Film Series: The New Global Left in Documentary and Drama
The New Left in Documentary and Drama
March 4 - April 29, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Grant Hall 308
Calendar
Download iCal FileDo you like movies, history, or both? Join us for The Global New Left in Documentary and Drama, a film series that explores New Left movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on how movements represented themselves and how they were represented by mainstream media, the series continues with Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (1969). Join us this coming Tuesday, March 4, 2025. All Welcome!
All meetings in Grant Hall 308 at 5:30 pm
March 4:
Medium Cool (1969, dir. Haskell Wexler)
March 11:
The Schleyer Tape (1979, dir. Klaus vom Bruch) OR
Allein machen sie dich ein (1974, dir. Various)
March 18:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975, dir. Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta) OR
Germany in Autumn (1979, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
April 1:
The Society of the Spectacle (1974, dir. Guy Debord) OR
La reprise du travail aux usines Wonder (1968, dir. Jacques Willemont) AND
La révolution n'est qu'un début. Continuons le combat (1968, dir. Pierre Clémenti) AND
À bientôt, j'espère (1968, dir. Chris Marker and Mario Marret) AND MAYBE
Classe de lutte (1969, dir. Chris Marker and Groupe Medvekine)
April 8:
La Chinoise (1967, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
April 15:
They Do Not Exist (1974, dir. Mustafa Abu Ali) AND
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971, dir. Masao Adachi and Kouji Wakamatsu)
April 22:
At the Auditorium of Nihon University College of Art (1968, dir. Motoharu Jounouchi) AND
The Mass Collective Bargaining at Nihon University(ibid) AND
The Oppressed Students (1967, dir. Shinsuke Ogawa)
April 29:
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971, dir. Shuuji Terayama)
ALL WELCOME
Sponsored by Undergraduate Studies, Department of English & Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
With special thanks to Dolly Weber and The Language and Culture Learning Center, LAS
Questions? english@uic.edu
Date posted
Feb 21, 2025
Date updated
Feb 27, 2025