It is the start of the school year.

I'm back with my friends Ricky and Sean.

Thank you guys for joining me.

We're at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, but today we are in the cinema, which is always fantastic to be here.

There's a lot of stuff already happening on campus.

The kids are getting ready to move in, and we are ready to start putting things back up on the screen and on the stage.

So let's get started about it, because I know you guys have a fantastic lineup.

I was looking at the list ahead of time and you already have it loaded for the year, right?

We got plenty of stuff going on.

We'll keep you busy.

So yeah, let's let's pop into it.

And just a reminder to the things that you guys have here.

They're not just for people on campus.

They're not for staff and students.

Anyone in the public is welcome to come and experience these, of course.

And that's a good reminder not only for Deepak, but campus in general.

You know, Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, Holy Cross, Iasi, Ivy tech.

They have events for everyone.

We have porous borders.

Come on to these and get your education.

Get your fun at a low cost for a lot of them.

Like it's a good place to find yourself if you're in South Bend in the general area.

Absolutely.

And even just to come and experience the campus, too.

I mean, we can walk through the campus and go for a bike ride and experience everything that there is to offer here.

But you guys have a fantastic lineup, so you got to make sure you come in here to to do that.

All right, let's get started.

What do you got?

So if we kind of work through the week, our Tuesday nights, Matt Payne, my colleague and film, television and theater is teaching a class on the Coen brothers.

And so he is making those screenings available to everyone to watch here in the cinema.

Oh, cool.

And he's going chronologically through the series.

So if you're trying to get an idea of where they're coming from, where they're going to artistically, you get a longitudinal view of them.

Okay.

And to start, we have the beginning of their works.

So Blood Simple, which is a neo noir from the 80s that kind of sets the stage of where they're going to go later on with Fargo and things like that.

Raising Arizona.

I remember that that's a classic.

Get yourself a toddler, right?

Yeah, we don't have any toddlers, but we have that and it's a fun time.

Miller's crossing, which is, I think, kind of the deep cut that true Coen brothers like fans really love, which is a prohibition era Irish American movie.

And then Barton Fink, which swept can and just really sets them out to be the big auteur voice of American cinema in the 90s.

Okay, okay.

And I want to point out to you guys have all of the descriptions on your website.

So if anybody is like that sounds familiar, but do I know that or do I want to see that they can read more about it there too?

Right, right.

You can get a primer there, performing Arts and Edu to learn about this and everything else.

I love that.

All right.

Next up, one of my favorite series.

Yeah.

Professor Finkel funder is back with a new movie making machine.

Going to be unveiled.

Thanks to coming Chris.

Man, who built that this summer?

But this is every Sunday at 1 p.m.. These are all ages movies.

It's a dollar to get in, a dollar for pop, a dollar for popcorn.

Bring your Cub Scouts, your brownies.

I don't know if they're called that anymore.

Your birthday groups, your church groups or whomever, and come and it's a it's a cheap way to get in and have some fun with all ages.

Absolutely.

I know, and I've been to these before too, and it's really just a great experience to just change it up from the typical movie theater, like come on to campus and experience and, you know, it's one of those bring your kids and don't be embarrassed by them.

Like, I love that.

Like it's not.

It's we are kind of your sitter, you know, like come to the movies.

If they're loud, they can be proud.

They can do their thing.

And to start, we have Fantasia, which is a classic.

Like I remember I had like the box set growing up as a kid, Fantasia.

Like, I still remember it.

I don't think my kids have actually ever seen Fantasia.

Oh well, then they should come.

They need to come, right?

Yes, I know the classic.

And it's weird.

It's it's Mickey's first appearance in movies and it's basically an anthology, like a little a lot of short films based around classic music.

So it's a it's they're basically music videos that are animated and they're wild and fun.

Yeah, absolutely.

Then we have Greta Gerwig's Little Women, which is kind of got swallowed by the pandemic.

So happy to check that out again.

African Cats, which were is a documentary about the big cats of Africa.

And that's a sensory friendlier screening.

So we keep the lights a little bit higher, the music's a little bit down and we don't have any big smells.

So no popcorns at that one.

Oh okay.

Good to know.

And then we have a live score of the page master, the Macaulay Culkin vehicle from the mid 90s with DJ ether, Ethan Moroz who is the coolest best musician in town.

I can't say that, but he's up there.

Okay, but he's doing a live score of this, so he's actually going to be playing during the performance.

Yeah.

And it's awesome.

Oh, that is so cool.

Yeah.

And a very weird, very weird mashup.

So I hope it works.

You gotta check these guys.

Okay, so that's Sunday at 1 p.m.

and Sunday at 4 p.m.. You know, we're dark on Mondays.

We're dark on Sundays.

So we have documentaries on Sundays.

So we're starting with samsara, which is this poetic travelog kind of in the kind of Scott style.

Gray gardens, the Maysles film about the reclusive former socialites related to Jackie.

Analysis.

All that breathes a really interesting to him out of India about people trying to keep animals alive against all hope, and Bushra, which is like an auto fiction film where they animate animals in order to play themselves.

And then it's very own baseball documentary for that one.

Yeah.

You're going to be in there.

Are you in that?

Are you in that?

I think I'm in it.

No no no no no.

Okay.

Well anyway, but that will be a really good chance to unpack what the great work that they're doing around baseball here in town.

Yeah, I love it, I love it.

All right, now let's get to the stage because you got a big line up to you.

