October 2008 Archives
Temple University Cinématheque offers film lovers the opportunity to view films of artistic excellence and historical importance in their intended format. All screenings are presented as 35MM prints on a giant screen in the comfort of a real movie theater!
WEDNESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2008, 7:30PM
That Obscure Object of Desire
dir. Luis Buñuel, France/Spain, 1977, 102 mins, color, French with English subtitles
Legendary director Luis Buñuel’s final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle his lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead— Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louÿs’ 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel’s brilliant surrealistic beginnings. Not to be missed!
Admission is only $4. Two dollars for Temple students with i.d.
Beverages and snacks are available outside the theater at our fully stocked concession counter!
The Reel Student Center Cinema is located in the lower level of the Student Center South
13th Street between Cecil B. Moore and Montgomery Ave (a five minute walk from the Broad Street Subway Line, Cecil B. Moore Station, and the Regional Rail).
For more information contact:
Michael Hartig
michael.hartig@temple.edu
269.806.2932
For immediate release
October 2, 2008
For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
SPARC
(202) 296-2296
jennifer@arl.org
SPARKY AWARDS LINK UP WITH CAMPUS MOVIEFEST;
JUDGES PANEL TO INCLUDE NEW MEDIA LUMINARIES
Washington, DC - October 2, 2008 - Campus MovieFest, the world's largest student film festival, is a new sponsor of the 2008 Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of sharing information. The competition promotes discussion of free and open access to information by inviting students to consider the issues and creatively express their views. The 2008 contest theme is "MindMashup: The Value of Information Sharing."
As a sponsor, Campus MovieFest (CMF) will draw the attention of tens of thousands of student filmmakers to the Sparky Awards. The winner of the 2008 Sparky Awards will be screened at the CMF Southern Grand Finale in Spring 2009.
SPARC has also announced that 2008 contest judges will include noted media experts:
Michael Wesch, the anthropologist whose innovative video explaining Web 2.0 has been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube;
Media scholar and filmmaker Kembrew McLeod, whose book and documentary film entitled Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property have received broad critical acclaim; and
University of Pennsylvania cinema studies professor Peter Decherney, author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American and leader of the 2006 petition for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for media professors to use clips in teaching.
The 2008 Sparky judges panel also includes:
Nicole Allen, director of The Student PIRGs' "Make Textbooks Affordable" campaign
Barbara DeFelice, Digital Resources Program Director, Dartmouth College, representing ACRL
Rick Johnson, SPARC's founding Executive Director and senior advisor
Rich Jones, leader of the Students for Free Culture Boston Chapter
Jennifer McLennan, Director of Communications at SPARC
Jessica Reynoso of Campus MovieFest
Crit Stuart, Director of Research, Teaching, and Learning at ARL
Anu Vedantham, Director of the Weigle Information Commons at Penn Libraries
Originated in 2007 by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the annual Sparky Awards are co-sponsored by several national student and library organizations, including the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Campus MovieFest, Penn Libraries at University of Pennsylvania, Students for Free Culture, and The Student PIRGs.
Well-suited for adoption as a college or high school class assignment, the Sparky Awards invite contestants to submit videos of two minutes or less that imaginatively portray the benefits of the open, legal exchange of information. The Winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 along with a Sparky Award statuette. Two Runners Up will each receive $500 plus a personalized award certificate. Submissions must be received by November 30, 2008.
For more information or to enter the Sparky Awards, visit the contest Web site at www.sparkyawards.org.
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