ICE-Vision: Ciao! Manhattan (John Palmer / David Weisman, 1972)

Thursday, October 6 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.

“The Citizen Kane of the drug generation.” – The Village Voice

“Originally a chronicle of Edie Sedgwick’s days at Andy Warhol’s Factory, Ciao! Manhattan has become one of the most insightful looks at New York’s “Silver Sixties” period and the horrible fallout that followed. Ostensibly a documentary, this film is more like a scripted drama in which all the actors play themselves. Shocking, entertaining and moving, it’s a seminal piece of 1960s cinema.” -TV Guide

ICE Seminar: Eco Design
Wednesday, October 5 at 5:15 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 250

Projects and trends that span the disciplines of art, ecology, horticulture, and design.

Kevin Kirsche is the Director of UGA’s Office of Sustainability and a registered Landscape Architect and LEED Accredited Professional. He has degrees in Landscape Architecture and a Certificate in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development from UGA.

Chris McDowell is a Masters candidate in Horticulture, graduate assistant for the Center for Community Design and Preservation, and a staff member of the UGarden. While at UGA he has initiated a university-wide construction materials recycling program. McDowell has a degree in urban planning from the University of Cincinnati.

Stuart Jones is a Masters candidate in Landscape Architecture in the UGA College of Environment and Design. He studies how emergence, adaptive management, and bottom up development can cohabit with functional urban ecologies.

ICE-Vision: Daisies (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
Thursday, September 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.

“My favorite Czech film, and surely one of the most exhilarating stylistic and psychedelic eruptions of the 60s, this madcap and aggressive feminist farce by Vera Chytilova explodes in any number of directions. Two uninhibited young women named Marie engage in escapades that add up to less a plot than to a string of outrageous set pieces, including several antiphallic gags and a free-for-all with fancy food (rivaling Laurel and Hardy) that got Chytilova in lots of trouble with the authorities; disturbing yet liberating, it shows what this talented director can do with freedom.”
-Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)

ICE-Vision: Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
Thursday, September 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.

“One of the best, most radical, and least-known American films of the 1950s.” -Village Voice

“Nicholas Ray’s potent 1956 CinemaScope melodrama dealt with the ill effects of cortisone on a frustrated middle-class grammar-school teacher (James Mason) at about the same time that the first wave of “wonder” drugs hit the market. But the true subject of this deeply disturbing picture is middle-class values – about money, education, culture, religion, patriarchy, and “getting ahead.” These values are thrown into bold relief by the hero’s drug dependency and resulting megalomania, which leads to shocking and tragic results for his family (Barbara Rush and Robert Simon) as well as himself. Ray’s use of ‘Scope framing and color to delineate the hero’s dreams and dissatisfactions has rarely been as purposeful. (It’s hard to think of another Hollywood picture with more to say about the sheer awfulness of “normal” American family life during the 50s.) With Walter Matthau in an early noncomic role as the hero’s best friend; scripted by Cyril Hume, Richard Maibum, and an uncredited Clifford Odets” -Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)

ICE-Vision: Crime Wave (Andre de Toth, 1954)
Thursday, September 15 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.

“A relentlessly unforced potboiler that gazes at noir through the looking glass . . . Though little-seen, Andre de Toth’s Crime Wave has long been considered a masterpiece of the genre. De Toth was a one-eyed, poet-brute with a remarkable flair for chiaroscuro that betrayed the fact that he had almost no depth perception. Shot in two weeks, in and around Skid Row, this menacing potboiler’s hard-bitten night stands in striking contrast to its antiseptic day, and though it is notable for its brutal narrative efficiency and Sterling Hayden’s stylized rage, it is most interesting for its harrowing look at crime trapping virtue in a sweaty headlock.” -Slant Magazine