Query for Soviet Film Buffs

[Anthony Anemone]

Colleagues!

Sorry to be so late in getting you more detailed information about the
WGCTV Film Symposium, hosted by the College of William and Mary on April
20-22, 2001.  (For those of you who may not have received the initial
posting, I have included it at the end of this message).

Elena Mikhailovna Stishova will be our featured guest and we have put
together the following list of the movies we will be screening and
discussing over the course of the weekend.  As you can see from the list,
several of them are quite rare and we are looking forward to seeing how our
notions of the cinema of the Stalinist era might be challenged by these
movies.

Friday, April 20.       "Prazdnik sviatogo Iorgana"  1930. dir. Iakov
Protazanov.

Saturday, April 21.     "Odna" 1931. dirs. Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid
Trauberg
                         "Kolybel'naia" 1937, dir. Dziga Vertov.
                         "Kliatva" 1946, dir. Georgi Chiaureli.
                         "Vesna" 1947, dir. Grigori Alexandrov.

Sunday, April 22.       "Skazanie o zemle sibirskoi," 1947, dir. Ivan Pyr'ev.

Please let me know if you are planning to attend.

Tony Anemone

Fellow Cineastes!

The Annual WGCTV Film Symposium will be held this year at the College of
William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, the beautiful capital of
Colonial Virginia, from Friday, April 20 to Sunday, April 22, 2001. As many
of you know, the WGCTV Film Symposium is an opportunity for a small number
of Russian, Slavic, Soviet and Post-Soviet cinema specialists and
enthusiasts to spend a long weekend together watching and discussing 5 - 6
feature films. Each film has a brief introduction and is followed by a
general discussion. Participants are encouraged to continue the discussion
at group meals (dinner on Friday, lunch and dinner on Saturday, and lunch
on Sunday) and over drinks in the evenings at local pubs.

This year's topic is: "Looking Backward: Stalinist Cinema in Post-Soviet
Perspective." We're still working on the list of specific films to be
screened. In fact, we're open to suggestions about interesting (and rarely
screened) movies from the Stalinist period which you might like to see.

One of the traditional features of the Symposium is a featured speaker (or
two) from Russia. This year's guest speaker will be noted Russian film
critic Elena Mikhailovna Stishova.

Please note that some of the movies will be screened without subtitles and
discussions are sometimes conducted in Russian.

If you are interested in attending, please contact me directly at
aaanem at wm.edu (no need to send those messages to the entire list).

Accomodations and Travel: Located in Historic Tidewater Virginia 150 miles
from Washington, D.C., Williamsburg is serviced by three airports
(Richmond, Norfolk and Newport News), Amtrak, and Interstate 64. We
recommend the Williamsburg Hospitality House, which is conveniently located
right across the street from the University. The hotel's web site is
http://www.williamsburghosphouse.com. For travel directions and links to
maps, click on the link on the Hospitality House site to "Location." For
other places to stay and things to do in Williamsburg, see
http://www.williamsburg.reservationstogo.com/

Hope to see you in April.

Tony

Tony Anemone
Associate Professor of Russian                          757-221-3636 (office)
Chair, Modern Languages &
Literatures                           757-221-3637 (fax)
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

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