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Films and Faith Weekend 2008 Features Director Bernard Emond and Midwest Premiere at Notre Dame
The Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center is venue for the Midwest premiereof Canadian director Bernard Émond’s film, Summit Circle. Émond is scheduled to open the “Films and Faith Weekend: Meditations of Death (and Life)” series with a screening of his 2005 film The Novena. Émond has contributed to more than thirty films and is working on a trilogy of films based on Faith, Hope and Charity. The Novena and Summit Circle are the first two films of that trilogy. “Films and Faith Weekend 2008” is sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the Department of Theology, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the College of Arts and Letters.
The film festival is Friday, February 8 through Sunday, February 10 is comprised of four films, a panel discussion and a reception for Émond which is open to the public. In addition to Émond’s films, the series includes Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and Akira Kurosawa’s Iruku.
Tickets: $6 full price, $5 Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s/Holy Cross faculty and staff, $4 seniors, and $3 all students. Purchased online at performingarts.nd.edu or by calling the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (574) 631-2800.
Schedule of Events
FILMS & FAITH WEEKEND
Meditations of Death (and Life)
The Novena (2005)
Director Bernard Émond will be present
Films and Faith 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008, at 7:00 pm
Directed by Bernard Émond
NR, 97 minutes, 35mm Print
French language with English subtitles
Introductions by Professor Don Crafton, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
The Seventh Seal (1957)
PAC Classic 100
Films and Faith 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008, at 3:00 pm
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
NR, 92 minutes, 35mm Print
Swedish Language with English Subtitles
Introductions by Professor Jim Collins, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Panel Discussion around The Seventh Seal (titled TBA)
Saturday, February 9, 2008, at 4:30 pm
Panelists to include:
Jim Collins, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Bernard Émond, Guest Filmmaker
Cyril O' Regan, Department of Theology
Moderator: Professor Don Crafton, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Summit Circle (2007)
Director Bernard Émond will be present
Films and Faith 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008, at 7:00 pm
Directed by Bernard Émond
NR, 90 minutes, 35mm Print
French language with English subtitles
Midwest Premiere screening
Introductions by Professor Jim Collins, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Public reception for Bernard Émond
Saturday, February 9, 2008, at 9:00 pm
Browning Cinema Lobby
Ikiru (1952)
Films and Faith 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008, at 4:00 pm
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
NR, 153 minutes, 35mm Print
Japanese language with English subtitles
Introductions: TBA