May 15, Charlie Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS May 22, Vittorio De Sica's UMBERTO D May 30, Luis Bunuel's LOS OLVIDADOS June 6, Federico Fellini's LA STRADA June 13, Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL June 20, Milos Forman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO 'S NEST June 27, Woody Allen's ANNIE HALL

"…This is the art form of the century. It's American. And this whole hundred years is like a golden age…People in 2050 are going to look back at this century as the Golden Age of Cinema, not only in America but everywhere else" - Martin Scorsese.

New York University's Cantor Film Center presents "The Golden Age of Cinema" film series, featuring lectures, screenings and discussions of pictures that largely shaped the film culture of the 20th century. Major works by film giants from Chaplin to Woody Allen, Fellini to Scorsese, Hitchcock to the Coen Brothers, Kubrick and Tarantino, Bunuel and Kusturica, Lumet and Pollack, Mazursky and Forman, Truffaut and Mikhalkov, Kurosawa and Greenaway, Spielberg and Coppola, Altman and P.T. Anderson, and others.

CANTOR FILM CENTER

The invited guests for this season include Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman, Milos Forman, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Thelma Schoonmaker. Please note that guest appearances are subject to availability.

The producer and host of the series, Mr. Zhenya Kiperman, is an award-winning filmmaker, and one of the most popular Film Professors in New York City. Mr. Kiperman, a Columbia University Film School graduate, is an Adjunct Professor at New York University, Fordham University, and The New School University. He was inspired to produce the series as an increasing number of students expressed interest in delving deeper into the cinematic universe than a course would allow. "More and more people today perceive films not only as commercial entertainment but as serious art", says Mr.Kiperman, "and they want not only to watch the films, but to meet the filmmakers and to discuss their work. Indeed, audience suggestions will be crucial in deciding programs for future seasons."

Address:	NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, off University Place
Dates/Time:	May/June 2001 - 7 sessions - Box office opens at 6pm. All sessions 7pm.
Tickets:	General $12.00, General 2 Month Subscription $75.00. Students with ID $7.00, 2 Month Student Subscription $40.00. Call 917.750.3651 Tickets available on-line at: www.ticketweb.com Or visit www.goldenageofcinema.com for more information.

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Tuesday, May 15, 7:00pm
City Lights. 1931. USA. Silent. Black and white. Runtime 87 min. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. With Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, and Charles Chaplin as the Tramp. City Lights is the story of the Tramp as he strives to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. Professor Kiperman's lecture on the art of Charlie Chaplin precedes the screening of this last masterpiece of the Silent Era of cinema. The session also includes unique footage from the British documentary UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (1980) revealing the dramatic, often excruciating process of making "City Lights" -- rare footage of Chaplin at work, interviews with the star of the film, Virginia Cherrill and other participants of the project.

Tuesday, May 22, 7:00pm
Umberto D.1949. Italy. Italian with English sub-titles. Black and white. Runtime 91 min. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Written by Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini. With Carlo Battisti and Maria-Pia Casilio. Set in post-war Italy, it is the story of a retired public worker, trying to survive on a meager state pension and being threatened with eviction from his landlady. His only friends are his small dog 'Flick' and his landlady's young maid Maria who has just discovered she is pregnant. Filled with despair over his situation he finally contemplates suicide. The screening of this Neorealist classic follows Professor Kiperman's lecture on the most interesting and intense cinematic movement of the 20th century: Italian Neorealism.

Wednesday, May 30, 7:00pm
Los Olvidados.1950. Mexico. Spanish with English sub-titles. Black and white. Runtime 80 minutes. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Written by Luis Bunuel and Luis Alcoriza. Also known as "The Young and the Damned", this drama focuses on a group of juvenile delinquents living in the Mexican slums. Professor Kiperman's lecture on the eccentric film genius of Luis Bunuel will explore Bunuel's philosophical and artistic polemics with Italian Neorealism.

Wednesday, June 6, 7:00pm
La Strada.1954. Italy. Italian with English sub-titles. Black and white. Runtime 115 minutes. Directed by Federico Fellini. Written by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. With Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina. Her very poor mother sells Gelsomina for a few coins to Zampano, a mean fairground wrestler, whom she has to follow on the road ("la strada") and help during shows. "La Strada" is a road of spiritual discoveries, loyalty, betrayal, and death. Lecture on the greatest film poet, Federico Fellini, and the immortal LA STRADA, precedes the screening. The film established Giulietta Masina as the greatest tragic clowness of the 20th century, "Chaplin in a skirt," as one critic put it.

Wednesday, June 13, 7:00pm
Raging Bull. 1980. USA. Black and white, color. Runtime 129 minutes. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, and Peter Savage (book). Script by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin. With Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Loosely based on the life and career of boxer Jake LaMotta, focusing on Jake's rage and violence that makes him unstoppable in the ring. The same anger also sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral. Director Martin Scorsese, star Robert De Niro and editor Thelma Schoonmaker are invited to join the discussion of one of the most powerful films of the 1980's.

Wednesday, June 20, 7:00pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 1975. USA. Color. Runtime 133 minutes. Directed by Milos Forman. Written by Ken Kesey (novel). Script by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben. With Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit but the head nurse is after him at every turn. Director Milos Forman is invited to personally present the screening of the Academy-award winning classic.

Wednesday, June 27, 7:00pm
Annie Hall. 1977. USA. Color. Runtime 93 minutes. Directed by Woody Allen. Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting. Writer-director Woody Allen and writer Marshall Brickman are invited to discuss the long and dramatic process that transformed an unfinished script called "Anhedonia," into a classic called ANNIE HALL.