Fall 2011 Film Buffs screening schedule

Film Buffs Program’s Fall 2011 Film Schedule

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All Films Screen in Bobet Hall at 7:30 P.M. unless Otherwise Noted

AUG 31
Double Indemnity
(1944, Billy Wilder)
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray.
An insurance rep lets himself be seduced into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an investigator’s suspicions. 107 min. BO 332.

Adaptation
(2002, Spike Jonze)
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep.
Charlie Kaufman, a recognized screenwriter, is tossed into a strange tale of fantasy and reality when he sets out to write his new work. 114 min. BO 214.

SEPT 5
Rashomon
(1950, Akira Kurosawa)
Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo.
Through police investigation, a murder is retold through different points of view. 88 min. BO 332.

Sherlock Jr.
(1924, Buster Keaton)
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire.
A film projectionist and aspiring detective is framed by a rival and must put his amateur sleuthing skills to the test. 45 min. BO 214.

SEPT 6
Avatar
(2009, James Cameron)
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana.
A crippled marine takes over the body of an alien Avatar and discovers the wonders of the alien home world, Pandora. 162 min. BO 332.

Louisiana Story
(1948, Robert J. Flaherty)
Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc.
When oil well drilling begins in the Louisiana bayou, the lives of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon are disturbed. 78 min. Multi Media 2, Monroe (MM2).

SEPT 7
Akira
(1988, Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara) Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama.
A botched military experiment turns a street biker into a raging psychopath who can only
be stopped by an unlikely group of characters. 124 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Gilda
(1946, Charles Vidor)
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford.
The sinister boss of a South American casino discovers that his right hand man and beautiful new wife already “knew” each other. 110 min. BO 101.

Good
(2008, Vicente Amorim)
Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs
The story of how John Halder, a simple, “good” literature professor found himself involved in the rise of National Socialism that sent Germany spiraling into terrible chaos. 96 min. BO 214. 6:30 Start Time.

SEPT 12
Goodnight and Good Luck
(2005, George Clooney)
David Strathairn, George Clooney.
Set in the 1950s, a broadcast journalist tries to expose and bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. 93 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Safe
(1995, Todd Haynes)
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley.
Carol White is driven to be as completely “safe” as possible, even if it means bringing her entirely picturesque lifestyle to a halt. 119 min. MM2.

The Lady from Shanghai
(1948, Orson Welles)
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles.
Hayworth (Mrs. Welles at the time) goes blonde and bad in Welles’ film noir. 87 min. BO 214.

SEPT 14
Blow-Up
(1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave.
Antonioni’s hypnotic pop-culture parable of a photographer who finds himself involved in a murder mystery. 143 min. BO 214.

Ninja Scroll
(1993, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kevin Seymour) Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara.
A powerful ninja must stop his arch nemesis from destroying the Japanese government. 94 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

SEPT 19
American History X
(1998, Tony Kaye)
Edward Norton, Edward Furlong.
Neo-Nazi Derek Vinyard has been released from prison for murder, but will he be able to stop his younger brother from going down the same path? 119 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Winged Migration
(2001, Jacques Perrin)
Philippe Labro, Jacques Perrin.
Shot over three years, Perrin’s breathtaking documentary follows the migratory flight patterns of hundreds of birds. 98 min. MM2.

Mildred Pierce
(1945, Michael Curtiz)
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson.
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred proves she can be successful and independent, but she can’t seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter. 111 min. BO 214.

SEPT 21
Sunset Boulevard
(1950, Billy Wilder)
William Holden, Gloria Swanson.
A recently murdered hack writer narrates a tale of his affair with a delusional silent film star. 136 min. BO 214.

Aliens
(1986, James Cameron)
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn.
Ripley returns with a group of trigger happy marines who attempt to find survivors of a human colony on the Xenomorph home world. 137 min. BO 101.

