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Archive of Special Events
(Please note: Links within archived announcements may not have remained operational. Links for events not specifically organized by the Unit may no longer function.)
- Hong Kong Cinema Conference October 11, 1997
- Women in the Director's Chair October 22, 23, 24, 1997
- Austrian Silent Film Series October 14, 21, 28; November 4, 1997
- Renee Tajima-Peña, Documentary Maker November 11, 12, 1997
- Through the African Lens Film series: November 6, 20; December 4, 1997
- Lecture: Prof. Marc Silberman on "Germany's Movie Industry" December 8, 1997
- Japanese Film Series Krannert Art Museum: February 11, 18, 22, 25, 1998
- Asian-American Film Festival March 3-5, 1998
- Japan and Its Cinema in the 1990's March 10; March 17; March 31; April 7, 1998
- CHARACTER (Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner, 1998) April 5, 1998
- Evans Yiu Shing Chan, Independent Filmmaker March 10, 23, 24, 1999
- Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival April 21-24, 1999
- Israeli Film Festival October 12, 19, 26, 1999
- Gender on Global Screens - a film series in conjunction with The Ford Initiative, Fall 1999 - Spring 2000
- Past, Present, and Politics: South Asian Identities A Film Series: 9/6, 9/20, 10/4, 10/18, 11/1, 11/15, 11/29
- Documentary Filmmaker Jay Rosenstein and ERASED March 7, 2001
- Hong Kong Filmmaker Yim Ho with his 1997 film, KITCHEN April 5, 2001
- Contemporary Classics of Korean Cinema September 5, 12, 19, 20, 2001
- LES OLIVIERS DE LA JUSTICE/THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE with cinematographer Julius Rascheff, February 22, 2002
- Story & Structure: An Illinois Film Office Screenwriting Seminar with Dan Decker: March 9, 2002
- MY BROTHER'S LIGHT with appearances by filmmakers Michael and Jeffrey Wolinski, cast, and crew members, April 13, 2002
- FAAT KINE (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2000) 101 Armory Premiere Series September 27, 2002
- A.B.C AFRICA (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 2001) 101 Armory Premiere Series October 4, 2002
- Director/writer Srinivas Krishna with his 1996 film, LULU October 9, 2002
- CURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 1997) 101 Armory Premiere Series October 18, 2002
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"Spectacular Girls!: Crises of Body, Race, Sexuality, and Nation in U.S. Popular Culture (a work-in-progress)" Lecture by Prof. Sarah Projansky, UIUC, April 21, 2002
- TRIAD
Premiere of forty-minute feature by Chris Folkens, May 2, 2003
- THE UNSPOKEN with director Frederick Marx, November 2, 2003
- Unit for Cinema Studies Lecture Series
Toward a Spatial Materialism of the "Moving Image"
Locating Screen Media within Changing Regimes of Transport:
Lecture by Prof. James Hay, UIUC, November 12, 2003
- Constructing Pan-Chinese Cultures: Globalism and the Shaw Brothers Cinema Conference, October 2-4, 2003
- Unit for Cinema Studies Lecture Series
Millennial Moroseness: Anguished Male Cinema
Lecture by Prof. Pat Gill, UIUC, February 18, 2004
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Reel to Real: Asian American Voices
Film Festival organized by the Asian American Studies Program, February 26-28
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(Russian) Cinema after Communism
Conference organized by the Russian, East-European and Eurasian Center,
February 27-28
- Story & Structure: An Illinois Film Office Screenwriting Seminar conducted by Dan Decker, March 13, 2004
- DIVINE INTERVENTION A film by Elia Suleiman, with introduction and comments by Prof. Linda Dittmar, University of Massachusetts, April 15, 2004.
- THE RING with special appearance by executive producer Roy Lee and panel discussion, April 23, 2004.
- "Memory and Commemoration in
Saving Private Ryan" Lecture by Lester Friedman, Professor of Film/Television, Northwestern University, April 26, 2004
- Erotic Tales, an International Series April 8, 14, 20, 22, 27, 28, 29, May 3, 4, 2004
- Afro-Punk Film screening with director James Spooner, September 8, 2004
- Society for Animation Studies Conference,
September 30 to October 2, 2004
- Silent Japanese Cinema
Film Series:
October 5, 12, 19, 2004
- TOXIN World Premiere, with director Chris Folkens, April 22, 2005
- Deep Depp:
Cap'n Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka
and the Globalization of Johnny Depp
Lecture by Murray Pomerance, Professor of Sociology and Film Studies, Ryerson University,October 19,2005
- SISTERS IN CINEMA Documentary with director Yvonne Welbon, January 18, 2006
- TAEGUKGI: The Brotherhood of War
Korean Cinema Today Panel Discussion
Kang Je-Gyu, Director/Producer;
Hana Lee, Co-producer;
Lee Young-Lan, Professor of Theatre, Kyung Hee University, actress;
Lee Hyangjin, Professor of Film, author of Contemporary Korean Cinema;
February 7, 2006
TAEGUKGI
With an introduction and comments by the filmmakers,
February 8, 2006
- Japan Foundation Midwest Film Festival
February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2006
- In the Wake of "The Nigger Pixie":
Dave Chappelle and the High Cost of De Facto Crossover"
Lecture by Dr. Bambi Haggins, University of Michigan,
March 29, 2007
- "Trafficking in the Balkans: Screening Imaginary and Real Trauma" - Lecture by Prof. Yana Hashamova, Ohio State University;September 21, 2007
- Global Gangsters: Crime and International Cinema A Conference on International Cinema and the Crime Film,
October 19 and 20, 2007
- "Puedo Hablar?" ("May I Speak?")
Documentary film (on the 2006 Venezuelan presidential election and the re-election of Hugo Chavez) with discussion with producer and co-director Chris Moore
(Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
October 31, 2007
- "Anatolian Smile: True Self and False Self in Elia Kazan's America, America"
Lecture by Fabio Troncarelli, University of Viterbo, Italy
(Sponsored by Comparative & World Literature and the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics)
November 6, 2007
- "African Popular Cinema, Pentacostalism, and the 'Powers of Darkness': Contested Discourses on 'Tradition' in Ghana"
Lecture by Birgit Meyer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
VU University, Amsterdam
(A Center for Advanced Study/MILLERCOMM event) November 8, 2007
- African Film Conference
(principal sponsor: the Center for African Studies) November 8-10, 2007
- Asian Film Festival 2007: Southeast Asian Popular Cinema
(principal sponsors: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and Asian Educational Media Services) November 9-10, 2007
- "Strangers in the House: Continental Films and French Occupation Cinema"
Lecture by Judith Mayne, Ohio State University
March 24, 2008
- Meet the Filmmaker: Robin Christian,
April 30,2008
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