[CW-Grad] Master classes at the Directors Guild

Mon Apr 4 19:12:55 PDT 2011

City of Lights/City of Angels is a week-long French film festival at the Directors Guild.  Their website is colcoa.org.

Reserve your seats! 
COLCOA MASTER CLASSES with Bertrand Blier and Pierre Schoendoerffer 

in association with E.L.M.A   
ADMISSION IS FREE reserved to teachers and students - RSVP required - see details below 
Location: Directors Guild of America 7920 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046 
  The master classes are open to all students of a higher education institution, including:  film schools, colleges, community colleges and universities. 

Tuesday April 12th - 2:00 PM West Coast Premiere of the digitally restored THE 317TH PLATOON (La 317ème section)  
Master class with writer/director Pierre Schoendoerffer and Cinémathèque Française director Serge Toubiana 

THE 317TH PLATOON follows a French unit trapped behind enemy lines during the French Indochina war. Led by young second lieutenant Torrens (Jacques Perrin, Oceans, The Chorus, Donkey Skin) and adjutant Willsdorf (Bruno Cremer, Under the Sand, A Simple Story), they move through the jungle with their Laotian allies to reach a safe outpost, hunted down by an elusive enemy. THE 317TH PLATOON was the first realistic account of the Vietnam war and gives an intimate look at the daily agony of these men. Inspired by Pierre Schoendoerffer's first-hand experience of the war and shot by iconic cinematographer Raoul Coutard (Breathless , Z, Jules and Jim), it won Best Screenplay Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. The film was digitally restored by StudioCanal and the Cinémathèque Française with the support of the Franco-American Cultural Fund. 

PIERRE SCHOENDOERFFER volunteered to join the Film Department of the French army in Indochina, where he directed his first short film in 1952 ( FIRST INDOCHINA WAR RUSHES) and was taken prisoner after the fall of Diên Biên Phú.  He then became war correspondent before co-directing his first feature-length documentary with Jacques Dupont,  THE DEVIL'S PASS (1958).   Written by Joseph Kessel, the film screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Bear.Among his most critically acclaimed films are THE 317TH PLATOON, THE ANDERSON PLATOON (1968  Academy Award for Best Documentary) and DRUMMER-CRAB , nominated for Best Film and Best Director at the 1978 Cesar Awards . Also a novelist, Pierre Schoendoerffer has directed several film adaptations of his novels, including THE 317TH PLATOON.  

Wednesday April 13th - 2:00 PM West Coast Premiere of THE CLINK OF ICE (Le Bruit des glaçons) 
Master class with writer/director Bertrand Blier moderated by Howard A. Rodman 
  Jean Dujardin (A View of Love [COL.COA 2011], OSS 117 [COL.COA 2008/2009]) and Albert Dupontel (The Villain [COL.COA 2010], Paris [COL.COA 2008], Irreversible) team up as patient and illness in this daring black comedy about the triumph of love over death. Separated from his wife and son and drinking his life away, award-winning writer Charles Faulque (Dujardin) lives alone with his devoted, caring maid Louisa (Anne Alvaro, Best Supporting Actress César Award for her performance). His bleak existence is interrupted by the arrival of a strange, disturbing individual (Dupontel) who introduces himself as Charles' cancer and settles in, following him like a shadow. When Louisa receives a similar visit, the bond that she shares with Charles grows stronger and disrupts the cancers' ominous plans. THE CLINK OF ICE opened the 2010 Venice Days and won Best European Film Award. 
   One of France's most celebrated iconoclasts, writer-director BERTRAND BLIER directed his first film in 1963, a documentary entitled HITLER - NEVER HEARD OF HIM. After a first feature in 1967 starring his father Bernard Blier (IF I WERE A SPY), he wrote and directed the box-office hit Going Places (1974), a subversive buddy movie that defined his signature acerbic wit, sharp social criticism and penchant for erotic themes. Confirming this success with GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS, which won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Blier continued to venture into risky territory with provocative films like COLD CUTS(1980 Cesar Award for Best Screenplay - screening at COL.COA 2011), BEAU-PÈRE (1981) or MÉNAGE (1986).  Gaining a wider audience with TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU, (1989 Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and 1990 Cesar Award for Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay), he later gave women a more central role in his films, crafting strong female characters in films like MERCI LA VIE (1991), MON HOMME(1996) and HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME? (COL.COA 2006). 

  Professors may reserve by sending us the following information at masterclass at colcoa.org  
. Where they teach 
. Which film(s) they would like to attend 
. How many students plan to attend 
 Students may reserve individually by sending us their name and school information at masterclass at colcoa.org  
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Robin Russin

Associate Professor and Director
MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu
http://robinrussin.com

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