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"In celebration of the 2nd anniversary of Solange's When I Get Home, a newly remastered director’s cut is now available on the Criterion Channel. To celebrate, Houston Cinema Arts Society Artistic Director Jessica Green will join Dallas VideoFest for a special conversation on the film building off of her essay about When I Get Home for Rice Architecture's Cite Digital.

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Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country  co presented with Asian Film Festival Dallas

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Cinematic Conversations- Vittorio de Sica’s Ladri di Biciclette (the Bicycle Thieves)-1948

Vittorio De Sica's Neorealism masterpiece essentially introduced a new genre and has been a reference point for it ever since. The story follows a working class…

“PERHAPS THE QUINTESSENTIAL WORK OF ITALIAN NEOREALISM. Revealing the catastrophic impact of seemingly minor events on people who are struggling to subsist, De Sica endows slender side business and incidental pictorial details with high suspense and tragic grandeur. He transforms the sheer scale of the city and the vast number of residents in similarly desperate straits into A SYMPHONIC LAMENT FOR THE HUMAN CONDITION.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker Click here to read full article

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Cinematic Conversations Since we started these discussions in May, we have toggled between contemporary and classic cinema. We take another look back this week at Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thieves. It’s sometimes called The Bicycle Thief or the Italian Ladri di Biciclette. If you haven’t seen it, well, you are in for a treat. You can find this film on HBO Max or the Criterion Chanel. This is one of the classics of Italian neo-realism, a post-World War II movement that strived to tell authentic stories of post-war Europe. To add to the realism, most of these films used non-actors in their roles. Bicycle Thieves won an Honorary Academy Award in 1950, and in 1952 Sight and Sound magazine called it the greatest film of all time, even beating out Citizen Kane. Two academics join us this week: Dr. Daniele Forlino, the head of SMU's Italian Studies, and Dr. Nicholas Albanese, who teaches a class in Italian cinema at TCU.  It should be an inspiring conversation.

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The Order of Myths

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A program Covid times called Cinematic Conversations At the beginning of each week, the Dallas Video Fest lists a film on our website for participates to screen on their own during the week. Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. CST, people gather for a one hour Zoom conversation about that film. The zoom login is available on the DVF website and on our Facebook page. A special guest host selects the film and also joins the discussion each week. The session is 60 minutes, with about half the time devoted to Q&A with the guest host. Write to [email protected] for the zoom link and password

“We’re stuck in our homes, many of us and we’re watching movies, But most of us don’t have an opportunity to have an intellectual conversation about films. This allows us to do that.” Bart Weiss Artistic Director

Mank with Professor Thomas Schatz author of Old Hollywood / New Hollywood: ritual, art, and industry and film historian Joseph McBride, author of three books on Welles,

The Last Picture Show wth Gordon Smith

The Order of Myths

-MLK/FBI w/Sam Pollard

Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) with Daniele Forlino, Ph.D.

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Jan 14th Zodiac with Kip Mooney