UWP Lecturers 7:30pm Coffee Depot, 3/11 French films: WHITE MANE/GRINNING CAT DOUBLE FEATURE

[John Ganim]

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>Dear French Film Fans (please forward to friends, students, etc),
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>You are invited to a DOUBLE FEATURE on 
>Wednesday, March 11 at Coffee Depot, Mission Inn 
>and Vine - FREE SEATS, please BUY EATS:
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>7:30pm WHITE MANE/CRIN BLANC by Albert 
>Lamorisse, best known for directing THE RED BALLOON/LE BALLON ROUGE, also 1953
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>APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN
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>ENTR'ACTE of 15 minutes, then
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>8:30pm CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT/CHATS PERCHES, a 
>2004 film directed by Chris Marker, best known for LA JETEE
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>"In his newest film, French cinema-essayist 
>Chris Marker reflects on art, culture and 
>politics at the start of the new millennium. In 
>November 2001, he became intrigued by the sudden 
>appearance of grinning yellow cat paintings on 
>Paris buildings and public surfaces, and began 
>to document the mysterious materializations of 
>this charming feline. Purportedly looking to 
>solve the mystery of this unknown artist, dubbed 
>M. Chat, the filmmaker uses it instead as a 
>springboard to examine the city's changing 
>social climate -- from the pro-American feelings 
>generated shortly after Sept. 11, to the 
>anti-Bush and Iraq War demonstrations that have 
>become so prevalent. He also looks at the 
>demonstrations that took place during the 2002 
>French election that saw right-wing centrist 
>Jacques Chirac defeat right-wing extremist 
>Jean-Marie Le Pen. Eventually, the creator of 
>the grinning cats is revealed to be an art 
>collective known as Mr. Cat whose members are 
>shown painting a massive representation of their 
>mascot on the plaza in front of the Pompidou 
>Center. Marker concludes with thoughts on the 
>vital importance of such expressions of art and 
>imagination in our public lies, echoing the 
>May’68 slogan that “La poésie est dans la rue” 
>(“Poetry is in the streets”)." 
><http://www.facecouncil.org/tournees/fichesfilms/chatsperches.html>http://www.facecouncil.org/tournees/fichesfilms/chatsperches.html
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