Films   

Session II: Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15
Wednesdays 2:00 - 5:00 pm (5 weeks)
Film Noir (dark film) are films primarily based on hardboiled crime fiction novels from 1940 -
1960. These films have loosely-defined characteristics, but always present the darker side of humanity. In each course meeting, we’ll explore one aspect of film noir, then screen a representative film, followed by a short discussion.
Instructor Jeffrey Simonson has been watching and studying cinema, and attending film festivals for over 30 years. 

 

FLM-02 (in-person)

Session II: Mar. 18, 25, Apr. 1, 8, 15
Wednesdays 2:00 - 5:00 pm (5 weeks)
Film Noir (dark film) are films primarily based on hardboiled crime fiction novels from 1940 -
1960. These films have loosely-defined characteristics, but always present the darker side of humanity. In each course meeting, we’ll explore one aspect of film noir, then screen a representative film, followed by a short discussion.
Instructor Jeffrey Simonson has been watching and studying cinema, and attending film festivals for over 30 years.

FLM-04 (in-person)

Session II: Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17
Fridays 2:00 - 4:30 (5 weeks)
Humor for these topsy-turvy times? Have we been here before? From Pope Leo XIV, Sci-fi, parodies, from Attu and the Interior; we’ll see and discuss what takes us away (or back) to today.
Session II Films:
The Meaning of Life (DVD 15967, British, 1983, 107 minutes, Monty Python)
Wag the Dog (DVD 10247, 98 minutes, 1997)
Big Year (NW, 100 minutes, 2011)
Raising Arizona (DVD 4603, 1987, 94 minutes, Coen brothers)

Century Film Festival
FLM-06 (in-person)
Session II: Mar. 16, 23, 30, Apr. 6
Mondays 2:00 - 5:00 pm
We now live in a time when we can easily see many thousands of films from the entire history of cinema. In the 1920's, motion pictures just started to mature and become very popular. So, let's see what audiences saw a century ago. Join me in screening 100-year-old motion pictures in traditional film festival format. We'll screen Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General (1926), plus other great films. 
Instructor Jeffrey Simonson (see FLM-01)
 

FLM-07 (in-person)
Session II Add-On: April 14, 16
Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 am- 2:00 pm (2 meetings)
Exploring Jewish foods, stories, poems, and films, the course charts a sensory journey through the diverse geography of Jewish communities and cultures. Materials fee $20, pay instructor at first meeting. Enrollment limited to 12.
An immigrant, a teacher, and a writer, Dafna Young has lived and taught in Fairbanks for 22 years.
 

FLM-01 (in-person)
Session I: Feb. 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4, 11
Wednesdays 2:00 - 5:00 pm (5 weeks)
Film Noir (dark film) are films primarily based on hardboiled crime fiction novels from 1940 -
1960. These films have loosely-defined characteristics, but always present the darker side of humanity. In each course meeting, we’ll explore one aspect of film noir, then screen a representative film, followed by a short discussion.
Instructor Jeffrey Simonson has been watching and studying cinema, and attending film festivals for over 30 years.
 

FLM-03 (in-person)

Session I: Feb. 12, 19, 26, Mar. 5
Thursdays 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Humor for these topsy-turvy times? Have we been here before? From Pope Leo XIV, Sci-fi, parodies, from Attu and the Interior; we’ll see and discuss what takes us away (or back) to today.
Session I Films:
History of the World (Pt. 1; 1981, 92 minutes; Mel Brooks)    
Day the Earth Stood Still (NW, 1951, 92 minutes)
Life is Beautiful (DVD 103, Italian, 1997, 114 minutes)
Gold Rush (DVD, 1925, Silent, 96 minutes) OR Spirit of the Wind (DVD 11479, 1979, 98 minutes)
Instructor and UAF retiree Ron Inouye serves as your film filter in the helter skelter of too much of everything. Films are the preserved distillate of time, place, people, and history. What do you expect from someone who spent a career with libraries and museums? He free ranges in the terrific film collections of the Rasmuson and Noel Wien Libraries, and high-grades the DVDs at the Literacy Council’s “Forget Me Not Books and Media.”

Session I: Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6
Fridays 12:00 - 3:00 pm
Four dissimilar Alaskan themed films will be watched in this course. The first is “North to Alaska” with John Wayne 1960. The next is “Ice Palace”, a fictionalized version of Alaska covering statehood and partly filmed in Fairbanks, 1960. The third, also filmed around Fairbanks and featuring some local talent is “Spirit of the Wind”, the story of dog musher George Attla, 1979. Lastly is “Frozen Ground” 2013. This movie is the true but very dark story of an Anchorage serial killer and an Alaska State Trooper’s investigation which led to his arrest. Because of his friendship with the investigating trooper, the instructor has some insight into that investigation and the subsequent making of the movie!
Instructor Stephen Heckman is a retired Alaska State Trooper and history teacher.