ICE-Vision: The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)
Thursday, April 5 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“Vincente Minnelli will always be known and loved for his musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon), but the melodramas he made in the 50s are no less accomplished and often more personal. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is superficially a typical Hollywood “inside story” chronicling the ruthless rise of an aggressive producer (Kirk Douglas), loosely based on Val Lewton. But under Minnelli’s direction it becomes a fascinating study of a man destroyed by the 50s success ethic, left broke, alone, and slightly insane in the end. Douglas is surprisingly good as Minnelli’s manic everyman and is well supported by (believe it or not) Lana Turner and Dick Powell. Scripted by Charles Schnee; with Walter Pidgeon, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, and Leo G. Carroll. 118 min.”
-Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader)

“In Vincente Minnelli’s impossibly opulent 1952 melodrama, The Bad and the Beautiful, Kirk Douglas plays Jonathan Shields, an unscrupluous movie producer who is magnetic and destructive, charismatic and duplicitous, utterly amoral yet strangely irresistable. He’s a star maker, backstabber, hero, villain, and antihero all wrapped up in one larger-than-life package. He’s Hollywood personified, the glamour and danger and mystery of madness of show business with cleft chin.”
-Nathan Rabin (AV Club)

Idea Lab Binaries Digital Exhibition
Thursday, March 29 at 9 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art

Idea Lab will “video bombing” the Lamar Dodd School of Art River Road facade this Thursday. The show features work from around the world. Idea Lab is a student network within Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) whose mission is to foster interdisciplinary work and research.

ICE-Vision: Fingers (James Toback, 1978)
Thursday, March 29 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“Harvey Keitel plays an aspiring concert pianist who is also a strong-arm guy for his loan shark father. It’s the film that introduced the world to the harsh yet playful sensibility of its director, James Toback, and to the capacity and willingness of Harvey Keitel to embody the darkest of psychological and spiritual conditions. Toback is a filmmaker interested in the clash between lofty aspiration and animal impulse, and Keitel plays a man pulled from both directions and coming apart at the seams.” -San Francisco Chronicle

“James Toback’s Fingers is the best film by any American director since Badlands. Even that is inadequate praise, for whereas Terry Malick’s debut was an inventive ballad about innocent energy run amok, Fingers is ingrowing and wounding…The outward signs of a New York crime movie are only its vehicle—like the body that houses the shivers of a dream. Fingers is that genuine oddity, an American feature movie that treats plot as merely the imprint for compulsive passions of terrible but dramatic force.” -David Thomson

Poetry Reading by O.B. Bassler
A Tale in Two Cities
Thursday, March 22 at 5 PM
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160

A Tale in Two Cities: reading of recent work from the ongoing projects Catalogue of Noise and the Anomaly section from The Invention of Atlantis. Where is a poem, and what happens when it takes up location in a new city? Come find out.

O. B. Bassler teaches in the Philosophy Department at UGA. Poster design by Justine Stevens.

ICE-Vision: Greaser’s Palace (Robert Downey Sr., 1972)
Thursday, March 22 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“Approaching the life of Christ with a sensibility informed equally by Bunuel and Mad magazine, Greaser’s Palace stars Allan Arbus as a Zoot-suited Christ figure who parachutes into a frontier town run by tyrannical saloon proprietor Albert Henderson. Arbus just wants to sing and dance, but he soon finds himself healing the sick, resurrecting the dead, tap-dancing on water, and fending off the advances of frontier little person Herve Villechaize and his transvestite wife.” -AV Club