Foundations of Film: The Passion of Cinema Narrative

Saturday, March 7th, 2026

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Price: GA $15; TCA Member $10; Youth/ Student $5 Tickets / Registration

Taos Center for the Arts

Foundations of Film: The Passion of Cinema Narrative 

A Special Evening of Film and Discussion

SAT, March 7, 3pm

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Love movies and never have the time to dissect each juicy moment in The Encore following a film at TCA?

St. John’s College Tutor David Carl and IAIA Cinema Studies professor David Meyer present and dissect an international evening of film segments chosen for their visual/cinematic brilliance. This is a night for curious movie lovers, passionate cineastes and anyone who wants to know more about how and why movies work.

Cinema Narrative explores the story-telling cinema and narrative visual techniques of unique directors with recognizable visual styles. In studying their cinematic solutions to narrative movement, the afternoon of film and discussion will span over eight decades of cinema. Cinema Narrative will explore, through film clips and discussion, how these directors enrich the drama of their stories with cinematography, editing, mis-en-scene, pace and emphasis

– all the directorial arts.

There will be time for brief audience discussions of each clip and time for a thorough discussion at the end of the program.

 

A festival of movies across time and nations:

Beau Travail 1999 France Claire Denis

My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford

La Dolce Vita 1960 Italia Federico Fellini.

The Killers 1946 USA Robert Siodmak

No Country for Old Men 2009 USA Joel & Ethan Coen

Police Adjective 2009 Romania Corneliu Porumboiu

Sátántangó 1994 Hungary Ball Tarr

Woodstock 1970 USA Sequence edited by Martin Scorcese

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