4 – 7pm | Thursday 16 February
Stanford House, 65 High Street, Oxford
**Please note the change of date**
Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Thieves] (1948)
Film Discussions Series, Part III
Speakers
Karl Schoonover, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
Elena Lombardi, Paget Toynbee Lecturer in Italian Medieval Studies and Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Films about cities are both part of modern urban experience and a mode of our reflecting on that experience. Over the last century both cinema and cities have been in flux. What have we learned from films that explore cities? About cities? About films? About tradition? About modernity? About fantasy? About reality? About beauty? About ugliness? About living? About ourselves? About making sense or nonsense of any or all of these? In this series of Film events, the Oxford Forum and Stanford University Centre in Oxford are showing entrancing films about cities, followed by dialogues and discussion.