Previous Film Series

Spring Quarter | 2008–09

Garbage Warrior
March 17
If you ever thought, “I'm only one person. What kind of difference can I make?” then Michael Reynolds, the Garbage Warrior, is about to show you what just one individual can achieve.

Big Bucks Big Pharm
March 24
Pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.

King Corn
March 31
Two twenty-something guys grow and acre of corn in Iowa to get a glimpse of why corn is so dramatically overproduced that mountains of it sit next to full granaries and it has become the go-to cheap ingredient for processed food, fast food, and animal fodder.

Flow
April 14
An in-depth look into the troubling privatization and distribution of water on a world-wide scale and who has the right to decide what happens to this vital resource?

Kilowatt Our
April 21
This film brings home the impact of our energy use, asking the question, “Do you know where your electricity comes from?” Blood & Oil - Warns that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.

Coffee to Go
April 28
At the core of our ability to make change is how we decide to spend our dollars. This film shows how our decisions can potentially have drastic effects on poor farmers, their communities and the countries in which our coffee is grown. Plus - Wal-Mart: The True Cost of Low Prices & Trashed

Renewal
May 5
Faith-based groups on their journey to engage, learn and organize their congregations to be environmental stewards, shows people of all faiths working to re-define what it means to line on this planet.

Winter Quarter | 2008–09

Soylent Green
Dec. 16
Depicts a future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources
on Earth. This leads to widespread unemployment and poverty.

Delicatessen
Jan. 13
Set in the indeterminate future, in a post-apocalyptic
apartment building, the story centers around the tenants of the
apartment and their desperate bids to survive. Among these characters
is a newly arrived tenant, who arrives to replace a tenant whose reason
for departure is initially unclear.

Logan's Run
Jan. 27
In a 23rd-century world of pleasure and perfection, Logan’s job
is to kill anyone past the age of 30. But when his turn for
sacrifice comes (at age 30), he decides to flee the bubble-domed
paradise and find a mythical “sanctuary” that lies outside.

On the Beach
Feb. 10
After a mysterious nuclear war, most of the world has been
wiped out but for Australia. A US submarine, commandeered
by Peck, surfaces only to be shocked by the apocalypse. With a black
radioactive cloud fast approaching the only surviving continent, the
survivors make serious introspection into their lives as they await
their fates.

 

Student Art League | Winter Quarter Film Series • Wilson Art Center, room 115, 6p.m.

January 8
Reservoir Dogs
After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect
that one of them is a police informant. An American classic. Directed by Quentin
Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill).

January 22
Slacker
Documents the comings and goings of twenty-somethings in Austin, Texas, in the early
nineties. Told through a series of interweaving vignettes, the characters include a woman
who is trying to sell a Madonna pap smear and an aging anarchist. Directed by Richard
Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Waking Life).

February 4
Stranger Than Paradise
A New York hipster named Willie is paid a surprise, unwelcome visit by his sixteen-year-old
Hungarian cousin, who stays with him for ten days and then goes to live in Cleveland.
A year later, Willie and a friend travel to Cleveland to pay his cousin a visit, and the
three travel down to Florida. Directed by Jim Jarsmuch (Broken Flowers, Dead Man).

February 19
DiG!
Tracks the careers of two talented underground musicians – The Brian Jonestown
Massacre’s Anton Newcombe and The Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor. A documentary
shot over seven years, the film examines the relationship between mainstream s
uccess and artistic credibility. Directed by Ondi Timoner.

 

Fall Quarter | 2008

Into The Wild
Sept. 18
A young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska after
giving away $25,000 to OxFam, abandoning his car and most
of his possessions, burns all the cash in his wallet and invents a new
life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found
by a moose hunter...

Jeremiah Johnson
Oct. 2
One man's rugged effort to shed the burden of civilization
and learn to survive in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Never Cry Wolf
Oct. 16
A young inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto the
desolate Arctic terrain to endure the forces of nature as he
documents the mysterious habits of the wolves he has been sent
to study, an odyssey of self-discovery.

Grizzly Man
Oct. 30
Explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear
expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell

Past Films

Spring Quarter | 2008
Easy Rider
Wednesday, March 12

Platoon
Wednesday, March 26

Alice's Restaurant
Wednesday, April 9

The Graduate
Wednesday, April 23

Winter Quarter | 2007–08
The Seventh Seal
Wednesday, December 5
After a decade of battling in the Crusades,
a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess.

Cinema Paradiso
Wednesday, December 19
A grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in this presentation of screen dreams
for a town still recovering from World War II.

The City of Lost Children
Wednesday, January 16
A vivid but menacing fantasy city built of equal parts delight and dread.

I Heart Huckabees
Wednesday, January 30
An existential comedy that dares to ponder life’s biggest questions.

 

Fall Quarter | 2007
Dead Man
Wednesday, September 12
Johnny Depp facing life as a “dead man” with an atmospheric haze of music by Neil Young.

Children of Paradise
Wednesday, September 26
The favorite film of Terry Gilliam (Monty Python, Holy Grail, Brazil,
Time Bandits, Fisher King, etc.) and probably one of the most fantastic
French films ever made! Bring your sweet baboo. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry
and you’ll probably ponder the beauty of this film for quite awhile.

Excalibur
Wednesday, October 10
Experience the King Arthur myth through a Haight-Ashbury / Pre-Raphaelite sensibility.
This ain’t the Mouse’s Sword and the Stone.

What Dreams May Come
Wednesday, October 24
Robin Williams goes to hell and heaven! Visuals that Lord Byron,
Delacroix and Thomas Cole would have died for!