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Film History Discussion Series: 1945-Present


Join members of BMFI’s faculty for a series of discussions charting a course through the postwar history of world cinema, based on the curriculum of Bryn Mawr College’s History of Narrative Cinema.

We will visit a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and other movements and genres of the last sixty years.

Films to be discussed are (click the film title for a description):

9/10: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, US, 1941)
9/17: The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, U.S., 1946) 
9/24: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1948)
10/1: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1954)
10/8: All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, US, 1955)
10/15: No Discussion
10/22: Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1959)
10/29: Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965)
11/5: The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, U.S., 1973)
11/12: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (R. W. Fassbinder, Germany, 1974)
11/19: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, U.S., 1982)
11/26: Vagabond (Agnes Varda, France, 1985)
12/3: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
12/10: Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 2002)

Film selections subject to change.