Film Lovers' Dialog Group
Viva La Revolucion! Class consciousness, the Power Elite and Revolution
Instructor: Robin Bernat
20 Sessions
September 8 - January 26
7:00- 9:00 PM
Price: This is a revolutionary course. As such, you are setting the price
for the course.
Suggested Contribution: $300/course; $15/session.
Cinema, since its inception, has had the power to reveal the complexities of
human nature while simultaneously examining cultural, societal and historical
conflicts and outcomes. Films become tools for both propaganda and social
action; we see in these depictions that, sometimes, status quo is upheld; other
times, filmmakers embrace the spirit of revolution: the often bloody battle of
class, caste, gender and race against the burden of history but also the quiet
drama of the personal revolution toward a new consciousness.
Local experimental filmmaker, Robin Bernat, whose works have been exhibited
locally and nationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art, will
facilitate discussions. The class will run like a book club with meetings being
held at Robin's private Buckhead residence. Participants screen the films on
their own, in advance and then meet up on Tuesday evenings for engaging and
lively conversation about each film, its director, time-period, and thematic
concerns. Evenings will include screenings of short clips from other relevant
films, recommendations of reading materials and some wine and hors d'oeuvres!
Off-site Location: Private Residence of the Instructor
Payment: Please pay the instructor on-site with cash or check. If you'd like
to make a donation to ATL365, pledge here.
To Register: TO OFFICIALLY REGISTER FOR THE COURSE, YOU MUST send an email to
instructor, Robin Bernat at:
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She will send a confirmation, and will furnish the recommended reading list,
the advance film screening list, and directions to her home.
Included in the series are recommended, and not at all required,
readings/excerpts from a variety of sources:
September 8
1939 The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir
2001 Gosford Park, Robert Altman
September 15
1937 Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir
1963 The Leopard, Luchino Visconti
September 22
1925 Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein
1998 The Thin Red Line, Terrence Mallick
September 29
1965 Dr. Zhivago, David Lean
1981 Reds, Warren Beatty
October 6
1975 Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick
[2006 Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola]
October 13
1948 The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio DeSica
1950 Guernica (15 min), Alain Resnais
2008 Frozen River, Courtney Hunt
October 20
1956 The Searchers, John Ford
1961 The Exiles, Kent MacKenzie
October 27
1940 The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford
1979 Norma Rae, Martin Ritt
November 3
2005 Cache, Michael Haneke
1966 The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo
November 10
1969 The Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls
1980 The Last Metro, Truffaut
November 17
1992 Orlando, Sally Potter
2007 Lady Chatterley, Pascal Ferran
November 24
1974 Chinatown, Roman Polanski*
1977 Julia, Fred Zinnemann*
December 1
1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer
1992 Malcolm X, Spike Lee
December 8
2000 Before Night Falls, Julian Schnabel
2008 Milk, Gus Van Sant
December 15
2002 In This World, Michael Winterbottom
2002 From the Other Side, Chantal Akerman
December 22
1983 Sans Soleil, Chris Marker
1983 Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio
December 29
2008 Che, Steven Soderbergh
2005 Paradise Now, Hany Abu-Assad
January 5
2005 Syriana, Stephen Gaghan
2006 Babel, Allejandro Innaritu
2000 [Code Unknown], Michael Haneke
January 12
2004 [Born into Brothels], Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman*
2006 Fur, Steven Shainberg
January 19
2007 Into the Wild, Sean Penn
2007 Diving Bell & the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel
