CSI 50th Anniversary Screening Series: Selections by Bart Testa and Adam Nayman

The Cinema Studies Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary with a screening series of films picked by notable CSI alumni. Screenings will be followed by a discussion between the alumni and a CSI faculty member.

All are welcome. Seats are first come, first serve. Doors open at 6:30pm. Register for free tickets.

A selection of films chosen by Bart Testa and Adam Nayman will be screened including:

• Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein 1925)
• Windows (Greenaway 1975)
• Narrows Inlet (Rimmer 1980)
• Gloria! (Frampton 1970)
• Chungking Express (Wong 1994)

Adam Nayman is a critic, lecturer and author based in Toronto. He teaches courses at the Cinema Studies Institute at U of T and has written books on the Coen brothers, David Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as a critical monograph on Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls. He is a regular contributor to The Ringer, The Toronto Star, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot and the New Republic and has written on film for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Walrus, and other publications.

Adam completed an MA at the Cinema Studies Institute in 2009 and completed a Major in Cinema Studies 2005. 

Bart Testa is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Emeritus at the Cinema Studies Institute.