FALL 2016 ACCOMPLISHMENT
FEATURING MOVIES & PLANNING TOPICS
For Fall Semester 2016, seven movies were selected to exhibit and generate the follow-up discussion according to provided planning main topics and sub-topics.
10/07/2016
METROPOLIS - Fritz Lang (1927)
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PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: Utopia, Concrete & Flying Machines
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Empire City, Decadence avec Elegance
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GUEST MODERATOR: John Gomez - Associate Director - Downtown Jackson Partners
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In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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10/28/2016
THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH - Chad Freidrichs (2011)
PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: Boundaries, Transitions & Transgressions: The Geography of Exclusion
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Disparities & Segregation, Border & Limits, Race, Crime & Urban Violence
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GUEST MODERATOR: Eric Jefferson - Director of Planning and Development - City of Jackson, MS
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Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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10/14/2016
THE TRUMAN SHOW - Peter Weir (1998)
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PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: Urban Sprawl & Suburbia: on the trap of freedom
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Urban Escapees & Asphalt, Suburbia & Miopia, Technoburbia, Megametros & Cement Rugs
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GUEST MODERATOR: Melody Moody-Thortis, Executive Director of Bike Walk Mississippi.
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In this movie, Truman is a man whose life is a fake one... The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. Until one day... he finds out everything. Will he react?
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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11/04/2016
AMELIE - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
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PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: The Beauty, The Soft & The Ugly: Arresting Living Environments
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Courage & Resilience, Water, River & Tears, Concrete, Glass & Sweat
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GUEST MODERATOR: Dr. Joan Blanton, Ph.D. - AICP - Principal at Integral Urban Planning - Jackson, MS
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Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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11/18/2016
10/21/2016
PLAYTIME - Jacques Tati (1967)
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PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: The Experience of Place: Identity, Ownership & Self
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Everyday Life, The Monumental, Iconic & Symbolic City, History & Heritage, "Genius Loci" & Sense of Place, Social Encounters
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GUEST MODERATOR: Charles Weeks - Adjunct Professor at Mississippi College
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Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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11/11/2016
URBANIZED - Gary Hustwit (2011)
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PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: Texture & Complexity: The Collage of Urban Engagement
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Industry, Rails & Change, Inequalities & Globalization, Automobile as King, Pedaling your Way
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GUEST MODERATOR: Architect Roy Decker, a principal in Duvall Decker located in Jackson, Mississippi
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A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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MINORITY REPORT - Steve Spielberg (2002)
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PLANNING MAIN TOPIC: Terrain Vague: The Edge of Nowhere
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FILM RELATED SUB-TOPICS: Dystopias & Forgotten Walls, Helmets & Rubble, Bridges to Nowhere
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GUEST MODERATOR: Brian Pugh - Deputy Executive Director - Department of Finance and Administration, MS
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In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
(Source: IMDb, 2016)
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Click the Poster to access the film's synopsis.​
WHY CINEMA AND THE CITY IS AN IMPORTANT EVENT:
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- Recommended to those who are exploring the exciting reciprocity between the city and the cinema.​
- Integrates urban sociology and film studies literature to show what can be learned about cities from films.
- Provides an innovative and instructive contribution to urban studies and planning.
- Includes a wide range of movies from around the world.