr AT sas.upenn.edu)

Barry Slaff , Assistant Chair (bslaff AT sas.upenn.edu)

The Philomathean Society Film Committee is pleased to present the 2009 Spring Semester Film Series.

Founded in 2002, the Philomathean Society Film Committee screens esoteric films to help satisfy the tastes of culture-hungry Penn students. The 2009 Spring Semester Film Series features one screening each Tuesday evening of the semester. Film selections include a variety of foreign productions, documentaries, and philosophical investigations. Please see the complete schedule below.

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Schedule

All Films are shown in the halls of the Philomathean Society, College Hall 400. All screenings may be attended free of charge. After 6 PM, please enter the building from the east side.

Monday, April 20, 5 pm ----- Film Series: "IS THIS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT? Science in the field, on the screen."

Examples of Hollywood field science; schedule is flexible and may include selections from the following:

- In The Land of the Headhunters

- Krippendorf's Tribe

- Medicine Man

- Twister

- Encounters at the End of the World

- Jurassic Park (?)

- Songcatcher (?)

- selected shorts from Robert Gardner (People and Particles, The Nuer, etc.)

Past Philm Events

The Thin Blue Line (1988). Nonfiction. Errol Morris reconsiders the 1976 death of Robert W. Wood, a Dallas police officer. A landmark in documentary history, with score by Philip Glass. 1 hr, 43 min. 1/27/09.

M (1931). Film noir. When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. 1 hr, 57 min. "Crash" Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Karen Beckman, Monday, April 21, 2008, 6:30-9:00PM. 2/03/09.

"Crash" is an Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005. Karen Beckman is Jaffe Associate Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Cinema Studies Program.

"Buongiorno, Notte" (2003, Marco Bellocchio) film screening and discussion with Professor Nicola Gentili, Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Murderball, Monday, February 24, 2008

Beware of a Holy Whore, Monday, February 17, 2008

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Monday, February 11, 2008

Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville) Monday February 4th 2008

Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2007) Thursday September 13th 2007 A Penn and Philo Premiere (due to its limited release this past year), this is classic Lynch: plenty of flickering lights, dark hallways, and hookers dancing to the "Locomotion." As the director himself describes it, this film is about "a woman in trouble and a mystery". Perhaps nothing more need be said.

The Beaver Trilogy (Trent Harris, 2001) Thursday October 11th 2007 By special arrangement with the filmmaker, the Committee shows this cult classic. It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. Harris jumps at the chance when the young man invites him to come to the small town of Beaver to film a talent show. The rest is history

Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) Monday November 5th 2007 Arguably the finest film of Bergman's middle-period. Autumn Sonata, in the musical form it references, tells the story of an estranged mother (Ingrid Bergman) and daughter (Liv Ullman) wrestling with their past.

Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979) Thursday December 6th 2007 The last great Peter Sellers film, Being There tells the story of an idiot gardener who becomes a national figure in American politics. This is one of philosopher Slavoj Žižek's favorite films. Enough said.