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Somniloquies (Work in Progress :: Visiting Filmmaker Series
Directed Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel Followed by a Q&A with the directors Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus Visiting Filmmaker Series Fall 2016 read more about Somniloquies (Work in Progress
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Desde Alla (From Afar) :: Center for Latin American Studies Jueves De Cine Fall 2016
Dir. by Lorenzo Vigas Venezuela/Mexico, 2015 1h 33min Wealthy middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn't want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. He also follows ... read more about Desde Alla (From Afar)
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Benjamin Smoke (2000) :: Visiting Filmmaker Series
Directed by Jem Cohen & Peter Sillen Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus read more about Benjamin Smoke (2000)
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American Experimental Films - Part 1 :: Film Festivals & Screenings
Discover a wide array of American experimental films from the 1940s through the 1960s. Tonight's program will feature films by Sidney Peterson, Storm de Hirsch, Marie Menken, Andy Warhol, and others. ... read more about American Experimental Films - Part 1
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Body and Soul :: Paul Robeson Film Festival
Body and Soul (USA, 1925; by the pioneering African American director Oscar Micheaux). In his debut feature film performance, Robeson plays two characters, the phony "preacher" Isaiah Jenkins and his ... read more about Body and Soul
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Museum Hours (2012) :: Visiting Filmmaker Series
Directed by Jem Cohen Followed by Q&A with the director Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus read more about Museum Hours (2012)
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The Flowers of War - Zhang Yimou :: Film Festivals & Screenings
A modern masterpiece from acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou, Flowers of War is both visually breathtaking and searing in its depiction of the horrors that unfolded in Nanking, China, in ... read more about The Flowers of War - Zhang Yimou
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Best of the Summer 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival - Part 1 The Suitor - Alvaro Congosto (Woodside, New York) :: Film Festivals & Screenings
A thrilling romance set during the night that Orson Welles broadcast The War of the Worlds in 1938, and announced that Martians had landed in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, causing ... read more about Best of the Summer 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival - Part 1 The Suitor - Alvaro Congosto (Woodside, New York)
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The Emperor Jones :: Paul Robeson Film Festival
The Emperor Jones (USA, 1933; directed by Dudley Murphy; based on the 1920 play by Eugene O'Neill). Robeson reprises his stage role, playing Brutus Jones, a Pullman porter who kills ... read more about The Emperor Jones
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The Stolen Man (2007) :: Visiting Filmmaker Series
Directed by Matías Piñeiro Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus read more about The Stolen Man (2007)
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Best of the Summer 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival - Part 2 A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure - Augusta Palmer (Brooklyn, New York) :: Film Festivals & Screenings
Iris, a curious, precocious and somewhat jaded nine-year-old New Yorker, is on a quest to find a space to exercise her imagination in the real world. Wandering down Fifth Avenue, ... read more about Best of the Summer 2016 New Jersey International Film Festival - Part 2 A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure - Augusta Palmer (Brooklyn, New York)
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South Asian Immigrants and Political Incorporation :: Film Festivals & Screenings
Professor Sangay Mishra Political Science, Drew University Comment by Sudip Bhattacharya Thursday, October 27, 2016 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library A light lunch will be provided. RSVP: mhawkes@scarletmail.rutgers.edu Sangay Mishra is the ... read more about South Asian Immigrants and Political Incorporation
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Jericho :: Paul Robeson Film Festival
Jericho (a.k.a. Dark Sands; UK, 1937; directed by Thornton Freeland). Robeson's title character is a medical student who is drafted to serve on a warship in WWI. He is court-martialed ... read more about Jericho
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The Proud Valley :: Paul Robeson Film Festival
The Proud Valley (UK, 1940; directed by Pen Tennyson). Robeson's character, David Goliath, is an American sailor who settles in Wales, where he works as a coal miner, joins a ... read more about The Proud Valley
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A World Without Thieves - Xiaogang Feng :: Film Festivals & Screenings
A con-team couple (Andy Lau & Rene Liu) head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter travelling home with his ... read more about A World Without Thieves - Xiaogang Feng
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Viola (2012) :: Visiting Filmmaker Series
Directed by Matías Piñeiro Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus read more about Viola (2012)
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Germany, 2015, 105 Minutes German, English, and Yiddish with English subtitles Directed by Lars Kraume In 1957, German Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant ... read more about The People vs. Fritz Bauer
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In Search of Israeli Cusine :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA, 2016, 97 Minutes English Directed by Roger M. Sherman James Beard award-winning chef Michael Solomonov, takes us on a journey to Israel through food. He enters peoples’ lives and their kitchens as ... read more about In Search of Israeli Cusine
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Fire Birds :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2015, 105 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Amir I. Wolf Three windows and a handsome srtanger cross paths in this Israeli murder mystery. Speaker: TBA read more about Fire Birds
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Germans and Jews :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA, 2016, 76 Minutes English and German with English Subtitles Directed by Janina Quint This documentary examines the history of Germany's postwar Jewish population and the fraught and fragile relationships between Jews and ... read more about Germans and Jews
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One Week and a Day :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2016, Drama, 97 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Asaph Polonsky When shiva for their son ends and his wife tries to return to her routine, a grieving father sets out ... read more about One Week and a Day
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In Search of Israeli Cusine :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA, 2016, 97 Minutes English Directed by Roger M. Sherman James Beard award-winning chef Michael Solomonov, takes us on a journey to Israel through food. He enters peoples’ lives and their kitchens as ... read more about In Search of Israeli Cusine