Botchan
(Based on the novel by Natsume Sōseki, 1986)
An anime film that is based on the author’s personal experience as a mathematics teacher, and his struggle to hold onto traditional Japanese values in a rapidly modernizing world. BO 332. Start Time 6:30PM.

SEPT 22
Blue Velvet
(1986, David Lynch)
Kyle McLachlan, Isabella Rossellini.
A young man discovers a sinister underworld within his idyllic suburban hometown. 120 min. BO 332.

The Jazz Singer
(1927, Alan Crosland) Al Jolson, May McAvoy.
A young Jewish boy must defy his father’s wishes in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer. 88 min. BO 214.

SEPT 26
Into the Wild
(2007, Sean Penn)
Vince Vaughn, Emile Hirsch.
After graduation, a young man has decides to shed all his belongings and preplanned life in order to live in the Alaskan wilderness. 148 min. MM 2.

All About Eve
(1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter.
A theater star’s career is subverted by a deceitful ingénue. 138 min. BO 214.

Traffic
(2000, Steven Soderbergh)
Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro.
A contemporary story about the war on drugs told through multiple characters, including a conservative judge whose daughter becomes an addict. 147 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

SEPT 27
Prisoner of the Mountains
(1996, Sergey Bodrov)
Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Bodrov Jr.
Two Russian soldiers are held captive by Muslim rebels in this film adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic short story. 99 min. BO 332.

SEPT 28
Perfect Blue
(1998, Satoshi Kon)
Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto.
A retired pop singer starts to lose her hold upon reality when she is stalked by an overly adoring fan. 81 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Encounters at the End of the World
(2007, Werner Herzog)
Werner Herzog takes a treacherous journey to Antarctica to meet the men and women who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of scientific discoveries in the most extreme conditions at the end of the world. 99 min. MM2.

Rebecca
(1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine.
A rich widower tries to find happiness in marriage with a young woman, but he proves to be a prisoner to his first wife’s memory. 130 min. BO 214.

OCT 3
Notorious
(1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
A woman is asked by the United States government to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. 101 min. BO 214.

The Cove
(2009, Louie Psihoyos)
Richard O’Barry, Brook Aitken.
Richard O’Barry infiltrates a dolphin cove in Japan where truths about these magnificent animals are revealed. 92 min. MM 2.

Capitalism: A Love Story
(2009, Michael Moore)
Michael Moore, Thora Birch.
Michael Moore’s newest documentary that focuses on the dominance of corporate money-pigs over everyday Americans. 127 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

OCT 4
Black Robe
(1991, Bruce Beresford) Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young and Sandrine Holt.
Algonquin Indians escort two Jesuits on a mission through Quebec in the winter time.
101 min. BO 214.

Dersu Uzala
(1975, Akira Kurosawa)
Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin.
A brave hunter saves a Russian explorer
in Siberia. The two rekindle their friendship many years later. 144 min. MM2.

Easy Rider
(1969, Dennis Hopper)
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda.
Two bikers make a cross-country road trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans, searching for the heart of America. 95 min BO 101.

OCT 5
Vampire Hunter D
(2000, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Jack Fletcher) Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichirô Nagai.
A vampire takes a young girl from her home. Hunters are sent out to find her, but will they
be able to stop the evil vampiric force? 103 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Vertigo
(1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
James Stewart, Kim Novak.
Complex story about a San Francisco detective and his psychological troubles with heights and love. 129 min. BO 214.

OCT 10
Lost Highway
(1997, David Lynch)
Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette.
A jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins living his new life. 135 min. BO 332.

Deliverance
(1972, John Boorman)
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds.
Lewis Medlock is determined to see the great Cahulawassee River before it is made into a lake, even if it means following a dangerous route. 110 min. MM 2.

OCT 12
Bonnie and Clyde
(1967, Arthur Penn)
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway.A romanticized account of the careers of the notoriously violent bank-robbing couple. 112 min. BO 214.

Soylent Green
(1973, Richard Fleischer)
Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson.
Accused of murder, a New York police detective must uncover a government secret about an overabundant new food product. 97 min. MM 2.

