Film

Washington University hosts dozens of film screens each semester, from the student-run Filmboard's mix of cult favorites, world classics and Hollywood hits to special screenings sponsored by the Program in Film & Media Studies in Arts & Sciences, the Gallery of Art and other campus areas. Meanwhile, Film & Media Studies faculty include both veteran filmmakers and widely published film and television theorists, with associated faculty drawn from American Culture Studies, Art History & Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English, Germanic Languages and Literature and other university areas.

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William J. Paul Professor of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences Paul has written widely on comedy and film. He is the author of Ernst Lubitsch's Americans American Comedy, an examination of the famous German emigre director's Hollywood comedies, and Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror & Comedy, a cultural history that looks at the rise of "grossout" comedy ... Expertise: film, comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, comedy and horror, movie theatre architecture, "grossout" comedy Media assistance: (314) 935-8494 / liam_otten@wustl.edu

Pier Marton Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences Marton is a video maker/new media artist and writer whose work addresses issues of ethnicity, spirituality, audience passivity, and violence. Titles include Collected Works: 1979-1984, a series of shorts; Say I'm A Jew, which collects interviews with the children of Holocaust survivors; and (are we ... Expertise: Holocaust, Jewish identity, filmmaking, spirituality, videomaking, violence Direct contact: (314) 935-4055 / marton@artsci.wustl.edu

Richard Chapman Lecturer in Screenwriting in Arts & Sciences Chapman Download Chapman is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television with particular interest in the ways journalists report on war. He recently co-wrote the Golden Globe-nominated HBO Original Film Live From Baghdad, which told the behind-the-scenes story of CNN's coverage of the early days of the ... Expertise: CNN, Iraq, Vietnam, film production, screenwriting, television production, war reporting Direct contact: (314) 935-8238 / rchapman@artsci.wustl.edu

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News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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Italian Film Festival Free screenings of six recent films April 4 to 19 March 26, 2008 -- Courtesy photo My Brother is an Only Child The Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences will host the 2008 Italian Film Festival of St. Louis April 4 to 19. The festival will feature the St. Louis premieres of six recent Italian feature films, screened on Fridays and Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. All films will be shown in 35mm format in Italian with English subtitles.

"West Bank Story" film parodies "West Side Story" Ari Sandel presents the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a musical comedy March 25, 2008 -- "West Bank Story" is a little film about a big subject, uses music and comedy to deliver a serious message, and was created by a young man wise beyond his years. That person - Ari Sandel - will show his Oscar-winning film short and discuss how he came to make it at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 1 in Lab Sciences Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Japanese Film Festival Washington University to present two recent films Feb. 15 and 16 Feb. 4, 2008 -- Courtesy photo Kyôko Koizumi in Hanging Garden (2005). Washington University will host free screenings of two recent Japanese films at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15 and 16. The first, Hanging Garden (2005), explores the quirky soul of a dysfunctional clan struggling to survive amidst the pressures of the modern age. Linda Linda Linda (2005), which will be screened the following evening, traces the trials and triumphs of an all-girl band on the cusp of adulthood.

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Hemingway pal A.E. Hotchner recalls his old friend Associated Press and 11 others July 21, 2005 -- Dear Papa, Dear Hotch -- letters between Ernest Hemingway and WUSTL alum A.E. Hotchner -- will be released this fall by U. Missouri Press. Hotchner talks about his friend and his life.

Gerald Early is advisor for new Ken Burns' film on boxer Jack Johnson Newsday July 21, 2004 -- Burns was on hand to discuss his new four-hour film about Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-14), due to premiere on PBS in January. Burns said that time, study and exposure to black scholars such as WUSTL professor Gerald Early, a key consultant on "Baseball," "Jazz" and now "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," have given him - and thus his company's films - a more mature understanding of race in America.

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Reporting 'the real GI experience' not likely in a war today, filmmaker says
Feb. 2003 — Among the many casualties of the Vietnam War was the relationship between the Pentagon and the American press. And though time heals most wounds, lingering scar tissue from that particular fracture likely will impede U.S. correspondents should we go to war again, says filmmaker Richard Chapman.