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Cinema Interruptus is the name of a session occurring annually as part of the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Originated and originally hosted by renowned film critic, Roger Ebert, four two-hour sessions become a process of interactive film analysis following a prior day of Uninterruptus, where the film is played straight through without interruption. During the Interruptus sessions, the film is replayed, and members of the audience call out "stop" in order to primarily share an observation or ask a question, resulting in what becomes a scene-by-scene, or sometimes, frame-by-frame, analysis of the movie.

History

Roger Ebert moderated Cinema Interruptus from 1969-2006. In 2008, he shared an explanation on the programs's beginnings:

"This all began for me in about 1969, when I started teaching a film class in the University of Chicago's Fine Arts program. I knew a Chicago film critic, teacher and booker named John West, who lived in a wondrous apartment filled with film prints, projectors, books, posters and stills. "You know how football coaches use a stop-action 16mm projector to study game films?" he asked me. "You can use that approach to study films. Just pause the film and think about what you see. You ought to try it with your film class."

I did. The results were beyond my imagination. I wasn't the teacher and my students weren't the audience, we were all in this together. The ground rules: Anybody could call out "stop!" and discuss what we were looking at, or whatever had just occurred to them. A couple of years later, when I started doing shot-by-shots at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the conference founder, Howard Higman, described this process as "democracy in the dark." Later he gave it a name: Cinema Interruptus. Perhaps it sounds grueling, but in fact it can be exciting and almost hypnotic. At Boulder for more than 30 years, I made my way through a film for two hours every afternoon for a week, and the sessions had to be moved to an auditorium to accommodate attendance that approached a thousand."

While Ebert was recovering from cancer surgeries in 2007 and 2008, RogerEbert.com founding editor and CWA participant Jim Emerson stepped in to moderate during his absence. Ebert returned for 2009 and 2010, but mainly as a contributor, using his computer as his voice in order to participate. In 2011, Ebert announced that he would not be returning, and Emerson would carry on as moderator.

List of Movies

The office of the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) provided a list of movies which have undergone this process, along with where and when they were presented as the program evolved:

Year	Movie	When	Where	Series Title	Notes
1975	Citizen Kane	Mon-Fri	Boulder's Fox Theater	Persona
1976	Notorious	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Fox Theater	How to Read A Movie	first Uninterruptus/Interruptus
1977	The Third Man	Mon-Fri, 12pm	University of Colorado's Memorial Forum	Decoding a Movie
1978	8 1/2	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Analyzing a Film
1979	La Dolce Vita	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Analyzing a Film	first of plan to study La Dolce Vita at least once every decade
1980	Amarcord	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Analyzing a Film
1981	Cries and Whispers	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Films
1982	Taxi Driver	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Analyzing a Film
1983	La Dolce Vita	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Analyzing a Film	second of every decade study
1984	Day 2: God's Angry Man & Huie's Sermon Day 3: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Day 4: My Dinner with Andre Day 5: Gates of Heaven & Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe	Tues-Fri, 12pm	University of Colorado's Fiske Planetarium	Film(s)	Ebert did not arrive until Tuesday (Day 2).
1985	Casablanca	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Film
1986	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Memorial Forum	Film
1987	Three Women	Mon-Fri, 12pm	University of Colorado's Macky Auditorium	Analyzing A Film
1988	The Third Man	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Macky Auditorium	Analyzing A Film
1989	Out of the Past	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Macky Auditorium	Film
1990	Raging Bull	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Macky Auditorium	Film
1991	Citizen Kane	Mon-Fri, 12pm	Macky Auditorium	Analyzing A Film
1992	Silence of the Lambs	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium	Film
1993	JFK	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium	Analyzing A Film
1994	La Dolce Vita	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium	Analyzing A Film	third of every decade study
1995					There was no CWA this year.
1996	Pulp Fiction	Mon-Fri, 7pm	University of Colorado's Muenzinger Auditorium	series titles stopped being used
1997	Fargo	Mon-Fri, 7pm	Macky Auditorium
1998	Dark City	Mon-Fri, 7pm	Macky Auditorium		The film selection changed after the CWA program went to press; the program says Vertigo.
1999	Vertigo	Mon-Fri, 7pm	Macky Auditorium
2000	Casablanca	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium
2001	Fight Club	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium
2002	Mulholland Drive	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium
2003	Floating Weeds	Sun; Tues-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		Uninterruptus was on Sunday. On Monday, the movie Tokyo-Ga was shown at 4pm.
2004	The Rules of the Game	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium
2005	La Dolce Vita	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		fourth of every decade study
2006	The Long Goodbye	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium
2007	Chinatown	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		Jim Emerson moderated the discussion
2008	No Country for Old Men	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		Jim Emerson moderated the discussion
2009	Chop Shop	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		with guest director, Ramin Bahrani
2010	Aguirre, the Wrath of God	Sun; Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		with guest director, Werner Herzog Uninterruptus was on Sunday. Interruptus ended on Thursday.
2011	A Serious Man	Mon-Fri, 4pm	Macky Auditorium		Jim Emerson made official moderator.

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