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The Gospel:Two years ago we started a "movie night" event to watch classics of international cinema, selected from a list of the best film of all times, compiled from several critics, international awards and histories of cinema. This is both a "cultural" event and a social event: everybody brings food, we socialize and watch the film. This follows a similar event that was held 7-8 years ago in Palo Alto, which followed a similar event held way back in 1984 in Boston at the Exeter Theater (before the age of videotapes). The theme is "cinema as a social event and as a catalyzer for other artistic expressions".The Multimedia Classic Cinema Marathon is an extension of this concept. It is a full day of old classic films, from the beginning of the century to the 1960s. We rent a building in a scenic location for a full day. We show 6 masterpieces of international cinema (all six from the same period or one per decade?). This is fully independent event: self-organized and self-managed. Everybody chips in $0/10 (depending on personal income) and somebody brings stereo, projector/VCR/DVD, cooking gear, etc. In keeping with our tradition, this is also a social event:
The Holy Spirit:The selection of films listed in this page was obtained by picking one film for each of the directors commonly considered the giants of Cinema (see a short history of Cinema). If you think that the film I picked is not the most representative of the director, let me know. I do not always pick the most famous film. For example, I did not pick Potemkin, I picked Aleksandr Nevsky. Any history of cinema has ten pages on Potemkin, but I find Nevsky more "modern" than Potemkin (I dare not argue that Potemkin is not important, of course). Same with Intolerance and Birth of a Nation, Modern Times and Gold Rush, etc. Length is also an issue. Availability on videotape/dvd is also an issue. Only one film per director. Etc.The Promised Land:Fort Ord, near Monterey, is an abandoned military base. All buildings are abandoned. You can rent a chapel for $275 a day ($180 for half day). There is open space between buildings. It is just off the freeway and five minutes from the beach. The chapel is big enough that you can use it for a cultural event, for a party and for camping.
"Hello Piero,
You are actually talking to the person you need to. I am the
Conference Center
coordinator for the facility. If you give me a date you are
looking at then I can check the calendar to see if it is available. We
also have a web site at scgoodwill.org with the information.
When you say 24 hours are you really saying 24 hours straight? I would
have to see what you consider late night. I have to make arrangements
with the Church when I do a late night on Saturdays. As for the screen,
there is one in the Chapel already, the chairs can be provided, we do not
have benches, there are 2 pews in the back of the chapel."
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The Films: Silent CinemaStellan Rye (Paul Wegener): Der Student von Prag (1913)David Griffith: The Birth Of A Nation (1915, 175' or 124') Victor Sjostrom: Korkarlen/ Phantom Chariot (1920, 89') Erich von Stroheim: Foolish Wives (1920, 107') Fritz Lang: Metropolis (1926, 115') Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Sunrise (1927, 110') Buster Keaton: The General (1927, 78') The Films: The 1930sJean Renoir: La Chienne (1931, 93')Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vampyr (1931, 75') Josef von Sternberg: Shangai Express (1932, 80') Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise (1932, 83') Leo McCarey (Marx Brothers): Duck Soup (1933, 70') Jean Vigo: L'Atalante(1934, 82') Frank Capra: It Happened One Night (1934, 105') Kenji Mizoguchi: Gion Na Shimai/ Sisters of Gion (1936, 69') Charles Chaplin: Modern Times (1936, 87') Sergei Eisenstein: Alexandr Nevskii (1938, 110') Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby (1938, 103') The Films: The 1940sPreston Sturges: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, 98')Orson Welles: Lady from Shangai (1948, 87') John Ford: Fort Apache (1948, 125') The Films: The 1950sBilly Wilder: Sunset Boulevard (1950, 100')John Huston: The African Queen (1951, 105') Vittorio DeSica: Miracolo a Milano/ Miracle in Milan (1951, 95') Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru/To live (1952, 134') Don Siegel: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 80') Elia Kazan: On The Waterfront (1954, 108') Satyajit Raj: Pather Panchali (1954, 112') Ingmar Bergman: Ansiktet/ Magician/ Volto (1957, 101') Alain Resnais: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, 88') Michelangelo Antonioni: L'Avventura/ Adventure (1959, 145') Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest (1959, 136') The Films: The 1960sLuis Bunuel: Viridiana (1961, 90')Federico Fellini: 8 1/2 (1963, 135') Robert Aldrich: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1965, 134') Blake Edwards: The Great Race (1965, 160') Ingmar Bergman: Persona (1966, 100') Roman Polansky: Rosemary's Baby (1968, 134') Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968, 139') Sergio Leone: C'era Una Volta il West/ Once Upon a Time (1968, 165') Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch (1969, 145') The Films: The 1970sNicolas Roeg: Walkabout (1971)Bernardo Bertolucci: Last Tango in Paris (1972, 126') John Boorman: Deliverance (1972, 109') Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather Part(1972, 174') Terrence Malick: Badlands (1973, 94') Robert Altman: Nashville (1975, 159') Theo Angelopulos: O Thiassos/ Traveling Players (1975) Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver (1976, 112') George Lucas: Star Wars (1977, 121') Steven Spielberg: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, 152') Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter (1978, 183') Ermanno Olmi: L'Albero degli Zoccoli (1978, 185') Woody Allen: Manhattan (1979, 96') (Scroll UP to see future program, scroll DOWN to see the movies shown the previous evenings). Day June 2000: Silent Cinema Day June 2000 |