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. Reserve free tickets at Eventbrite.
Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 American film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Adam Sandler as as a lonely entrepreneur with social anxiety who falls in love with his sister’s co-worker (Emily Watson).
Radheyan Simonpillai is the Film Critic for CTV’s national breakfast show Your Morning, the Pop Culture Columnist for CBC Syndicated Radio and a freelance contributor to CBC Arts, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, eTalk on CTV, Zoomer and more. Rad is formerly the editor of NOW Magazine. He is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Toronto Film Critics Association.
Rad was a member of the first CSI Master of Arts cohort in 2007.
Moderator, Nicholas Sammond is a Professor at the Cinema Studies Institute and the Centre for the Study of the United States.