UM School of Communication

Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
2023-04-25 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
FILM + CONVERSATION EVENT
Join us at 6 p.m. on Tues., April 25, for a special screening and conversation with Miami filmmakers and scholars about the history and future of Miami in a Francophone Caribbean context of anticolonialism, poetry, and radical film. The conversation will be moderated by University of Miami School of Communication Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Inclusion and Outreach Terri Francis (she/her). This event will be followed by a reception on the plaza.
Tickets are FREE for University of Miami students with a valid ID.

Media Management Association Meeting
2023-04-25 17:00 - 18:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us in room CIB 3055 where Professors Ana Francois, Jon Gorchow, Antonio Mora, Gina Presson, and Boriana Treadwell will respond to all of your questions about job application and interview tips.

Graduate Fellows Colloquium
2023-04-25 09:45 - 12:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The Distinguished Graduate Fellows in Global Communication and Communication for Global Health and Sustainable Development will present their fellowship projects after an introduction from their faculty mentors. Dean Karin Wilkins will welcome. A light breakfast will be available at 9:45 am. Join us in room WCB 4029.

Fellow Xinyu Zhao. Mentor Regina Ahn (Strategic Communication). Deconstructing Digital Media Literacy and Its Influence on Social Participation: Focusing on Older Adults in Local Chinese Communities.

Fellow Mu He. Mentor Ching-Hua Chuan (Interactive Media). Saving that Squirrel: A Model of An Augmented-Reality Game to Improve Recycling Education.

Fellow Zanolee Grant. Mentor Jim Virga (Cinematic Arts). Bay Islands of Honduras: An Oral History Film Project.

Fellow Luis García Conde. Mentor Sallie Hughes (Journalism and Media Management). The paradox of journalistic professionalization in risky environments: How violence prompts professionalization in Mexico.

Fellow Pablo Velho. Mentor Ed Talavera (Cinematic Arts). Because I should be happy. (Lucas)

Earth Day Celebration: 'A Journey Through Space and Time with Xavier Cortada'
2023-04-22 16:00 - 19:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Miami-Dade County’s pioneer eco-artist and inaugural artist-in-residence, Xavier Cortada, will celebrate Earth Day 2023 at the University of Miami’s Cosford Cinema by working with his team at the Xavier Cortada Foundation to engage guests in a series of thought-provoking and solutions-oriented art projects that explore our deep interconnectedness with the rest of the planet.
Cortada will invite everyone in attendance to participate in The Underwater, a countywide campaign that’s catalyzing action on sea level rise through elevation-driven public art installations. After receiving their personalized Elevation Marker, participants will have the opportunity to join Cortada in the Longitudinal Installation, a ritual aimed at building empathy and connection that he performed at both of the Earth’s poles. Inside the theater, Cortada will provide a preview exhibition of Underwater Florida, hand-painted Elevation Markers that he created at 54 coastal city halls to expose their vulnerability to rising seas, and share reflections on how we can mobilize communities around the climate crisis by tapping into our own creativity.
The program will close with DO NOT OPEN, a project asking the audience to write a letter to someone in 2123 that will be sealed and stored in the University of Miami’s archives for 100 years.

How Women and Health NGOs Use Communications Strategically to Advocate for Gender Equality and Reproductive Health
2023-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Center for Communication, Culture, and Change, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Please join us for “How women and health NGOs use communications strategically to advocate for gender equality and reproductive health” to mark the launch of Carolina Matos’, Ph.D., book “Gender, communications and reproductive health in international development,” which presents the research findings of a funded Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project.
Panelists include Karin Wilkins, dean of the School of Communication, Professors Suzanne Clibsy (University of Coventry, UK) and Rosalind Gill (City, University of London), and the CEO of NGO Reprolatina, Margarita Díaz.
A hybrid event, it will be attended by NGO practitioners and academics and students from across the world.
Panel description: To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, including the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) are at the forefront of conversations about the advancement of gender equality.
This panel with various scholars has been set up as part of a discussion to launch Matos’ forthcoming book, “Gender, communications and reproductive health in international development” by the Canadian university publisher McGill Queen University Press, which will be published in June 2023. Matos will provide a condensed examination of the research findings and core theoretical frameworks of the work, arguing over the need to deconstruct discourses around SRHR under challenging times and concluding that NGOs need better communication strategies and practices in their advocacy communication efforts.
This event will take place at the School of Communication in room 1021 and virtually.
Please register via the following Eventbrite links.
Eventbrite link for virtual event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/595952508997
Eventbrite link for in-person event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/597921979737
Zoom link for Virtual event: https://miami.zoom.us/j/95620857877?pwd=[REDACTED]

UHack 2023
2023-04-15 09:00 - 20:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
A hack-a-thon is a competitive event hosted by tech companies for participants to collaborate on an innovative project. Participants build prototypes of software applications like web or mobile apps.
On April 15, UHack convenes, challenging creators to develop a solution to an existing problem using technology. The caveat? You have from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. to complete the solution. Join us for what is sure to be an exhilarating day.

Inaugural Computing Day Featuring Two SoC Alumni
2023-04-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, 1201 Memorial Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Please join us for the University of Miami’s inaugural Computing Day, where two School of Communication Interactive Media alumni are set to participate in the event’s panel discussion, scheduled for 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Computing Day is a part of a broad initiative to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in computing. The event convenes corporate and government professionals, faculty and student scholars, and other audiences engaged in all facets of computing as we design the future.

Centering Black and African Podcast Research
2023-04-13 17:00 - 18:30 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us for an enlightening conversation with Kim Fox, professor of practice at The American University in Cairo, on Centering Black and African Podcast Research.
Fox specializes in audio production and podcasting, and is the executive producer of the award-winning Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast, where she works with freelance producers, many of whom are former students, on writing and editing content. In 2020, she founded and organized Egypt’s first podcasting conference, PodFest Cairo, which featured a keynote address, sessions on podcasting, and a podcast pitch competition.
Aside from her work advancing the field of podcasting, Fox also assists with managing the social media accounts for various BEA and AEJMC initiatives. She holds positions on the boards for BEA, AEJMC, the Associates for Independents in Radio, and the Arab U.S. Association for Communication Educators. She received her B.S. and her M.A. degrees from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Fox spent decades working in the U.S. radio industry in various positions across the country. She, along with co-authors David O. Dowling, Ph.D. and Kyle J. Miller, Ph.D., received the 2019 BEA Diversity and Inclusion Research Award for their paper, A Curriculum for Blackness: Podcasts as Discursive Cultural Guides.
This conversation takes place in WCB 4027.

'Evil Dead Rise' Free Preview Screening
2023-04-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Come catch a free sneak preview of “Evil Dead Rise” at the Cosford Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Monday April 10!
EVIL DEAD RISE | 4K DCP | writer-director: Lee Cronin | RUNNING TIME: 1H 37M | RATED R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, and some language.
Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, “Evil Dead Rise” tells a twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Admission is FREE, but registration required at link.
“Yes, “Evil Dead Rise” is the most “Evil Dead” movie, from the mind-melting body horror to the outrageous creature design to the darkly comedic spring in its step. Here’s a movie that invites you to treat the decimation of a family unit by demonic forces like a big ol’ party. There is a select portion of the human population who will find that reprehensible. The rest of us freaks can just crack open the cursed book, read the cursed words, and enjoy the cursed ride.” — Jacob Hall, Slashfilm.

Conversations and Innovations: Research Day 2023
2023-04-07 09:30 - 17:00 | Center for Communication, Culture, and Change, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
The theme of this year’s Research Day is “Conversations and innovations: Creating positive social change.” We will be celebrating the excellent work being done across the School of Communication that is making the world a better place. Come out and learn more about how successful community-based partnerships are forged and how they have led to measurable impacts.
The url for the in-person event is https://www.eventbrite.com/e/557019730007 and for the virtual event please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/557052748767.

Route 6 / Orange Umbrella's Sixth Birthday
2023-04-06 16:00 - 18:30 | Koenigsberg & Nadal Interactive Media Center, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146
We invite you to take a trip along Route 6 to Orange Umbrella’s sixth anniversary event! You won’t want to get stuck in traffic and miss out on this opportunity to network and learn about our alumni’s experience with OU, including how it benefited their experience working in the real world and their current success stories.

UChat: Title IX, Double Standards, Sexual Assault Awareness
2023-03-29 20:00 - 21:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The UM Debate Team hosts our next UChat which is open to the entire UM community! Come engage in discourse and learn about the topics of Title IX, double standards, and sexual assault awareness.
This UChat is taking place at the School of Communication in Wolfson 4026.

James Hoffman Family Endowed Speaker Series: Why I Teach Hate Speech
2023-03-29 11:00 - 12:15 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The James Hoffman Family Endowed Speaker Series is supported by James Hoffman, A.B. ’80, a longtime UM volunteer and past president of the UM Alumni Association’s Denver Alumni Club. The series funds an annual lecture on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The next speaker in the series is Sandy Bohrer, a First Amendment rights lawyer for almost 50 years, who also worked in the human rights arena. At the University of Miami School of Communication, he teaches Children and the Media, as well as Hate Speech and the Media. He has been heavily involved in the child welfare system and presently is on the Board and Executive Committee of Citrus Health Network. Bohrer is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University and received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. When he was practicing law, The Best Lawyers in America guide listed him in five separate categories, including First Amendment Law and Media Law.
Join us for this engaging conversation at the School of Communication in room CIB 2055.

The Sight & Sound Top Ten: 'Beau Travail'
2023-03-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time.
BEAU TRAVAIL | YEAR: 1999 | DIRECTOR: Claire Denis | 4K DCP projection | RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes | RATED: Unrated (adult themes) | In French with English subtitles
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.
Admission is $5 for the general public, free to UM students with Cane Card (use code UMSTUDENT at checkout).

Global Frontiers: The Biology of Slowing and Reversing Aging
2023-03-25 17:00 - 20:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
We are excited to announce the fifth installment of our groundbreaking film series, Global Frontiers. The film “More Life: Decoding the Secret of Aging” chronicles the work of several cellular biologists who are tackling the underlying cause of aging, not just age-related diseases, but the aging process itself. The screening of this film will take place on Saturday, March 25th at 5 p.m.
Carlos T. Moraes, Ph.D., the Esther Lichtenstein Professor in Neurology and Cell Biology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, will lead an engaging and thought-provoking discussion both before and after the screening. Dr. Moraes will share his own research on the molecular basis of mitochondrial disorders and its impact on the aging process, as well as other exciting pathways to control, slow down, and potentially even reverse aging.
Admission is free, but registration is required via the link.

'Air' Special Sneak Preview Screening
2023-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Come catch a free early screening of “Air,” the story of how Nike pursued Michael Jordan to launch his own branded line of sneakers.
AIR | d. Ben Affleck | 4K DCP PROJECTION | Running time: 112 minutes | RATED R for pervasive language.
Matt Damon stars as Sonny Vaccaro, the salesman who signed Jordan to a contract in the mid-1980s that launched the multi-billion, global sneaker industry. Ben Affleck (who also directed the movie) co-stars as Nike co-founder Phil Knight. Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, Chris Tucker, Chris Messina, and Marlon Wayans co-star.
Admission is FREE but registration required at link. UM students get priority seating, so please arrive early. Ticket does not guarantee admission.

Media Management Association Meeting: Brian Norris
2023-03-23 17:00 - 18:00 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The next Media Management Association (MMA) meeting will take place on Thurs., March 23 at 5 p.m., in Wolfson 4027, and will feature Brian Norris, senior vice president, SMB Growth, NBCUniversal. Noris will discuss NBCUniversal’s advertising strategies to small and medium sized businesses.

'Dying to Direct' Premiere
2023-03-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Silverspot Cinema, 300 SE 3 St, Miami, 33131, United States
World premiere of 30 min short film.
To purchase tickets visit, https://miamifilmfestival2023.eventive.org/films/63d8210109050900cfb004c1.

Workshop of Feminist Methodologies in Communication and Development
2023-03-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Center for Communication, Culture, and Change, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
In research that aims to address issues of social change and influence policy, can we conceive of a particular method that can further ’empower’ some of the communities that we engage with? In the current context where the use of mixed methods approach has become more popular, can we still talk about ‘feminist research methods,’ or a particular methodology praxis for engaging with research which aims to tackle issues of social injustice?
These are just some of the questions that the workshop lead by Carolina Matos, Ph.D., visiting associate professor in Global Communication and senior lecturer in Media and Sociology from City, University of London, engages with. Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the project, Gender, communications and reproductive health in international development, made use of a mixed methods approach to examine the use of communications strategically by 52 health and feminist NGOs from both the north and the south, from the U.S. to Europe, Latin America, and South Asia.
The workshop centers specifically on the focus groups findings with a group of women from low-income backgrounds in the state of Campinas, Sao Paulo Brazil, which was conducted in partnership with the NGO Reprolatina during the summer of 2021. Designed for graduate students, Ph.D.s, and early career researchers, this workshop will be followed by a hands-on activity on methodology application to one’s own research, as well as critical thinking on methodology and feminist perspectives on qualitative and quantitative research, use of interviews, ethnography, and focus groups.

Disinformation in the Global South: Issues, Responses, and Challenges
2023-03-06 13:15 - 14:45 | Center for Communication, Culture, and Change, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Dr. Herman Wasserman, chair of journalism and media studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, discusses his new book and this global trend.

Virtual Open House: University of Miami School of Communication Graduate Programs
2023-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 | FL
Learn more about graduate studies opportunities, meet with faculty, and ask questions about any of our exciting programs.
If you are a UM School of Communication graduating senior, you are eligible to receive an application waiver. Contact socgrad@miami.edu for more details about this and all of our programs.
To learn more, go to com.miami.edu/admissions/graduate-faqs/

https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscumhrj8qGtACX2SUh5hQ5Bdd832paQWr

Meeting ID 312 629 5124
Password Graduate

Media Management Association Meeting: Lucia Sotres, Senior Client Partner at Condé Nast
2023-03-02 18:30 - 19:30 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Lucia Sotres, senior client partner at Condé Nast, will discuss how Condé Nast, a leading print media company, is adapting to the ever-changing media environment.
Join us in Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, for this engaging conversation.

Top Network Executive and Producer to Share Media Career Insights with Students
2023-02-27 10:10 - 11:25 | University of Miami School of Communication, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
It’s all about how to tell a good story. That’s the best way to describe Shannon High-Bassalik’s career which has spanned news, entertainment, documentaries, streaming, and social media. Starting as an associate news producer in Miami at WFOR, she came back to the station exactly 10 years later as VP of news and helped bring it from one of the worst stations in the country to an award-winning national leader.
At the networks, as creator and executive producer of CNN’s “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien” and “Early Start,” she helped increase ratings by 20% year over year. As VP and managing editor of MSNBC, overseeing the content and programming of mornings, daytime, and weekends, she built a team that increased ratings to the highest they had ever been, and as SVP of programming for the short-lived Al Jazeera America network, she oversaw primetime shows and documentaries, including teams that won Primetime Emmys, Peabodys and Duponts.
Always on the hunt to learn new genres, she has worked in the entertainment industry as co-executive producer of the nationally syndicated daytime talk show “Tamron Hall” (current) to Peacock’s executive producer of development where she helped develop and pitch programs that landed on Discovery ID and NBC. She’s produced Emmy-award winning documentaries, helped streaming companies develop, produce, and launch content, and consulted with local news companies to help coach talent, producers, and managers. She is also a vice president of the University of Miami’s Alumni Board of Directors Executive Committee.
Join us in Studio C for this fantastic conversation.

The Sight & Sound Top Ten: ‘In The Mood For Love’ (2000)
2023-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time.
Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics, and journalists from around the world. The results are published in “Sight & Sound,” a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute.
“IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE” | YEAR: 2000 | DIRECTOR: Wong Kar Wai | 4K DCP | RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes | RATED: PG (for adult themes)
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
“In the Mood for Love” took fifth place in the Sight & Sound poll. Admission is $5. Students with Cane card use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission.

Global Frontiers Screening Series: 'Endangered' (2022)
2023-02-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us for our fourth installment in a new breakthrough monthly film series at the Cosford Cinema focusing on current world issues such as migration and social inclusion, peace and security, aging populations, democracy, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
The series is intended to bring two types of audiences together: Movie lovers and people who care about current events.
The series continues at 5 p.m. on Sat., Feb. 25, with “Endangered,” a documentary that recounts the experiences of four journalists reporting in Mexico, Brazil, and the United States.The film documents a year in the lives of journalists who work in environments that challenge the freedom of the press. They risk their personal well-being and mental health to provide a sense of understanding in a world that is increasingly unbalanced.
Sallie Hughes, University of Miami professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Management and associate dean for Global Initiatives at the School of Communication, will engage in a thought-provoking conversation with Rene Rodriguez, manager of the Cosford Cinema, both before and after the screening, about the challenges confronting journalism and the necessary resilience to overcome them.
Admission is free but registration is required at link, https://events.miami.edu/event/global_frontiers_screening_series_endangered#.

Echoing Josephine Baker: Madame Satã
2023-02-25 12:00 - 15:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
Madame Satã is a fictionalized portrait of folk hero, João Francisco dos Santos (1900–1976). Santos was a drag performer and capoeirista who frequented the bohemian underground of early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This screening will be followed by a conversation with Jordan Rogers, a Ph.D. student and UGrow Communications Fellow in the English Department, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Miami.

AdTour Vol. 2
2023-02-23 10:30 - 12:00 | Republica Havas, 2153 Coral Way, Miami, FL, 33145, United States
Join us on our second AdTour of the year to Republica Havas! Sign up here, https://tinyurl.com/AdGroup-Republica.

The Sight & Sound Top Ten: 'Tokyo Story' (1953)
2023-02-19 13:00 - 15:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time.
Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics, and journalists from around the world. The results are published in “Sight & Sound,” a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute.
TOKYO STORY | YEAR: 1953 | DIRECTOR: Yasujirô Ozu | 4K DCP projection | RUNNING TIME: 136 minutes | UNRATED (no offensive material) | In Japanese with English subtitles.
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, “Tokyo Story” is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores.
Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, “Tokyo Story” plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema’s mightiest masterpieces.
“Tokyo Story” took the fourth spot in the Sight & Sound poll. Admission is $5 per film or $40 for a series pass. Students with Cane card use code UMSTUDENTS at checkout for free admission. Tickets available via https://events.miami.edu/event/the_sight_sound_top_ten_tokyo_story_1953.
“‘Tokyo Story’ has frequently been acclaimed by filmmakers and critics alike as the greatest film ever made, and it very arguably could be. Regardless of where you’d place it on the hierarchy of the “best evers,” ‘Tokyo Story’ is certainly the ultimate family film—that is, the ultimate film about family and what family actually means.
It is, of course, about a family, observing three generations in a single unit to analyze the vast differences that separate them. In movies like ‘Late Spring’ and ‘Early Summer,’ Ozu looks at the changing face of Japanese culture in the 1950s, when a younger generation challenged and defied traditions that were pivotal to older generations.
In ‘Tokyo Story’ he places a lot of value on family, but one that doesn’t necessarily place judgment upon those who abide by the inevitability of change. Each generation has its own set of cultural rules that they follow, without a single generation being right or wrong. It’s much more complicated than that, and Ozu tells the audience that family is just that: complicated.” — Adam Grinwald, “Collider”

