The next film for the Cinema Salon Film Club at the Clark will be Roberto Rossellini’s Flowers of Saint Francis (1950, 83 minutes, title more literally translated as Francis, Jester of God) on October 9th at 4:00 pm.
Someone requested links to material to read in advance of (or after) the screening and discussion. So here are a couple that I’ll be using myself. One of the best aggregators of information on directors is the website, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, where you can find links to high-quality online articles about a given director. The essay accompanying the Criterion Collection edition of Flowers of Saint Francis is available here.
To facilitate interaction among members of the film club, I am turning on the comments feature of this website (splog made me turn it off), and club members can also email me directly at: ssatullo@clarkart.edu -- with questions, suggestions, feedback, and to vote on club polls.
The first decision for the club to make collectively is which Luchino Visconti film to watch on November 6th. I will announce the choices at the next meeting and the decision will be made at the October 23rd screening of Vittoria De Sica’s Umberto D. The Visconti choice is among (in my own order of preference):
A) La Terra Trema. (1947, 160 min.) Classic neorealism with a Marxist bent, set in Sicilian fishing village.
B) Ossessione. (1942, 139 min.) Ur-text of neorealism, uncredited adaptation of James Cain’s Postman Always Rings Twice.
C) Rocco and His Brothers. (1960, 180 min.) Transition from neorealism to Visconti’s later operatic style. A Sicilian family adapts to life in Milan, with Alain Delon and other well-known actors.
Let me know what you think. Let us think about film together.
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