Illinois Wesleyan University
International Film Series - Spring 2007

This film series has been developed by faculty members at Illinois Wesleyan University, who have submitted the following film titles and have agreed to introduce them. Each of the following films will be screened on Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm., in the Beckman Auditorium of the Ames Library, on the IWU campus (Campus Map). There is no entrance fee to view these films. Online film reviews may be accessed by clicking the linked titles or images below. All foreign language films are in the original language in which they were released with English subtitles.

January 14
 
January 28
 
February 4 

 

To Live is Better than to Die
 
The Last Laugh
 
Dawn of a New Day
China 2003
 
Germany 1924
 
Japan 2002
         
     
Director: 
Wwijun Chen
Language:  In Chinese with English subtitles

Introduction by Dr. Gang He

Director:  F.W. Murnau
Language:  In German with English subtitles

Introduction by Dr. Sonja Fritzsche

Director: 
Ki Yoshi Sasabe
Language:  In Japanese with English subtitles 

Introduction by Dr. Hiroko Furo


 
 
 

 
February 18
 
February 25
 
March 25

 

Metropolis
 
Butterfly
 
Sometimes in April
Germany 1927
  Spain 1999  
France/USA/Rwanda 2005
         
Director:
Fritz Lang
Language:  In German with English  subtitles
 

Introduction by Dr. Sonja Fritzsche

Director: 
Jose Luis Cuerda
Language:  In Spanish with  English subtitles

Introduction by Dr. Carmela Ferradáns

Director: 
Raoul Peck
Language:  In Kinyarwanda with  English subtitles

Introduction by Dr. Rebecca Gearhart


 
 

 
April 1   April 26

Thursday Screening

   
Spellbound Student Film Festival  
Japan 1999    
     
   
Director: 
Masato Harada
Language:  In Japanese with  English subtitles
 

Introduction by Dr. Hiroko Furo


Introduction by Dr. Rebecca Gearhart

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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