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April 2018
Script To Screen: GET OUT
In Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out (2017), a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate and becomes ensnared in a series of terrifying events. Photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) travel upstate to visit her parents Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly-accommodating behavior as a nervous attempt to respond to their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead Chris…
Find out more »June 2018
Greenscreen 2018 Film Premiere
GreenScreen 2017 trailer from Carsey-Wolf Center on Vimeo.
Find out more »September 2018
Shakespeare on Film: Hamlet
Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) is celebrated for dramatizing the turmoil of its central character through means of expression unique to cinema. Borrowing conventions both from German cinema of the 1920s and from contemporaneous classical Hollywood cinema, the film streamlines the play in order to foreground Hamlet’s subjectivity, written largely in the gloomy recesses of Elsinore. Adapted and directed by its star, Olivier’s film remains a touchstone both in the cinematic treatment of Hamlet and in the history of Shakespeare on film. Mark Rose (English, UCSB)…
Find out more »October 2018
In the Last Days of the City
In Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City (2016), Khalid Abdalla plays a filmmaker from downtown Cairo who struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while the world changes around him—from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime. Friends send him footage and stories from Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, creating a powerful, multilayered meditation on togetherness, the tactile hold of cities, and the meaning of homeland. Shot in the two…
Find out more »Frankenstein Afterlives: Mary Shelley
The Carsey-Wolf Center opens its Frankenstein: Afterlives series with Haifaa Al-Mansour’s 2017 film, which explores the life of the young writer who gave the world Frankenstein. Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer who is fascinated with the legacy of her famous deceased mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and determined to make her mark on the world. When she meets the brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth), she embarks…
Find out more »Harlan County, USA
This film screening is part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective. In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners refuse the labor contract. Once the miners start to strike, the owners of the mine respond by hiring scabs to fill the jobs of the regular employees. The strike, which lasts more…
Find out more »Frankenstein Afterlives: Bride of Frankenstein
James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is the sequel to his 1931 original Frankenstein. After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) falls under the control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), who insists that the now-chastened doctor should resume his experiments in creating new life. Meanwhile, the Monster (Boris Karloff) remains on the run from those who wish to destroy him and longs for a mate of…
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