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Film History Discussion Series: 1945-Present
Led by Bryn Mawr Film Institute Faculty

Join members of BMFI’s faculty for a series of discussions charting a course through the post-World War II history of world 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):

9/8: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1946)
9/15: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950) 
9/22: Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, US, 1950)
9/29 : No Discussion
10/6: Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1952)
10/13: No Discussion
10/20: Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, US, 1959)
10/27: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1960)
11/3: The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, US, 1964)
11/10: Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, US, 1970)
11/17: The Marriage of Maria Braun (R. W. Fassbinder, Germany, 1979)
11/24: A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, Hong Kong, 1986)
12/1: The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, US, 1999)
12/8: Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, The Palestinian Territories, 2005)

Film selections subject to change.