Semester Schedule of Film Screenings Fall 2007
All films screened in Bobet Hall at 7:30 unless otherwise noted.
Monday, August 28
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Rashomon (1951, Akira Kurosawa) Machiko Kyo, Toshiro Mifune. Two travelers in medieval Japan investigate a rape murder, only to get four different versions of the truth. 83 min. BO 332
Tuesday, September 4
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1956, Alain Resnais) Emanuelle Riva. A complex study of a French film actress and a Japanese architect who have a brief affair in postwar Hiroshima. 90 min. BO 332
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Star Wars (1977, George Lucas) Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill. The world is introduced to Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker in the first installment of Lucas’ mega-sized franchise. 121 min. BO 101
Monday, September 10
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg) Harrison Ford. Perhaps Ford’s best known alter-ego, the heroic archeologist Indiana Jones.115 min. BO 101
Tuesday, September 11
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Blow-Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni) David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave. Antonioni’s hypnotic pop-culture parable of a photographer caught in passive lifestyle. 143 min. BO 332
Wednesday, September 12
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Barton Fink (1991, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen). John Turturro, John Goodman. A New York playwright accepts an offer to write movie scripts in LA, but finds himself with writer’s block when required to do a wrestling script. 116 min. BO 332
Thursday, September 13
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Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) Donatas Banionis. The first adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s cerebral sci-fi story. 165 min. BO 332 *6:30 start time
Monday, September 17
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg) Harrison Ford, Sean Connery. Indiana’s quest to find the Holy Grail is complicated by the appearance of his father. 127 min. BO 101
Tuesday, September 18
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir) Rachel Roberts. Moody, atmospheric film set in 1901 about three schoolgirls and their teacher who mysteriously disappear on a sunny day outing. 115 min. BO 332
Monday, September 24
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Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer. Ford stars as a futuristic Phillip Marlowe trying to find and kill the world’s remaining rebel androids in L. A. circa 2019. 118 min. BO 101
Tuesday, September 25
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Prisoner of the Mountain (1996, Sergei Bodrov) Oleg Menshikov. Simple, devastating account of two Russian soldiers captured by Chechnyan rebels and held in an impoverished mountain village. 118 min. BO 101
Monday, October 1
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Witness (1985, Peter Weir) Harrison Ford,
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Kelly McGillis. Ford is a detective who must protect the life of a young Amish boy who is the only witness to a drug-related murder. 112 min. BO 101
Tuesday, October 2
- Black Robe (1991, Bruce Beresford) Aden Young. An epic look at a Jesuit who goes to Quebec to Christianize the Indians. 101 min. BO 332
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Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann) Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe. Adaptation of Cooper’s story about British and French Armies battling for American territory with help from colonists and Native Americans.
114 min. BO 214
Wednesday, October 3
- The Player (1992, Robert Altman) Tim Robbins,
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Greta Scacchi. A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected, only he doesn’t know which screenwriter. 123 min. BO 332
Monday, October 8
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Mosquito Coast (1986, Peter Weir) Harrison Ford,
River Phoenix. Ford, an eccentric inventor, shuns the comfort of everyday life and treks to the Mosquito Coast in search of paradise for his family. 117 min. BO 101
Tuesday, October 9
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Soldier of Orange (1977, Paul Verhoeven) Rutger Hauer. A patriotic depiction of World War II seen through the eyes of a group of young Dutch soldiers. 167 min. BO 332
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Hamlet (1990, Franco Zeffirelli) Mel Gibson, Glen Close. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarried to the murderer, his uncle. 130 mins. BO 214
Monday, October 22
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Presumed Innocent (1990, Alan J. Pakula) Harrison Ford,
Bonnie Bedelia. As a prosecuting attorney, Ford falls under suspicion after his mistress is murdered. 124 min. BO 101
Tuesday, October 23
- In Praise of Older Women (1997, Manuel Lombardero) Juan Diego Botto. In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women. 105 mins. BO 332
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Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh) Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth Branagh’s uncut adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. 242 mins. BO 214 *6:00 screen time
Wednesday, October 24
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Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam) Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt. A convict from post-apocalyptic America is sent back in time to stop the destruction of the world. 129 min. BO 332
Monday, October 29
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Frantic (1988, Roman Polanski) Harrison Ford. An American doctor enters the Parisian underground in search of his missing wife. 120 min. BO 101
Tuesday, October 30
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A Very Long Engagement (2004, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) Audrey Tautou. A young woman relentlessly searches for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One. 133 mins. BO 332
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman) Jack Nicholson. A mental ward patient awakens his fellow inmates from their passive acceptance of hospital authority. 133 mins. BO 214
Monday, November 5
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Regarding Henry (1991, Mike Nichols) Harrison Ford. Self-centered attorney Henry Turner loses his memory after being shot in the head during a robbery.
101 min. BO 101
Tuesday, November 6
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Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze) Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper. A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere. 114 mins. BO 332
Monday, November 12
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Patriot Games (1992, Phillip Noyce) Harrison Ford. Ford’s first film as CIA super analyst Jack Ryan, who must protect his family and his country from IRA terrorists.
118 min. BO 101
Tuesday, November 13
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Emma (1996, Douglas McGrath) Gwyneth Paltrow. Based off the Jane Austen novel, Emma plays the role of town Matchmaker. 121 mins. BO 214
Monday, November 19
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Devil’s Own (1997, Alan J. Pakula) Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt. A police officer uncovers the real identity of his houseguest, an IRA terrorist in hiding. 111 mins. BO 101
Tuesday, November 20
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Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling) Alicia Silverstone. Jane Austen’s Emma meets Beverley Hills 90210 in this teen lifestyle parody. 97 mins. BO 332
Monday, November 26
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Random Hearts (1999, Sydney Pollack) Harrison Ford. After their loved ones die in a plane crash, a detective and a politician try to put together the missing pieces of their lives. 133 min. BO 101
Tuesday, November 27
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The Quiet American (2002, Phillip Noyce) Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser. In the 1950s, a British reporter vies against a young American for the affection of a Vietnamese woman. 101 min. BO 332
Monday, December 3
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002, Kathryn Bigelow) Harrison Ford. Russia’s first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage. 138 min. BO 101
Tuesday, December 4
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Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky) Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly. Four People’s addictions overwhelm them. 102 mins. BO 332
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002, Kathryn Bigelow)
- Harrison Ford. Russia’s first nuclear submarine tragically malfunctions on its maiden voyage. 138 min. BO 101
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4
- Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly. Four People’s addictions overwhelm them. 102 mins. BO 332
