Cinema Forum on American Cinema
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR LATER DISCUSSION: ERIN BROCKOVICH
Erin Brockovich tells the story of a poor single mother who finds a job as a paralegal in a law office. There, she discovers some medical information included in a mortgage transaction in the town of Hinkley, two hundred kilometers north of Los Angeles, and decides to investigate. She finds an entire town—more than six hundred
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR THE LATER DEBATE: DALLAS BUYER CLUB
The film "Dallas Buyers Club" deals with the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the United States through the story of Ron Woodroof. It is based on the true story of what happened in Dallas, Texas in 1985 when Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, is diagnosed with HIV and told
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR SUBSEQUENT DEBATE: BOYS DON'T CRY
Boys Don't Cry is the first feature film from director Kimberly Peirce. It premiered in 1999 and is based on the story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was attacked and killed in 1993 in Falls City, Nebraska. The film focuses on the relationship between Teena and his girlfriend, Lana Tisdel, building
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR THE LATER DEBATE: SELMA
Selma, a film directed by Ava DuVernay that was released in 2014, is based on the historic voting rights marches that took place in Alabama in 1965. The film captures one of the most important protests of the civil rights movement of the mid of the last century in the United States, which
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR SUBSEQUENT DEBATE: EL GRAN TORINO
Gran Torino is the latest film directed, produced and starring Clint Eastwood. Made in 2008, since then Eastwood has not stopped making films, but without bringing these three facets together. Born in 1930 and still active, Eastwood is the most important living American film professional of his generation, as well as
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR SUBSEQUENT DEBATE: SMOKESCREEN
One of the most important films of director Barry Levinson. Born in Baltimore in 1942, he began as a journalist, later working as an actor and television producer; he began directing for the cinema in 1982, and excelled with such hits as The Secret of the Pyramid (Pyramid of Fear, 1986), a Steven Spielberg production about the adolescence of
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR SUBSEQUENT DEBATE: TAXI DRIVER
A landmark of American cinema of the 70s, the fifth feature film by director Martin Scorsese, born in 1942 and still active. In the same way, it was the last work for the cinema of the musician Bernard Herrmann, who had debuted with the soundtrack of Citizen Kane, in 1941 and was the recurring musician of Alfred
CINEMA FORUM IN SPANISH ON AMERICAN FILM, NEW ACTIVITY AT THE LIBRARY
Cinema is one of the passions of the users of the library of the International Institute. Its collection of more than 3000 films on DVD, specializing in Spanish-language and American films and including fiction, documentaries and television series, is one of its best claims. Therefore, it makes sense and is especially important that
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR LATER DEBATE: THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
A classic from the 60s, which achieved enormous success around the world, including in its own country. It earned three Oscar nominations; best film, best screenplay and best actor (Alan Arkin). The director, Norman Jewison, is a Canadian born in 1926 who trained working on English TV. Later, he stood out in the
CINEMA FORUM ON AMERICAN CINEMA – ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHILE VIEWING THE FILM FOR SUBSEQUENT DEBATE: CITIZEN KANE
"Citizen Kane" is an extraordinary case in the history of cinema, on a global scale, for many reasons. So much so, that in general it is chosen as the best film in history in all the polls, even ahead of all those that Orson Welles did later. It is extraordinary, above all, for the dazzling maturity