NEW YORK UNIVERSITY & THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER PRESENT CAHIERS DU CINÉMA: THE FIRST 50 YEARS AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OCT. 26 & 27

Concurrent with the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s month-long film series, “Cahiers du Cinéma: A Tribute,” New York University’s Center for French Civilization and Culture and the Tisch School of the Arts in cooperation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center present an international conference on Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Cahiers du Cinéma, easily the most influential film magazine in the history of the medium.

Scholars, critics, journalists and editors from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Russia will participate in a series of panel discussions focusing on the significance of this journal and its major role not only in the various aspects of film production, theory and history, but also on intellectual history and artistic practice in general. All panels are free and open to the public. For information call (212) 998-8750.

On Friday, October 26, 10 a.m., at Lincoln Center, W. 65th Street, Plaza level, Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Tom Bishop, chair of the NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, and Richard Peña, program director, Film Society of Lincoln Center, offer opening remarks.

Panels scheduled for Friday are: “Origins and Perspectives of the Journal” (10 a.m.-1 p.m.); “Cinema and the Politics of Cinema” (2:30-4 p.m.); and “Contradictions and Debates” (4:30-6 p.m.). Participants include: Charles Tesson, editor-in-chief, Cahiers du Cinéma; Antoine de Baecque, Libération; Annette Michelson, NYU; Peter Wollen, UCLA; Jonathan Buchsbaum, Queens College; Jean Michel Frodon, Le Monde; Robert Stam, NYU; Robert Sklar, NYU; and Jim Hillier, University of Reading.

On Saturday, October 27, 10 a.m., at NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street at University Place, the conference will continue. Panels include: “Politics and Method” (10-11:30 a.m.); “Reception, Influence, and Criticism of the Journal Internationally” (11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.); and “The Role and Place of the Cahiers in the Intellec tual Life and Cultural Production of Post-War France” (2:30-4 p.m.). A roundtable discussion (4:15-5 p.m.) follows. Participants include: Philip Rosen, Brown University; Jim Hillier, University of Reading; Mikhail Lampolski, NYU; Malcolm Turvey, Sarah Lawrence; Ben Brewster, University of Wisconsin; Andrew Sarris, Columbia; Adriano Apra, Scuolo Nazionale di Cinema, Rome; Dudley Andrew, Yale; Françoise Gaillard, Paris-VII; Tom Conley, Harvard; Bérénice Reynaud, California Institute of the Arts; and Annette Michelson, NYU.

On Friday and Saturday evenings, October 26 and 27, 7 p.m., NYU will present a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma (in French, no subtitles); the film will be screened in two parts: parts I-IV on Friday; parts V-VIII on Saturday. The screening takes place at the NYU Cantor Film Center.

Cahiers du Cinéma was founded in 1951 by Jacques Doniol-Valcrose, Lo Duca and André Bazin. It gave rise to one of the most exciting and influential moments in film history, the Nouvelle Vague. Nowhere has this journal’s resonance been more felt than in the development of the discipline of cinema studies over the last three decades in the U.S. NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, the first of its kind in the nation, is an appropriate co-host of this event. The NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, co-host of this conference, is the most comprehensive American academic complex devoted to the culture of France, past and present.

This conference was organized by Annette Michelson, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Francine Goldenhar, director of NYU’s La Maison Française; and Richard Peña, program director, Film Society of Lincoln Center. It is made possible by a major grant from The Florence Gould Foundation, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New York.

10/08/01