Ghost in the Shell
(1995, Mamoru Oshii)
Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi.
A futuristic tale about a female cyborg cop who hunts a mysterious, deadly hacker called the Puppetmaster. 83 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

OCT 18
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(1968, Peter Hall) Derek Godfrey,
Barbara Jefford and Nicholas Selby.
Fine acting from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s film adaptation of the classic play. 124 min. BO 332.

OCT 19
Children of Men
(2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
Julianne Moore, Clive Owen.
In a future where mankind cannot reproduce, a single woman mysteriously becomes pregnant. 109 min. MM2.

Chinatown
(1974, Roman Polanski)
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway.
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles onto a wicked murder scheme that has plenty to do with L.A.’s water supply. 131 min. BO 214.

The Harp of Burma
(1986, Based on the novel by
Michio Takeyama)
An anime film based on the short novel by Michio Takeyama that traces the experiences of a group of Japanese soldiers from their final battles in WWII through captivity by the British in the south east Asian country of Burma. BO 332. Start Time 6:30PM.

OCT 20
Mulholland Drive
(2001, David Lynch)
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring.
After surviving a car crash, a woman is sent on a dark adventure that bends both dreams and reality. 147 min. BO 332.

The Conversation
(1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Gene Hackman, John Cazale.
While spying on a young couple, a surveillance expert believes that he has discovered a murder plot. 113 min. BO 214.

OCT 24
The Social Network
(2010, David Fincher)
Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield.
The impressive story of Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to fame and wealth through the creation of Facebook. 120 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Blade Runner
(1982, Ridley Scott)
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer.
In a dystopian future world, Rick Deckard must find and destroy a number of criminal human cyborgs. 117 min. BO 101.

The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1981, Bob Rafelson)
Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange.
A steamier interpretation of the classic story of passion and murder. 122 min. BO 214.

OCT 26
Body Heat
(1981, Lawrence Kasdan)
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner.
A naïve lawyer is seduced by a scorching seductress. 113 min. BO 214.

Grave of the Fireflies
(1988, Isao Takahata)
Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi.
A boy and his younger sister must learn to survive during the hardships of World War II. 89 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(1996, Adrian Noble)
Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings.
An original interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play told through the dream of a young boy. 105 min. BO 101.

OCT 31
Blue Velvet
(1986, David Lynch)
Kyle McLachlan, Isabella Rossellini.
A young man discovers a sinister underworld within his idyllic suburban hometown. 120 min. BO 214.

Rendition
(2007, Gavin Hood)
Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal.
After witnessing an unfair investigation, a CIA agent questions the validity of his assignments. 122 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Pulp Fiction
(1994, Quentin Tarantino)
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson.
Tarantino’s infamous crime story about two experienced hit men who are sent to retrieve a stolen briefcase from their employer. 154 min. BO 101.

NOV 1
An Inconvenient Truth
(2206, Davis Guggenheim) Al Gore.
Al Gore documents the increasing risk of global warming. 100 min. MM 2.

The Swimming Pool
(2003, Francois Ozon)
Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance.
A British author takes some time to relax in France, but her vacation is interrupted by the house owner’s unusual daughter. 102 min. BO 332.

NOV 2
Fatal Attraction
(1987, Adrian Lyne)
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close.
A married man’s one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover stalks him and his family. 119 min. BO 214.

Hakkenden
Eight warrior brothers, separated at birth, must find each other and fight in the name of their clan, the Satomi. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

Tron
(1982, Steven Lisberger)
Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner.
After being sucked into a computer world, a hacker, Kevin Flynn, must compete in life-threatening games in order to survive. 96 min. BO 101.

NOV 7
The Grifters
(1990, Stephen Frears)
Angelica Huston, John Cusack.
A woman comes back into the life of her son after years of estrangement and finds that he has taken up with a woman much like herself. 119 min. BO 214.