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The Women's Balcony :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2016, 96 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Emil Ben Shimon An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in ... read more about The Women's Balcony
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On the Map :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2016, 78 Minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Dnai Menkin This documentary recounts the story of the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team's victory int he European cup, which ... read more about On the Map
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Germans and Jews :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA, 2016, 76 Minutes English and German with English Subtitles Directed by Janina Quint This documentary examines the history of Germany's postwar Jewish population and the fraught and fragile relationships between Jews and ... read more about Germans and Jews
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The Kind Words :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel and Canada, 2016, 118 Minutes French and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Shemi Zarhin This quirky and wry dramedy follows three siblings—Dorona and brothers Netanel and Shai—who, in the wake of ... read more about The Kind Words
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A Tale of Love and Darkness :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel and USA, 2015, 98 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Natalie Portman Based on Amos Oz's international best-seller, and starring Natalie Portman, in her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and ... read more about A Tale of Love and Darkness
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Jauja :: Center for Latin American Studies Jueves De Cine Fall 2016
Dir. by Lisandro Alonso Aregentina/Denmark/France/Mexico, 2014 1h 48min An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, Jauja begins in remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come ... read more about Jauja
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The Princess of France (2014) :: Visiting Filmmaker Series
Directed by Matías Piñeiro Followed by Q&A with the director Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus read more about The Princess of France (2014)
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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA, 2016, 91 Minutes English Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the ... read more about Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
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A La Vie :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
France, 2014, 106 Minutes French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann Fifteen years after surviving Auschwitz, Helene, Lili and Rose are reunited on holiday in the North of France. Savoring ice cream ... read more about A La Vie
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A La Vie :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
France, 2014, 106 Minutes French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann Fifteen years after surviving Auschwitz, Helene, Lili and Rose are reunited on holiday in the North of France. Savoring ice cream ... read more about A La Vie
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Eva Hesse :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA and Germany, 2016, 108 Minutes English Directed by Marcie Begleiter The film portrays the extraordinary brief life of artist Eva Hesse: from escaping Germany at age two on the Kindertransport, to her ... read more about Eva Hesse
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Who's Gonna Love Me Now? :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel and U.K., 2016, 84 Minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Barak Heymann and Tomer Heymann Saar is an HIV-positive gay man living in Lodong, where he found refuge from ... read more about Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
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Cloudy Sunday :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Greece, 2015, 116 Minutes Greek with Ladino and English subtitles Directed by Manoussos Manoussakis Set in the Greek city of Thessaloniki during the German occupation in 1942, the film tells the story of ... read more about Cloudy Sunday
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Fire Birds :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2015, 105 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Amir I. Wolf Three windows and a handsome srtanger cross paths in this Israeli murder mystery. Speaker: TBA read more about Fire Birds
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Who's Gonna Love Me Now? :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel and U.K., 2016, 84 Minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Barak Heymann and Tomer Heymann Saar is an HIV-positive gay man living in Lodong, where he found refuge from ... read more about Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
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A La Vie :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
France, 2014, 106 Minutes French with English subtitles Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann Fifteen years after surviving Auschwitz, Helene, Lili and Rose are reunited on holiday in the North of France. Savoring ice cream ... read more about A La Vie
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Who's Gonna Love Me Now? :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel and U.K., 2016, 84 Minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Barak Heymann and Tomer Heymann Saar is an HIV-positive gay man living in Lodong, where he found refuge from ... read more about Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
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Sabena Hijacking: My Version :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2015, 98 Minutes English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French with English subtitles Directed by Rani Saar On the eighth of May 1972, four hijackers from the Palestinian organization "Black September" took control of ... read more about Sabena Hijacking: My Version
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One Week and a Day :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2016, Drama, 97 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Asaph Polonsky When shiva for their son ends and his wife tries to return to her routine, a grieving father sets out ... read more about One Week and a Day
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Double Feature: Partner with the Enemy and Women in Sink :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Women in Sink Israel, 2015, 36 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Iris Zaki In a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa, the director installs a camera over the washbasin ... read more about Double Feature: Partner with the Enemy and Women in Sink
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Cloudy Sunday :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Greece, 2015, 116 Minutes Greek with Ladino and English subtitles Directed by Manoussos Manoussakis Set in the Greek city of Thessaloniki during the German occupation in 1942, the film tells the story of ... read more about Cloudy Sunday
