Radical Films: 15 Movies That Shook the World

Radical Films

January 11–February 15, 2023

You’ve seen Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Star Wars, and Psycho—films that changed the way that movies are made. This is not that kind of class! In this series, we will look at films that shook the world, but which you may not have seen.

SIFF’s Radical Films series returns this January with another five-week globe-trotting journey across time. We will watch a lost horror film masterpiece from Japan and an early animated film that changed everything. We will explore Mexico City through a realist drama that inspired Guillermo Del Toro. We will look at Bruce Lee’s final film, an epic Bollywood Western, and an important Maori melodrama from the ‘90s. Lastly, we will turn to films from the last twenty years—from Brazil, to Scotland, to Senegal.

In conjunction with this series, SIFF will present four Radical Films on the big screen at the SIFF Uptown—The Adventures of Prince Achmed (January 9), Enter the Dragon (January 30), La Haine (February 6), and City of God (February 13).

TICKETS & PASSES

Class Pass: $100 Regular | $80 SIFF members (includes all talks and screenings)
Individual Talks: $25 Sustainer | $15 Regular | $10 SIFF member
Individual Screenings: $14 Regular | $9 SIFF members

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Series Schedule

Please note: While the films in this series are screened at SIFF Uptown, the Film Talks will take place in the SIFF Film Center theater.

Radical Film Talks

Week 1

January 11, 2023
Exploring The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), A Page of Madness (1926), and The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927).

Week 2

January 18, 2023
Special focus on Los Olvidados (1950), "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943), and The Human Condition trilogy (1959-1961).

Week 3

February 1, 2023
Delving into Z (1969), Enter the Dragon (1973), and Sholay (1975).

Week 4

February 8, 2023
Looking at My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Once Were Warriors (1994), and La Haine (1995).

Week 5

February 15, 2023
Wrapping up with City of God (2002), Under the Skin (2013), and Atlantics (2019).

Radical Film Screenings

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

January 9, 2023
After premiering in 1926, The Adventures of Prince Achmed was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seventy-five years later, it stands as one of the great classics of its genre.

Enter the Dragon

January 30, 2023
Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister.

La Haine

February 6, 2023
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La Haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France.

City of God

February 13, 2023
The slums of Rio de Janeiro are the setting for this magnificent and raw epic that chronicles the growth of gang warfare and drug trade over a two decade period.