Watching Movies with Mitch Kaplan: 'Days Of Heaven' (1978)
2023-02-18 14:00 - 16:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join Books & Books founder Mitchell Kaplan and Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez for a screening and Q&A discussion of Terrence Malick’s Oscar-winning 1978 drama “Days of Heaven.”
Miami Beach native, Mitchell Kaplan, opened the first Books & Books in 1982 in Coral Gables, Florida. Now with five South Florida locations, Books & Books hosts over 400 events per year. In addition, two of the stores are home to well-established cafes and there are Books & Books affiliated stores at the Miami International Airport, and in Key West, where he collaborates with the noted author Judy Blume and her husband, George.
Among his honors, Kaplan served as president of the American Booksellers Association and he received the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation. Books & Books was also Publishers Weekly’s bookstore of the year. He recently accepted an appointment to serve on the Board of the National Coalition Against Censorship.
As co-founder of the Miami Book Fair in 1985, Kaplan has served as the chairperson of its Board of Directors and continues to guide the programming team at the Fair which takes place on the campus of Miami-Dade College in the heart of downtown Miami. Each year, the Fair presents close to 500 authors over one week in November, along with a street festival, where bookstalls line the streets adjacent to the campus. Programs take place in Creole, Spanish, and English, reflecting the diversity of Miami.
Kaplan, with his partner Paula Mazur, established The Mazur Kaplan Company to bring books to the screen, both film and television. His most recent release is “Let Him Go” starring Diane Lane and Kevin Costner. Kaplan also hosts the podcast “The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan,” broadcast from Miami, where he lives with his wife, Rachelle. They have three children, Anya, Daniel, and Jonah.
DAYS OF HEAVEN | DIRECTED BY: Terrence Malick | USA | 1978 | 1H 34M | RATED PG | STARRING: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, andLinda Manz | 4K digital projection
One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting films of the 20th century, and his glorious period tragedy “Days of Heaven,” featuring Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros, stands out among them.
In 1910, a Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor, and he, his girlfriend (Brooke Adams), and his little sister (Linda Manz) flee to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard).
A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating a timeless American idyll that is also a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
Admission is FREE, but registration required at link, https://events.miami.edu/event/watching_movies_with_mitch_kaplan_days_of_heaven_1978.
“‘Days of Heaven’ is above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick’s purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas prairie. In the first hour of the film there is scarcely a scene set indoors. The farm workers camp under the stars and work in the fields, and even the farmer is so besotted by the weather that he tinkers with wind instruments on the roof of his Gothic mansion.
[The movie] has been criticized for its muted emotions: Although passions erupt in a deadly love triangle, all the feelings are somehow held at arm’s length. This observation is true enough, if you think only about the actions of the adults in the story. But watching this film again recently, I was struck more than ever with the conviction that this is the story of a teenage girl, told by her, and its subject is the way that hope and cheer have been beaten down in her heart.
We do not feel the full passion of the adults because it is not her passion: It is seen at a distance, as a phenomenon, like the weather, or the plague of grasshoppers that signals the beginning of the end.” — Roger Ebert

Echoing Josephine Baker: 'Touki Bouki' by Djibril Diop Mambéty
2023-02-18 12:00 - 15:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, United States
FILM + CONVERSATION EVENT
With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Characterized by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative “Touki Bouki” is widely considered one of the most important African films ever made. Introduction by Dr. Patoimbasba Nikiema, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies / Global Black and Afropean Studies.
