GMU’s Cinematic Arts Fraternity, Delta Kappa Alpha, Film & Media Studies, and Film & Video Studies present a series of films about filmmaking.
All screenings on Wednesdays at 4:30pm in Johnson Center Room A, each followed by a discussion with GMU faculty and Delta Kappa Alpha members.
10/1 4:30pm JC Rm A: Adaptation, starring Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Chris Cooper. Directed by Spike Jonze (2002)
Roger Ebert: "What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is -- a confounding story about orchid thieves and screenwriters, elegant New Yorkers and scruffy swamp rats, truth and fiction. 'Adaptation' is a movie that leaves you breathless with curiosity, as it teases itself with the directions it might take. To watch the film is to be actively involved in the challenge of its creation."
10/15 4:30pm JC Rm A: Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette, directed by Tim Burton (1994)
The New York Times: "Tim Burton's very good film about a very bad film maker, has a cheerful defiance that would surely have appealed to Orson Welles, who was Ed Wood's hero. Late in the film, Welles appears (played deftly by Vincent d'Onofrio, who really looks like him) to advise Wood that independence is everything and that an artist's visions are worth fighting for. Mr. Burton, currently Hollywood's most irrepressible maverick, has taken that credo to heart."
11/5 4:30pm JC Rm A: Lost In La Mancha, featuring Johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam, directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (2002)
Entertainment Weekly: "In 'Lost in La Mancha', a juicy movieland documentary about the countless spectacular ways that a major motion picture can go wrong, Terry Gilliam, the ebullient pop-surrealist creator of 'Brazil,' 'The Fisher King,' and '12 Monkeys,' is caught up in such a thicket of mood swings that you may feel like slipping him a tranquilizer. For a few moments, he's in filmmaking heaven."
Screenings and discussions are free and open to the public. Free food and drinks provided.
Sponsored by Delta Kappa Alpha, Film & Media Studies, and Film & Video Studies
October 29, 2014