Want to know the origins of modern film and discover for yourself how it all came about? Would you like to get together with like-minded people to view and discuss great films? The guide for this journey to the New Wave is noted educator, artist and filmmaker, Gérard Amsellem, who will provide the studio space to view the film and guide the discussion before and after the film. The film club curre
ntly meets monthly at SOPAC in South Orange, NJ. For more information contact Gérard at [email protected] or Julian Elman at [email protected]. Past film series include:
German:
The Blue Angel, Von Sternberg, 1930
Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Herzog, 1972
The Marriage of Maria Braun, Fassbinder, 1979
The Wings of Desire, Wenders, 1987
Spanish:
The Exterminating Angel, Bunuel, 1962
Cria Cuervos, Saura, 1975
All About My Mother, Almodovar, 1999
The Sea Inside, Amenabar, 2004
Italian:
Rome Open City, Rossellini, 1945
Umberto D., De Sica, 1952
81/2, Fellini, 1963
L’Avventura, Antonioni, 1960
Seven Beauties, Wertmuller, 1975
Death in Venice, Visconti, 1971
Surrealists:
Metropolis, Lang, 1927
La Grande Illusion, Renoir, 1937
Bicycle Thieves, De Sica, 1948
The 400 Blows, Truffaut, 1959
Breathless, Godard, 1960