And I'm excited for this because you even have some options in here that are free for the community.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

So just a reminder that this is our presenting series of professional artists that we bring in.

We do hundreds of events a year.

Many of them are student performances, the symphony and the choirs in the plays.

But these are the professional artists we seek out to bring in and sort of add a professional sort of artistic element to the community.

Okay.

And so we begin a partnership with the Shakespeare Notre Dame program, with actors from the London stage doing Much Ado About Nothing.

The very, very funny comedy.

Yeah.

So this is where all there's five actors, they play all the characters within the within the play.

It's very pared down.

It's about the text and it's always very funny.

And this will be especially funny because it's one of the comedies.

I love it, I love it.

Okay.

The next step, I mean, we're bringing Irish back here to campus.

You have to bring Irish.

It's Notre Dame.

You can't, can't not do Irish.

So this is traditional Irish song with Ronan O'Connell.

And this is it's the Sean no style of singing which is a cappella.

It is.

It's about storytelling.

So this is, you know, this is folklore and family traditions passed down through generations, this style of singing.

He actually won a competition in Ireland.

So this is the competition winner of the Sean no silence Singing okay.

And that's on Friday, September 18th which is a football Friday.

But this is a free event.

So come get your Irish on before you do football activities.

I love it I love it.

All right.

Next up is the Zaria quintet.

So this is the Fish Off National Chamber Music Competition grand prize winners which I've been to.

The Fish off competition exactly.

Just took place in May.

And then each each fall we present the winners.

And this is the grand prize winners.

Typically the string quartets win, but this is a wind quintet really.

So this is exciting.

It's very exciting.

They are phenomenal.

They'll be performing actually over at the Recital Hall at the O'Neill Hall of Music just across the parking lot here.

But it's a treat to have such a wonderful competition with fish off bring bringing these world class, you know, students who are just starting their professional careers.

And if you win fish off, you can be a professional classical musician.

And Soraya is going to do I love it.

All right.

And of course, then we're bringing in some salsa components.

I love this get up and dance with us.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

So this is a great pairing of Trabuco Salsa, which is a band out of Chicago with Los Ortega, which is a band out of Goshen.

So folks may remember Los Ortega if they've been around this area and so is going to be performing inside.

And then after intermission, we're going to go outside with Trabuco Salsa, have some dancing, have some food.

I have some fun.

Forget your shoes.

All right.

And then, of course, we got to show off the organ here, right?

Exactly, exactly.

So a long standing series within this is our organ series.

We present for organist a year.

Our first one is with Paul Thornley, who graduated from Notre Dame in 99.

And he'll be performing at the Basilica.

So this is it's an 8 p.m.

concert on Sunday the 27th.

It's after the final service of the evening free concert.

Very enjoyable.

It's short.

It's an hour long.

Do that.

Go home and get ready for the rest of the school week, I guess I love that, I love that, so lots of great stuff.

And again, we can find all this on your guys's website.

Performing arts, do you?

All right.

Now we have a few more things to talk about you, because I know this is like a shortened time span.

You guys are doing so much, but this only gets us through, like, August and September.

Right, right.

All right.

Yeah, but we have a lot of new movies and some classic movies being paired with them.

People can check out.

We have the extended version of The Back Rooms, which was one of these kind of creepy pasta films from the summer that really took hold and got like, not only a huge, like, critical and industrial like appraisal, but is fun to unpack academically.

So we'll look at that.

We have my favorite movie of the year, Boots Riley's I Love Boosters, so come check that out.

That's the beginning.

We gotta get that one.

And Steven Soderbergh's The Christophers has Michaela Coel, who people might know from Chewing Gum and other things.

We also have obsession, which I think was probably the most talked about movie.

Yeah, of the summer.

And we're pairing it with misery and looking at general female obsession.

I know some family members who will be in here for that.

Yeah.

So where are your ankle guards?

I guess for that, we're also going to show United 93, which is an interesting movie, but it's the 25th anniversary of nine over 11, so we're going to watch that, unpack what it was to revisit that five years after nine over 11 occurred.

So will you have some conversation time with that too?

We will we will also at Hadestown, which is my favorite.

I am obsessed with it right now.

Yeah, which is a musical that did more box office than Hamilton in terms of the movie.

So people have really been coming to this movie, and we're paying it with Black Orpheus, which is the 1959 Can Palm to Our winner, which takes Orpheus myth and puts it into, okay, the Rio Carnival.

Okay.

Also weathering heights.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

The new one.

Yeah.

The emerald panel with Maddie's secret, which is John Early's hilarious kind of send up of, like, after school specials.

I know you guys also have some fantastic opera stuff coming up, Aida as one of my favorites.

I was in it when I was a kid, I love it.

You guys are going to perform it.

Here we are.

And you're you're performing it, right?

You're going to you're going to shadow cast.

I mean, I will be.

Yeah, yeah.

We have you to sing along with only you singing along and cozy Venuti and Verdi's the Scottish play.

Can I say it?

Opera?

I can't hear it.

And then lastly, to forecast, and we'll talk about this our next time we have a learning Beyond the classic series, which is like the extension course that we do and we're calling it a podcast aura.

And we're looking at like the big Mexican cinema from the mid century and more recently, and the films that were maybe missed during those times.

So that will be coming at the end of September, the beginning of October, and we'll talk about that next time.

All right.

Well, so much to see here.

You guys.

Got to make sure you check it out.

All the information is on their website.

Thank you guys so much.

Thank you thank you.