But we are back at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

It's a Notre Dame Day today, I guess, but I have my friends here with me, and I can't believe how fast this year's already going by.

You guys are into the spring semester and moving along with all the performances that you have in place, and I'm so glad and excited to share it with you so well.

Thank you for coming.

I always love to see you.

It's good to see you guys too.

All right, tell us what's on the lineup.

Well, we have a lot of movies that are coming in.

Some new, some old.

So I'll run through some of the classics first.

And one is our learning.

Be on the classics series is continuing.

If you've been watching Experience Michiana, we've talked about this before.

And it's looking at French actresses or French language actresses and the role that they played in the films that allowed a broader post-colonial, like, French language cinema to exist.

And you guys, I mean, this isn't the first time you guys have kind of focused on that French genre.

Is there some do you usually like change it up?

Yeah.

We switch.

There's always a different topic.

And sometimes you do different country, sometimes you do different times different directors.

And so this one happens to be kind of a more contemporary, French language look.

What would you say in regards to France.

Like what is their impact on media.

They're they're up there.

They're pretty good.

They know how to make a movie.

Okay.

And what they did in particular in the films that we're looking at, the ones this, that we have coming up are Jane B for Agnes V, which is an Agnes Varda film, who is part of the French New Wave, and then Michael Haneke's, The Piano Teacher with Isabelle Hooper, and then going back in time a little bit and looking, an African director and, the some black girl that's kind of in conversation with where we're going in the more recent films.

But all of these are both disruptive in terms of their form that they're taking they're doing something or they're doing something new with movies.

Well, they're also injecting it with a new kind of political lens.

So France is very important for that.

And we stand on their shoulders and, it's hard to see over us when we're watching a movie because there was all this.

But, but no, it's, it's great.

Okay.

Awesome.

All right.

And then you have some other.

I see some classics in here.

Yeah.

So, Mary Kearney teaches a class on gender and rock, and the screenings are public.

And coming up in that, we have a bunch of documentaries.

School of Rock, not a documentary.

I was gonna say.

Okay, that was about that time I, went to, But this Saint Joe I didn't know this about.

Okay, so I guitar, but the jackpot.

Classic school of rock.

And then we have sisters with transistors, which is about the early formation of techno music, electronic music and how women were crucial to that.

And at the four and avant garde of that, Moonage Daydream, the David Bowie documentary that came out after he passed away, and then the concert film, Stop making Sense by Talking Heads.

Oh, wow.

So lots of rock and there lots of rock.

And if you like live performance, we also have the opera, with a, with a live performance of Arabella Strauss.

And that, is a big, beautiful production itself.

And then our Finklefunder series also has some classics.

Let's talk about those.

This semester we are looking at sports movies for kids, which is perfect timing for the Olympics.

Perfect, perfect weather.

And we got some Olympic movies.

Okay.

Well, first of all, we have McFarland, USA, which is about running.

So we did different sports each week.

And then we get into an Olympics rock block with merkel about the US Olympic team in 1980 when they played the Soviet Union, and Lake Placid.

I won't spoil it for the kids who haven't seen it.

And Cool Runnings, the bobsled film about Jamaica coming up next and then, the cutting Edge, which is, you know, every seven year olds favorite perfect and famous that year I think of under that that's one that is really accessible.

Yep.

All right a dollar to get in a dollar for dollar for popcorn every Sunday at 1 p.m.

I love it.

Talk to it I love it.

All right I know you guys have some amazing performances coming up.

So great live performances coming up, including this weekend.

We have the Urban Bush women.

Now.

This is a dance company, that's been around for over 40 years.

Started it.

Yeah, started in New York City.

And really, it's taking the idea of the African diaspora, urban bush women taking movement from, you know, African dance and putting it into today's terms, and taking a look sort of socially and politically what that means.

And so, you know, it's this combination of dance and activism all within art.

If you're fans of Uzma, you know, our local African American.

Me.

Yeah, that's what I'm kind of very much see elements of that on the stage.

But with a little political message here and there.

And what's interesting is some of these pieces were choreographed 40 years ago, and they're just as relevant as they are, today, as I think that's very interesting too.

Okay.

So I'm assuming they have been involved in, with themselves for a number of years, enabled in order to have the choreography from previous performing exactly that.

Well, you know, you know, great choreographers, whether it's ballet with Balanchine, you know, they redo, you know, that great choreographers work over and over again.

But the artistic director just stepped down.

