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Screen/Society Films at Duke
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Entertainment & Arts - Movies
Description:
Parties, Shooters, more parties, and more Shooters. Yeah, it gets old. Looking for something else to do on typical weekday and/or weekday nights?

Check out this group for daily updates on Screen/society's special film screenings and special events at Duke.


Stay tuned for Spring 2009's Screening Schedule!


What is Screen/Society?

Screen/Society is organized and coordinated by the Film/Video/Digital Program's Hank Okazaki.

It provides a film and video exhibition program for the Triangle... (read more)
Privacy Type:
Open: All content is public.

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W Feb 25 Griffith (8pm) | French Films--"Love, Past & Present”
Gilles' Wife

A woman struggles to hold on to the man she loves in this drama set in the 1930s from Belgian filmmaker Frédéric Fonteyne. Elisa (Emmanuelle Devos) is a housewife who is passionately devoted to her husband, Gilles (Clovis Cornillac), who works in a steel mill. Despite taking care of twin daughters and unfailingly seeing to the cooking and cleaning in their home, Elisa is as adoring of Gilles as she was on the day they met, and she eagerly tends to his ravenous sexual appetite. However, while most men would be thrilled to have a wife like Elisa, after years of marriage she begins to suspect that he might be having an affair with her sister Victorine (Laura Smet) while Elisa is pregnant with their third child. Elisa is too much in love with Gilles to leave him, but while she can accept her husband's faults, neither she nor her husband are certain if this is a casual fling or a love affair that will put an end to their relationship. La Femme de Gilles (aka Gilles' Wife) was adapted from a novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe. Certainly one of the most visually magnificent films of recent years, Gilles' Wife succeeds on every level: the story is unique, the direction is liquid and languorous, and the cast is superlative.
Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).

Th Feb 26 Love Auditorium/LSRC (7 pm) | Special Events
Adwa: An African Victory – followed by a Q&A with director Haile Gerima!

Haile Gerima's latest film, Adwa: An African Victory, recreates the failed Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1896. A professional invading army was defeated by villagers armed only with spears. By nightfall, according to one contemporary account, the Italian army "no longer existed". The war is celebrated amongst black historians and activists because it represents a setback in European colonial efforts known as the Scramble for Africa. The battle of Adwa became a rallying cry in the anti-colonial struggle and an inspirational event for the Pan-African Movement. Mr. Gerima, who is also a Professor of Film in Washington DC, went to Ethiopia and tracked down elders, historians, priests, poets and singers, who knew of aspects of the war lost to the history books. 20 hours of filmed oral history were distilled into a 90-minute film.
Sponsored by the Duke Ethiopian Student Transnational Association (DESTA), the Department of History, and the Film/Video/Digital Program.

Th–Fri, Feb 26-27 Griffith (7pm/9:30pm) | French Films--"Love, Past & Present”
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
** Free for Duke students, $1 for Duke employees, $2 for general admission **

Sensitive, intelligent drama about the tentative reestablishment of a relationship between two sisters who have been estranged for fifteen years. This powerful story of familial struggles and redemption follows a shell-shocked Juliette (Kristin Scott-Thomas), who returns to live with he young sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) after being banished from the family for 15 years. An enormous critical and box office success in France , Scott-Thomas's phenomenal performance has already been singled out by critics for end-of-year award consideration.
-- Presented by Freewater Films!
Sponsored by the Center French and Francophone Studies, Freewater Presentations (DUU) and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).

M March 2 Griffith (8pm) | Full Frame Archive Documentaries
The Education of Shelby Knox

Lubbock, Texas has some of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the nation. The town's solution? A strict abstinence-only education curriculum in the public schools and a fire-and-brimstone preacher who urges kids to pledge abstinence-until-marriage, telling them that True Love Waits…or else. Shelby is a pledger, a politically conservative, deeply religious, fifteen-year old Southern Baptist who joins the Lubbock Youth Commission, a group of high school students representing a youth voice in city government, because she loves politics. But when the teens confront Lubbock 's sexual health crisis and campaign for comprehensive, fact-based sex education, a new world opens up for Shelby . She throws herself into the fight with missionary fervor, struggling to reconcile her newfound political beliefs with her conservative religious views. When the fight widens to include a group of LBGT students who are trying to start a gay-straight alliance, Shelby must make a choice: Stand by and let others be hurt, or go against her parents, her pastor, and even the other teens on the commission, to help the gay kids in their fight?
Sponsored by the Duke University Libraries' Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections, and the Film/Video/Digital Program.

