On Wednesday 08 March Dr. Alastair Phillips will speak about Jacques Becker's 'Rendez-vous de juillet' at the BFI Southbank, alongside a screening of the film.

Find out more, and book tickets, here.

Rendez-vous de juillet

France 1949
Dir Jacques Becker
With Daniel Gélin, Maurice Ronet, Brigitte Auber
99min
Digital
English subtitles
Certificate PG

"This is one of the finest films about the post-war Paris of St Germain-des-Prés, a microcosm where philosophy, theatre and jazz thrived. A young man tries to persuade his group to join him in making an ethnographic film in the Congo, but his idealism causes ruptures in love and friendship. Becker’s direction of his glittering cast is impeccable."

Earlier this summer, Schoonover was interviewed in Palermo along with his collaborator Professor Rosalind Galt about their ongoing work on the politics of queer world cinema. Schoonover and Galt were guest of Palermo's biggest annual film festival SiciliaQueer.

In November 2015 Argentine director Andrés di Tella (Prohibido, 1997, Fotografías, 2007, El país del diablo, 2008) visited the University of Warwick to give a cinema workshop, chaired by the Film and Television Studies Department's José Arroyo. In a recent blog post José writes about di Tella's latest film: notesonfilm1.com