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Film Buffs Program: Fall 2008 Screening Schedule
All films screened in Bobet Hall at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
August l September l October l November l December
August
Wednesday - August 27, 2008
Nosferatu (1922, F. W. Murnau) Max Schreck. In this seminal horror classic, Murnau brings Bram Stroker’s Dracula to the big screen. 94 min. BO 332
Thursday - August 28, 2008
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 min. BO 214
Dracula- (1931, Tod Browning) Bela Lugosi. A star-making turn by Lugosi coupled with haunting visuals establish this work in the horror film canon. 75 min. BO 332
September
Tuesday - September 2, 2008
The Stunt Man (1980, Richard Rush) Peter O’Toole, Barbara Hershey. A fugitive stumbles on a movie set, takes a job as a stunt man, and falls for the leading lady. 131 min. BO 214
Rashomon (1951, Akira Kurosawa) Machiko Kyo, Toshiro Mifune. Two travelers in medieval Japan investigate a rape and murder, only to get four different versions of the truth. 83 min. BO 332
Wednesday - September 3, 2008
Frankenstein (1931, James Whale) Boris Karloff. Whale’s stylish direction provides a classic rendering of Mary Shelley’s novel. 71 min. BO 332
Thursday - September 4, 2008
Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrezej Wada) Zbigniew Cybulski. A young resistance fighter is ordered to kill a Communist district leader on the last day of WWII. 103 min. BO 332
Tuesday - September 9, 2008
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
12 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 214
Wednesday - September 10, 2008
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel) Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter.
Santa Mira has been invaded by alien pods, and it’s up to Kevin McCarthy to save the town. 80 min. BO 214
Nosferatu (1922, F. W. Murnau) Max Schreck. In this seminal horror classic, Murnau brings Bram Stroker’s Dracula to the big screen. 94 min. BO 332
Thursday - September 11, 2008
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Jirí Menzel) Václav Neckár. During the Germany occupation of Czechoslovakia during WWII, a young man gets a job at a railway station and begins a journey of sexual self-discovery. BO 332. 93 min.
Blow-Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni) David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave. Antonioni’s hypnotic pop-culture parable of a photographer caught in a passive lifestyle.
143 min. START TIME 7:00 PM BO 214
Monday - September 15, 2008
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh. Hitchcock’s classic film that gave the world Norman Bates and Hitch’s definitive shower scene. 109 min. BO 332
Thursday - September 18, 2008
The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut) Jean-Pierre Léaud. The first chapter of Truffaut's cinematic biography of Antoine Doinel. 99 min. BO 332.
Monday - September 22, 2008
Night of The Living Dead (1968, George Romero) Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea. An unstable hodgepodge of people is forced to take shelter in a small farmhouse when the living dead attack.
96 min. BO 214
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg) Marlene Dietrich. An elderly professor becomes infatuated with a young dancer at a speakeasy. 99 min. BO 332
Tuesday - September 23, 2008
The Limey (1999, Steven Soderbergh) Terence Stamp, Luis Guzmán. An Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he believes is responsible for the death of his daughter. 89 min. BO 214
Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) Donatas Banionis. The first adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s cerebral speculative-fiction story. 165 min. START TIME 6:30 BO 332
Wednesday - September 24, 2008
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger.
Leatherface unleashes his chainsaw on a group of naive teens. 83 min. BO 332
Thursday - September 25, 2008
Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñel) Catherine Deneuve. A housewife decides to remain chaste in her marriage and engage in a secret life as a prostitute. 101 min. BO 332
Monday - September 29, 2008
Halloween (1978, John Carpenter) Jamie Lee Curtis. Psychotic murderer Michael Myers stalks babysitter Jamie Lee on Halloween night. 91 min. BO 214
M (1931, Fritz Lang) Peter Lorre. Criminals join in the manhunt for a child murderer.
110 min. BO 332
Tuesday - September 30, 2008
Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis) Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell. A weatherman finds himself reliving the same day. 101 min. BO 214
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’s outing. 115 min. BO 332
October
Wednesday - October 1, 2008
The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin) Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow. Young Linda Blair is possessed by a demonic spirit. 122 min. BO 332
Thursday - October 2, 2008
Burn (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo) Marlon Brando. An English mercenary investigates a slave revolt on a Caribbean island. 132 min. BO 332
Monday - October 6, 2008
Alien (1979, Ridley Scott) Sigourney Weaver. This landmark film establishes a franchise that would continue through the 1990s. 117 min. BO 332
Tuesday - October 7, 2008
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 332
Thursday - October 9, 2008
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci) A spineless Italian man is forced to travel abroad in order to arrange the assassination of his former mentor. 111 min. BO 332
Tuesday - October 14, 2008
Immortal Beloved (1994, Bernard Rose) Gary Oldman, Isabella Rossellini. The life and death of Ludwig van Beethoven. 120 min. BO 332
Wednesday - October 15, 2008
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. A haunting adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. 146 min. START TIME 7:00 BO 332
Thursday - October 16, 2008
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog) Klaus Kinski. A ruthless, insane conquistador leads an expedition down a river in search of the fabled El Dorado. 93 min. BO 332
Monday - October 20, 2008
The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg) A man begins to turn into a fly after an experiment goes horribly wrong. 95 min. BO 332
Tuesday - October 21, 2008
Blackrobe (1991, Bruce Beresford) Aden Young. An epic look at a Jesuit who goes to Quebec to Christianize the Indians. 101 min. BO 332
Pride and Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright) Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen. Based on Jane Austen’s novel, five sisters’ lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man and his friend come to town. 127 min. BO 332
Wednesday - October 22, 2008
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986, John McNaughton) Michael Rooker. Shot with a grim documentary appearance, this film takes an intimate look into the mind of a serial killer. 83 min. BO 332Thursday - October 23, 2008
Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle) Lea Massari. Coming of age story in a French suburb. 118 min. BO 332
Monday - October 27, 2008
Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins. FBI trainee Clarice Starling is forced to team up with famed sociopath Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in order to stop a serial killer. 118 min. BO 332
Tuesday - October 28, 2008
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 min. BO 332
Wednesday - October 29, 2008
Triumph of the Will (1935, Leni Riefenstahl) Adolf Hitler. Propaganda film about the1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany. 110 min. BO 332
Thursday - October 30, 2008
Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman) Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve.Two children in early twentieth century Sweden deal with the death of their father and the re-marriage of their mother.