Koyaanitsqatsi
(1982, Godfrey Reggio) Lou Dobbs.
A montage of beautiful cinematography set to the music of innovative composer Philip Glass. 86 min. MM2.

Restrepo
(2010, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger) Juan Restrepo and Dan Kearney.
Documentary about a year spent with a military platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan. 93 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

NOV 8
Manufactured Landscapes
(2006, Godfrey Reggio) Edward Burtynsky.
Burtynsky videotapes his travels concerning the effects of industry onto natural landscapes.
80 min. MM 2.

NOV 9
Restrepo
(2010, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger) Juan Restrepo and Dan Kearney.
Documentary about a year spent with a military platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan. 93 min. BO 101.

Hakkenden
Additional episodes focusing on eight warrior brothers, separated at birth, who must find each other and fight in the name of their clan, the Satomi. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

The Last Seduction
(1994, John Dahl)
Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg.
A young man is tricked into committing murder through sex with a sultry siren in this erotic thriller. 110 min. BO 214.

NOV 14
Mad Men
The AMC hit series that follows a successful ad agency in the 1960s, particularly the agency’s most talented executive, Don Draper. BO 214. 6:30 Start Time.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(1972, Werner Herzog)
Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra.
The great warrior Aguirre leads an expedition in search of the fabled riches of El Dorado. 93 min. BO 332.

To Die For
(1995, Gus Van Sant)
Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon.
An aspiring TV personality will do anything to be in the spotlight, even enlisting three teenagers to kill her husband. 106 min. BO 101.

NOV 15
The Matrix
(Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski)
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne.
An underground computer hacker is suspected to be the savior of the real human race that exists outside of the fake world that we think of as reality. 136 min. BO 332.

Examined Life
(2008, Astra Taylor) K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, and Michael Hardt.
Astra Taylor follows some of the world’s most prominent thinkers to their favorite places and spaces that influence their lives. 87 min. BO 101.

NOV 16
Bound
(1996, Andy and Lana Wachowski)
Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon.
A woman and her lesbian lover plan to steal millions from the mob and pin the theft on her crooked boyfriend. 108 min. BO 214.

Apocalypse Now
(1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando.
An experienced soldier in the Vietnam War is sent on a mission to assassinate an ex-Green Beret. 153 min. BO 101.

Princess Mononoke
(1997, Hayao Miyazaki)
Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida.
While searching for the cure to a curse, a young boy becomes caught up in a war between the gods and man. 134 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

NOV 28
Brick
(2005, Rian Johnson) Joseph Gordon-Levitt
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. 110 min. BO 214.

Human Trafficking
A Lifetime miniseries about the violence and brutality that results from human slave trading. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

The Quiet American
(2002, Philip Noyce)
Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser.
In the 1950s, a British reporter vies against a young American for the affections of a Vietnamese woman. 101 min. BO 101.

NOV 30
Lessons of Darkness
(1992, Werner Herzog) Werner Herzog.
Herzog’s much talked about documentary that focuses on the disaster in the Kuwaiti oil fields. 50 min. MM 2.

Nausicaa
(1984, Hayao Miyazaki)
Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura.
Two nations at war will soon destroy
themselves and their planets unless the battle can be prevented by Princess Nausicaa. 117 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.

The Lady Eve
(1941, Preston Sturges)
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda.
Sturges creates a wonderful comic spoof of the classic femme fatale duping a befuddled male. 94 min. BO 101.

DEC 5
Hotel Rwanda
(2004, Terry George)
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo.
A hotel manager houses hundreds of Tutsi refugees in Rwanda. Based on a true story. 121 min. BO 214. 6:30 Start Time.

DEC 6
Man with a Movie Camera
(1929, Dziga Vertov) Mikhail Kaufman.
A cameraman travels around a Russian city, capturing beautiful shots of urban civilization. 68 min. BO 332.

DEC 7
Spirited Away
(2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette.
A 10-year-old girl enters a place of the gods where things are almost never as they seem. 125 min. BO 332. 6:30 Start Time.