| Wednesday, December 4 | |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION** Deep Crimson / Profundo Carmesí (1996), a remake of The Honeymoon Killers by leading Mexican director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia. In this film, a gigolo and his needy girlfriend, posing as his sister, travel around northern Mexico in the 1940s, romancing, marrying, and murdering a series of rich widows. This screening is part of a series, "The Second Golden Age of Mexican Cinema," held in collaboration with Cinema Seattle and 911 Media Center. Arturo Ripstein, born in Mexico City in 1943, was an assistant to exiled Spanish director Luis Bunuel on The Exterminating Angel. Since 1965, Ripstein has directed 44 films, including 24 feature films. Since the mid-1980s, he has collaborated with scriptwriter and wife Paz Alicia Garciadeigo to create a unique contemporary noir vision of human nature and Mexican society. Ripstein and Garcíadiego will be present at the screening, to introduce their film and take questions afterwards from the audience. For further information please contact the Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington, 543-2020 or spanport@u.washington.edu This event is held as part of the SAM's 'Cactus Rose' Mexican film festival, in conjuncion with their Fall exhibit, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 7 pm, Seattle Art Museum, 100 University Street. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series Aimee und Jaguar (2000). This true life love story takes place in 1943 Berlin, Germany. Lilly, a part of the Jewish underground who works for a Nazi newspaper, and Felice, married to a Nazi with four children, meet and fall deeply in love. Their romance struggles against constant threats and complications as bombs explode everywhere, destroying the city during the "Battle of Berlin." A revelationary experience for Lilly as they try to sustain one another in a time and place which shuns homosexuality. Based on the novel of intrigue of the same title by Erica Fischer.The Autumn German Film Series (Oct 30-Dec 11) presents films in German with English subtitles. Wednesdays, 7pm, Thomson 101. |
| Thursday, December 5 | |
| 6:00 PM | **FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION ** The U.S. premiere of The Virgin of Lust (2002). At the Café Ofelia, in Mexico City, during the 1940s, a group of Spanish exiles meets to discuss politics. Nacho, a solitary waiter, falls hard for Lola, a Spanish prostitute. To please her he will do anything, even assassinate Spain's despised dictator, Francisco Franco. Starring Luis Felipe Tovar, Ariadna Gil, and Patricia Reyes Spíndola. Ripstein and Garcíadiego will be present at the screening, to introduce their film and take questions afterwards from the audience. This event is part of a series, "The Second Golden Age of Mexican Cinema," held in collaboration with Cinema Seattle and 911 Media Center. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Screenings at 6 pm and 9 pm, Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th Street at University Way, Seattle, (206) 523-3935. |
| 7:00 PM | **MYRA'S WAR SERIES** "Art & Crisis," Herbert Blau (Byron W. & Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, UW). Blau, respected author, former director of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and the experimental theater group, Kraken, will speak about making art in times of crisis. Part of a lecture series supporting the musical "Myra's War," to be performed at Meany Studio Theater in April. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 7 PM, Architecture Auditorium, Room 147. |
| 7:30 PM | Lecture and Discussion "Roots of Tyranny and Violence: Adolf Hitler's path from trauma to malevolence," Dr. Ted Dorpat (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW). First Annual Lecture on Psychoanalysis as Applied to Everyday Life. Presented by the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Co-sponsored by the International Studies and Jewish Studies Programs. 7:30 PM, Kane Hall 210. |
| Friday, December 6 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Why Is There No Religion in the Former GDR?: Supply, Demand and the Causes of Secularization," Dr. Steven Pfaff (Sociology). Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 1:30 PM, William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. |
| 3:00 PM | American Studies Colloquium "Cold War Redux: On the 'New Totalitarianism'," Nikhil Singh (History, UW). This talk is based on a forthcoming essay that traces the uses of terrorism and terror to normalize the workings of liberal-democracy in the post-WWII era. It also considers the question of a "new" U.S. imperialism and its cultural and racial logics." 3 pm, Communications 226. Reception to follow. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Lecture "Did Shakespeare Write Poetry at Age -2? The Linguistic Evidence," Michael Brame (Linguistics, UW). Brame will delve into the Shakespeare authorship controversy via language. 3:30-5:30 PM, Smith Hall 404. |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "The Iliad and Odyssey in Sophokles' Philoktetes," Seth Schein (UC Davis). Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3:30 pm, Denny 216. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Colloquium "Essentialism," Laurie A. Paul (Philosophy, University of Arizona). Sponsored by the Dept. of Philosophy. 3:30-5 PM, Smith 105. |
| 7:30 PM | **FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION** Free screening of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein's film, The Perdition of Men/La perdicion de los hombres (2000). This black comedy about baseball, machismo and murder in the Mexican countryside was shot using video and transferred to 35 mm. This is the only Ripstein film in this series that is in Spanish without English subtitiles. Ripstein and Garcíadiego will be present at the screening, to introduce their film and take questions afterwards from the audience. This event is part of a series, "The Second Golden Age of Mexican Cinema," held in collaboration with Cinema Seattle and 911 Media Center. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 7:30 pm, Mary Gates Hall 241. |
| Saturday, December 7 | |
| 5:30 PM | **FILM DIRECTOR RECEPTION** Public reception for leading Mexican film director Artura Ripstein and his wife, scriptwriter Paz Alicia Garcíadiego. Ripstein, born in Mexico City in 1943, was an assistant to exiled Spanish director Luis Buñuel on The Exterminating Angel. Since 1965, Ripstein has directed 44 films, including 24 feature films, among them The Place Without Limits (1977), The Realm of Fortune (1986), The Queen of the Night (1994), Divine (1997), and Such Is Life (1999). Since the mid-1980s he has collaborated with scriptwriter (and wife) Paz Alicia Garcíadiego to create a unique contemporary noir vision of human nature and Mexican society, laced with melodrama, leftist politics, gender bending and black humor. Retrospectives of Ripstein's work have been screened at museums and festivals around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Chicago Art Institute, UCLA, Munich, Havana and Hong Kong. 5:30-7 pm, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 202. |
| 7:30 PM | **FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION** Nobody Writes to the Colonel /El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Arturo Ripsteins' 1998 adaptation of the Gabriel García Márquez novel. In 1950s provincial Colombia, an aging veteran of the civil wars waits in vain for his government pension to arrive, even as he and his wife struggle to recover from the trauma of their activist son's assassination during a cockfight. Co-starring Salma Hayek, this was an official selection at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. This screening is part of a series, "The Second Golden Age of Mexican Cinema," held in collaboration with Cinema Seattle and 911 Media Center. Free. 7:30 PM, Mary Gates Hall 241. |