Philosophy Film Series

2019 Apr 11

Philosophy and Film: Boots Riley's "Sorry to Bother You" (2018)

7:00pm

Location: 

Tanner Room, Emerson 310

Join us for a showing of Boots Riley’s recent hit Sorry to Bother You (2018), dealing with questions of the authentic and good life; racial dynamics; corporate oppression and more.

As previously, pizza will be provided, we’ll watch the film together, and afterwards hang out and discuss its philosophical content.

2016 Apr 22

Philosophy & Film Series: La Jetée

7:00pm

Location: 

Tanner Room, Emerson 310

Please join us for a showing of Chris Marker's La Jetée (the inspiration for 12 Monkees) with philosophical reflection and discussion led by Professor Richard Moran.

2016 Mar 25

Philosophy & Film Series: The Mirror

7:00pm

Location: 

Tanner Room, Emerson 310

Please join us for a showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror and for a conversation with Professor Jimmy Doyle and other members of the department about the film's philosophical themes.

2015 Nov 13

Philosophy & Film Series: Breathless

7:00pm

Location: 

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

Please join us for a screening of Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking film Breathless with an introduction by Professor Sean Kelly. Breathless is one of the films featured in Professor Kelly's course "Existentialism in Literature and Film" and is being shown concurrently as part of the department's Philosophy & Film Series organized by Professor Cheryl Chen.

For more information on Godard's film, along with two essays by film scholars and critics Dudley Andrew and John Powers, see the...

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