Every year Professor Matthias Hurst takes the students of ECLA of Bard for a walk around Marlene Dietrich Platz (where Berlin’s international annual film festival takes place), stopping at the Museum of Film and Television, located in the Sony Centre at Potsdamer Platz. Beyond being of particular interest for students – like myself – taking
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Double O
As the week was wearing off, on the Friday night of November 16, Matthias Hurst, professor of film studies at ECLA of Bard, did a thorough presentation of title sequences of James Bond movies. He covered the years 1962-2008, starting with Dr. No and ending with Quantum of Solace, thus celebrating the 50th anniversary of
David L.Vierling on “Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters: The Search for ‘a Very Deep Feeling of Being Part of Something’”
On February 19, 2008, David L. Vierling, a Berlin-based expert in comparative literature, media studies and film, working at the John F. Kennedy School, Berlin (Department of English), visited ECLA to present a lecture on “Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters: The Search for ‘a Very Deep Feeling of Being Part of Something’”. This guest
Visit to the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film and Television, Berlin
As a part of the ‘seeing Berlin’ programme, the visit to the Film and Television Museum in Berlin complemented the elective courses, Introduction to Film Studies, Heroes on Screen, and Woody Allen – a Poetics of Fun and Philosophy, held by film professor Matthias Hurst this year at ECLA. Entering the museum gives a real