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PHILO CAFÉS
MOVIE NIGHTS
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Philosophy Café
Most Sundays @ 2pm Free!
Philo-café is an opportunity for people to gather and discuss a particular philosophical issue in a form that's free and open. The objective is to bring out the richness of a concept through discussion with others in our own community having diverse backgrounds. We consider a new concept each time.
No philosophical background required!
(See our feature online in the Where Y'at August 2004 issue.)
Facilitators: Anne Armentrout, Drew Chastain & David O'Donaghue.
2005 FALL SCHEDULE:
Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., alternative Sundays, 2pm-4pm:
August 14, 28
September 11, 25
October 9, 23
November 6, 20
December 4
Iron Rail Bookstore, 511 Marigny, Sundays, roughly monthly, 2pm-4pm:
August 21
September 4
October 2
November 13
December 11
Topics previously discussed:
What is duty? (8/21/5)
What is honor? (8/14/5)
What is wisdom? (7/31/5)
How do you know when you love someone? (7/24/5)
What is friendship? (7/17/5)
What is contemplation? (7/3/5)
What is an American?(6/26/5)
???(6/19/5)
What's wrong with killing? (6/5/5)
Why ask why? (5/29/5)
What's a fetish and how's it different from ordinary desire?(5/22/5)
What's good evidence & when do we look for it? (5/15/5)
Are aesthetic judgments only subjective? (5/1/5)
Is history important? (4/17/5)
Are there benefits to anarchy and/or chaos? (4/3/5)
What is poverty? (3/27/5)
Do manners matter? (3/20/5)
Is it better to be good or to be true? (3/6/5)
When is a person truly free? (2/27/5)
What is adventure and where does it take you? (2/20/5)
What counts as a stereotype? Why do we stereotype? Should we? (1/23/5)
What is a coincidence and why do coincidences seem meaningful? (1/9/5)
Is ethics the future of aesthetics? (12/12/4)
What is the point of satisfaction? (11/28/4)
What is pleasure and what's so bad about it? (11/14/4)
Do you believe in the existence of spirits? (10/31/4)
What is evil? (10/17/4)
Have we lost our spirituality? (10/3/4)
Are we as we appear? (9/19/4)
What is truth? (9/5/4)
What are rights? (8/22/4)
What would it be like if women ruled the world? (8/8/4)
What is cuteness? (7/25/4)
What is beauty? (6/26/4 & 7/11/4)
What is maturity? (6/1/4)
What makes conservatives and liberals different? (5/16/4)
What is safety/vulnerability? (4/18/4)
What is pornography? (4/4/4)
What is philosophical counseling? (3/21/4)
What are family values? (3/7/4)
New Orleans Lyceum Film Series
This fall, we have three film series. Click series titles to jump to schedules.
Women Directors
New Orleans & Louisiana: in Film & in Reality
Psychiatry in Film
For a listing of films viewed in previous Lyceum film series, click here.
Women Directors
This series will highlight some of the most interesting women directors in this very male-dominated field. We will view the films and then have a general discussion as to whether the women give a unique perspective on the content and form of the filmic material.
When: every other Tuesday @ 7pm.
Where: Seven Devils Imagination Parlor @ 1111 St. Mary St.
Format: large screen, surround sound when available
Cost: $5/movie.
Facilitator: David O'Donaghue
SCHEDULE:
September 6
The Piano (1993) Director: Jane Campion
A woman who refuses to speak, her piano, and her daughter are sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage.
September 20
Swept Away (1974) Director: Lina Wertmuller
A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but has to bear with her bad mood. The two are thrown together in the middle of the sea.
October 4
Orlando (1992) Director: Sally Potter
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. He moves through several centuries experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex. Adapted from Virginia Woolf's novel.
October 18
Triumph of the Will (1934) & Olympiad (1936) Director: Leni Riefenstahl
The selections from these films will convey the power and expertise of this chief cinema propagandist for the Third Reich.
November 1
Salaam Bombay! (1988) Director: Mira Nair
The story of Krishna, Manju, Chillum and the other children on the streets of Bombay.
November 15
Female Perversions (1996) Director: Susan Streitfield
A questioning look at what constitutes the "feminine."
November 29
Romance (1999) Director: Kathryn Breillet
Although deeply in love with her boyfriend, a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Out of frustration she explores the darker regions of pure desire.
December 13
Daughters of the Dust (1991) Director: Julie Dash
A look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America. Set in 1902.
New Orleans & Louisiana:
in Film & in Reality
New Orleans and southern Louisiana have increasingly been chosen for location shooting of major motion pictures. But there are certain films in which the city as well as the Acadiana region are more than just an incidental location or general background. These are the films that touch on the history and spirit, the lore and legend of New Orleans and environs. As with any art, some of these cinematic portrayal reflect truth and capture essence, while others tend to retail stereotype, cliché and outright fantasy—and, of course, some films do some of both.
In the spirit of previous Lyceum film series (Daring Directors, Unlucky in Love, The Development of Film), New Orleans/Louisiana: In Film & In Reality will offer not just a chance to view movies that many have heard about but perhaps not seen, but also to be given expert introductions to the topics upon which the films touch, and to engage in lively discussions of the film and how it does or doesn’t reflect our history, life and culture.