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Denial :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA and United Kingdom, 2016, 110 Minutes English, Hebrew and German with English subtitles Directed by Mick Jackson This drama depicts Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt's historic legal trial against Holocaust denial. Starring Rachel ... read more about Denial
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On the Map :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2016, 78 Minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Dnai Menkin This documentary recounts the story of the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team's victory int he European cup, which ... read more about On the Map
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Germany, 2015, 105 Minutes German, English, and Yiddish with English subtitles Directed by Lars Kraume In 1957, German Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant ... read more about The People vs. Fritz Bauer
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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
USA, 2016, 91 Minutes English Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the ... read more about Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
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Double Feature: Partner with the Enemy and Women in Sink :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Women in Sink Israel, 2015, 36 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Iris Zaki In a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa, the director installs a camera over the washbasin ... read more about Double Feature: Partner with the Enemy and Women in Sink
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Sabena Hijacking: My Version :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2015, 98 Minutes English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French with English subtitles Directed by Rani Saar On the eighth of May 1972, four hijackers from the Palestinian organization "Black September" took control of ... read more about Sabena Hijacking: My Version
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The Women's Balcony :: The 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
Israel, 2016, 96 Minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Emil Ben Shimon An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in ... read more about The Women's Balcony
The Cinema Studies Program, in collaboration with the Paul Robeson Center, is delighted to celebrate Rutgers' 250th anniversary by presenting four films featuring the university's esteemed alumnus, the actor/singer/activist Paul Robeson.
The series will be introduced on October 13 by Professor CHARLES MUSSER (Yale University), an internationally-renowned scholar of Paul Robeson, as well as of "race films" and early cinema in general.
These events are free and open to the public.
The Bildner Center is pleased to present the 17th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, which will run from Sunday, October 30 through Sunday, November 13. The festival features a diverse array of narrative and documentary films from around the world and most screenings feature guest speakers, including filmmakers and scholars.
We hope that you will be able to join us at the festival and ask that you share this event information with faculty, staff, and students.
All screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, call 848-932-5245 or email karina.daves@rutgers.edu
This series is underwritten by the Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation
Jueves de Cine is organized by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and co-sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program, the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies (LCS) and the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS) .
All screenings are free and open to the public. No RSVP but come early to secure your seat!
The APU Trilogy
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray’s film trilogy masterwork, newly restored
Rutgers’ Cinema Studies Program is delighted to present the Criterion Collection’s restoration of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, on the first three Wednesday evenings in April. The opening night (April 5), we will also welcome Criterion’s Abbey Lustgarten and Professor Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh), who will introduce the trilogy and its restoration.
Dates: Wednesday April 5, 12 & 19 at 6:30 PM
Location: AB-1180 (CAC; 15 Seminary Place)
This event is free and open to all!
Co-sponsored by the Department of African, Middle-Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the South Asian Studies Program
Jueves de Cine is organized by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and co:sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program and the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies (LCS). All screenings are free and open to the public. No RSVP but come early to secure your seat! Popcorn and sodas courtesy of the Center for Latin American Studies.
The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival heads into its eighteenth run, Oct. 29 – Nov. 12, bringing New Jersey a broad range of award-winning, international films. Of the fifteen films being screened at the festival, ten are New Jersey premieres and they represent seven countries. Discussions with filmmakers, actors, scholars, and other noteworthy guests enrich the film going experience. The festival will be held at two venues: AMC Loews New Brunswick 18, 17 US Highway 1 South, New Brunswick (AMC); and Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street, Princeton (PGT). The festival is sponsored by Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.
Information:
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center
Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies
4170 Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.
Phone: (848) 932-8482; Fax: (732) 932-1935;
E-mail: NJMAC@aol.com, NJMAC12@gmail.com; Web Site: www.njfilmfest.com
Jueves de Cine is organized by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and co-sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program, and the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies. The Program is free and open to the public. Seating is on first come, first served basis. Popcorn and soda will be served.
INFORMATION
New Jersey Film Festival
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center
Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies
4170 Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8525 U.S.A.
(848) 932-8482 phone (732) 932-1935 fax;
NJMAC@aol.com, NJMAC12@gmail.com e-mail;
Web Site: www.njfilmfest.com
The Bildner Center is pleased to present the 19th annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, which will run from Tuesday, October 30, through Sunday, November 11. The festival features a diverse array of narrative and documentary films from around the world and most screenings feature guest speakers, including filmmakers, actors, and scholars.
The festival will be held at two locations: AMC Loews New Brunswick (AMC), 17 US Highway 1, New Brunswick, NJ; and Princeton Garden Theatre (PGT), 160 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. Please note that all films will be screened at the New Brunswick location at least once.
Following is a full list of films and the screening schedule. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit our website at BildnerCenter.Rutgers.edu/film.
