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Fall 2023 Buffalo Film Seminars/Great Directors Schedule

Posted by Tim on August 3, 2023 in Community Announcements, Workshops

Fall 2023 (Series 48) Buffalo Film Seminars/Great Directors (ENG381-JAX) Schedule

Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

—Zoom link for the Tuesday 7:00PM discussions: https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/95516948335?pwd=czRkMzVBU1cyMGxaOHpDV1Fpa2dWZz09

—Vimeo intros to the films (sent to the mailing list and posted online Saturday before discussion dates), and all other Vimeo intros and Zoom discussions since March 2020 (the newest postings at the top, oldest at the bottom): https://vimeo.com/user80710589

Streaming:

All films listed here, except Nostalghia are currently available on Amazon Prime, a few free with membership, the others for an additional $2-$5 (Nostalghia is available on YouTube and Apple TV for $3.99 rental.) Many are available on other streaming services—Criterion, Google Play, Max, Apple TV, Max, etc.. You can check that at https://www.justwatch.com/. All films in the Fall 2023 series, except Vampyr, are available free to anyone with a UB email account through UB Libraries’ film portals (the urls are listed below). Many public and university libraries provide their card-holders free streaming access to films in the Swank and Kanopy catalogs.

Films and Zoom Discussion Dates:

Aug 29 1925 Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush

https://buffalo.kanopy.com/video/gold-rush-0

Sep 5 1931 Carl Theodor Dreyer Vampyr

Sept 12 1933 Mervyn LeRoy Golddiggers of 1933

https://digitalcampus.swankmp.net/buffalo304245/watch/BB1BF039E15BE38A

Sept 19 1939 Ernst Lubitsch Ninotchka

https://digitalcampus.swankmp.net/buffalo304245/watch/079BAE8152D65D50

Sep 26 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger The Red Shoes

https://buffalo.kanopy.com/video/red-shoes-3

Oct 3 1954 Akia Kurosawa Seven Samurai

https://buffalo.kanopy.com/video/seven-samurai-1