Upcoming Events
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Film Screenings
Westerns With a Difference
Phoenix Art Museum, Whiteman Hall
Free to the public
October 11th - 1 P.M. - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Leah Abriani, Assistant to the Director, Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture, ASU
October 18th - 1 P.M. - The Proposition
Michael Green, Lecturer, Film and Media Studies, ASU
November 1st - 1 P.M. - There Will Be Blood
Matthew Rodgers, Academic Associate, Film and Media Studies, ASU
November 15th - 1 P.M. - No Country for Old Men
Peter Lehman, Director, Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture, ASU
Chinese Film Screening & Discussion
November 8th - 1 P.M. - Woman Basketball Team Member No. 5
Made in Shanghai just after the Communist take-over of the city in 1949, Qin Yi plays the mother of a basketball player whose coach is the woman’s long lost lover. Her daughter plays the same team position as her mother did 18 years before when the coach was fired because he refused to lose a championship game.
Presented by:
Richard J. Meyer, Lecturer, Seattle University Film Studies
Richard J. Meyer teaches film at Seattle University and is an authority on Chinese films made in Shanghai. He is the author of Ruan Ling-yu: The Goddess of Shanghai and Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai, which includes an interview with Jan's widow Qin Yi and photographs from her personal collection.
Discussion and book signing to follow.