W March 4 Griffith (8pm) | French Films--"Love, Past & Present"
A Tout de Suite

A stylish, erotically charged thriller, À Tout de Suite is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot (Sade, A Single Girl). Based on actual events, it tells the story of sexy, free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank robber and joins him on the run, a dizzying cross-continent escape through Spain , Morocco and Greece , when a sudden betrayal leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere. Visually stunning, À Tout de Suite is a mesmerizing account of one woman's breathtaking journey of self-discovery.
Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).

Thu March 5 Nasher ( 7pm ) | Bloomsbury Film Series
Mrs. Dalloway

This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds herself looking back on her life 30 years before, when as a young woman (played by (Natascha McElhone), she was in love with two different men -- the solid and safe Richard Dalloway (John Standing) and the exciting, free-spirited Peter Walsh (Michael Kitchen).
Clarissa also recalls her close friendship with Sally (Lena Headey) as she wonders if she made the right choice in marrying Richard -- especially when Peter makes an unexpected appearance at her party. Mrs. Dalloway also finds herself moved in a way she never anticipated by the plight of Septimus Smith (Rupert Graves), a young man severely injured during the war whom she has never met.
Sponsored by the Nasher Museum of Art and the Film/Video/Digital Program.

M March 16 Griffith (8pm) | French Films--"Love, Past & Present"
Intimate Strangers (Confidences trop intimes)

Anna has an appointment to meet with Dr. Monnier, a psychiatrist, for the first time. She accidentally knocks on the wrong door and ends up instead confessing her marriage problems to William Faber, a tax accountant. Surprised by her mistake, unsettled by her distress and somewhat excited by this unexpected situation, William does not have the courage to tell her that he is not an analyst. As the two begin to meet on a regular basis, a strange ritual develops between them. Anna is comforted by these regular visits and by William's keen ability to listen to her. William is deeply moved by her confessions and fascinated by the secrets that no man has ever heard. At the same time, they exercise ambiguous power over each other. Anna is vulnerable to William's deception, yet she becomes empowered by her confessions. William is morally reproachable and one is never quite sure whether he is a romantic man or a creepy voyeur. Incapable of telling Anna the truth, he is compelled to consult Dr. Monnier, as Anna and William become attracted to each other. Their ambiguous relationship seems seems to hold the promise of turning into a love story, when the two of them meet again years later in the south of France.. .
Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).

Tu March 17 Griffith (8pm) | Cine-East: East Asian Cinema
Mind Game

This award-winning film is a journey of self-discovery based on Japan 's cult underground comic "Mind Game" by Robin Nishi. The story follows Nishi himself through the life experiences that directly inspired the semi-autobiographical "Mind Game" comic. As a college-age loser addicted to porn and aspiring to write seedy adult comics, Nishi aspires to overcome his addiction to perversion in a tale that is lighthearted yet painful and touching. What starts off as an innocent meeting between old friends quickly turns into a psychedelic extravaganza, filled with violence, sex, love, redemption, and the infinite possibilities of the human mind. Director Masaaki Yuasa rejoices in experimental animation techniques, filling the screen with virtuoso wackiness, mixing in rough lines and storyboards, then inserting photographic touches.
Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Duke Anime Club, and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Made possible by the Japan Foundation (NY Office).
What starts off as an innocent meeting between old friends quickly turns into a psychedelic extravaganza, filled with violence, sex, love, redemption, and the infinite possibilities of the human mind. Director Masaaki Yuasa rejoices in experimental animation techniques, filling the screen with virtuoso wackiness, mixing in rough lines and storyboards, then inserting photographic touches.
Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Duke Anime Club, and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Made possible by the Japan Foundation (NY Office).



W March 18 Griffith (8pm) | Full Frame Archive Documentaries
The Trials of Darryl Hunt

(Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, 2006, 106 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD)
The Trials of Darryl Hunt is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that reverberate from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in the South and in the American criminal justice system.

This documentary is the culmination of ten years of research and filming. In 1993, inspired by claims of injustice and police conspiracy, the filmmakers began to shoot in North Carolina. Barry Scheck from The Innocence Project, who worked on Hunt's case for ten years, and Gary Wells, professor and eyewitness expert, offer concrete examples where errors occurred in Hunt's saga and offer future remedies and effective ideas to prevent future "Darryl Hunts." Hunt himself addresses the need for systemic reforms to prevent wrongful convictions, underscoring the haunting reality that Hunt could have been sentenced to death and we would never have known this story.
Sponsored by the Duke University Libraries' Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections, and the Film/Video/Digital Program.