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  • FLM-01 Hardboiled Film Noir, I
  • Session I: 2/12/2025 - 3/12/2025
    Days & Times: W 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    Number of Meetings: 5
    Building: UPark 151
    Instructor: Jeffrey Simonson
    Fee: $20.00
    Session I: Feb. 12, 19, 26, Mar. 5, 12
    Wednesdays 2:00 - 5:00 pm (5 weeks)
    *Each 5-week session stands alone; you may take either one or both.
    Films & Photography    "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. Ten titles will be chosen from Wikipedia's list of classic film noir.
    Instructor Jeffrey Simonson has been watching and studying cinema, and attending film festivals for over 30 years.
 

  • FLM-02 Hardboiled Film Noir, II
  • Session II: 3/19/2025 - 4/16/2025
    Days & Times: W 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Number of Meetings: 5
    Building: UPark 151
    Instructor: Jeffrey Simonson Fee: $20.00
    Session II: Mar. 19, 26, Apr. 2, 9, 16
    Wednesdays 2:00 - 5:00 pm (5 weeks)
    *Each 5-week session stands alone; you may take either one or both.
    Films & Photography    "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. Ten titles will be chosen from Wikipedia's list of classic film noir.
    Instructor Jeffrey Simonson has been watching and studying cinema, and attending film festivals for over 30 years.
 

  • FLM-03 Films of Maggie Smith, I
  • Session I: 2/13/2025 - 3/6/2025
    Days & Times: Th 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    Number of Meetings: 4
    Building: UPark 151
    Instructor: Ron Inouye
    Fee: $20.00
    Session I: Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6
    Thursdays 2:00 - 4:30 pm
    *Each 4-week session stands alone; you may take either one or both.
    Two-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith (1934-2024) appeared in classic Shakespeare stage plays to the fantastical film world of Harry Potter. Over her long acting career, she appealed to old and young generations, in diverse roles from the young ingenue to her classic Downton Abbey Dowager. During 2 sessions, we will view 8 films: her work with directors like Robert Altman, screen writer Julian Fellowes, solo and in ensemble casts including Judy Dench and Daniel Radcliffe. Join us on the Nile, the Orient Express, in Rolls Royces, seedy vans, and on brooms to be swept away.
    Instructor and UAF retiree Ron Inouye serves as your film filter in the helter skelter of too much 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.”
 

  • FLM-04 Films of Maggie Smith, II
  • Dates: 3/21/2025 - 4/11/2025
    Days & Times: F 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Number of Meetings: 4
    Building: UPark 151
    Instructor: Ron Inouye
    Fee: $20.00
    This course is FULL, please add yourself to the waitlist using the button below. 
    Session II: Mar. 21, 28, Apr. 4, 11
    Fridays 12:00 - 2:30 pm
    *Each 4-week session stands alone; you may take either one or both.
    Two-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith (1934-2024) appeared in classic Shakespeare stage plays to the fantastical film world of Harry Potter. Over her long acting career, she appealed to old and young generations, in diverse roles from the young ingenue to her classic Downton Abbey Dowager. During 2 sessions, we will view 8 films: her work with directors like Robert Altman, screen writer Julian Fellowes, solo and in ensemble casts including Judy Dench and Daniel Radcliffe. Join us on the Nile, the Orient Express, in Rolls Royces, seedy vans, and on brooms to be swept away.
    Instructor and UAF retiree Ron Inouye serves as your film filter in the helter skelter of too much 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.”
 

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