When: every other Tuesday @ 7pm.
Where: Seven Devils Imagination Parlor @ 1111 St. Mary St.
Format: large screen, surround sound when available
Cost: $5/movie.
Facilitator: Anne Armentrout
SCHEDULE:
August 30
Jezebel (1938)
Women in Antebellum New Orleans / Yellow Fever
Angry with her fiancé Pres Dillard, Julie Marsten intends to embarrass him at the Olympus Ball, a major New Orleans social event at which their engagement is to be announced. Unmarried women customarily wear a white gown; she will wear red. The trick backfires and the engagement is broken. Three years later, Pres arrives at Julie's plantation with his wife Amy. During a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, Pres is stricken and Julie arrives to nurse him.
September 13
New Orleans (1947)
Storyville / History of Jazz
As owner of a Bourbon Street gambling club, Nick Duquesne sits at the center of the New Orleans jazz scene. His scruffy charm -- and the city's beguiling music -- is too much for a new girl in town . Little by little, she falls in love and helps transform Nick's talents into something more respectable.
September 27
The Buccaneer (1958)
Jean Laffite / The Battle of New Orleans
During the War of 1812, General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation, an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties. But it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes . For the same reason, he is loved by the citizens. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is torn: his heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party more likely to win.
October 11
Mandingo (1975)
Slavery / Race Relations / Boxing
A slave owner in the 1840s trains his slaves to be bare-knuckle fighting champions, unaware that his daughter is having an affair with his top fighter.
October 25
Pretty Baby (1978)
Prostitution / E. J. Bellocq / Photography
It’s 1917, the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, New Orleans' red-light district. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake when photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes pictures of Hattie and he fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis leaving Violet behind, and Violet determines to marry Bellocq.
November 8
Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
Cajun versus Creole / Influence of Geography
It’s the 19th century in Louisiana's Cajun country and Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish to eradicate all Cajuns. Complicating matters is the fact that Belizaire's former flame is now married to his biggest rival, an affluent landowner's son. Before he knows it, Belizaire is caught up in a web of murder, lies and prejudice.
November 22
Blaze (1989)
Bourbon Street / Earl Long / Louisiana Politics
In his later years, Earl Long, flamboyant governor of Louisiana and an unapologetic habitué of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's. Can Earl keep Blaze and retain control of the state?
December 6
Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Literary Legacies / Modern Life and Identity
After her mother's death, moody teenage lone wolf Purslane Will returns to New Orleans to reclaim her childhood home. She's shocked to discover that two of her mother's friends -- Bobby Long, an ex-literature professor, and his protégé, Lawson Pines -- have been squatting there for years. In an effort to coexist, this unlikely trio learns how intertwined they really are.
Psychiatry in Film
Our ’05-’06 film series explores how psychiatrists and psychiatry are presented in the movies. We have chosen some famous and some not so famous examples from the ‘40’s
to the present. We will examine both the presentation of the field and method of cure and the disorders themselves in the discussion that will immediately follow the film.
When: Sundays monthly @ 2pm.
Where: The New Orleans Psychoanalytic Center @ 3624 Coliseum St.
Cost: $5/movie (preregister with David (862.9786) for CEU credit for $10 extra).
Facilitators: David O'Donaghue & Douglas Pool
SCHEDULE:
September 18
Spellbound (1945) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards.
October 16
Three Faces of Eve (1957) Director: Nunnally Johnson
Eve White is a quite, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild, fun-loving Eve Black. Under continued therapy, yet a third personality appears, the relatively stable Jane. This film, based on the true-life case of a multiple personality, chronicles Dr. Luther's attempts to reconcile the three faces of Eve. multiple personalities.
November 13
Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Director: Ingmar Bergamn
On an island, Karin, a recently released mentally sick young woman, is spending her vacation with her husband Martin, a doctor, her father David, a writer just back from Switzerland, and her younger brother Fredrick (Minus). Karin is suffering from hallucinations and hysteria. She thinks she is visited by God.
December 11
David & Lisa (1962) Director: Frank Perry
The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
January 15
Equus (1977) Director: Sidney Lumet
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
February 12
Frances (1983) Director: Graeme Clifford
FRANCES tells the life story of independent, strong-willed actress Frances Farmer, whose beauty, talent, and intelligence lead to a successful stage and film career in the 1930s and 1940s. Tragically, her mental health soon began to deteriorate due to substance abuse, poor psychiatric care, a controlling stage mother, and her own radical and unyielding beliefs.
March 12
Agnes of God (1985) Director: Norman Jewison
At a convent, fragile, unearthly Sister Agnes gives birth (she says it's a virgin birth), but the child dies. The police soon are involved because of the death of the baby. However, the main conflict is between Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, who wants Agnes left alone, and Dr. Martha Livingston, a psychiatrist determined to help Agnes gain a stronger grasp on reality and uncover any wrongdoers.
April 9
Man Facing Southeast (1986) Director: Eliseo Subiela
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.
May 7
Spider (2003) Director: David Cronenberg
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.
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