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The Great Transition:
World Cinema in the 1960s

Lecturer: Jonathan Rosenbaum

From Jan. 25 through May 7, we offer a series of fourteen programs entitled The Great Transition: World Cinema in the 1960s, with weekly lecture/discussions by Jonathan Rosenbaum, internationally renowned film critic for the Chicago Reader and author of numerous books including Discovering Orson Welles. The series is made possible in part through the sponsorship of American Airlines, the Film Center’s Educational Underwriter, and is presented in cooperation with the School of the Art Institute’s Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. Additional screenings of the films on Friday do not include Jonathan Rosenbaum’s lecture. Admission to all Great Transition programs is $4 for Film Center members; usual admission prices apply for non-members.

-- Martin Rubin

In between Italian neorealism and the European new waves, one can find a ferment of creativity in many different cinemas around the world. This two-part series investigates the phenomenon in all its complexity and diversity. In Part Two, devoted to the 1960s, emphasis will be placed on the new waves of France, Great Britain, and Africa, as exemplified by such films as Alphaville, The Knack, and Black Girl. Also included will be Hollywood and American independent films that showed the influence of those new waves, including Shadows, The Hustler, and The Connection, as well as films by old masters such as Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, and John Ford.

-- Jonathan Rosenbaum

SHADOWS
1959, John Cassavetes, USA, 87 min.
With Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd

No other film heralded the emergence of a “new American cinema” as did Cassavetes’s first feature, shot in 16mm on a budget of $15,000. Largely improvised by its nonprofessional cast, SHADOWS is the story of a young black woman who passes for white, not by design, but because the matter of race is irrelevant to her until her white lover meets her two darker-skinned brothers. The famous score is by jazz great Charles Mingus. 35mm. (BS)

Friday, January 25, 6:15 pm
Wednesday, January 30, 6:00 pm

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Upcoming films in The Great Transition:

February 1 and 6
PERSONA
1966, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 83 min.
With Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson

February 13
THE HUSTLER
1961, Robert Rossen, USA, 134 min.
With Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason

February 15 and 20
ALPHAVILLE
1965, Jean-Luc Godard, France, 99 min.
With Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina

February 22 and 27
ZAZIE DANS LE METRO
1960, Louis Malle, France, 89 min.
With Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret

February 29 and March 5
BLACK GIRL
1966, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 65 min.
With Mbissine Thérèse Diop

March 12
THE CONNECTION
1961, Shirley Clarke, USA, 110 min.
With William Redfield, Warren Finnerty

March 19
W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISIM
1971, Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavis/West Germany, 85 min.
With Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper

March 26
MR. FREEDOM
1969, William Klein, France, 95 min.
With Delphine Seyrig, John Abbey

April 2
THE KNACK . . .AND HOW TO GET IT
1965, Richard Lester, UK, 84 min.
With Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford

April 4 and 9
VIRIDIANA
1961, Luis Buñuel, Spain, 90 min.
With Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey

April 11 and 16
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
1962, John Ford, USA, 123 min.
With John Wayne, James Stewart

April 18 and 25
THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT
1967, Jacques Demy, France, 125 min.
With Catherine Deneuve, Gene Kelly

May 2 and 7
PLAY TIME
1967, Jacques Tati, France, 124 min.
With Jacques Tati

Schedule subject to change; please check our Gazette or website.