So they're able to still utilize her, her great wisdom and, still putting up her very her choreographic pieces.

That's all right.

What else do you have?

We have Max.

Terence Blanchard is a jazz musician.

And most people will know him for that.

Or, composing the films to a, the scores to a bunch of spike Lee films.

But he actually composed an opera called fire Shut Up in My Bones that the Met Opera did, in 2022.

So a few years ago.

And this is a concert version.

So instead of being three hours long, it's about 90 minutes.

They'll be a couple opera singers.

Terence Blanchard and his group called the E collective, and then the Turtle Island String Quartet.

So they're all on stage here.

There's going to be some, visuals and imagery, on the screen and so, again, a really great sort of accessible way to experience opera in a concert version, I love that.

Yeah, yeah.

And then next up, we jump ahead to March.

We can't be.

I mean, it's Saint Patrick's Day.

I was going to say something about that.

I can't be here at the campus of Notre Dame without doing something Irish in March.

So we actually have Martin Hayes, who is the the world's probably, you know, preeminent Irish fiddler coming.

And so he's he's going to be here with a group about 50 musicians, called the Common Ground Ensemble.

They're going to be Irish dancing.

Great, traditional Irish music.

Martin Hayes, has a famous group he put together called The Gloaming.

Some people may be familiar with that group.

So, you know, he's someone that's out there if you know Irish music, you know Martin Hayes.

So we're so excited to have you on my slate.

So.

Exactly.

Yeah, I get it.

And then finally at the end of March and I'm sure we'll, we'll talk about this again.

But part of the reason Ricky is doing this look at French film is because there's a French conference coming at the end of March here, here on campus.

So academics from across the world are coming.

Notre Dame's French department, romance languages put on this conference.

So we're tying into that.

And with that, we have a couple of jazz artist Jack Schwartz, Bart and, Carla, Henri, Maurice say, so in this throughout this, conference weekend, this is a performance that we're really glad to be putting on our series because these are just top notch, wonderful jazz musicians.

And so, so there'll be a lot of French speaking, but there'll be plenty of translation and jazz and music.

Exactly.

That's it is some language.

Awesome.

And people can get tickets on the website or at the box office.

Correct.

And that's performing arts dot ND dot EDU for all of the tickets and more information.

Okay.

Perfect.

Do you have a few more things to tell us about your cinema program?

We do.

We have some new films that are recently released that people can check out.

We have a bunch of films that are nominated for Oscars.

For example, the voice of Hendra Shabaab, which is a Polynesian Tunisian found.

So the director, Kotaro Ben Hania is Tunisian by way of Paris.

But, has this, film about, hinders Rob, who was a young girl in Palestine whose car comes under fire, from Israeli military, and she called the Red Crescent and was on the phone trying to get help.

And this takes her phone call, the dialog from it and recreates the call in.

So it's almost like a rescue 911 type reenactment.

Okay.

But is incredibly powerful, like the most powerful film I've seen in 15 years.

This is one you guys, I want to I recommend that, but also amazing is, clever.

Mendoza is, new film The Secret agent for people who know and still bear the Brazilian film that did well at the Oscars last year.

This is a very similar film.

Okay, with slightly different style.

And then we have black news terms and conditions, which are making all of the undergrads come see.

They can rip it off and make cool movies like Super cool, smart, film about, black arts and repatriation and how we return, objects, to, their ancestors and the people who made them, Hamnet, which is the new college out now for Shakespeare fans or just generally people who need to weep.

Yeah.

Okay, let's get it out of your system.

And then Eddington, which is a more polemical Ari Aster film that looks at the tensions of Covid and what was happening in 2020.

If you want to revisit it right.

And come watch it with people.

And we have some short films, too.

Oh, we do so again for the Oscar heads.

The, short films that are nominated for animated Oscar shorts, live action shorts and documentary shorts.

We put those in programs.

For those who want to come to the animated shorts sometimes, it's tough to know how adult they are.

These are somewhere between PG and PG 13.

Good to know.

Good to know.

And then lastly, we are hosting an event for Performing Media Festival.

This is a wonderful event that is put on by Ryan Keith Olivier and AOSp because performances around South Bend, it's a real gem of South Bend, and we'll have short films and live scores and some really cool art.

On March, Friday the 13th.

Okay, good to know.

And as a reminder, all of these are open to the public here at the DeBartolo and the Performing Arts Center.

So thank you so much for showcasing what you guys have coming up.

Have a have a great time.