March
5 - 7, 2004
The
Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties
With
J. Hoberman in person
In
his new book The Dream Life, Village Voice
film critic J. Hoberman turns his attention to the  1960s,
presenting an erudite history of the era’s politics and culture.
In virtuosic, entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood
movies such as Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, The
Wild Bunch and Shampoo, Hoberman reconstructs
the hidden political history of 60s cinema. Meanwhile, against
the pageantry of four national elections—1960 to 1972, as well
as
the rise and fall of the New Left and New Right, he describes
the
formation of America’s spectacular, image-laden political culture.
Film
@ International House is pleased to present a weekend of films
co-curated
and
introduced by J. Hoberman.
Friday,
March 5 at 7pm
The
Manchurian Candidate New
35mm print!
dir.
John Frankenheimer, US, 1962, 35mm, 126 mins, b/w
 A
film that plays with America's oversized horror of Communist
infiltration while it
deals on another level with the very real brainwashing potential
of media-induced fear, The Manchurian Candidate made
John Frankenheimer an artist to
be reckoned with
in
Hollywood. Former infantryman Bennett
Marco is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been
captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams
seem to center on Sergeant Raymond Shaw, a
decorated war hero, sent by the Korean Communists to
assassinate the Presidential nominee. Frank Sinatra and Angela
Lansbury turn
in
career defining performances in
thischillingly suspenseful and
viciously satirical political thriller.
preceded
by
Primary
dir.
Robert Drew Associates, US, 1960, 16mm, 53 mins, b/w
In
1960, when Robert Drew produced Primary, it was recognized
as a breakthrough, the beginning of what came to be called “direct
cinema” in America. Primary was the first film
in which the sync sound camera moved freely with characters
throughout a breaking story. For his first subject Drew chose
a young senator,
none
other than John F. Kennedy, who was running against Hubert Humphrey
for the Democratic presidential nomination in Wisconsin.
Saturday,
March 6 at 7pm
Visiting
Authors Series - Critic and author J. Hoberman
As
part of International House’s ongoing Visiting Authors Series,
J.Hoberman reads from and will sign copies of his new book The
Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Free admission.
J.
Hoberman is senior film critic at the Village
Voice, and writes for the New York Times, Artforum,
and other publications. His previous books include Red
Atlantis, Bridge of Light and Vulgar Modernism,
which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
He is an adjunct professor of cinema at the Cooper Union in
New York City.
Saturday,
March 6 at 8pm
Wild
in the Streets
dir.
Barry Shear, US, 1968, 35mm, 94 mins, color
With
Wild in the Streets, B-movie studio American International
Pictures imagined a
Jim Morrison-like pop star president who puts everyone over
30 in psychedelic labor camps. Released during the 1968 primary
season, this insolent satire allegorizes everything from Yippie
fantasies and Wallacite nightmares, to student uprisings, the
McCarthy and Kennedy campaigns, and the chaos of the 1968 Democratic
National Convention.
preceded
by
Yippie!
dir.
Bill Jersey, US, 1968, 16mm, 10 mins, b/w
True
to their joyfully anarchist philosophy of politics as “theatre”,
De Mille footage, Abbie Hoffman, Democratic-party machine politicians,
and Allen Ginsberg are cross cut in a complex, sophisticated,
montage in the official newsreel of the Youth International
Party.
and
RFK ‘68
dir.
John Frankenheimer, US, 1968, Beta SP, 25 mins, color
Documenting
Robert Kennedy’s whistle stop tour through the Indiana heartland,
John Frankenheimer, media adviser to RFK, also directed his
official campaign film which bears a curious resemblance to
then box office smash Bonnie and Clyde.
Sunday,
March 7 at 1pm
Ulzana’s
Raid
dir.
Robert Aldrich, US, 1972, 35mm, color
RobertAldrich
pulls no punches in his post-Vietnam western; an unrelentingly
brutal story of a reign of terror perpetrated on Arizona
settlers by a bitter Apache warrior and the cavalry's frustrated
attempts to stop him. Burt Lancaster, a longtime Aldrich collaborator
and star of the similar 1954 Western Apache, brings
his
laconic, quietly authoritative presence to the role of McIntosh,
a blunt-speaking, introspective old army scout with more respect
than hate for his enemy.
preceded
by
Interviews
with My Lai Veterans
dir.
Joseph Strick, US, 1970, 16mm, b/w
This
Academy Award winning documentary explores the bloody massacre
at My Lai through the
eyes and words of its American participants.
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