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Champaign-Urbana Big Read

 Death and the Meaning of Life Film Festival
  
  Speaker  Richard J. Leskovsky (Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Director, Unit for Cinema Studies, UIUC), David M. Desser (Professor of Cinema Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Criticism & Interpretive Theory, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Director, Unit for Cinema Studies, UIUC), and and Harriet Murav (Professor, Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
    
 Date Apr 9, 2008
    
 Time 3:00 pm  
    
 Location The Virginia Theatre, 203 W Park Ave, Champaign
    
 Cost free
    
 Sponsor Russian, East European, Eurasian Center, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
    
 Contact Faith Wilson Stein
    
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 Phone 217-333-1244
    
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A free public screening of the classic Japanese drama "Ikiru," written and directed by Akira Kurosawa and based on Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (3pm), Jonathan Demme's Academy Award-winning film "Philadelphia," a legal drama about AIDS in America and an examination of the stigma surrounding illness (7pm), and the short film "Why Me?" A discussion will follow, led by Richard J. Leskovsky, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Director, Unit for Cinema Studies; David M. Desser, Professor of Cinema Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Criticism & Interpretive Theory, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Director, Unit for Cinema Studies; and Harriet Murav, Professor, Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
 
 
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