A 35 mm print of Peter Jackson’s cult classic Heavenly Creatures will kick off the International Lens film series in Sarratt Cinema at
Vanderbilt
University on Sept. 3. The series, which is free and open to the public, will screen 27 films from 21 nations from September through December. Each film screening will include an introduction by a Vanderbilt faculty member or program director, who will also lead a post-screening discussion. Most films will be shown in 35 mm prints.
The series includes five contemporary French films –
Flanders, Regular Lovers, Dans Paris, Wild Side and Heartbeat Detector – presented as part of The Tournées Festival. In addition, the series will showcase such film festival favorites as Enemies of Happiness (winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentaries at Sundance), Four Days in September (Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film), Smoke Signals (Sundance Audience Award winner), Playing the Victim (winner of the Grand Prize at the first Rome International Film Festival) and Since Otar Left… (winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at
Cannes). Also featured will be the recently restored, director’s-cut version of Charles Burnett’s classic My Brother’s Wedding and filmmaker Annalee Davis will be present at the screening of her documentary, On The Map, about Caribbean Community migrants on October 16.
"We want to help the
Nashville film community grow," said JoEl Logiudice, director of the Office of Arts and Creative Engagement at Vanderbilt. "The International Lens film series is an opportunity for us to bring some of the best in foreign film to
Nashville, but films that might not otherwise be shown because of their special topics or niche appeal. We want to complement what’s already happening in
Nashville art cinema circles while also engaging the research interests of our faculty and center directors. We feel that access to these films and the chance to discuss the themes and ideas they raise will translate into real benefits for our students and the
Nashville community."
The series is made possible through the sponsorship of the Office of the Dean of Students, the
Max
Kade
Center for European and German Studies, the Vanderbilt departments and centers represented, and through the generous support of
Nashville cinephiles Mimi and Scott Manzler and The Tournées Festival of the French American Cultural Exchange. The schedule follows. All films will be screened at
7 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema unless otherwise noted.
- Sept. 3, Heavenly Creatures (1995,
New Zealand
) directed by Peter Jackson. Presented by Claire Sisco King, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. - Sept. 10, Regular Lovers (2005,
France
) directed by Phillippe Garrel. Presented by Robert Barsky, Professor of French and Comparative Literature. - Sept. 12, Dans Paris (2006,
France
) directed by Christophe Honoré. Presented by Sarah Childress, PhD. candidate in English. - Sept. 17, Wild Side (2004,
France
) directed by Sébastien Lifshitz. Presented by Nora Spencer, director of LGBTQI Life at the
K.C.
Potter
Center. - Sept. 18, Heartbeat Detector (2007,
France
) directed by Nicolas Klotz. Presented by Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French and chair of the Department of French and Italian. - Sept. 24, Caravaggio (1986,
United Kingdom
) directed by Derek Jarman. Presented by Christopher M.S. Johns, Professor and Chair of Department of History of Art. - Sept. 25, Flanders (2006,
France
) directed by Bruno Dumont. Presented by David Wood, Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. - Sept. 30, Paprika (2006, Japan) directed by Satoshi Kon. Presented by Gerald Figal, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies.
- Oct. 1, Machuca (2004,
Chile
) directed by Andrés Wood. Presented by Jason Borge, Assistant Professor of Spanish. - Oct. 8, Nuovomondo (2006,
Italy
) directed by Emanuele Crialese. Presented by Andrea Mirabile, Assistant Professor of Italian. - Oct. 9, Enemies of Happiness (2006,
Denmark
) directed by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al Erhayem. Presented by Stacy Nunnally, Director of the Gender Matters Program at the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt. - Oct. 14, Four Days in September (1997,
Brazil
) directed by Bruno Barreto. Presented by Mario Higa, Lecturer in Spanish. - Oct. 16, On the Map (2007,
Barbados
) directed by Annalee Davis. Presented at 7:30 p.m. in Room 235 of The Commons. Presented by Ifeoma Nwankwo, Associate Professor of English. - Oct. 17, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2007,
Malaysia
) directed by Tsai Ming-Liang. Presented by Peter Lorge, Senior Lecturer in History and East Asian Studies. - Oct. 22, Los Muertos (2004,
Argentina
) directed by Lisandro Alonso. Presented by Jason Borge, Assistant Professor of Spanish. - Oct. 29, Cautiva (2004,
Argentina
) directed by Gastón Biraben. Presented by Marshall Eakin, Professor of History. - Oct. 30, Smoke Signals (1998,
United States
) directed by Chris Eyre. Presented by Jeffrey Tlumak, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy. - Oct. 31, The Host (2006,
Korea
) directed by Bong Joon-ho. Presented by Paul Young, Director of the Film Studies Program at Vanderbilt. - Nov. 2, Stalags (2008,
Israel
) directed by Ari Libsker. Presented at 6 p.m. Presented by Jay Geller, Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Culture. - Nov. 5, Playing the Victim (2006,
Russia
) directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. Presented by Irina Makoveeva, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian and Leah Marcus, Edwin Mims Professor of English. - Nov. 6, Since Otar Left … (2003,
France
) directed by Julie Bertuccellis. Presented by F. Clark Williams, Office of the Dean of Students. - Nov. 12, Body and Soul (2001,
South Africa
) directed by Melody Emmett. Presented by Alfredo Vergara, Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health. - Nov. 14, Good Bye Lenin! (2003,
Germany
) directed by Wolfgang Becker. Presented by Dieter Sevin, Professor and Chair of the Germanic & Slavic Languages Department. - Nov. 18, Caramel (2007,
Lebanon
) directed by Nadine Labaki. Presented by Richard McGregor, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, and Stacy Nunnally, Director of Gender Matters Programming at the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt. - Nov. 19, My Brother’s Wedding (1985,
United States
) directed by Charles Burnett. Presented by Frank Dobson, Director of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt. - Dec. 2, Ten (2002,
Iran
) directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Presented by Gregg Horowitz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Robert Talisse, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science. - Dec. 3, Bodas de Sangre (1981,
Spain
) directed by Carlos Saura. Presented by William M. Akers, Senior Lecturer in the Film Studies Program at Vanderbilt.
Parking for International Lens screenings is available free in Zone 2 Lot 2 on
West End Avenue. Sarratt Cinema is on the first floor of the
Sarratt
Student
Center at
Vanderbilt
University.
For more information, call 615-322-6400 or go to www.vanderbilt.edu/internationallens.
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
Jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu