Organization

The Music Box (1989) - Out of the Past Film Series

Presented by Stanford Summer Theater and Stanford Continuing Studies Program at Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University

August 8, 2011

This free screening is part of a film series on the theme of memory. A discussion will follow the film, led by a member of the Stanford faculty or Stanford Summer Theater company. Tonight's film is Costa-Gavras’ The Music Box, starring Jessica Lange, which focuses on the painful duty of remembering history, even when it cuts to the quick.

Memento (2000) - Out of the Past Film Series

Presented by Stanford Summer Theater and Stanford Continuing Studies Program at Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University

August 1, 2011

This free screening is part of a film series on the theme of memory. A discussion will follow the film, led by a member of the Stanford faculty or Stanford Summer Theater company. Tonight's film is Christopher Nolan’s riveting study of short-term memory loss (along with murder, revenge, and self-discovery), Memento.

Oedipus

Presented by Stanford Summer Theater and Stanford Continuing Studies Program at Nitery Theatre - Stanford Campus

July 28-August 14, 2011

Stanford Summer Theater continues the Memory Play Festival with Seneca’s Oedipus, the great Roman playwright’s version of the classic myth that lies behind much theatrical memory. For Seneca, the myth’s import arises not simply from Oedipus’ parricide and incest, but from the repression of the past we would forget if only we could.

Ted Hughes’ groundbreaking translation captures Seneca at his unsparing best. His translation represents a towering

La Guerre est Finie (1966) - Out of the Past Film Series

Presented by Stanford Summer Theater and Stanford Continuing Studies Program at Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University

July 25, 2011

This free screening is part of a film series on the theme of memory. A discussion will follow the film, led by a member of the Stanford faculty or Stanford Summer Theater company. Tonight's film is Alain Resnais’ classic exploration of revolutionary memory, La guerre est Finie, starring Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, and Geneviève Bujold.

Spellbound (1945) - Out of the Past Film Series

Presented by Stanford Summer Theater and Stanford Continuing Studies Program at Annenberg Auditorium - Stanford University

July 18, 2011

This free screening is part of a film series on the theme of memory. A discussion will follow the film, led by a member of the Stanford faculty or Stanford Summer Theater company. Tonight's film is Alfred Hitchcock’s Freudian-influenced Spellbound (Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman, with a dream sequence drawn by Salvador Dali).