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Two-Week Movie SymposiumScheduled at Smith CollegeA two-week smyposium on new films, most of them ^ever before shown in the area, will be held at Smith College in Northamption beginning Thursday and lasting through Friday, April 21.The college has scheduled seven programs at Sage Hall on the campus which will include both the showing of films of immediately contemporary interest and a brief commentary either by a member of the family or by a distinguished visitor.The final program April 21 will consist of a lecture by Richard Griffith, curator of film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and a panel discussion by members of the Smith faculty. Other speakers during the period will be Maya Deren, prize winner at Brussels, Edinburgh and Cannes, who will also show four of her films; John Mekas, editor of Film Culture and critic of the Village Voice; George Cohen, associate professor of art, Smith College, and Mrs. Michele Cantarella, chairman of the college’s motion picture committee.man of the college’s motion picture committee, will deliver the commentary.On Tuesday, April 11, at 8 p.m., Maya Deren will speak on “The Lyric Eye” and show four of her films: “Choreography for Camera,” with the dancer Talley Beatty; “Ritual in Transfigured Time, “Meshes of the Afternoon,” and “The Very Eye of Night” with the choreographic collaboration of Anthony Tudor.**Japanese Filmmidotwreic*frlt;hpphquVanderbilt FundThe program will comprise the second part of a two-part Vanderbilt Film Symposium made possible by the Sarah Sanderson Vanderbilt Memorial Fund established in 1955 to enrich the cultural and intellectual life of the college by unusual speakers and events. The first section was held in January and was a retrospective showing of famous films of this and other countries.The opening program Thursday, April 6, at 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. will consist of the movies, “The Cry of Jazz,” by Edwin Bland, described as an angry, provocative short made by young Negro intellectuals, and “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” by Bert Stern, centering on the Newport Jazz Festival. Mr. Cohen will deliver a brief commentary.The Japanese film “Ikiru,” directed by Akira Kurosawa, will be shown on Friday, April 14, at 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. Set in modern Tokyo, it has won wide acclaim.On Tuesday, April 18, at 8 p.m., Jonas Mekas, who is also a charter member of the New AmericanCinema Group, will speak on Changing Aesthetic of Cinema.” His talk will be followed by four films: “Praise the Sea” by Herman Van Der Horst, a portrait of Holland, which uses the new zoom lens technique; “Metrographic” by Martin Toonder, described as “gulls, gladiators, cocks, suns and strangers in the dream of the Swiss’ Vittorio Speich; Desistfilm” by Stan Brakhage, “an attempt to capture the frenzy of an adolscent party and comment on the tensions and confusions of modern youth,” and “Two Men and a Wardrobe,” a new Polish film directed by Raymond Polanski.On Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. the new movie by John Cassavetes, “Shadows,” will be shown. This is an example of the “new wave” in American films! and has won success abroad with its spontaneity and free improvisa-, tion almost entirely lost in professional cinema. icotrithteianMlt;SzilMiStwlt;sebycilAiKlt;ofiswiAithLiofcaWOn the final day of the sympo- •sium, Friday, April 21, at 8 p.m.!2Mr. Griffith will speak on‘‘the Na-'#On Saturday, April 8, at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. the following filmswill be shown: “Time Out of War,”by Denis and Terry Sanders, which won first prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the:highest award at the Edinburgh Festival; “Interregnum,” by Denis Sanders and Lotte Lenya, thepremier of a documentary which uses the drawings of George Grosz to tell the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich; and “The Sav-gge Eye” by Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick and Ben Maddow, in which the eye of a frustrated woman shockingly vivisects bar. fightring, burlesque and bedroom in Los Angeles.Mrs. Michele Cantarella, chair-ture of the Film Medium,” defining and analyzing movies in a lecture illustrated by film. He will also participate in a panel discussion on “Film Today and Tomorrow” which will assess the aesthetic and social import of the Van-derbile Film Symposium's pro! grams. Mr. Griffith will be joined i by the following members,of the j Smith faculty: Ely Chinoy, associ-' ate professor of sociology; Mr. Cohen, Kenneth Connelly, associ-. ate professor of English and chair man of the faculty committee which •arranged the symposium, and Robert Craig, associate professor of religion. *The public is invited to attend • i the showings. However, since the ® films may be psychologically up J setting to children, no one under 16 will be admitted.
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