BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23156@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Cine Of The Times presents The Fast And The Furious (2001) incl. pr e-show DTSTAMP:20260529T202609Z DTSTART:20260617T173000Z DESCRIPTION:CINE OF THE TIMES PRESENTS THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001)\n\nC ine of the Times is our new Celebrating Cinema event series\, launching on \nWednesday\, 17 June. Every month\, film critic Hugo Emmerzael and media studies\nscholar Dan Hassler-Forest pick a film from the century so far — arthouse one\nmonth\, pulp the next\, covering titles that somehow became canon and the ones\nwe’re still arguing about. Paired with a Celebrating C inema podcast episode\nabout the film\, Hugo and Dan continue the conversa tion live in the cinema with\ncurated clips\, an extended introduction\, a nd a discussion afterwards that opens\nup to the room.\n\nWe’re starting w here the century actually started: The Fast and the Furious.\nTwenty-five years ago\, Rob Cohen’s car movie was a small-budget story about Los\nAnge les street racers\, immigrant car culture\, and a cop who didn’t want to b e\none. Today\, the same franchise is a seven-billion-dollar engine where Vin Diesel\nand Dwayne Johnson have spent a decade publicly feuding\, cars get launched into\norbit\, and “family” is a marketing strategy. What doe s the arc from Echo Park to\nouter space tell us about American cinema?\n\ nListen to the Celebrating Cinema episode first\, then join us in person t o\ndiscuss.\n\nAbout the speakers\nHugo Emmerzael is an Amsterdam-based fi lm critic and curator whose work sits at\nthe intersection of cinema\, mus ic and culture at large. He’s an editor at\nFilmkrant and Deputy Digital E ditor of the Locarno Pardo\, with bylines at MUBI\nNotebook\, Filmmaker Ma gazine and Little White Lies.\n\nDan Hassler-Forest is a media studies pro fessor at Utrecht University whose work\nreads pop culture through a polit ical lens — superheroes\, transmedia franchises\,\nthe politics of fantasy . He’s best known for the 2019 Washington Post essay\narguing that The Lio n King is a fascist story. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cine-of-the-times-presents-the-fast-and -the-furious-2001-incl-pre-show GEO:52.3637259;4.8676321 LOCATION:LAB111 - Arie Biemondstraat 111\, 1054 PD Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,discussion,film,live,music,oud-west,overtoombuurt ,stories X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

CINE OF THE TIMES PRESENTS THE FAST AND TH E FURIOUS (2001)

Cine of the Times is our new Celebr ating Cinema event series, launching on Wednesday, 17 June. Every month, f ilm critic Hugo Emmerzael and media studies scholar Dan Hassler-Forest pic k a film from the century so far — arthouse one month, pulp the next, cove ring titles that somehow became canon and the ones we’re still arguing abo ut. Paired with a Celebrating Cinema podcast episode about the film, Hugo and Dan continue the conversation live in the cinema with curated clips, a n extended introduction, and a discussion afterwards that opens up to the room.

We’re starting where the century actually started: The Fa st and the Furious. Twenty-five years ago, Rob Cohen’s car movie was a sma ll-budget story about Los Angeles street racers, immigrant car culture, an d a cop who didn’t want to be one. Today, the same franchise is a seven-bi llion-dollar engine where Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson have spent a decad e publicly feuding, cars get launched into orbit, and “family” is a market ing strategy. What does the arc from Echo Park to outer space tell us abou t American cinema?

Listen to the Celebrating Cinema episode first, t hen join us in person to discuss.

About the speakers
Hugo Emmerzael is an Amsterdam-based film critic an d curator whose work sits at the intersection of cinema, music and culture at large. He’s an editor at Filmkrant and Deputy Digital Editor of the Lo carno Pardo, with bylines at MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker Magazine and Little White Lies.

Dan Hassler-Forest is a media studies p rofessor at Utrecht University whose work reads pop culture through a poli tical lens — superheroes, transmedia franchises, the politics of fantasy. He’s best known for the 2019 Washington Post essay arguing that The Lion K ing is a fascist story.

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