Mmm, Film Series

Hello, little prefrosh! I am here to tell you about one of my favorite parts of Wesleyan, the film series. We have an amazing cinema that shows movies at 8:00 on Wednesdays ($4), Thursdays (free), Fridays ($4), and Saturdays (free). The more recent and popular movies tend to be the ones that cost $4. The free ones are less popular, but still definitely worth seeing (and you don't usually have to show up early ot get a good seat!). The film series won't show movies more often than once every four years, so they manage to pack in a LOT of different movies. Movies shown this year include:

The Philadelphia Story
Hotel Rwanda
Oldboy
Lenny
Born into Brothels
Bad Education
The Five Obstructions
Ran
Videodrome
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
My Summer of Love
Microcosmos
Little Otik
Mysterious Skin
The Last Waltz
Moolade
Babe: Pig in the City
The Beat that my Heart Skipped
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Casablanca
The Last Picture Show
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
King Kong (old school)
The Aristocrats
Wedding Crashers
Junebug
Don't Look Back
Titicut Follies
The Elephant Man
Paradise Now
Brokeback Mountain
The Shining
Parineeta
Mr. Death
Syriana
Bonnie & Clyde
Transamerica
Gilda
Tropical Malady

That's probably an obnoxiously long list, but it gives you a good idea of the kinds of things we have. Everything from popular new releases to bizarre indie films to really old movies no one's heard of.

Especially wonderful are midnight movies, which play two or three times a semester at midnight on a Saturday. They're usually cult classics that are chosen to be fun to watch at midnight in a theatre full of moderately drunk college students. This year we had Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Showgirls, Newsies, The Warriors, and Pink Flamingos. Midnight movies are generally fantastic experiences. The showings of Newsies and Hedwig are two of the college experiences I would most like to relive.

We also have a fantastic film studies program, but I don't know much about that. I just like to watch movies.