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CINEMATIC ARTS

The Cinematic Arts Committee selects the movies that are shown in the Russell House Theater.  These include hot new titles that have not made it to DVD as well as indie flicks and foreign films.  This committee also programs film related events such as soon-to-be released movie sneak previews, Got Film? Student Film Competition and movie related speakers.

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Sundays at 8pm in Russell House 305

Stephen Williams

UPCOMING EVENTS MOVIE SERIES ANNOUNCEMENTS

 
No more events this semester, check back in August for Fall 2008 events.
Iron Man
Aug. 15, 16, 17, 19, 20
8pm

Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, & Gwyneth Paltrow Rated PG-13
126 minutes

After an accident, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark creates a suit that sustains his life. When he heals, he decides to use his technology to fight crime and leads a double life as Iron Man in this comic book adventure.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Aug. 21-24
6pm

Starring John Cho, Kal Penn, & Neil Patrick Harris
Rated R
102 minutes

Stoner buddies Harold and Kumar are back and this time they try to sneak a bong onboard a flight to Amsterdam. Suspected of terrorism, they have to run from the law to try to prove their innocence in this very un-PC comedy.
Speed Racer
Aug. 21-24
9pm

Starring Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, & Christiana Ricci
Rated PG
135 minutes

Hurtling down the track, running over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless in his incredible Mach 5 built by his father. When he runs into a plot by the devious Royalton Company to fix the top races he must find a way to beat them at their own game.
Made of Honor
Aug. 28-31
6pm

Starring Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan

Rated PG-13

101 Minutes
 

Tom is living the good life and his one constant is his best friend Hannah. When Hannah announces that she is getting married Tom is stunned to realize that he is in love with her and he only has a few weeks to make his true feelings known to her in this romantic comedy

Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Aug. 28-31
9pm

 

Starring Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, & Cate Blanchett

Rated PG-13

124 Minutes
 

Set in 1957, an older and wiser Indiana Jones is pitted against agents of the Soviet Union in pursuit of the mystical Crystal Skull. Indy is joined in the jungles of South America by an upstart named Mutt who reminds him of his younger self in the fourth installment of this incredibly successful franchise.

21
Sept. 4-7
6pm


Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth

Rated PG-13

113 Minutes
 

This film is the true story of six MIT students who were trained by Professor Rosa to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions. Ben Campbell was the most gifted of the students and although he started playing just to pay his school bills, he got caught up in the game and wanted to lead the team instead of taking orders in this high stakes drama
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Sept. 4-7
9pm


Starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes

Rated PG

174 Minutes
 

The four Pevensie children return to Narnia and discover that even though it has been only a short time in their world, hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there. With the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep and the exiled heir to the throne, Prince Caspian, they set out to overthrow the evil King Miraz who has taken charge in this second installment of the epic Chronicles series.

Taxi to the Dark Side
*Special Screening*
Sept. 10
8pm

Rated R
106 minutes

This hard-hitting documentary takes a look at the inhumane practices towards US-held prisoners in Bagram (Afghanistan), Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. One specific case of an innocent taxi driver who was tortured and killed in 2002 is studied in depth in this film that looks at both the physical aspects of torture and also the implicit approval from the highest levels of the U.S. government.

The Strangers
Sept. 11-14
6pm
 
Starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman
Rated R
90 minutes

 

A young couple is cozied up in their vacation home when they are suddenly assailed by three dangerous masked strangers. The resulting fight for life forces the couple to go well beyond what they thought themselves capable of in order to survive.
Sex & the City
Sept. 11-14
9pm

Starring  Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall,  & Cynthia Nixon

Rated R
148 minutes

 

As Carrie Bradshaw plans her long-anticipated wedding to Mr. Big a.k.a. John James Preston, with her best gal pals, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda, she suddenly learns that life doesn't play out like a fairytale. But when all else fails, you always have your closest friends to lean on.
Kung Fu Panda
Sept. 18-21
6pm 

Starring Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie
Rated PG
92 minutes

 

Po is a lazy, irreverent slacker panda who is a fan of Kung Fu but that doesn’t help his boredom at working in his family's noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po's dreams become reality when he comes under the leadership of Kung Fu guru Shifu and trains to hilarious result. Po must use his training to fight the treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung in this animated adventure.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Sept. 18-21
9pm
 
Starring Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Rob Schneider
Rated PG-13
113 minutes

 

Zohan is an Israeli commando and the best solider in the world. He fakes his own death so he can escape the military in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York. His dreams of the perfect curl and dye are cut short when he is pursued by his enemies in this insane comedy.
The Love Guru
Sept. 25-28
6pm
 
Starring Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, & Justin Timberlake
Rated PG-13
85 minutes

 

In the comedy “The Love Guru,” Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid – to the horror of the teams’ owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.
The Happening
Sept. 25-28
9pm 

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel
Rated R
90 minutes

From director M. Night Shyamalan comes a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind... but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.
Get Smart
Oct. 2-5
6pm 

Starring  Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway
Rated PG-13
110 minutes

The action comedy "Get Smart" sends CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) on his most dangerous and important mission: to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS.  It also happens to be his very first mission. When the headquarters of secret U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside his idol, stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway).

