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GRANTHAM, Pa. (September 1, 2004) — The Messiah College Lost Films Society, the on-campus film society sponsored jointly by the college’s department of communication and the Student Activities Board, will present three different film series this fall : the Lost Films Film Series; The Color of Water Film Series; and the Contemporary Film Series. Lost Films and The Color of Water Films will be shown Wednesday evenings at 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., and the Contemporary Films will be shown Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. All films will be shown in Parmer Cinema, Messiah College’s state-of-the-art screening facility, located on the ground floor of Boyer Hall on the college’s Grantham campus. Admission to each film is $1; tickets may be purchased at the door. For more information, including directions to Parmer Cinema, visit www.messiah.edu/lostfilms or contact the college’s ticket office at (717) 691-6036. The Color of Water Film Series “To Sir With Love” (Clavell, 1967) Wednesday, Sept. 8, 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Mark Thackery (Sidney Poitier) is an unemployed engineer who takes a teaching job at a school full of unruly teenagers. After several failed attempts to reach the students, Thackery abandons the textbooks and conventional teaching methods and, treating them as young adults, captures their attention and wins their respect. “Secrets & Lies” (Leigh, 1996) Wednesday, Sept. 22, 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. After burying her adoptive mother, a young black optometrist named Hortense seeks out her birth mother and discovers that she is white. They develop a friendship, and Hortense is invited to a family cookout where all of the family’s secrets and lies come crashing out. Lost Films Series The second screening of each film in this series will be followed by a discussion at 9 p.m. in Messiah College’s Boyer Hall, room 131. “ Fahrenheit 9/11” (Moore, 2004) Wednesday, Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Michael Moore’s newest documentary explores reasons that America has lost respect around the world with its handling of the war on terror, placing the blame firmly with the Bush administration. Vilified by the Right, defended by the Left, the film is important if for no other reason than it is the most commercially successful documentary of all time. Film and discussion co-sponsored by the Messiah College Democrats. “ Daughter from Danang ” (Dolgin and Franco, 2002 ) Wednesday, Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m . A Vietnamese-American living in Tennessee seeks a joyful reunion with her birth mother 22 years after their separation. Instead, her emotional pilgrimage is hampered by cultural differences and the years of separation in this critically acclaimed documentary. Film and discussion co-sponsored by the Messiah College Family Science and Human Development Department and the Multicultural Student Programs Office. “Osama” (Barmak, 2003) Wednesday, Oct. 27, 4:30 p.m., 7p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Set during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan when women could not leave their homes unless accompanied by a man, this story depicts the struggle of a daughter, mother, and grandmother who, with no man in the house, cannot look for work or go to the market. They decide to dress the daughter up as a boy, calling her Osama, so that she can serve as an escort to her mother. This first film filmed in Afghanistan after the Taliban fell won the Golden Globe for best foreign language film in 2003. Film and discussion co-sponsored by the Messiah College Politics Department. “ Control Room” (Noujaim, 2004) Wednesday, Nov. 3, 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. This documentary provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Al Jazeera has been criticized by both White House and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias. This film illustrates that with different news outlets, there are different truths. Film and discussion co-sponsored by the Messiah College Communication Department. Contemporary Film Series “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (Gondry, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Sept. 3-4, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Written by Charlie Kauffman (“Adaptation”), this film asks whether you would erase memories of a relationship after a painful breakup. This remarkably thoughtful and visually interesting film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. “ Super Size Me” (Spurlock, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Sept. 10-11, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for 30 days? Why is America obsessed with fast food? What is it doing to our bodies? Check out this documentary film to find out. “Saved!” (Dannelly, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Sept. 17-18, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. This dark comedy starring Jenna Malone, Patrick Fugit, and Macaulay Culkin, follows the lives of students at a Christian high school. The quirky characters travel through ups and downs and learn to be less judgmental of each other. “ Shrek 2” (Adamson, Asbury, Vernon, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Sept. 24-25, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. (additional screenings on Sat–4:30 p.m. and 12:00 a.m.). Shrek and Fiona return to her homeland to meet her parents, who are unhappy that she married an ogre. DreamWorks scores another hit with many pop culture jokes and jabs at Disney’s fairy tales. “ Spiderman 2 ” (Raimi, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Oct. 1-2, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) has problems: he loses his lousy job, he misses too many classes, and he loves a girl he can’t allow himself love. Oh, and he’s also Spiderman, a superhero with diminishing skills who has to deal with Doc Ock, a scientist he admired before an experiment went bad. “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” (Thurber, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Oct. 8-9, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Peter Le Fleur (Vince Vaughn), incompetent owner of Average Joe’s Gym, is faced with foreclosure on his loan if he doesn’t pay the debt of $50,000. He leads a group of social rejects from his club into a dodgeball tournament to win the money, but has to get through White Goodman (Ben Stiller) and his team from a rival gym. “The Terminal” (Spielberg, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Oct. 15-16, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) lands in New York City at the same time that a coup in his country of Krakozia topples their government, causing the U.S. to refuse his passport and visa. Without a home or a visa, Navorski lives in the terminal, befriending airport employees and falling in love with a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in this comedy which is both gentle and true. “The Village” (Shyamalan, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Oct. 22-23, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix) desires to leave his secluded village to get medicines from “the towns,” but that would mean traveling through the woods, and facing “Those [They] D on’t Speak Of.” Bryce Howard Dallas, daughter of Ron Howard, makes her major screen debut with a great performance as Ivy, the spunky blind love interest of Hunt. “I, Robot” (Proyas, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Nov. 5-6, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The year is 2035, and everyone trusts their household robots except one very skeptical detective (Will Smith), who not only doesn’t trust them but believes that they killed his friend and that they are trying to kill him. Is he dealing with paranoia stemming from his own dreams? Loosely based the short stories by Isaac Asimov. “The Bourne Supremacy” (Greengrass, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Nov. 12-13, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) returns in this sequel (based on a Robert Ludlum novel) as the amnesiac ex-CIA killer who just wants to get away from it all on the beaches of India. The CIA seems unwilling to let him go, and he is forced to use his skills and inventiveness to remind them that he kindly asked them to leave him alone in the first movie. “Garden State” (Braff, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Nov. 19-20, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) heads to his hometown for the first time in ten years, leaving his Zoloft and Paxil behind in his L.A. apartment, determined to feel some emotion at his mother’s funeral. He ends up feeling more than he bargained for after meeting Sam (Natalie Portman). This film was also written and directed by Braff, who stars on TV’s Scrubs. “The Manchurian Candidate” (Demme, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Dec. 3-4, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Captain Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) believes that he and his platoon were brainwashed during the Persian Gulf War, and that a chip was placed inside both he and Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber). The chips give them false memories of Shaw’s heroism and have the potential to control them. Shaw’s candidacy for Vice President leads Marco to attempt to expose this conspiracy. “Collateral” (Mann, 2004) Friday-Saturday, Dec. 10-11, 7p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver, hired by Vincent (Tom Cruise) to drive him to several errands he has in L.A. Max doesn’t know that those “errands” include killing five trial witnesses in ten hours. A well-executed film by Golden Globe-winning director Michael Mann. About Parmer Cinema Located in Messiah College’s newest academic building, Boyer Hall, Parmer Cinema is one of the premier cinemas on the East Coast. The facility, which seats 129 people (plus wheelchair seating for five) features state-of-the-art projection equipment and dynamic acoustics. Equipped with two Kinoton 16/35 millimeter film projectors and an LCD-beam projector for video and digital media, the cinema can show the two primary gauges of film. Kinoton, considered the finest projection system available, is one of the most frequently used systems in film-industry screening rooms. The cinema also features a review-room quality sound system, like the one film studios use to review films before they are released commercially. Projecting equally from all directions at once, the sound system gives the audience the feeling that they are in the film. Designed in consultation with Boston Light and Sound, one of the most respected film industry cinema design teams, the room is tuned to be perfect acoustically. Parmer Cinema features continental seating with aisles on the sides of the room so all seats are directly in front of the screen and the slope of seating and distance between rows is set up so that the view from every seat is unobstructed. About Messiah College Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 60 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia. # # # ARTICLE
DATE: WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 1 , 2004 |
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