Join Humanities Institute Associate Fred Andrle and Wexner Center Director of Film/Video Dave Filipi for a lively and interactive conversation about politics in Hollywood films. The discussion highlights films with overtly political content, such as
Mike Nichols’s Primary Colors (Universal Pictures; 1998) and
Tim Robbins’s Bob Roberts (Paramount Pictures; 1992),
as well as films with political themes that lurk somewhere below the surface, such as Christopher Nolan’s second Batman film The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers; 2008) and the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading (2008). Come and share your favorites!
David Filipi has been with the Wexner Center's film/video department since 1994 and director since 2010. He has organized retrospectives of and visits by such filmmakers as Richard Linklater, Milos Forman, Peter Bogdanovich, Pedro Costa, Philip Kaufman, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Ellen Kuras, D.A. Pennebaker, Arnaud Desplechin, Gus Van Sant, Guy Maddin, Natalia Almada, Frederick Wiseman, the Quay Brothers, and dozens of other established and emerging filmmakers. A member of the film studies committee at Ohio State, where he has taught animation history since 2004, Filipi is also a member of Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum advisory board.
Sponsored by Conversations in the Humanities with Fred Andrle and the Wexner Center for the Arts