As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS' master plan--and each other--they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried (Terence Stamp) and his sidekick, Shtarker (Ken Davitian), are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. With no field experience and little time, Smart--armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm--must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.

 

The Incredible Hulk
Oct. 2-5
9pm
 
Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler
Rated PG-13
114 minutes
 

Another explosive, action-packed story of Marvel Comics superhero the Incredible Hulk. Scientist Bruce Banner is desperately hunting for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the mean green force. Trying to avoid detection by his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross, the Hulk must also battle a new foe in the form of a monster known as The Abomination

  War, Inc
*Special Screening*
Oct. 15
8pm 

Starring John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley
Rated R
107 minutes 

Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in War, Inc ., a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser (Cusack) to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister.
Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.
Wall-e
Oct. 16-19
6pm 

Starring Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin
Rated G

97 minutes 

What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? The year is 2700 and WALL-E is a robot still spending every day doing what he was made for. Soon he is visited by a sleek robot named EVE whom he chases across the galaxy with a pet cockroach and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.
Hancock
Oct. 16-19
9pm

Starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman
Rated PG-13
100 minutes 

There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility -- everyone knows that -- everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock's well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough -- as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn't the kind of man who cares what other people think -- until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock's greatest challenge yet -- and a task that may prove impossible as Ray's wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), insists that he's a lost cause

Mama Mia!
Oct. 23-26
6pm 

Starring  Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth
Rated PG-13
108 minutes
 

In this big screen version of the stage musical featuring the songs of ABBA, Donna is the mother to Sophie, who's on a quest to discover the identity of her father on the eve of her wedding. Donna owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island and when three men from her past arrive unexpectedly it is a trip down memory lane that no one will ever forget.
Wanted
Oct. 23-26
9pm

Starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman
Rated R
110 minutes
 

Wes is an apathetic cube-dwelling drone until he meets an incredible woman named Fox who recruits him into secret society that trains him to unlock his dormant powers. Wes is taught to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility in an effort to avenge his father’s death in this group who lives by a code where death orders are given by fate itself.

Step Brothers
Oct. 30,31- Nov. 1,2
6pm
 
Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly

Rated R
95 minutes

In Step Brothers, Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins). When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.

The Dark Knight
Oct. 30,31- Nov. 1,2
9pm
 
Starring  Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

Rated PG-13
152 minutes

The follow-up to the action hit "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight" reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime.
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Oct. 31
Midnight

Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon
Rated R
100 minutes

A super square couple, Brad and Janet, are stranded at Dr. Frank N. Furter's mansion with weirdos from the Transylvania galaxy.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Nov. 6-9
6pm

Starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair
Rated PG-13
110 minutes

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it’s up to the planet’s toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it’s time to call in Hellboy (Ron Perlman).

Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense—pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann—the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who’s accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.

Pineapple Express
Nov. 6-9
9pm

Starring Seth Rogan, James Franco
Rated R
112 minutes

Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Nov. 13-16
6pm

Starring America Ferrera, Blake Lively
Rated PG-13
119 minutes

Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling series of novels about four young women who share an unbreakable bond through the unpredictable events of their lives, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" catches up with Tibby, Carmen, Bridget and Lena in the months following their first year of college. Having been apart all year, their plans for the summer will take them even further along separate paths as each experiences the freedom, love, choices and challenging life lessons that mark their individual journeys toward adulthood. Now, it will take more than a hurried note or even a treasured pair of pants passed back and forth among them to keep their lives connected.

Tropic Thunder
Nov. 13-16
9pm

Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, & Robert Downey Jr.
Rated R
125 minutes

In the action comedy “Tropic Thunder,” a group of actors shooting a war movie is led by Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), a pampered action superstar, Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an over-the-top Australian-born method actor who has gone to extremes to get into character, and Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), a gross-out comedy star.

  Mongol
*Special Screening*

Nov. 19
8pm

Starring Tadanobu Asano
Rated R
120 minutes

Bangkok Dangerous
Nov. 20-23
6pm

Starring Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung
Rated R
105 minutes

A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.

Crossing Over
Nov. 20-23
9pm

Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Penn

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.

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