"World Tourism Day" seminar followed by a film fest at American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 27th & 28th September 2013

Entry : Free (Seating On First Come First Serve Basis)

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Place : American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001

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Event Description : The American Center, the U.S. Commercial Service and the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in association with Cinedarbaar  are organizing the "World Tourism Day" Seminar.

The seminar will be followed by a film fest which will include tourist fair, quizzes, workshops, discussions interactive maps of the USA.

Schedule : 

Friday, September 27, 2013
Seminar: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

High Tea: 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

followed by the Film Fest : 
3:30 p.m.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), by Lorene Scafaria, 101 Min. 
Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Melanie Lynskey
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

04: 45 PM BY MANJARI KAUL
Discussion of Jack Kerouac's On the Road and its profound an impact on American cinema and culture. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be ”beat” and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that ”set them free.” 
Based on Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends 
whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with mixture of sad-eyed na?vet? and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

6:00 p.m.
The Straight Story (1999) by David Lynch, 112 Min
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter
An old man makes a long journey by tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother. 

08:00 PM: Interactive session by Cinedarbaar and quiz.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
12:00 p.m. 
Easy Rider (1969) by Denis Hopper, 95 Min.
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza
Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. 

01:30 PM: Interactive Session and quiz by team of Cinedarbaar.

3:00 p.m.
Broken Flowers (2005) by Jum Jarmusch, 106 Min.
Starring -- Bill Murray, Julie Delpy, Sharon Stone
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

04:45 PM BY MANJARI KAUL
The birth of the Road Movie genre: The conquest of the wild in the Hollywood Western shifts to the road in the Road film genre. The civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, women's liberation movement led to social upheaval in America. Counter- culture and the youth rebellion were voiced through the taking on of long journeys on highways that symbolized the breaking away from tradition and the quest for freedom. The untamed frontier gets replaced by roads that don't seem to start and end anywhere in particular, symbolizing a world of equal opportunities, the American dream.

6:00 p.m.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) by Terry Gilliam, 118 Min.
Starring -- Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire
An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.


08:00 PM Interactive session and quiz by the team of Cinedarbaar.

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