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Schedule | Spring 2010

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Screenings are held at the BU College of Communication, 640 Comm. Ave., Boston, Room B-05 (unless otherwise noted). Events are FREE to BU students and staff and their friends. Transportation: the “B” Boston College Green Line, the first stop at BU past Kenmore Square.

Friday, January 29
AN EVENING WITH HERB GOLDER

A first Boston look at Werner Herzog’s controversial 2009 Cannes hit, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, with a screenplay co-written by Golder, a BU Classics professor. Golder will speak after of his collaboration with the great German filmmaker, Herzog, on this new work based on a true-life, tabloid San Diego matricide murder, with Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon, and Chloe Sevigny, and produced by David Lynch.

Friday, February 5
AN EVENING WITH LOIS SMITH

During her half-century legendary career, Smith was the most powerful, revered Hollywood publicist.  In a conversation with Boston Herald film critic, James Verniere, Smith will discuss her extraordinary A-list career, with personal clients from Marilyn Monroe to Meryl Streep to Martin Scorsese, from Robert Redford to Rosie O’Donnell to Sean Penn.

Wednesday, February 24
AN EVENING WITH JIMMY TINGLE (in COM 101 at 7:30 p.m.)

The nationally renowned satirist and stand-up comedian (60 Minutes II, MSNBC, Conan O’Brien, etc.) previews his new documentary, Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream, combining hilarious comedy and political chats with a variety of Americans, including Robert Altman, Lewis Black, Howard Zinn, Janeane Garafola, and Tingle’s Somerville mom.  Also, the film’s director, Vincent Straggas, graduated from BU in 1982 from what was then called SPC with a major in Broadcasting and Film.  He has 27 years in the film and television industry with three Emmy award wins.

Friday, March 19
AN EVENING WITH BARRY ALEXANDER BROWN - 7:00pm
(Sargent 102)

Among the unique collaborations of cinema is that of African-American filmmaker, Spike Lee, and editor Brown, a white ex-Alabaman.  Starting with Do the Right Thing (1989), Brown has edited a dozen of Spike Lee’s dramas and documentaries. At BU, Brown (also editor of Salaam Bombay and Madonna: Truth or Dare) will show segments from many of these films—Malcolm X, He Got Game, 25th Hour, Inside Man—and talk about how he and Lee work together.

Wednesday, March 24
AN EVENING WITH GEORGE KUCHAR - 7:00pm (COM 101)

The comic crown prince of underground cinema arrives from San Francisco to show classic examples of his raunchy, spirited, X-ish, 1960s narrative shorts featuring no-talent actors, plotless plots, themeless themes.  John Waters claims Kuchar as his biggest influence, and Andy Warhol borrowed Kuchar¹s concept of unfamous Superstars.  At BU, expect a hilarious night of Queer Cinema funkiness with Hold Me While I’m Naked, Corruption of the Damned, and Mosholu Holiday.

Friday, April 2
AN EVENING WITH GREG BARKER - 7:30pm (COM 101)

The LA-based filmmaker brings us Sergio, his acclaimed non-fiction work for which the late Karen Schmeer, a BU graduate, won a Documentary Editing Award at Sundance 2009.  Sergio is the biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the dashing James Bond-like global troubleshooter, who made a fatal last stop representing the UN in Iraq. Thanks to HBO Documentary Films for allowing a Boston premiere screening prior to its broadcast date, in an HBO tribute to Karen Schmeer.