Hello, all. I offer the following crossposted message at the request of an off-list colleague, Barton Byg. If you would like more information about the Straub-Huillet screenings, please contact him directly at [log in to unmask] Thanks, Marty Norden > Please pass on to interested colleagues/friends/students in the Boston area: > > A rare screening of three films by Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub > will be presented at the Harvard Film Archive Friday, 18 April 1997. > > At 7:30 will be the U.S. premieres of CEZANNE: CONVERSATION AVEC JOACHIM > GASQUET (France 1989), 52 min. > and > LOTHRINGEN! (Germany 1994), 21 minutes. > > Both films are in French; an English text will be provided. > > At 9:00 and again on Sunday at 7 p.m. is DER TOD DES EMPEDOKLES (The > Death of Empedocles), (West Germany/France, 1987), 132 min. > in German with English subtitles. > > All three films are noteworthy examples of Straub/Huillet's culturally and > cinematically innovative confrontation of texts and landscapes. CEZANNE > includes a reading of excerpts from the "conversations" with Gasquet, > images of Cezanne works and contemporary France, and excerpts from the > films MADAME BOVARY by Jean Renoir and THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES by > Straub/Huillet. > > LOTHRINGEN! is filmed in the area around Metz, with excerpts from the > novel COLETTE BAUDOCHE by Maurice Barres, dealing with the eviction of > the "natives" by the "immigres," the banning of the French language in > schools, and dreadful images of exodus. Landscapes, charted and surveyed, > are desolate with their extinguished furnaces and rusted rails, > paradoxically sovereign in the trembling of the leaves, the quivering of > the grass, the grey skies, and the cries of children (from Harvard Film > Archive program). > > THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES is a staging on locations on and near Mt. Etna of > Friedrich Hoelderlin's drama fragment of 1798 (first version). > > The Friday screenings will be introduced by Barton Byg, University of > Massachusetts, author of Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of > Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (California, 1995). > > Harvard Film Archive is in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 > Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138. Tel. 617-496-6046. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite