PHOTOMONTAGE: A Cinema Society

11/26/2015

We are deeply saddened to learn today that Setsuko Hara passed away earlier this year. Her legacy within Japanese cinema is unparalleled and one cannot discuss such legendary directors as Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse without bringing up her unforgettable performances in their films. In memory of her and her lifetime of dedication to the cinema, here is a list of several of her essential films.

A Ball at the Anjo House (dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura, 1947)
Repast (dir. Mikio Naruse, 1951)
The Idiot (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
Sound of the Mountain (dir. Mikio Naruse, 1954)

and all of her collaborations with Ozu, which include:
Late Spring (1949)
Early Summer (1951)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Late Autumn (1960)
The End of Summer (1961)

R.I.P. 原節子 (1920-2015)

11/18/2015

When a horrible murder-r**e crime remains unsolved for 25 years, a retired detective decides to revisit the details of the case and his obsession through writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8qDFVWkkU&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtH8qDFVWkkU&has_verified=1

Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin, decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five year old unresolved r**e and murder case, which still ...

11/18/2015

Foreign language cinema accounts only for 0.5 percent of film distribution in the US. This number has been decreasing consistently over the last few years. One of the many reasons this happens is due to the treatment of big production companies and studios towards foreign films and the US audience. They would rather buy the rights to a film and completely remake it, stripping away any ounce of culture and artistic integrity the film had, only to dumbf**k an entire audience and sell.
This Friday they will continue this tradition with a remake of the Argentinean masterpiece "El secreto de sus ojos".
Thus, this Thursday at 10 pm in room 111, we will be showing the original film followed by the terrifying trailer of the new version. Join us to fight for saving the shreds of originality this industry still has. See you then.

11/12/2015

"Happy Together" is painful, yet is also seriously sexy.
The film itself is an experimentation on the medium of cinema and a groundbreaking LGBTQ love story about two Hong Kongnese immigrants in Buenos Aires. This is also a work by Wong Kar-wai, a super cool dude who wears sunglasses all the time, literally ALL THE TIME, and who will probably change your life forever.

Here is a small teaser for tomorrow's screening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Dh6Jdc18c

Watch it.

11/06/2015

A reminder and a tease about tonight's screening...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1emgUdD3_pE

Dal film di Almodovar , Caetano ,esegue una volta di più, una versione irripetibile di Cuccurucucu paloma.

10/25/2015

Here's a full list of our Fall Schedule! We hope you all attend!

10/23/2015

Thanks everyone for coming out tonight! We hope you all enjoyed La noire de and hope to see you Sunday for our Chantal Ackerman retrospective!

10/21/2015

In times like ours, this film remains incredibly relevant...

Trailer for "La Noire de..." ("The Black of..."/"Black Girl"), by the great master of film: Ousmane Sembene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRNevX2AJ3Q

Download and Stream the full movie at www.africanfilmlibrary.com Diouana had heard wonderful stories about the colonial motherland, and in flashbacks that ta...

10/21/2015

Hey Everyone! This is the official page for the New Cinema Society, a brand-new initiative within Dodge to promote a stronger film culture within our school. Over the course of the next semester (and hopefully for the next few years), we intend to host bi-weekly screenings and events covering a variety of topics within cinema, featuring films from the all around the globe. We hope you'll join us for our debut screening this Thursday at 10PM in Dodge Room 111. We'll be screening African filmmaker Ousmane Sembené's debut feature "Black Girl" (1966). Famously the first film to be made by a black African filmmaker, "Black Girl" is a landmark film, tackling a variety of issues including racism, sexism, and the effects of colonialism on a society. We hope you'll all attend!