Through the Lens of Taiwan: Film, History, and Identity

Through the Lens of Taiwan: Film, History, an...

‏التالي

Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte, "In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)

In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way of life to a curious European public. Considered a “lost tribe,” the Lacandón were thought to be t ...  عرض المزيد

Chinatown

“Forget it, Jake—it’s Chinatown.” This piece of advice is as famous as it is useless: Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will never be able to forget what he’s seen. Chinatown (1974) is also impossible to forget: whether it’s the perfect nod to noir or the best noir of all time, it’s e ...  عرض المزيد

‏حلقات موصى بها

Movie theatre magic
The Forum

The speed with which cinema caught the public’s imagination is remarkable. The first film screenings took place in the 1890s and just two decades later, in the US alone there were thousands of nickelodeons and other spaces where you could watch a movie. Luxurious picture palaces ...  عرض المزيد

#598 - Shana L. Redmond and Michael Gillespie on Body & Soul and Us
Film at Lincoln Center Podcast

This week we’re excited to present a conversation between film scholars Shana L. Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, and Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor in NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, as they discuss a double f ...  عرض المزيد

Amadeus (1984) | Ep. 119
All The Right Movies

Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Miloš Forman's masterpiece tells the story of Mozart through the envious eyes of his rival Salieri. But how did a Czech director come to make a classic Viennese tale? And what's the real story behind "too many notes"?Join Joh ...  عرض المزيد

Why I Stopped Music For Filmmaking - Michael J Epstein
Filmcourage

Watch the video version of this podcast on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/AGXF9gco6fg?si=VQKjAU7kC8HNivCP Michael J. Epstein is a filmmaker, writer, musician, and scientist. With his production company, Launch Over, he has made theme-driven genre shorts and features that have pla ...  عرض المزيد