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

http://www.temple.edu/mcpb/events.html

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.

STUDENTS: Tell the world the way it should be. Is open sharing of ideas and information important to you? Form a team or go it alone and make a video to demonstrate the value of information sharing as you see it.

EDUCATORS: A great assignment for your fall courses. Teacher’s guide coming soon.

Learn more at http://www.sparkyawards.org

"Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films. And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity."

Read more about here at Film.com...

Blending fiction and fact in a fantastic scrolling landscape, VOYAGE INTO THE UNKNOWN is a multimedia account of John Wesley Powell's famous journey down the Colorado River beginning May 25 1869. You will discover a landscape dotted with observations, competing diary notes, and side routes – some of which may be deadly... You will travel across writing modes as well as spaces. Knowledge comes in integrating many such modes. Here, first comes the adventure, then comes its representation. Much later, comes critical examination, and, perhaps, as a whole, re-invention...

This work is free and on-line. For more, visit www.unknownterritories.org

Written, Directed and Produced by Evan Weinstein

On SubmarineChannel, we love a good main title. That's why we started this online collection in 1997 of the most stunning and original film title sequences. Some are engaging and wildly entertaining, some are funny, exhilarating or simply deadly beautiful. Some are oozing with visual treats, while others hit you hard with their bold and audacious style.

"In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film."

"On May 10, 2008, live events in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked to produce a program of powerful films, live music and visionary speakers. The program will be broadcast live to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones."

Some highlights:

The Paley reference collection is now home to Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews. This 15 volume set reprints the film reviews and some editorials originally published by P.S. Harrison in Harrison's reports, 1919-1962, with some corrections. Harrison's reports was a weekly sent out to independent exhibitors. The reviews and editorials were directed toward independent theater owners to assist them with booking. Articles in Harrison's take positions on a variety of the concerns of cinema distributors and exhibitors ranging from topics such as censorship to the advent of 3D.

A large number of scripts now appear in the library catalog now that we've uploaded records for the scripts that are available in the full text online database American Film Scripts Online. There are currently 823 scripts in the database, ranging from 1903 to 2006.

The event will be held at the Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), Room 420, from 5:30-7:00pm

Welcoming

• Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon
• Sujata Moorti, Middlebury College
• Sumita Chakravarty, New School University
• Pallabi Chakravorty, Swarthmore College

in a a discussion of Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (eds.) forthcoming publication Global Bollywood: Transnational Travels of the Song-Dance Sequence (2008). This interdisciplinary collection of essays describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle around the world.

Thurs., April 17, 11:40 a.m - 1pm
CHAT Room, 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall
For further information.

Monday, April 7, 3:30 p.m.
Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Temple University, will speak on cinema, science, and their meeting in the educational film.
The workshop is on Monday from 3:30 pm until 5:15pm in 337 Logan Hall, with refreshments to follow.
All are welcome!

Deadline is one month away! See details here.

"There are, roughly, two ways to think about doing film theory. One way is to look at a body of research or reflection in some established area (history, philosophy, psychology, etc.) and ask: What can it tell me about movies? So you might look at Freudian psychoanalysis or Gestalt perceptual psychology as a whole and then home in on ideas that seem to have relevance to cinema.

The other way to do film theory is to look closely at some filmic phenomenon and ask: What’s the best way to understand this aspect of movies? Your reading and thinking might then lead you to adjacent fields of inquiry for help. In the first instance, you start broad and move to particular cases. In the second, you start with particular cases and explore what broader ideas or information can shed light on them."

Bordwell goes on to give examples of how ideas from the cognitive sciences can be used to explain how we understand or engage with motion pictures, and how he has seen it as an alternative to the psychoanalytic approach. I often remind undergraduate students doing library research in cinema studies to look to resources in the social sciences as well as humanities. There's a wealth of information in research tools like PsycInfo to offer inspiration for fresh approaches at every level of scholarship.