THE CRUSADES IN CINEMA A film series Emory University Fall 2004

All films will be screened on Tuesday evenings in 101 White Hall.
Each film will be preceded by a five-minute historical introduction and followed by a twenty-minute discussion.

Films are free and open to the public.

This series is cosponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies, and the Institute for Jewish Studies. Special thanks to Nick Fabian, Rebecca Rubin, and Michael Johnson.

September 7, 7:30 pm

The crusades (1935, US, 123 mins, b&w). Dir Cecil B. DeMille. With Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith.

September 14, 7:30 pm

Alexander Nevsky (1938, USSR, 112 mins, b&w). Dir Sergei Eisenstein. Music by Sergei Prokofiev.

September 21, 8 pm

Ivanhoe (1952, Great Britain, 107 mins). Dir Richard Thorpe. Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott. With Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine.

September 28, 7:30 pm

Note: Due to difficulties procuring the film originally scheduled for this evening, King Richard and the Crusaders (1954, US, 113 mins), we will show the following film instead:

The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée, 1969, France, 105 mins). Dir Luis Buñuel. Two pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain encounter a catalogue of medieval Christian heresies. From the poster advertising the US release: "Buñuel takes on Jesus, Mary, Satan, the Marquis de Sade, Jansenites, various bishops, cardinals, popes, and assorted heretics and lunatics. Hallelujah!"

October 5, 8 pm

The seventh seal (1956, Sweden, 95 mins, b&w). Dir Ingmar Bergman. With Max von Sydow.

October 19, 7:30 pm

The war lord (1965, US, 122 mins). Dir Franklin Schaffner. With Charlton Heston.

October 26 & November 2, 8 pm

El Cid (1961, US/Spain, 184 mins). Dir Anthony Mann. With Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren.

November 9 & November 16, 8 pm

Saladin (al-Naser Salah ad-Din) (1963, Egypt , 183 mins). Dir Youssef Chahine. With Ahmed Mazhar, Nadia Lutfi.

November 23, 8 pm

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974, Great Britain, 90 mins). Dir Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones.

November 30, 7:30 pm

The Name of the Rose (1986, Germany/Italy/France, 131 mins). Dir Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Sean Connery.

December 7 & December 14, 7:30 pm

Crusades (The History Channel, 2001. 200 minutes). Prod & Dir Alan Eriera and David Wallace. Narrated by Terry Jones. A coproduction of BBC TV and BBC Worldwide Americas.