FA/FILM 3610 Sec D Fall 2007-08

Hi everybody, Mackenzie here. I just have a small announcement to make. Since our class is about Japanese Cinema and we talk about Japanese culture, I thought that everyone might want to know that on Friday October 26th there will be a presentation and question period with the coordinator of the JET (Japanese Exchange and Teaching) program. For those of you who may not know, the Japanese embassy in Canada has run this program since 1988 and it is a program whereby Canadian citizens who wish to can apply to teach English in Japan for one year, after graduating with a BA. You do not need to have a degree in English or any previous knowledge of the Japanese language to apply. There are different types of positions available and more information is available at their Canadian Homepage located here: <http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/ExchangeProgram/jetweb/index.html>.

For those who are interested this presentation/question period with the coordinator will be held at 10:30 AM Friday October 26, 2007 at Glendon College in York Hall room B213 and it will be 1.5 hours. I have been told that there will probably be another presentation at the Keele Campus but no date has been set yet. If you live at the Keele Campus, you can take the Glendon-Keele shuttle bus free of charge if there is room at any of the times listed on the parking services website for York University. For those of you who live off-campus and wish to attend, Glendon is located at the intersection of Bayview Avenue & Lawrence Avenue. If taking the TTC, probably the easiest way to get here is to take the Subway to Lawrence Station and take the 124 Bus and get off at either the Toronto French School or Bayview Avenue and then just walk right on in.

If I have any more information on this, I will post it and if you have any questions you can email me at macsalt@yorku.ca. Also if you could let me know if you plan on attending, that would be great.

Cheers,

Mackenzie Salt

Hi everyone,

I want to post a quick reminder to everyone that at 6:30 P.M. on Monday 15 October the Ciné Club will be screening Hiroshima mon amour by director Alain Resnais in the SMIL screening room.

It may be interesting to see how a French new wave director such as Resnais represents Japan and Hiroshima. It would also be intriguing to see how the footage taken of Hiroshima after the bombing is used inside a narrative (albeit somewhat surrealist) text rather than documentary. Although not a Japanese film, I believe that we could easily fit this within the context of what we have been studying.

You can view a trailer for the film here (I apologise, there are no English subtitles on the trailer).

Update: The screening has been held over until next week. Due to low turnout we chose to postpone the screening of Hiroshima mon amour until the 22 of October. Hope to see some of you there!