Film Culture Program

“Creative beyond all reason or expectation, this deserving winner of the Best Animated Feature Oscar is a phenomenal achievement." Finish Callahan's Anime series (and this semester’s for-credit screenings) tonight at 8 PM with masterful fan-favorite, Spirited Away!

"For all its cleverness, Red remains in essence the story of a friendship which, across the generations, leaves both parties a little easier with themselves but still prey to fate." Close out Lance's 80s and 90s series with part of Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy: Red at 8 PM!

"Dogtooth has bite, and while it isn't always easy to watch, it's one of the most uniquely haunting, and unnerving, films of 2010." Join Anishka and Alicia for the converging of Near, Far & On the Run with the horrifying, disturbing, and also Greek Dogtooth tonight at 8 pm!

"All these years later Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is still a practically perfect comedy, brimming from scene to scene with outrageous behavior amidst the gorgeous scenery of the French Riviera." Finish out the morality series with comedy classic, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at 8 pm!

"Pyroclastic, crackling; a sensual delirium and shiver that pierces body and mind and deflagrates the animated canons, overwhelming the visual vein and culminating in a colorful riot" Take a break from studying with tonight's anime offering: Redline! Swing by the film lounge at 8

"The film has savvy and it has an edge, but there's not a trace of cruelty or cheap-shot, easy humor in it. Much of it, in fact, is startlingly warm and heartfelt. This is important; it's what makes this movie so easy to watch." Tune in for 1987 film Broadcast News tonight at 8!

"I absolutely refuse to do a series without a Wes Anderson film in it" Tune in for another of Alicia's Wes Anderson favorites, Moonrise Kingdom tonight at 8! Explore summer camp, running away from home, and young love with Anderson's usual cast of characters in this bop of a film

"The Man Who Stole the Sun" seems to be a movie that has both everything and nothing, and that is where its biggest value and its cult status lies." stop by the film lounge for The Man Who Stole the Sun to ponder what would happen if an individual had an atomic bomb!

"Top notch animation, soundtrack and a story full of action and thought provoking ideas, this 90 minute film from 1995 is still just as good now as it was then. A must watch." No, this isn't that trash 2017 Scarlett Johansson version (no offense) it's the original. See it at 8!

"The alchemy of Gregory's staging and Malle's direction turn what could have been an exercise in canned theater into something very nearly sublime." Starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore, Vanya on 42nd Street brilliantly portrays Chekhov's play. Tune in for the screening at 8!

"Effective as an anti-war movie and as thrilling as any disaster flick, Das Boot is a humanistic masterpiece." Tune in at 8 PM for tonight's screening in the near and far series, stunning German war/anti-war film, Das Boot! Swing by the film lounge to get your German cinema fix!

"If A Clockwork Orange is not a great or memorable movie it definitely is a demonstration of the great promise this young and growing art form called cinema does possess" It actually *is* a great movie, real horrorshow perhaps Kubrick's finest hour! Viddy A Clockwork Orange at 8!