Strong Women in Cinema: 1/24/19

Films will run in the Undergraduate Library Askwith Media Library Shapiro Screening Room, Room 2160.

Viewing four films will earn one Honors engagement point. Viewing eight films will earn two Honors engagement points.

The activity will consist of one film per week with a one hour discussion afterward. Students must participate in both the screening and the discussion to earn credit towards the engagement point.

Seating will be restricted to 35 participants. Food and drink will not be allowed during the activity.

*******************Strong Women in Cinema Series ***********************

Friday, January 18 National Velvet|Elizabeth Taylor (USA, 1944)

Thursday, January 24 Two Women|Sophia Loren (Italy, 1960)

Friday, February 1 Charade|Audrey Hepburn (USA, 1963)

Friday, February 8 Persona|Liv Ullmann (Sweden, 1966)

Friday, February 15 Julia|Jane Fonda (USA, 1977)

Thursday, February 21 Girl, Interrupted|Angelina Jolie (USA, 1999)

Friday, March 1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon|Michelle Yeoh (Taiwan, 2000)

Thursday, March 14 Winter’s Bone|Jennifer Lawrence (USA, 2010)

Friday, March 22 Hidden Figures|Taraji P. Henson (USA. 2016)

Sophia Loren in Two Women

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January 24, 2019 - 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Askwith Media Library|Shapiro Screening Room 2160

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Sophia Loren (Italian; 1934-): Sophia Loren was encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, beginning her film career in 1950 at age 16. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1956 launched her international career. But her talent was not fully recognized until her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women. Loren's performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962 and made her the first actress to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance.

Two Women (1960) (Italian: La Ciociara; roughly translated as The Woman from Ciociaria) tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of World War II. In July 1943, following the Allied bombing of Rome, both mother (Loren, Cesira) and daughter (Eleonora Brown, Rosetta) flee to Cesira's native Ciociaria, a rural, mountainous province of central Italy as they try to evade the retreating German army. The story is fictional, but based on actual events of July 1943 in Rome and rural Lazio.

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