[Commlist] Lina Wertmuller Symposium

LINA WERTMULLER SYMPOSIUM - REGISTER NOW!
A study day dedicated to the first woman ever nominated for the Academy 
Award for Best Director

WHEN? - Friday 13th December 2019, 1.30-5.30pm
WHERE? - University of Westminster, Regent Campus and Regent Street Cinema
HOW? - Free Registration via Eventbrite - 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lina-wertmuller-symposium-tickets-79379481165

WHAT - About this Event
The Centre for Research and Media Education (CREAM) at the University of 
Westminster presents a one-day symposium on the cinema of Lina 
Wertmüller. The symposium will take place on December 13th, 2019, Regent 
Street Campus, and will be followed by a 6.30pm screening at the Regent 
Street Cinema. Free entry to the symposium, tickets for the film 
screening can be purchased here: 
https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/seven-beauties/

WHY? The first woman to ever receive an Academy Award nomination for 
best director for her 1975 film Pasqualino Settebellezze (“Seven 
Beauties”), Lina Wertmüller has rarely been granted the attention she so 
richly deserves, by both audiences and critics. Receiving a career Oscar 
in October 2019, it is timely to rediscover this director’s work. Often 
labelled controversial and transgressive, her films are indeed 
quintessentially political, addressing matters of class and gender in a 
bold and innovative manner. A truly original voice in an Italian 
landscape dominated by male filmmakers, Wertmüller’s cinema tackles 
challenging topics with irony and levity, producing unforgettably 
tragi-comic results.

The symposium will bring together scholars in the field of film and 
gender studies to engage with the work of Wertmüller on all aspects of 
her cinema. Followed by the UK Premier of the critically acclaimed 
masterpiece Seven Beauties - Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975), for which 
Wertmüller was nominated for Best Director.

WHO?: Everyone Welcome!

GET IN TOUCH - For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at 
(wertmullersymposium /at/ gmail.com)

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