1968/2008

Retour sur mai 68 at the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago
http://fcc.uchicago.edu/events/mai68.html
See especially:
May 5
4:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis
KRISTIN ROSS
(NYU)
“Art is What Makes Life More Interesting than Art: May ‘68 and Militant Cinema”
Immediately following the discussion there will be a roundtable discussion with the participation of Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), […]

The cinema rises
Friday 21 Mars 2008
Years 68
The single place invites the people which miss for Night 68

We do not commemorate 68, us did not know 68. We have only the nostalgia of the future. Happening and total art, insurrectionary militancy and revolutionary homosexual face, black power and radical feminism will compose a cinematographic […]

SDS screening: Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin Mon. 4/21 7PM Stuart 105
 
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. room 105
UChicago Students for a Democratic Society and the Platypus Affiliated
Society present a film screening-discussion:
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
with John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: the life and […]

Berkley’s Pacific Film Archives is currently hosting a “Clash of 68″ film festival. Thanks to Amanda Ault for passing the information along. At the same time, the British Film Institute is hosting “Pop Goes the Revolution: French Cinema and May 68.” Descriptions of both are below.

This traditional newsreel documentary was just released and features Tom Brokaw apparently just going over the commonly accepted “highlights” of the famous year 1968 without any rethinking or evaluation. This review explains more.