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Film Festival - 50 Years of Criticism: Masterclass led by David Sterritt
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About David Sterritt:
David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant-garde cinema, theater, and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and was, until 2015, chair of the National Society of Film Critics for ten years. He has also served two terms as chair of the New York Film Critics Circle and ten years as cochair of the University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation at Columbia University, where he taught for 25 years.
This graduate student event is hosted/presented by The Program in European Cultural Studies and the Department of English.
Food Provided (Food from Rocky's dining hall)
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Past Events
Wed, Apr 16, 2025
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Private Location (sign in to display)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Film Festival - Screening of Contempt (1963, restored version) by Jean-Luc Godard
As part of the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you're invited to the screening of the restored version of legendary Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (English: Contempt) (1963).
Practical information:
Open to everyone upon registration. In French with English subtitles, the screening will start at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, and will last approximately 101 minutes. Doors to the screening room open at 6:45 PM.
Synopsis:
Based on Alberto Moravia’s 1954 novel A Ghost at Noon, Contempt is Jean-Luc Godard’s rare detour into commercial filmmaking. Initiated at the behest of Italian producer Carlo Ponti, the star-studded Cinemascope extravaganza stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of his German director (played by the legendary Fritz Lang), his boorish American producer (Jack Palance), and his exploited wife (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to patch together the script for a film adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Filmed on location at the iconic Cinecittà film studios and the spectacular Villa Malaparte in Capri, and boasting lush cinematography by Raoul Coutard and Brigitte Bardot at her most glorious, Contempt is an astute study of conjugal disintegration, artistic compromise and a somewhat cynical look at the film industry itself. The film is widely acknowledged to be Godard’s great masterpiece.
Tue, Apr 08, 2025
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Private Location (sign in to display)
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Film Festival - Screening of "Godard Cinéma" + Q&A with film critic David Sterritt
As part of the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you're invited to the screening of Godard Cinema (2022), a unique documentary on Jean-Luc Godard, followed by a Q&A with film critic and Godard specialist David Sterritt.
Practical information:
Open to everyone upon registration. In French and English with English subtitles, the screening will start at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, April 8nd, 2025, and will last approximately 90 minutes. Doors open at 6:45 PM.
Synopsis:
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
Speakers
David Sterritt
Film Critic
David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant-garde cinema, theater, and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and was, until 2105, chair of the National Society of Film Critics for ten years. He has also served two terms as chair of the New York Film Critics Circle and ten years as cochair of the University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation at Columbia University, where he taught for 25 years. He is now a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and professor emeritus of theater and film at Long Island University.
His writings on film and film culture have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Cahiers du cinéma, MovieMaker, The Huffington Post, Senses of Cinema, Cineaste, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Beliefnet, CounterPunch, Journal of the American Psychoanalytical Association, Journal of American History, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many others. Sterritt has appeared on CBS Morning News, Nightline, Charlie Rose, Geraldo at Large, Catherine Crier Live, CNN Live Today, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The O’Reilly Factor, among many other television and radio shows, including the National Public Radio program All Things Considered, where he was film critic for two years. His 15 books include volumes on the film and culture of the 1950s, the Beat Generation, French New Wave cinema, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman, Spike Lee, and Terry Gilliam, rock’n’roll movies, and the TV series The Honeymooners.
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Co-hosted with: GradFUTURES, French and Francophone Society, Princeton Undergraduate Francophone Society
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