Students have the opportunity to watch movies they might never have even seen or heard about.
Members of the film department have been screening films at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Sunday nights.
Tyler Pedersen and Aaron Stafford, film production juniors, pick a movie to show on Tuesdays. Bryan Cardinale-Powell, moving image arts chairman, picks the movie for Sunday nights.
They said the idea behind it is just for people to watch entertaining, highly-rated films on a big screen in a movie theater setting.
“So far, we’ve been doing a mix of foreign and arthouse films with the occasional thematic showing,” Pedersen said. “We just showed the film Sing Street, an Irish pop film. We plan to show some Swedish and Icelandic film in December, calling the series Cold Cinema.”
The tradition began with the renovation of the movie theater space in the east wing of Dawson-Loeffler Science and Mathematics Center.
The goal is to have a steady stream of movie screenings to make the most of the space, officials said. It’s a chance to experience critically-acclaimed films that students have never seen or even heard of.
“I like that they are choosing to show films that not everyone might have necessarily known about otherwise,” said Franziska Harms, acting junior.
Other films shown this semester include Career Girls, Tokyo Story and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
All students are welcome to attend the screenings.
Leave a Reply