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| Details | Best Video Film & Cultural Center is pleased to bring back Mark Schenker for the tenth installment of his popular “How to Read a Film” series, which started Sun., Oct. 3, at 2 PM. Admission to each lecture is $7. The series continues on Sun., Oct. 24, at 2 PM as Schenker illuminates the 1956 John Ford western “The Searchers.” (Schenker explored the screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby” as the first film in this series; the second was the noir “Criss Cross.”) In previous installments of “How to Read A Film,” Schenker has zeroed in on a specific director’s oeuvre or focused on four films in a particular genre, like film noir. For this series, he will “focus more broadly on genre, and how a consideration of three great genres of American film can yield a greater understanding of one of Quentin Tarantino’s masterpieces, “Inglourious Basterds,” which audaciously combines aspects of screwball comedy, film noir, and western.” This will be an indoors event with the following covid protocols in place: • 30 attendees max • proof of vaccination required • masks required (they can be lowered to take drinks or eat popcorn but should be raised back up when done) The remaining schedule for the series: Sun., Oct. 24, 2 PM: “The Searchers” (1956, western, dir. by John Ford) Sun., Oct. 31, 2 PM: “Inglourious Basterds” (2009, dir. by Quentin Tarantino) In a 50th anniversary appreciation of “The Searchers,” the New York Times critic A.O. Scott writes: Ernest Hemingway once said that all of American literature could be traced back to one book, Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” and something similar might be said of American cinema and “The Searchers.” It has become one of those movies that you see, in part, through the movies that came after it and that show traces of its influence. “Apocalypse Now,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Kill Bill,” “Brokeback Mountain”: those were the titles that flickered in my consciousness in the final seconds of a recent screening in Cannes of Ford’s masterwork, all because, at crucial moments, they seem to pay homage to that single, signature shot. Mark Schenker’s lectures are accompanied by screenings of the films to illustrate the points he is making — it’s like a live commentary track! His previous lectures on the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Billy Wilder (among others) and the historical context in which the TV series “Downton Abbey” took place were erudite and entertaining. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/movies/11scot.html |
| Admission | $7 |
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