Film University to confer Doctor Honoris Causa title on British film historian Ian Christie
The National University of Theatre and Film 'I.L. Caragiale' (UNATC) will award British film historian Ian Christie the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at a ceremony to be held on November 19 in the university's Ileana Berlogea Hall.
The British film historian will be in Bucharest from November 19 to 22, the organisers inform in a press release sent to AGERPRES on Monday.
A specialist in early international cinema and Russian and Soviet silent-era films, Christie is equally passionate about the eccentric films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - having been one of the leading advocates of their relatively recent inclusion in the cinematic canon - as well as the cinema of Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam, with whom he has produced extensive interview books. He will take part in a series of events in Bucharest.
On November 20, Christie will deliver a masterclass at UNATC's Cinema Hall, moderated by Andrei Rus and Doru Nitescu.
The screening programme will open on November 19 with a selection of early films by British pioneer R. W. Paul, about whom Christie wrote the acclaimed volume R. W. Paul and the Origins of British Cinema. That same evening, Christie will present the Romanian premiere of his documentary 'Voices from the Chorus', about the making of the Soviet silent-film masterpiece 'New Babylon' (directed by Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev), which will be screened on Saturday afternoon at Cinemateca Eforie.
The programme will continue on November 20 at Cinema Elvire Popesco with Raoul Ruiz's adaptation of Marcel Proust's 'Time Regained'. On November 21, at Cinemateca Eforie, audiences will be able to see Scorsese's 'cursed masterpiece', Kundun. The series will conclude on November 22 at Cinema Apollo 111 with Powell and Pressburger's fantasy film 'A Matter of Life and Death', which Christie has repeatedly described as his favourite film.
Admission to all events organised at UNATC will be free. Tickets for the other screenings are already on sale through the Eventbook platform. UNATC students will be admitted free of charge to all screenings upon presentation of their student cards, with the exception of those at Cinemateca Eforie, where admission costs 5 lei. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Petronius Craiu; EN - writing by: Cristina Zaharia)
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