188 min. START TIME 6:15 PM. BO 332
November
Monday - November 3, 2008
Se7en (1995, David Fincher) Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey. Detectives Mills and Somerset try to find their John Doe, who is killing people according to the seven deadly sins in this disturbing thriller. 127 min. BO 332
Tuesday - November 4, 2008
The Lover (1992, Jean-Jacques Annaud) Jane March, Tony Leung. In 1920s French Indochina, a young French teenage girl embarks on an illicit relationship with a wealthy older Chinese man.
115 min. BO 332
Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh) Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth Branagh’s uncut adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. 242 min. START TIME 6:15 PM BO 214
Wednesday - November 5, 2008
Scream (1996, Wes Craven) Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox-Arquette. This unexpected hit playfully crafts a new breed of horror flicks and gives fresh life to the genre. 111 min. BO 332
The Tin Drum (1979, Volker Schlondorff) Mario Adorf. A boy protests the insanity of the Second World War with his tin drum. 142 min. START TIME 7:00 BO 332
Thursday - November 6, 2008
Solider 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. START TIME 6:30 BO 332
Monday - November 10, 2008
From Hell (2001, Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) Johnny Depp, Heather Graham. The Hughes brothers tackle nineteenth-century London and Jack the Ripper. 121 min. BO 214
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Hanna Schygulla. The life of a woman married to a German solider in the waning days of the Second World War. 120 min. BO 332
Tuesday - November 11, 2008
Secretary (2002, Steven Shainberg) Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader. A young woman gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer; their relationship becomes perversely sexual. 104 min. BO 214
Emma (1996, Douglas McGrath) Gwyneth Paltrow. Based upon the Jane Austen novel, Emma plays the role of town matchmaker. 121 min. BO 332
Wednesday - November 12, 2008
28 Days Later (2002, Danny Boyle) Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris. Jim and a small band of survivors fight against zombies infected with rage. 113 min. BO 332
Thursday - November 13, 2008
Stalin's Bride (1991, Péter Bacsó) Juli Básti. A physically and mentally handicapped woman takes refuge from abusive townsfolk by clinging to a portrait of Stalin. 89 min. BO 332.
Monday - November 17, 2008
Shaun of The Dead (2004, Edgar Wright) Simon Pegg. British zombie movie that is both scary and comically allusive to many horror classics. 99 min. BO 214
The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)Ulrich Mühe. An East Berlin secret police officer find himself absorbed by the people whom he investigates. 137 min. START TIME 7:00 BO 332Tuesday - November 18, 2008
Sex and Lucia (2001, Julio Medem) Paz Vega. A waitress from Madrid moves to an island in the Mediterranean Sea to reflect on her previous relationship with a writer. 128 min. BO 332
Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling) Alicia Silverstone. Jane Austen’s Emma meets Beverley Hills 90210 in this teen lifestyle parody. 97 min. BO 214
Wednesday - November 19, 2008
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999) Ryo Ishibashi. A widower becomes enamored with a dangerous young woman.115 min. BO 332
Thursday, - November 20, 2008
Russian Ark (2002, Aleksandr Sokurov) Sergei Dontsov. A 19th century French aristocrat travels though the Hermitage Museum and encounters the last 200 years of Russian history. 99 min. BO 332
Tuesday - November 25, 2008
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman) Jack Nicholson. A psychiatric ward patient awakens his fellow inmates from their passive acceptance of hospital authority. 133 min. BO 214.
THANKSGIVING BREAK FROM 26TH UNTIL 28TH. CLASSES RESUME DECEMBER 1.
December
Monday - December 1, 2008
Hostel (2005, Eli Roth) Three teenagers are gruesomely tortured in an Eastern European hostel. 94 min. BO 332
Tuesday - December 2, 2008
The Quiet American (2002, Phillip Noyce) Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser. In the 1950s, a British reporter competes against a young American for the affection of a Vietnamese woman.
101 min. BO 332
Montenegro (1981, Dusan Makavejev) Susan Anspach. A bored housewife in Sweden is liberated sexually and otherwise by her relationship with a group of gregarious Yugoslavs.
96 min. BO 332
Wednesday - December 3, 2008
The Host (2006, Joon-Ho Bong) Kang-ho Song. A monster emerges from a river in South Korea and brings an estranged family together. 119 min. BO 332.
Thursday - December 4, 2008
Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky) Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly. Four people are overwhelmed by their addictions. 102 min. BO 332