SAVE THE DATE

Monday December 1

6-9pm Alumni Auditorium

filmmakers Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson present a

free screening of their film

What a Way to Go (life at the end of empire)

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/

A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.

 

 

You are invited to this special

screening and dialogue with the filmmakers!

 

What a Way to Go:  Life at the End of Empire, a feature-length documentary by Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, will screen at:

Champlain College's Alumni Auditorium

Monday December first 6-9 pm 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!

 

This is what reviewers are saying:

 

“Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its twenty-first century human and non-human condition.”

Carolyn Baker, www.carolynbaker.org

 

 “Perhaps the most important media message of our time.”

Jan Lundberg at CultureChange.org

 

“Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the point to have What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire seen in every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable.”

Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and Tales of Adam

 

What a Way to Go, features interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Richard Heinberg, William Catton, Paul Roberts, Chellis Glendinning, Thomas Berry, Richard Manning and Ran Prieur. 

 

Contact (insert local contact name and info here) for more information about the screening.

 

For more information about What a Way to Go,

or to contact the producers, visit their website at www.whatawaytogomovie.com or email producer@whatawaytogomovie.com.

Week 15 Contemporary Issues (who has seen?....)

Who has seen-

American Beauty (1999) Alan Ball

American Psycho (2000) Mary Harron

V for Vendetta (2005) James McTeigue

Week 14 Subverting the Dominant Paridigm

The Mosquito Coast (1986) Peter Weir

Week 13 Colonialism-Undermining Cultural Norms (consumerism)

In Lumet's Network (1976)-

do you think Beale is right? have we run out of bullshit?

How do you think 1976 network news and television culture plays against where we have arrived and where we may be going. How was it prescient?

In light of the guest filmmakers' presentation of What a Way to Go,

what do you think is still worth saying in film.

Week 13 Geoff Klane's Presentation

Week 13 Matt Nurre's Presentation

Matt. great clip for Storm Over Asia. Apt commentary, I like how you did sort of a play by play while the clip was playing. Would be good to sharpen the differences between Pudovkin and Eisenstein (linkage vs. collision montage) and even contrast that with the Patriot clip. At one point you said, "Kuleshov was more conservative" and I meant to ask you what you meant by that...

if you'd care to elaborate....

well done.

Week 12 Nick Wright's Presentation

Week 12 Matt Milewski's Presentation

Week 12 Jack Nichols' Presentation

Week 12 Garrett Burns' Presentation

Week 11 Reid Byers' Presentation

Week 11 Will Derwin's Presentation

Week 11 Political Films (who has seen?...) TV Culture / Selling Sex & Violence

taking a poll,

who has seen Network? (Lumet 1976)

who has seen A Clockwork Orange? (Kubrick 1971)

Week 11 Scott Miley's Presentation

Week 11 New Wave

What do you think Godard is trying to say with Week End (1967)?

be specific, give examples.

Tournees Festival Nov. 7,8,9.

glover went to this screening saturday afternoon. 

Any other attendees encouraged to blog / review other screenings here.

Saturday, November 8, 2008, 3:00 P.M.

L'Origine de la Tendresse and Other Tales

A Program of Short Films

(France 2008, 97 min.)

A program of six notable French short films, featuring a broad  

range of styles and genres, from animation to fiction to  

documentary, reflecting the diversity of both the visions of  

contemporary French filmmakers and the people of France.

1-"Gratte-papier"? (Pen-Pusher) by Guillaume Martinez;

--This was probably my favorite, the first one screened. Two strangers seated next to each other on a subway have a silent intellectually flirtatious conversation by underlining passages in the books they are reading and stealing inconspicuous glances at each others' lap texts. Simple concept, very well executed. Life-like, elegant, urgent, intimate.

2-"Ma mere: Histoire? d'une immigration" (My Mother: Story of an  

Immigration) by Felipe 

--Interesting biographical journal from a daughter's POV about her family's immigration to France, the shaping forces on her family dynamics and specifically her mother.

3-?"Je suis une voix" (One Voice, One Vote) by Jeanne Paturle and  

Cécile Rousset;

--Rotoscoped animation with interview voice over. Content was loosely organized, entire effect was kind of unfocused, although there were moments of clever imagery.. burried knots sprouting trees, figures building with blocks and tumbling down, text flashes, and photo traces- ending with beautiful cutout collages depicting housing in Caracas Venezuela. Artistic and visually satisfying, but again, could have been more focused. 

4-"La dernière journée" (The Last Day) by Olivier Bourbeillon;

Documentary journal of 3 guys in a blacksmith shop the last day in operation before closing down. Poignant and detailed snapshot of a moment in time. Evocative, end of an era piece. Historical, ephemeral.

5-L'Origine de la Tendresse

Weird color balance, overexposed at times. made me wonder if it was on purpose or just ad-hoc production value or an attempt at style. Not entirely unpleasant, but gave it a dated or otherworldly feel that felt not rooted in the ordinary-ness of the narrative. A semi-voyeuristic peek into an unglamorous single woman's life.

6-Kitchen" by Alice Winocour;?

funny  little portrait of a pretty housewife troubled by preparing a lobster. Like a drawn out one liner. Intensified the effect of the whole festival which made me want to clean up my space and go to IKEA to euro-fy my domicile. Ended with the Madeline Peroux version of Elliott Smith's 'Between the Bars' which is an incredible song (Smiths) made me want to resubmerge myself in Elliot Smith music as the protagonist departs her apartment and is seen puffing cold breaths down an appealing French city street.

Passport is in order.

week 10- Genre films / Science Fiction / Forbidden Planet

Please make a note of this revised student presentation schedule

mon 11/10 Miley

thurs 11/13 Derwin, Byers (screening Week End)

mon 11/17 Burns, Nichols

thurs 11/20, Milewski, Wright (screening Clockwork Orange or Network-poll?)

mon 11/24 Nurre, Klane

thurs 27 Thanksgiving

What do you think Forbidden Planet says about the culture and memes of its time? (1956)

Does it carry any new weight in 2008? Elaborate on what you think it says to a contemporary viewer. Any comparisons? What is the film's technological, social, political, scientific, artistic, significance? Remind you of anything?

for some more insight, read this 

article click here